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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

A key target for Ceres’ work, and the main audience at the conference, is the group of institutional investors who manage tens of trillions of dollars in assets for long-term performance. ” The value of the companies owning and managing those assets, the logic goes, will plummet. degrees Fahrenheit (2 o C).