Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. PM Images/Getty Images.

Cost 8

Cost System Management Franchising 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2017

Human resources management is all about striking a balance between encouragement, rewards, and sanctions. It renews interest in their task and keeps them engaged with your operation. If your business operates in the retail sector, you should invest in sales technique training. On-going training is a vital element of this.

Training 50

Training Budgeting Bottom-up Long-term 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2018

It’s why companies like Colorcon and Deloitte are giving their performance management systems an overhaul. The Command Maintenance Evaluation Team conducts these inspections semi-annually to assess administrative procedures and systems for maintenance, logistics, and communications. But it was not a zero-sum situation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Operations Restructuring Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

a cataract operation can cost $200 or less, compared with $3,500 in the U.S. The answer is yes, as we found in the example of Ascension , the largest nonprofit health system in the United States. Ascension saved 10%–15% a year by aggregating all of those contracts and negotiating from the strength of the combined operation.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Cost Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

It may feel as though the financial system hasn’t changed much in the decade since the downturn, but it has. Most of the regulation was meant to safeguard the financial system, and the taxpayers who had to bail it out, from another crisis. Many other financial firms including AIG, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac needed bail outs.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Bottom-up Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

A 2017 survey of roughly 900 locum tenens performed by Staffcare, a U.S. It takes time to learn how to operate efficiently in a new clinical delivery system, and higher costs of care and longer lengths of stay for locum tenens’ patients could reflect this learning curve.

Quality 8

Quality Survey Short-term Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

But with the departures of a number of high-level HR leaders in late 2016, head of operations Ryan Graves largely took on the head HR role in addition to his other duties. Today Uber is no startup, with 11,000 employees, not including its drivers, and a 2017 market value at IPO that is estimated as $28–$70 billion.

Compliance 9

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

2nd Lieutenant Riley’s background is any employer’s dream, and his retention in the armed forces is a good thing for the Department of Defense, the organization I had the honor to lead from 2015 to 2017. These are logical changes to a system that is, in some ways, dated, and I hope Congress will enact them soon.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Learning-by-Doing Advertising Training 8