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A Better Metric for the Value of a Worker Training Program

Harvard Business

The United States has thousands of workforce development and training programs, run by the public, social, and private sectors. These metrics are useful but miss the big picture, in part because they mistake a program’s cost for its value. Debating the utility of specific metrics might seem like a minor thing.

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Wearable Technology in Healthcare

Tom Spencer

Based on a recent study by Global Industry Analysts , the global market for wearable medical devices is projected to eclipse $4.5 1 In the United States, the predominant market in this space, it is estimated that roughly 20% of Americans currently own a wearable fitness device. billion by 2020. Potential Benefits.

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Three C’s Framework

Tom Spencer

It can help to assess the business situation in the context of entering a new market, M&A, product development, and starting a new business. How big is the market? How fast is the market growing? What is the concentration of customers in the market relative to the concentration of firms? Customer Preferences.

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The Best-Performing Emerging Economies Emphasize Competition

Harvard Business

Development economists over the ages have puzzled about why some emerging economies perform much better than others over the long term. In fact, by some measures, the best emerging-market firms are more competitive than firms in advanced economies including the United States and the United Kingdom. Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images.

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Measuring Your Employees’ Invisible Forms of Influence

Harvard Business

The people the model identifies as those with the most promise are often the ones a company will invest in through additional training and talent development programs. New workplace metrics are needed to help leaders get a more complete picture of this. But are these measurement methods still valid?

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. Patients are co-designers, co-developers, and increasingly more responsible for their own and collective health outcomes.

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Is Corporate Short-Termism Really a Problem? The Jury’s Still Out

Harvard Business

The observation that many “unicorn” companies with no profits — and sometimes no revenues or even fully developed products — get valued so highly makes me skeptical of the idea that the capital market is systematically myopic. McKinsey tries to address this issue by doing comparisons within industries.