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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

The new-growth areas MedStar mapped out included entering the general-population health insurance business as well as creating a major presence in ambulatory care – that is, outpatient locations aimed at preempting visits to the places where nearly all of its 30,000 employees currently worked. The innovation portfolio.

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Rising Sea Levels Won’t Doom U.S. Coastal Cities

Harvard Business Review

The induced innovation literature has taught us that drug companies focus their efforts on researching and marketing new drugs for which there is expected to be great demand (think of aging baby boomers’ aching knees). Innovation in Cities. This same logic holds in the case of climate change adaptation. Insight Center.

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14 Principles that Made Amazon

Skip Prichard

Steve Anderson spent his career in the insurance industry focused on risk and business growth. He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Failure comes part and parcel with invention” (Bezos 2013 letter). My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.” Jeff Bezos.

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