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Ten Modern Examples of Bad Assumptions

Destination Innovation

He was given a 150-year prison sentence in 2009. Theranos Scandal 2018: Investors and healthcare institutions assumed that Theranos, a biotech startup, founded in 2003 by 19-year-old Elizabeth Holmes had groundbreaking technology for blood testing, but it turned out to be a fraud.

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It’s “health care”: 3 reasons why 2 words can help transform an industry

Christensen Institute

Late Harvard Business School professor, Clayton Christensen, even said in his 2009 Mayo Transform presentation , “a general hospital actually is not a viable business model. Is it “health care” or “healthcare”? However, “healthcare” is the only industry-defining term where two words are combined into one.

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Three reasons to change the global poverty fighting paradigm

Christensen Institute

This happened to me in 2009 when I co-founded the nonprofit organization, Poverty Stops Here (PSH). This happened in Afghanistan where the United States and its allies did everything from building institutions and developing infrastructure to investing in education and healthcare systems.

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The new ROI for digital innovation

Paul Hobcraft

HealthCare, becomes one of those announcements that must have struck a real fear into all the prescription-drug middlemen. As Warren Buffett has stated “it won’t be easy or quick ” to solve healthcare. It will potentially alter the way healthcare operates in ways we currently can’t imagine. How that will stack up with J.P.

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The Life Sciences Industry: Decision Making from Batch to Continuum

IdeaScale

A study mentioned in this book from PricewaterhouseCoopers (2009) showed that Sweden had the best healthcare outcomes in Europe with respect to average healthcare costs. Increasingly healthcare business models are going to be tied to healthcare outcomes with targeted personalized therapies embedded in real world evidence.

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The Advantages of a Four Day Workweek

Tullio Siragusa

Work-related stress causes 120,000 deaths yearly and results in $190 billion in healthcare costs yearly.”. For instance, the state of Utah had a 13 percent reduction in energy use, and as a result, workers saved around $6 million in fuel costs, when it commissioned the trial for businesses in the state to try a four-day work week in 2009.

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Thought Leader and Influencer Interview with Jean-Christophe Gaillard, Founder & CEO, Corix Partners

Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

My background is in the financial services industry, where I spent over 15 years, first at Paribas (now BNP-Paribas), then at Rabobank where I was the Chief Security Officer for the International division up to 2009. Thinkers360: What are your current responsibilities and what’s a typical day look like?