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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. Insight Center.

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How to Get People to Collaborate When You Don’t Control Their Salary

Harvard Business Review

To pursue this issue, I picked a new research setting where the reward system is highly constrained — and so is the career ladder. So how do you jumpstart collaboration without transforming the pay or promotion system? The organizational stars have tremendous autonomy over key work decisions. Get the benefits flowing faster.

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How to Better Manage Your Company’s Utility Bills

Harvard Business Review

Large savings can be captured by doing things like optimizing boiler and chiller performance, running HVAC diagnostics, and making improvements to the building management system’s programming. In our experience, well-designed retrofits can deliver 20%-50% energy savings with fast payback periods.