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How to Reduce Primary Care Doctors’ Workloads While Improving Care

Harvard Business Review

In this article, we identify the barriers slowing the transition of episodic, in-person primary care to innovative models that separate care from location and that empower patients to take on more of their own care. This approach has had the secondary consequence of limiting innovation in delivery methods. It’s a Sisyphean task.

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Is Copyright Enforcement Censorship?

Harvard Business Review

Accept that virtually any movie, TV show, or musical album can be pirated with a few clicks by just about anyone who knows how to use a search engine. As a result, websites now protected under the DMCA's (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) safe harbor provision will have an inherent motivation to remove infringing links and content.

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The Commoditization of Scale

Harvard Business Review

In the game of innovation, there is next to no time to rest. In other words, the advantages of size gave some companies a bit of safe harbor. All in all, scale has provided some immense strategic benefits to large companies around the world — protecting many from entrepreneurial innovations that would otherwise threaten.

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The More Things Change, the More Our Objections to Change Stay the Same

Harvard Business Review

That''s why the first principle of change is originality — for leaders to see their organization and its problems as if they''ve never seen them before, and, with new eyes, they need to develop a distinctive point of view on how to solve them. The most effective leaders I''ve met don''t turn their back on the past.

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Clinton’s Proposals on Stock Buybacks Don’t Go Far Enough

Harvard Business Review

The debate over how to reverse ever-increasing income inequality has moved front and center in the Democratic presidential campaign. Yet Icahn has never invested in Apple’s value-creating capabilities that increase innovation and productivity.