Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

In health care, the Hippocratic Oath — “first, do no harm” — can hold as much sway in the board room as it does in the exam room. Among health care leadership, it can have the unintended effect of promoting inaction over change and innovation. health care has become akin to a smothered child—stifled and arrested.

Health Care 8

Health Care Information Technology Learning-by-Doing Information 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

I conduct interviews with innovators at the company, create fact sheets and videos about their work, write articles, and share all that content with various groups of clinicians and staffers. Spreading innovation at your company. When you’re trying to get ideas moving in your health care organization, how do you avoid roadblocks?

Health Care 9

Health Care Innovation How To Video 9

HR Digest

JULY 14, 2021

Therefore, one can choose programs that may offer concentrations or specializations that let students get a specific kind of EMBA, such as an EMBA in health care or hospital management. Hence, they are better prepared to leverage a buyout that might be taking place in their current company.

Short-term 59

Short-term Leadership Pipeline Execution Leadership 59

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

It has accelerated nine projects and spun three of them out as start-up companies that have secured over $2 million in venture funding. The Leading Edge of Health Care. Many of them could not handle the highly diverse projects that we wanted to support — from algorithms to apps to devices. Build a diverse team.

Health Care 10

Health Care Company Innovation Entrepreneur 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

In numerous studies , diversity — both inherent (e.g., For example, a 2009 analysis of 506 companies found that firms with more racial or gender diversity had more sales revenue, more customers, and greater profits. With so much at stake, why aren’t these companies making more headway?

Diversity 8

Diversity Team Bottom-up Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Much has been written about the troubling lack of women in leadership roles generally and in health care in particular. Our approaches, we think, can be helpful to other companies working to address this imbalance. The Future of Health Care. At Lilly, we have tackled this problem head-on. Insight Center.

Positioning 11

Positioning Leadership Health Care Diversity 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

For the last five years, Bayer has been quietly transitioning from being an international company to a truly global one. “You are not a global company because you do business in 120 countries. You are a global company if you understand countries and customers so well that you are able to do business optimally everywhere.

Diversity 8

Diversity Team Globalization Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2016

When companies downsize, diversity takes a hit — even if it previously was treated as a priority. But my analysis shows that because companies rely heavily on position and tenure to make those calls, they wipe out most or all of the gains they’ve made in diversity. Here’s how that plays out.

Diversity 8

Diversity Health Care Analysis Public Relations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

presidential election, Interpublic (IPG), my company’s parent corporation, held its first open call for employees to talk about concerns related to respect in the workplace. ” Companies today have the capacity to be a haven from the incivility that individuals confront every day, on the road, online, in the media, and in politics.

Diversity 9

Diversity Politics Survey Incubator 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

As we describe in our recent HBR article, “The New Sales Imperative,” the torrents of information, expanding array of options, and growing size and diversity of purchasing groups are leading to a kind of purchase paralysis: Customers are taking longer than ever to make purchases, and abandoning them more often.

B2B 9

B2B Travel CIO Benchmarking 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

In the United Kingdom, for example, the employment share of managers and supervisors increased from 12.9% In some sectors, like health care and higher education, the bureaucratic class has grown even faster. Companies in the Fortune 500 list employ 27 million people today, compared to 20 million in 1995.

Bureaucracy 10

Bureaucracy Organization Health Care Drucker 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2016

After all, investment analysts at JPMorgan Chase are assigned to monitor specific industries, speak up in companies’ quarterly conference calls, help execute deals and transactions, and advise corporate clients. Only the latter strategy produces good results for both company shareholders and employees.

Long-term 8

Long-term Airlines Health Care Short-term 8

Deming Institute

JULY 30, 2015

In this paper I traced the contributions of Dr. Deming to Japan starting in 1950, and how companies like Toyota developed management systems that are now being studied (and copied) by other industries (including healthcare). Here’s a simple example. The cycle continues as diversity of ideas starts a new formation phase.

Deming 28

Deming Influence System Seminar 28

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

He trained his mind to hone intuition, take in diverse sources of information and emerging patterns, and, in turn, do the serious work of illuminating alternative futures. In my scenario planning work with companies, I find this element essential. The sooner they can open to new insights and sensemaking, the better.

Scenario Planning 13

Scenario Planning Strategic Planning Kleiner Management 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Here's my most recent example of the power of this approach. The online startup Kaggle assembles a diverse group of people from around the world to work on tough problems submitted by organizations. The winning prediction was more than 270% better than the insurance company's baseline. They needn't have worried.

Productivity 15

Productivity Products Consensus Health Care 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

On November 9, 2016, the shareholders of Australia’s largest company, and the world’s tenth-largest bank , revolted. Other firms have ventured down this path, including the conglomerate Wesfarmers , with its 200,000-plus staff, and the global hospital operator Ramsay Health Care.

TSR 9

TSR Banking Committee Incentives 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

Meet the New Face of Diversity: The “Slacker” Millennial Guy. The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care. Research and examples published in HBR this year — including an account of a much more effective government agency’s approach to solving problems — prove how critical they are to innovation. Real Men Go to Sleep.

Management 19

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Many companies and executives have been disappointed with these efforts when results weren't sustained and inefficiency crept back in. About ten years ago they spread to financial services and, in the past five years, more deeply into health care and services. But improvement has improved.

Operations 15

Operations Six Sigma Supply Chain Webinar 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces. Merck and Co. Integration is key.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. Is Apple suddenly a healthcare company? To what extent?

Strategy 11

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

The company confessed that it repeatedly had manipulated test data for four of its domestic mini-vehicle models and conducted tests that did not comply with Japanese standards on many other models. Similar examples of unethical behavior abound in many other industries, from banking to insurance to health care.

Ethics 11

Ethics Participative Morale Health Care 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

In these and many other interfaces within our health care system, the limitation is neither incompetence nor ill intent, but rather a dearth of negotiation skills and acumen. As anyone involved in the health care system knows, hospitals and health professionals are faced with this question every day.

Strategy 9

Strategy Health Care Compliance Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

Without adequate financing, ministries of health and even private hospitals in developing countries often don''t have the resources needed to purchase diagnostic equipment, train workers, and ensure access to appropriate treatment. Redefine ROI. Learn in order to teach.

Health Care 8

Health Care ROI NGO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

No one can say for sure how to get on a corporate board, but many people point to two routes: the first is to break into the "right" network and the second is to seek a progression of board seats that begins with, for example, a seat on a not-for-profit or community board and eventually results in appointment to a corporate board.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

.” A Brazilian Stock Exchange BM&FBOVESPA has encouraged listed companies to produce integrated reports. The CFO of Halogen Software, Pete Low, said “Given the strategic relevance of HR information, it’s timely that companies are working on enhanced reporting. Why the interest?

Human Capital 8

Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

To understand how employers can improve engagement and retention, FSG worked with Hart Research Associates to survey over 1,200 entry-level, hourly workers between the ages of 17 and 24, and interviewed dozens of companies to find out how they have improved retention. How can companies help their managers become more effective?

Survey 8

Survey Retail How To Reis 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

They must protect value by helping companies avoid unnecessary risks, and they must build value by ensuring that companies change quickly enough to address emerging competitive threats, evolving customer preferences, and disruptive technologies. The company had clear advance notice that seismic change was coming.

Retail 8

Retail CEO Core Competence Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. Is Apple suddenly a healthcare company? To what extent?

Strategy 8

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 8

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Often, the holiday season involves many companies working overtime, entirely in overdrive, to keep up with the demands of the masses. They have access to every department and employee and as a result, have to do what they can to coordinate plans all across the company. Holiday compliance figures into every aspect of holiday planning.

Compliance 52

Compliance Policies Guidelines Planning 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

GE, perhaps more than any other major company, is dedicated to the use of data visualization as a key part of its marketing and communications efforts. GE specializes in complex challenges in solving the toughest problems in the world: Infrastructure, renewable energy, affordable health care. We''ve used it with thought leaders.

Storytelling 9

Storytelling Airlines White Paper Audience 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

In February, for example, I met a 31-year-old woman in Bangladesh who told me she came to Dhaka with her husband (whom she married at 15) to create a better future for their family. He now works in Bahrain in the construction sector, and she uses her factory wages to care for their two daughters.

Development 9

Development Supply Chain Health Care Compliance 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

As a result, more companies are being valued based on their current earnings than on their growth potential. Our research shows that many companies are increasingly geared toward the short term. Such companies tend to generate less growth and value in the long run. First, they must secure the prosperity of their own companies.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The good news for the world economy is that, with economic development occurring in a more dispersed fashion, experiments are underway in more diverse institutional settings than ever before. Let's look at two of the examples above in more detail. Even some companies that receive bad press on occasion are worth learning from.

Innovation 15

Innovation Marketing Incentives Education 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

There’s already a diversity of “digital therapist” apps to help users diagnose their moods, meditate, and let go of negative thoughts. Transforming Health Care. Employees must provide informed consent on how mental health analytics will be used to evaluate fitness, performance, and promotion.

Stress 9

Stress Self-aware Software Emotional Intelligence 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Increasingly, Western companies are developing products in countries like China and India, and then distributing them globally. For example, GE developed an ultra-low-cost ultrasound for rural China which is now marketed in over 100 countries. and which they now sell in Europe and the U.S. and which they now sell in Europe and the U.S.

Glocalization 11

Glocalization Mass Marketing P&L Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2018

Even when they have Harvard MBAs, black women are generally absent in leadership positions at most Fortune 500 companies, and black men are in high-ranking roles in only a handful. It’s no secret that black people are widely underrepresented in the highest-status professional jobs.

Bond 10

Bond Engineering Mentor Health Care 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

All companies that operate internationally face a striking dual challenge in dealing with public policy: Nations across the globe enact an ever-changing, ever-expanding array of detailed legislation and regulation to protect workers, consumers, investors, and the public welfare, and these diverse rules shape what companies can and cannot do.

Policies 8

Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8