Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

New, nontraditional entrants are bringing fresh alternatives to the bureaucratic and autocratic management systems of traditional hospitals. First, their leaders must understand where the world of incentives is going and jump to an incentive system that rewards value, not volume. Many functions of hospitals may become totally obsolete.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

And when innovation programs do get launched, like an internal venture fund or an idea wiki, they tend to either be organizationally isolated or easily marginalized. Operational goals like productivity, predictability and alignment are woven deeply into management systems and processes.

Innovation 15

Innovation Process Competitive Advantage McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

This measure will also reduce a patent system expressly designed by the Founders to serve small business inventors into one in which Big Business has the advantage and entrepreneurs are shut out. technological and economic leadership in the world. patent system, with its first-to-invent standard and lower costs. prosperity.

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Entrepreneur Venture Funding System Industry 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. It crashes the latest version of the operating system that just got installed. We tried it at the NewSchools Venture Fund, where I used to work.

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Education Innovation Entrepreneur Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

It all starts, as the stories below show, with purpose-driven leadership: a determination to provide high-quality, ultra-affordable health care to all, regardless of ability to pay: Saving Eyesight at a Fraction of the Cost. In 2015, at age 21, he founded a venture-funded for-profit start up, Stasis Labs , focused on proactive patient care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Entrepreneur Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.

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Tacit Knowledge Long-term McKinsey Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

To account for its success, many point to America’s entrepreneurial culture, its tolerance for failure and its unique ecosystem of venture funding. Those factors do play important roles, but the most important thing driving America’s success has been its unparalleled scientific leadership.

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Innovation Company Competitive Advantage Venture Funding 8