Harvard Business

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete. Those disruptors are right around the corner.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. ” Improving risk management.

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LSA Global

APRIL 18, 2017

Borders began as a standard bricks-and-mortar bookstore in Michigan in 1971 and grew to employ almost 20,000 workers before it ceased operations in 2011. This outsized, rugged, status-symbol of a GM product failed to see the writing on the wall. foresee the necessity for change soon enough or. Autopsy #1 – Borders.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Last week, the FBI shut down the underground website known as "Silk Road" and confiscated the bitcoin wallet of Ross Ulbricht, the site operator, on drug charges. With that background, please consider the Extreme Tech report FBI unable to seize 600,000 Bitcoins from Silk Road operator. Escrow accounts were not as protected.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 26, 2013

The certificates of deposits will push banks closer to an operating environment in which rates are deregulated and are also aimed at improving the circulation of cash in the country’s interbank market. Of course this is possible, but it is highly improbable and, if it came to pass, would be truly unprecedented in modern economic history.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 6, 2014

An ERP system is an enterprise business management software program that organizes and tracks large company’s resources (cash, raw materials, production capacity, etc.) It helps facilitate error-free transactions and production (before ERP, people actually used odd things like pens, paper and ledgers to keep track of their stuff).

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2016

The initial breakthrough came in 1987, but the first drug wasn’t approved until 2011. The private sector spends three times that , mostly on translational research intended to transform basic discoveries into new products. There is a wide chasm that separates an initial discovery and a viable product idea.

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Government Research Journal Biotechnology 28

freshminds

MAY 24, 2016

86% agree it makes life more affordable, 83% agree it makes life more convenient and efficient, 76% agree it's better for the environment, 78% agree it builds a stronger community, 63% agree it is more fun than engaging with traditional companies, 89% agree it is based on trust between providers and users. billion since its launch.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2017

In the fictional world of the video game Watch Dogs , you can play a hacktivist who takes over the central operating system of a futuristic, hyper-connected Chicago. On April 8, hackers set off 156 emergency sirens in Dallas, Texas , disrupting residents and overwhelming 911 operators throughout the day. An estimated 2.3

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Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2017

Primary care delivery faces additional challenges for scaling because it operates on thin margins, often is not highly valued by patients, and has difficulty attracting trained providers. North Star primarily serves truck drivers and sex workers, operating in the afternoons and evenings to fit its clients’ schedules.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2016

However, you’ve made the point that even though there are fewer intermediaries between supplier and restaurant, its operations can actually end up being more complex and fragmented, and therefore harder to control for safety. Companies like Tyson have decades of experience in testing and making sure their products are safe.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

As a business term, “unicorn” was coined to describe a rarity: In 2011 there were just 28 early-stage companies, still privately owned, with investment valuations of $1 billion or more. Consider Zenefits, a provider of efficient online employee benefits services for small and medium-size companies.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The first concerns the challenge of creating the meaningful use program for the HITECH Act when I served as national coordinator of health information technology from 2009 to 2011, at the beginning of the Obama administration. The latter was a project I led after returning to Partners in 2011. This was a $1.2 Insight Center.

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System Change Management Healthcare Government 29

Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

“I think we have a shot at building the best office building in the world” were the words Steve Jobs used to describe Apple’s new headquarters in 2011. New young tech companies — Airbnb, Twitter, Instagram, Snap, and WeWork, among others — operate differently than Silicon Valley giants.

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Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2016

In such a market, creating a clear definition of quality aligns the production and purchase of and payment for care. Virtuous cycles of increasing value are created as purchasers play the lead role in identifying the most efficient and effective providers. Solutions become practical and efficient rather than ideology-based.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2017

With the attack on Pearl Harbor, civilian radio production was halted for World War II. “Natural monopoly” was jettisoned as the operative assumption. Instead of having operations mandated, cellular carriers were given defined spectrum spaces. By December 1941, FM broadcasts were heard throughout the Northeast U.S.,

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2018

billion in 206 deals between 2011 and 2017. The field of health AI is seemingly wide—covering wellness to diagnostics to operational technologies—but it is also narrow in that health AI applications typically perform just a single task. health care by 2026. Clinical applications are still rare.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Greater productivity meant lower prices and faster growth, leading to increased industry dominance. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images.

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