Health: less “R”, more “D”

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Much modeling is done in NHS to understand issues, but few developed solutions on offer.

I just left the Press launch for the Cumberland Initiative – an effort to bring clinicians, academics and business people together to use modeling to tackle NHS issues – especially the crisis in A&E [emergency or unscheduled care]. A great aim, but modeling has already clarified many issues for many years; ambulance scheduling, resourcing for dementia treatment, stroke-response … and emergency admissions. So it looks ...

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Analysts press for underinvestment

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I have noted before that stock analysts need know little about how strategy affects firm performance, so an academic study on the impact of stock analysts on firms’ investment behaviour is intriguing. The unpublished working paper by Benner and Ranganathan at Wharton finds that negative pressures from analysts to improve cash flow and stock price trigger reductions in strategic investments during periods of technological change. Two examples:

  • One analyst continually pressured Kodak to cut costs and investment in digital technology: “…we suspect ...
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