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Connect Inventors with the Right Problems

Harvard Business Review

Priceline’s unique “conditional purchase offer” – which allowed bidders to make low-ball offers which they were bound to honor if accepted – was an innovative solution that taught a big lesson: when underused assets are more fully exploited, everyone can win.

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How Risk Reduction Is (and Isn't) Rocket Science

Harvard Business Review

One innovative portfolio-management technique the mission employed was a novel free-market resource-allocation concept drawn from the field of economics. This approach ensured that project resources were properly allocated where they were really needed and minimized conflicts of interest and management overhead.

Project 16
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How Risk Reduction Is (and Isn't) Rocket Science

Harvard Business Review

One innovative portfolio-management technique the mission employed was a novel free-market resource-allocation concept drawn from the field of economics. This approach ensured that project resources were properly allocated where they were really needed and minimized conflicts of interest and management overhead.

Project 14
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Integrating Maintenance of Board Certification and Health Systems’ Quality-Improvement Programs

Harvard Business Review

It includes five health system engineers, five administrative staff, and 15 physicians representing multiple specialities as well as Mayo Clinic sites in Minnesota, Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Georgia. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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What You Should Know About Dodd-Frank and What Happens If It’s Rolled Back

Harvard Business Review

The flip side of the stress test, though, is that there is some possibility for the banks to reverse-engineer and game the results. But it does create more opportunities for conflict of interest between banks, including investment banks, and their customers.” And not very much capex , not very much innovation.