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What Is The Future Of Ageing Populations?

The Horizons Tracker

The report revolves around 22 peer-reviewed evidence reviews and expert meetings that aimed to debate everything from health and care to housing. Central to this shift is moving away from the three-stage life that has dominated for much of the industrial era, which sees people study when young, then work before retiring.

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The Risks of Health Insurance Company Mergers

Harvard Business Review

But if history is any guide , mergers in the insurance industry should give consumers (indeed, all purchasers of insurance) cause for concern. Before addressing that question directly, let’s start with some basic premises: Consumers need an ample choice of innovative, well-priced insurance products.

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Simple Digital Technologies Can Reduce Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

More than two-thirds of large businesses now offer disease-management programs , but most of these are bricks-and-mortar services that can be converted to better-studied, cheaper, and more effective digital therapeutics. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic. Cost structure.

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Are CEOs Overhyped and Overpaid?

Harvard Business Review

For example, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk enjoy cult-like status and are widely regarded as modern tycoons of innovation. My focus was on peer-reviewed journal articles (academic papers) that included reliable measures of CEO attributes (e.g., This is particularly true when it comes to leaders and entrepreneurs.

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Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive

Harvard Business Review

With scarcely any help from management, knowledge workers can increase their productivity by 20%. Yet here is the challenge you face as a senior executive: You cannot manage your knowledge workers in the traditional and intrusive way you might have done with manual workers. Lead by example.

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Who's the Best at Innovating Innovation?

Harvard Business Review

Most companies put innovation at the top of their agendas. But how many devote the energy and resources it takes to build innovation into the values, processes, and practices that rule everyday activity and behavior? Not many, as we argued when we launched the Innovating Innovation Challenge in October.