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Hospital Budget Systems Are Holding Back Innovation

Harvard Business Review

health care system. Explanations include their IT departments already have their hands full installing, maintaining, and upgrading electronic health record (EHR) systems. But much of the blame can be attributed to hospitals’ misaligned budgeting and incentive systems. Gillian Blease/Getty Images.

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The Largest Risk (and Opportunity) Investors Are Ignoring

Harvard Business Review

As Nick Robins from the bank HSBC described to the audience, in a scenario of global peak fossil fuel use by 2020 “implies a 44% reduction in discounted cash flow value of fossil fuel companies” — or in simpler terms, a decline in share price of 40 to 60 percent. Economy Finance Sustainability' coal market.