Ann Somers Hogg

Healthcare leaders often struggle to change failing business models because they lack a clear framework for deciding how to evolve. This report outlines two strategic pathways—improving existing models for short-term success or transforming them for long-term sustainability—and provides a decision framework to help executives choose the approach best suited to their organization.

By Austin Walters

Drawing on experiences living abroad and studying global innovation, Austin Walters explores how necessity drives breakthrough ideas. From postwar Japan to modern healthcare in emerging markets, many transformative technologies emerge from resource-constrained environments. For SpringTide Ventures, investing in accessible, affordable healthcare solutions is rooted in this principle of innovation born from need.

By Austin Walters

The idea is counterintuitive; everyone knows that in order to produce illuminating, actionable results, researchers should assemble large, diverse pools of research subjects – the largest they can handle – and see what insights they can skim out of this “Big Data.”