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Wearable Technology in Healthcare

Tom Spencer

2 As questions on how to rein in increasing healthcare costs continue to mount, and politicians focus on passing legislation and targeting the pharmaceutical industry, a possible solution may be wearable health devices. billion by 2020. 7 These devices include smart home devices and medical wearables.

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The First Step to Fixing U.S. Manufacturing

Harvard Business

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades.

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Track Customer Attitudes to Predict Their Behaviors

Harvard Business

There’s a similar assumption underlying much of the discussion around how to measure the return on marketing investment, where it seems to be tacitly accepted that attitudinal insights are insufficient at senior decision-making levels, and behavioral insights represent today’s benchmarks.

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2024 Events for Project Managers, Business Leaders, and Industry Professionals

Epicflow

Events for Pharmaceutical Industry Experts 6th International Conference on PharmScience Research and Development February, 26-28, Boston, MA, USA The Pharma R&D Conference is an annual gathering with participants coming from over 35 countries both within the region and globally.

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A Tool to Map Your Next Digital Initiative

Harvard Business

The initiatives included streamlining patient administration in a hospital, implementing a customer-relationship-management (CRM) system in a financial services organization, rolling out a global enterprise-resource-planning (ERP) system for a pharmaceutical company, and promoting collaboration in a technology company.

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The Case Against Pay Transparency

Harvard Business

As a result, some of these Harvard employees earned in excess of $30 million in yearly pay, due to performance that was truly exceptional against industry benchmarks. For years, large pharmaceutical firms purchased small biotech firms with promises to keep their “entrepreneurial rewards” intact.

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The Greatest Barriers to Growth, According to Executives

Harvard Business

Speed is measurable and can be benchmarked. Distortion of decisions: A number of years ago we studied in detail how the most important decisions like product approvals were made at a large pharmaceutical firm. Think of how fast Netflix is adding new programming and changing the game of television versus traditional networks.

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