Harvard Business Review
MARCH 29, 2018
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.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 23, 2015
They’re essentially asking the company to take the cash it has generated through its business operations and spend it on something with an uncertain future return. Everyone always wants new equipment — new computers or other hot technologies. The two founding partners were both engineers who loved technology.
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Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 21, 2016
Today large commercial buildings address only two percent per year of the NPV-positive investments in efficiency that are available to them. This approach has been made possible by the advent of low-cost sensing technology and the ability to acquire data from building systems and energy-consuming equipment.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 20, 2014
And this addresses the commercial value creation question – P&G’s mindset was to create operational efficiencies that would contribute to healthy EBITDA margins. 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.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 24, 2014
While on the surface, the dirty business of fossil fuels is nothing like Silicon Valley, many in the oil business have moved beyond the standard net present value (NPV) model for assessing the merit of investments. What if I suggested that the best place to look for answers could be the shale oil fields of North Dakota? Talk about options!
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