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Hospital Budget Systems Are Holding Back Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The audience for such innovation wants to be receptive: A recent American Hospital Association (AHA) survey found that 75% of senior hospital executives endorsed the importance of digital innovation. Yet, despite their stated enthusiasm, hospitals have been notoriously slow to adopt digital innovations. health care system.

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What Markets Do and Don’t Get About Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The idea was to transform his theory of disruptive innovation into an investment thesis. Disruptive innovation can take several forms, and the market understands some types better than others. Why the market values some kinds of innovation better than others. But do markets really follow the logic of an academic theory?

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How Corporate Investors Can Improve Their Odds

Harvard Business Review

By contrast, for corporate innovators each idea needs to carry its own weight. Ideas with positive discounted cash flows get investment. Innovation Project management' One – possibly more promising — receives one more round of funding. Three companies end up taking 60% of all investment dollars.

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

However, many investors seem to have concluded that the most successful companies with tens of billions of dollars of valuation today could never have justified their valuation at the start of their operation based on discounted cash flow. Investors are paying more attention to ideas and options than to earnings.

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