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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. coal market.

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Can We Quantify the Value of Connected Devices?

Harvard Business Review

They institutionalized the use of data collection systems in their manufacturing facilities to understand how products and machines would “behave” and could be optimized. Combining these creates a P&L and a projection, which through a discounted cash flow analysis yields an NPV, which can be used to assess valuation.