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It Is Time to Fix Our Boardrooms

Harvard Business Review

It taints how all other businesses and their boards are viewed, casting a pall over other technology companies and the wider business community. As such, boards need independent directors with skill, vision and commitment. The effect is to make everyone watching uneasy. The markets are uneasy, which is never a good thing.

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Making Hospital Partnerships Work

Harvard Business Review

The assumption is that a merger will make it easier to achieve economies of scale, develop a large but narrow network of preferably healthy patients, establish data registries, and integrate expensive technology. Our partnering skills were maturing, so we became more precise in our evaluation process and expectations.