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Drug Pricing in the United States

Tom Spencer

A recent article from the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) illustrated a number of methods that drug companies deploy to maintain their monopolies, including adjusting the nontherapeutic parts of drugs to game the patent system. In order to limit competition, pharmaceutical companies rely heavily on patent laws.

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Interviewed on "The Vault"

The Nonprofit Consultant

I've recently been interviewed by The Vault - an online career information and research site - about how I got into nonprofit consulting. Tags: Nonprofit interview consulting. The interview, conducted by Alex Tuttle, can be found by clicking Career Paths: Nonprofit Consultant.

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Don’t Acquire a Company Before You’ve Asked These Questions

Harvard Business

That year, according to our proprietary research, non-tech companies scooped up 707 computer and electronics firms, often at highly inflated prices. For example, when Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion in 2012 and then WhatsApp for $19 billion two years later, many analysts and investors were astonished by the high price tags.

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What Artificial Intelligence Can and Can’t Do Right Now

Harvard Business

Almost all of AI’s recent progress is through one type, in which some input data (A) is used to quickly generate some simple response (B). For instance, building a photo tagger requires anywhere from tens to hundreds of thousands of pictures (A) as well as labels or tags telling you if there are people in them (B).

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3 Biases That Hijack Performance Reviews, and How to Address Them

Harvard Business

In a recent performance management summit we ran with over 100 large organizations, 57% of them said they weren’t taking any actions to address bias in performance reviews. Research has found that several biases come up again and again when managers are evaluating a team member.

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Government Contracts Pricing Strategy – Ten Dynamic and Synergistic Pricing Practices

Granite Leadership Strategies

This is especially important if your company suffered recent proposal losses or lost a key bid. Conduct pricing deep-dive postmortems. Whether you win or lose, it is critical to know why, and to what extent price drove the award. The best way to make it customary for your company is to evaluate and establish your primary escalation basis.

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Fed Openly Discusses "Permanently High Balance Sheet"; Lie Finally Admitted

MishTalk

As recently as September 2014, the Fed pledged to eventually "hold no more securities than necessary," in its "normalization" plan, a level widely interpreted as close to its pre-crisis $900 billion size. The prevailing view is that the U.S. central bank's $4.5 The Fed will do whatever the hell it wants while labeling the result a new "tool".