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Hospital Budget Systems Are Holding Back Innovation

Harvard Business Review

We have identified how hospitals’ budgeting systems have erected three distinct barriers to the adoption of technology. These barriers, however, can be overcome by changing how hospitals acquire new technology and by providing incentives to units to use digital innovations to provide more effective and efficient care.

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How Corporate Investors Can Improve Their Odds

Harvard Business Review

The operative question for them is, not “How confident am I that this investment will yield a positive return?” Ideas with positive discounted cash flows get investment. Five produced positive returns, two broke even, and three lost a little, but not a catastrophic, amount of money. Those that don’t, don’t.

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. So, investors, and therefore managers, might be adjusting their approach to risk accordingly. It’s possible that companies like those are overvalued.

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What Markets Do and Don’t Get About Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Sustaining innovation inhabits the world of incremental change, deliberate strategy , and most financial and management theory. Without theory to tell us how the rules are changing, many tools of management and finance seem to break down. As a result, outlooks are more likely to be positive or mixed.