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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

An investor-owned hospital executive whose company had acquired major nonprofit health care enterprises compared the proliferation of contracts to the growth of barnacles on the bottom of a freighter. One thing that distinguishes the typical nonprofit from a comparably-sized investor-owned hospital is the number of layers of management.

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FinTech Is Weaving Charitable Giving into Everyday Transactions

Harvard Business

Social purpose is continuing to evolve from a philanthropic niche to a key part of core business strategy, and this shift presents unique opportunities for technology companies, in particular. No strategy is static. Insight Center. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. Sponsored by Accenture. In 2015, more than $10.5

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business

The center’s director, Brian Bartholomeusz, told her that technology like hers was exactly the kind of technology he was trying to transfer out of the lab, and he encouraged her to apply for a grant. All of our early funding came from either nonprofit or government sources.”

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business

The word was suggested by one attendee who had been reading the book Agile Competitors and Virtual Organizations: Strategies for Enriching the Customer. Several attendees wanted to form a more permanent working group; so they established a nonprofit organization called the Agile Alliance to support the movement.

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How AI Could Help Doctors Reduce Maternal Mortality

Harvard Business

Sixty percent of maternal deaths in the United States are preventable.

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3 Health Care Trends That Don’t Hinge on the ACA

Harvard Business

Indeed, the profusion of new treatments may present a serious challenge to the current payer strategy of negotiating favorable pricing with drug and device companies. FHIR is a standard crafted by Health Level Seven , a health data sharing nonprofit, to provide interoperability among health systems.

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Why Social Ventures Need Systems Thinking

Harvard Business

When Evan Marwell decided to start EducationSuperHighway (ESH), a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing broadband internet access to every U.S. This integrated approach to finding a solution for internet connectivity informed the rest of ESH’s strategy. Research and analysis. Measurement and evaluation.

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