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Hospital Budget Systems Are Holding Back Innovation

Harvard Business Review

operating rooms, recovery floors, emergency department), and ancillary departments (e.g., Consider, for example, a surgical patient who starts in the pre-operative area, then moves to the operating room, the post-anesthesia care unit, and the inpatient floor, with occasional side trips for imaging, testing, and physical therapy.

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An Inside View of How LVMH Makes Luxury More Sustainable

Harvard Business Review

The company is a €36 billion decentralized collection of valuable brands — which they call houses (or maisons ) — covering fashion, wine and spirits, cosmetics, and jewelry. Charles Gibb, Belvedere’s CEO, says it made a strategic choice to invest in this project, even though it had a longer payback period than normal.