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High Expectations: Managing For Value In The Automotive Industry

Chief Executive

During this time, the industry’s EP growth was challenged as margins were squeezed by declining global volumes and high fixed costs. auto demand, including increasing demand for BEVs, greater OEM pricing power and emerging growth in higher-margin and recurring subscription-based software and service revenues. .

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business Review

This was because their expenses grew faster than their revenues, despite cost-cutting initiatives. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. A recent Navigant survey found that U.S.

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Bringing the Power of Platforms to Health Care

Harvard Business Review

” There, in the shadow of Google’s global headquarters, the audience laughed on cue, quickly grokking the embarrassing point: it’s 2016 and this $3 trillion industry that our lives depend upon still relies on faxes, clipboards, and isolated instances of legacy software locked away in hospital basements.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business Review

By 2016, the rise of smart phones seemed to have made the company less relevant: Its revenues were at almost the same level they had been a full decade earlier. Nikon, the legendary Japanese camera maker, provides a textbook study in how smart managers can work with strategic investors to transform a struggling business.

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The U.S. Media’s Problems Are Much Bigger than Fake News and Filter Bubbles

Harvard Business Review

But in the last two contests in which Hillary Clinton has participated, the 2008 primary and the 2016 election, she won on most of these metrics — and lost the elections. Similarly, during the 2016 election, many American voters found journalistic content less relevant than what they were experiencing in their own lives.

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