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How Leading Companies Build the Workforces They Need to Stay Ahead

Harvard Business Review

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. Digital transformation, the industrial internet, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and a plethora of other innovations are fundamentally changing the nature of work.

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How One Nonprofit Is Expanding Health Care for the Uninsured

Harvard Business Review

It’s a solution we discovered during our research in India, and involves breakthrough innovations that drive down health care delivery costs so much that the margins from serving those who can pay is more than enough to cover the costs of those who cannot. It also pursued process innovations that resulted in cost savings.

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Disrupting the Gaming Industry with the Same Old Playbook

Harvard Business Review

Some MMOG professional teams players can command six figure salaries, thanks to the finance provided by corporate sponsorships and advertising. But the real benefit for Vans was that its strategy made the sport mainstream and opened it up to the masses, which ultimately had huge benefits for its core shoes and clothing businesses.

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Corporate Reporting Needs a Reboot

Harvard Business Review

The common thread is that today''s model of capitalism overemphasizes short-term financial data and neglects information that gets at the true sources of sustainable value creation — things like innovation, brand equity, customer loyalty, and key stakeholder relationships.

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Yes, Managing IT Is Your Job

Harvard Business Review

Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g., My friend Craig Bickel , Principal at IT strategy consultancy WGroup told me that: "While functional responsibilities will remain specialized, innovation, implementation, and value realization must be shared between the business and IT."

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Fighting Chronic Disease Starts with Better Pediatric Care

Harvard Business Review

PFK is now working on expanding its strategy to address the health needs of children with disabilities. million Health Care Innovation Award and several other pediatric ACOs have also been formed with the assistance of Medicaid funding. whether someone is employed and his or her earnings over time). pediatric primary care remain.

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A Playbook for Making America More Entrepreneurial

Harvard Business Review

We see ourselves as risk-takers and innovators. Over the last six years the federal government funded more than 50 new regional innovation “clusters,” and across America new accelerators and entrepreneurship boot camps are proliferating. A supplier might need a working capital loan to finance a big order.