Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Consider ThedaCare , a healthcare system in Wisconsin, which eliminated its budgeting process in 2010. Group Health Cooperative , a nonprofit health care system in Seattle with 10,000 employees, has also thrown out its budgeting process. But the tight-fisted approach winds up being wasteful, and there is a better way.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Let’s look at four value chains Apple could disrupt, each of which in markets that, on the face of it, seem large enough to offer hope: television, advertising, health care, and automobiles. The delivery of primary health care in the United States is ripe for disruption. And Nielsen has no reason to cede control of it.

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Industry Wireless Advertising Content 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2015

The system for paying health care providers is extremely fragmented. In response, both the United States and the Netherlands are now experimenting with bundled-payment models , whereby a single prospective payment is made for all services for a patient with a given condition, even when multiple providers deliver that care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Quality Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

President Obama has some unfinished business to attend to, and taking care of it will require help and support from corporate leaders across the country. After 2010, climate all but disappeared from the national conversation. He delivered on the first two. Hurricane Sandy put it back on the map.

Cost 9

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Based in Appleton, Wisconsin, ThedaCare is a five-hospital health system with 26 clinics, other allied services, and more than 6,000 employees. It has been a pioneer in applying lean methodology in health care in order to tackle quality and cost issues. Leading Health Care Innovation. Health Operations'

Health Care 8

Health Care Quality Decentralization Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

I go to a lot of health care conferences and of late there’s a seemingly obligatory slide that crops up in nearly every PowerPoint. ” This is health care’s “ Triple Aim ” and it is definitely trending. So, what should health care providers focus on as their keystone habit?

Health Care 8

Health Care Quality Retail Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. Mark Bertolini, CEO of Aetna, began his tenure, in 2010, by lowering targets by over one-third, in a single bold move.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

The non-profit, run by Ruby Corado, is a haven for the transgender community that provides counseling, career advice, and help with health care and housing in the Washington D.C. By supporting Casa Ruby, we hope to disseminate critical health care information and social services to the people who are at highest risk of contracting HIV.

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Project Health Care Learning-by-Doing Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

Sure, we’re spending much more on health care and education than our grandparents did. In 2010, as we’re told in the introduction, New York City added the equivalent of 54 million metric tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. It can compress time and space. It can illuminate patterns in massive amounts of data.

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Open-book Health Care Metrics Tools 11