Our idea offers a solution for how the for-profit health insurance provider business model can be innovated on to not only allow for active participation and collaboration by policyholders in the creation of value, generate additional revenue and help finance the cost of health plans, but also provide for the realization of an improved, and invariably more productive alignment of interests and strategies across the entire healthcare value network.
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Structural changes are happening to companies everywhere and leaders must learn to examine businesses with both a microscope and a telescope, says the Chief Marketing and Knowledge Officer for Booz […]
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Why Restorative Justice should be the core idea of a new political rhetoric?
The president of LeapFrog Investments recommends new ways for structuring international bodies to include all stakeholders.
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My idea of success in the business world with a strong structure of education,work ethic and intelligence.
Success Tenets for Scientific Management.
As President Obama doggedly prioritizes universal coverage over a thorough revamp of the health care system that would deliver truly efficient, sustainable care, “Obamacons”, like me, who helped elect him, […]
Introducing quality assurance into the American health care system is one of the topmost priorities of the administration’s reform plan. To explain just what quality would look like, Big Think […]
By funding Capitated Primary Healthcare for low-income individuals and families we can create a platform for quality and accountability that will transform and lower healthcare costs for everybody. Simply by moving the bottom we will cause a shift that will percolate through the whole system and bring change.
Latin America is the forgotten continent, often ignored by the U.S. and the rest of the developed world. But the region and its rich cultural and creative resources could play a more visible and relevant role with the advent of its creative class, which if properly supported, could partake on what is increasingly an economy of ideas and innovation. This evolution could also help the region drastically change its image.
So, here’s a quick rundown of the waves of feminism as generally accepted. As with any history of an Idea, this is just one version of the story, but I think it is a useful structure through which to think about where we are and, from whence we’ve come.
The one-hundred day shindig is not only being celebrated by the president this week but by the entire White House hierarchy. Though a bit on the sleepy side, Assistant to […]
Ideological differences
between second and third-wave feminists.
The Mossad jokes that Ahmedinajad is the best mole they have ever had.
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Howard Sosin was the kind of Wall Street dealmaker who flourished in the footloose days of the mid-80s. As the founder of AIG Financial Products, he invented many of the […]
Recessions are the best time to take chances, make that leap, and truly reinvent your business. When times are good it is all too easy to keep doing what “works”. […]
The securities industry worldwide is constructed upon the quicksand of self-delusion and socially-acceptable confabulations. These serve to hold together players and agents whose interests are both disparate and diametrically opposed. In the long run, the securities markets are zero-sum games and the only possible outcome is win-lose.
Senior research fellow at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center, Houman Shabab, has some second thougts on Howard Sosin’s alternative plan to restructure banks in America. * Howard Sosin proposes a […]
Just starting this post was a task in itself. I was going against my first instinct immediately, whether to write about first instincts or not (How ironic). Everytime I went against my […]
Big Think spoke with Robert Kaplan, former vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs and current professor at Harvard Business School, about regulating hedge funds, the issue of bonuses, and why he’s happy […]
What happens when a country opens its economy to the world? Do political and economic reforms readily translate to greater economic growth and productivity? And do such reforms create an […]
The distinction between the social security structure in the United States and Sweden gives uncanny insight into why Sweden has the option of saying “no” to Saab’s urgent need for […]
Conor Clarke in the Atlantic’s business blog today, reports on Senator Benjamin Cardin’s plan to make it easy for newspapers to become nonprofits. But do we really want newspapers that […]
Big Think recently approached top economic thinkers from around the world for policy recommendations that could catalyze the needed structural changes to pull the global economy out of recession. Included […]
Big Think recently approached top economic thinkers from around the world for policy recommendations that could catalyze the needed structural changes to pull the global economy out of recession. Included […]
One Silicon Valley’s most innovative entrepreneurs on his new Tesla electric car, whether we should bail out the Big Three, and the world’s most powerful laser. If you were CEO […]
Big Think recently approached top economic thinkers from around the world for policy recommendations that could catalyze the needed structural changes to pull the global economy out of recession. Included […]
Big Think recently approached top economic thinkers from around the world for policy recommendations that could catalyze the needed structural changes to push the global economy out of recession. Included […]
Expository Essay exploring the traits of Down Syndrome, and how to predict this syndrome.
What is the current applicable International Law when an armed conflict finishes?