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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business Review

Modest reductions in the cost of borrowing and in supply costs achieved in mergers are often washed out by higher executive compensation, more layers of management, and information technology outlays, leading to higher, rather than lower, operating expenses.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business Review

By 2016, the rise of smart phones seemed to have made the company less relevant: Its revenues were at almost the same level they had been a full decade earlier. It also called for streamlining headquarters and cutting executive management’s compensation. The number of directors and officers would be reduced.