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Why Can’t U.S. Health Care Costs Be Cut in Half?

Harvard Business Review

America — and many other countries — need an audacious goal to get off the unsustainable path. What if the United States set itself the goal of cutting healthcare costs in half — without sacrificing quality, and in about a decade? The same can be said of other procedures that might lend themselves to mass or lean production.

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Founding a Company Doesn’t Have to be a Big Career Risk

Harvard Business Review

The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management. Lean Product Development and Customer Development processes) decreases the chance of a startup’s failure. Develop deep expertise — your best risk-mitigation strategy .

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