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Two Innovations Bringing Simplicity Back To Health Care

Marzena Zukowska Ashoka Changemakers
February 11, 2014
The ubiquity of mobile phones and decreasing cost of SMS are beginning to transform healthcare systems in some of the most impoverished regions of the world—places such as Kibera, Nairobi, Africa’s largest urban slum.

Can Business Regain the Public Trust?

February 10, 2014
Business has trust issues. And they’ve been a long time coming.
The issue of public trust “roughly describes the level and type of vulnerability the public is willing to assume with regard to business relations,” according to a 2009 study by Arthur W. Page Society and Business Roundtable’s Institute for Corporate Ethics.
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Healthcare Debate in US: Can We Talk?

Henry Doss T2 Venture Creation
February 07, 2014
The health care system in the U.S. is Dickensian: We find ourselves in both the best and worst of times.
Medical advances – devices, diagnostic tools, drugs, facilities, and virtually all of the basic mechanics – are improving every day. We are better at medicine, know more about medicine and have an R & D infrastructure that holds the promise of solving many, if not most, of the intractable problems associated with basic human health.  We seem to be in a near-Golden Age.
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Welcome to the Era of the Hardware Startup

Beth Comstock GE
February 06, 2014
As new technologies go, 3D printing is a bit of an attention hog. In recent years, we’ve seen printers with increasingly amazing capabilities: from ones that extrude plastic to create small objects to machines with lasers that melt metal powder into amazingly intricate jet engine parts.
But the cool factor of 3D printing sometimes obscures a movement in manufacturing that could have an even bigger impact: platforms that help us share ideas, suppliers and marketplaces. That emerging network is why I’m optimistic that 2014 marks the rise of the hardware startup.
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Innovate With Your Hands, Old School

Michael Graber Southern Growth Studio
Jocelyn Atkinson Southern Growth Studio
February 05, 2014
While the industrial revolution encouraged efficiency, it led to the decline of hand-made creations. We stopped tinkering altogether and started simply operating machines, becoming inherently less ingenious.
Over the past century, new product development hinged on access to expensive machines that were generally out of reach for the individual. Thus, only companies with the cutting edge equipment could achieve new production development and innovation.
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The Real Challenges to Growth

Michael Spence Nyus Stern School Of Business
February 04, 2014
Advanced economies’ experience since the 2008 financial crisis has spurred a rapidly evolving discussion of growth, employment, and income inequality. That should come as no surprise: For those who expected a relatively rapid post-crisis recovery, the more things stay the same, the more they change.
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Crucial Skills Gap Puts Oil & Gas Industry in Bind

Brock N Meeks Ideas Lab
February 03, 2014
The world’s energy needs are in rampant ascent.  Despite the U.S. boom in shale gas production and advanced technologies unlocking previously untapped global energy reserves, the International Energy Agency is predicting that the demand for energy will continue to grow by one-third by 2035.
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Rewarding Innovations that Reduce Head Injury Risk in Sports

Jeffrey R Immelt GE
Roger Goodell Is Commissioner Of The Nfl
January 31, 2014
This is the time of the year when the eyes of fans and media are trained squarely on the best two teams in football.
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Is Cancer Research and Treatment Moving From Evolution To Revolution?

Dr Len Lichtenfeld American Cancer Society
January 30, 2014
Is our evolution becoming a revolution? Am I in danger of becoming a victim of the same “hope and hype” that I derided as a young oncologist in the 1970s and ‘80s and is now the focus of criticism around recent glowing media reports touting the successes of cancer research and treatment?
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Conversation from Davos: John Rice and John Negroponte

January 30, 2014
A dramatically growing, global middle class is becoming a “demand generator” for companies “because they want infrastructure, healthcare and good, stable electricity,” said John G. Rice, GE’s Vice Chairman and President and CEO of GE Global Growth Operations.
Rice’s comments came in a wide-ranging video conversation with former U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte last week during the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos.
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