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. In addition, people believe that diverse teams breed greater conflict than they actually do.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

Physicians, nurses, and others who work on the front lines of patient care are an important potential source for innovations that could improve patients’ health and reduce the cost of care. Boston Children’s Hospital designed an innovation accelerator to overcome these hurdles. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The size and layout of a room, whether a bed sits in the middle or against a wall (even which wall), how much space is maintained for patients to walk versus how many beds or operating equipment can be accommodated, have not been considered predictors of health outcomes in the past. The Future of Health Care. Insight Center.

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Health Care Long-term Mayo Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Today, inner cities are "in" — innovative, hip hotbeds of convenient culture, commerce and connection. The centripetal force of today's cities is pulling the ambitious and educated back in, and increasing cities' innovative capacity, without sacrificing (at least some would argue) their inclusiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

It's a shame Obama — and the Western press — didn't pay attention to the far bigger story happening in many of the countries on his visit: real, game-changing innovations from emerging markets that could point the way for currently stagnant Western firms. Let's look at two of the examples above in more detail.

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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. Companies that have gender-diverse leadership deliver better financial performance than companies that do not – so addressing the gap was not just the right thing to do; it made business sense as well.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

The challenge for many executives sitting at corporate headquarters in Western countries, especially in highly regulated business areas like Bayer in health care, is to build trust in locals who are faraway in very different cultures, like Brazil, Russia or India. Or, indeed, in leadership roles at headquarters.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

It is where employees with diverse backgrounds and opinions can work together to pursue shared objectives, unencumbered by the divides and tensions that exist elsewhere. However, they must understand civility in the broadest possible sense: as encompassing diversity and inclusion and respecting rather than inflaming difference.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

In the 1990s, for example, pharma firms were regulars on “Most Admired Company” lists. Change and innovation are choices, not givens, in any organization, and there are managerial levers for making these selections wisely. To do that, Merck formed a Strategy & Innovation Council with people from across the company.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

In response, our team at the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard launched an online platform to generate and disseminate knowledge in health care delivery. In health care, we thought, they could be a rapid, practical means for diverse professionals to share insights and tactics. The Launch.

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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.

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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. It’s the continuous work of challenging mindsets that enables innovation and insight and leads to improved decision making.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

The more I learn about the results from crowdsourcing and open innovation efforts, the more I believe that the smart strategy is to expose your problems and challenges to as many people as possible and let them show you what they can do. Here's my most recent example of the power of this approach.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

About ten years ago they spread to financial services and, in the past five years, more deeply into health care and services. Because of this increased diversity and scope of adoption, the learnings are deeper. And there are many examples of external collaboration and learning forums that didn't exist even a few years ago.

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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. The definition of a market, customer, partner, or even competitor is now a moving target.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Cosgrove suggests that physician-leaders are also more likely to “tolerate crazy ideas” (innovative ideas like the first coronary artery bypass, performed by René Favaloro at the Cleveland Clinic in the late ‘60s). The course culminates in a team-based innovation project presented to hospital leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

For example, GE developed an ultra-low-cost ultrasound for rural China which is now marketed in over 100 countries. We call this phenomenon reverse innovation — any innovation that is adopted first in the developing world, and then later in the developed world. Reverse innovation will become more and more common.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Obama reportedly felt the situation called for someone who could set priorities and help government agencies and private sector organizations of all kinds to collaborate and innovate. Top-down management simply will not get the innovation part of the job done. Conforming to predetermined czarist diktats is a nonstarter.

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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. The definition of a market, customer, partner, or even competitor is now a moving target.

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Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The young people we surveyed worked in a wide variety of industries, including health care, manufacturing, retail, and hospitality. They shared five key insights for employers looking to improve retention and engagement, including how to improve manager training, diversity and inclusion, and scheduling.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

This dispersion of practice makes it more likely that a surgeon today may be the only one to perform certain procedures in a given geographic region (particularly outside of large cities) and that innovative ideas, tips, and best practices may arise from outside of the traditional academic “hubs.” Transforming Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2018

For example, women do not achieve promotions or advancement to leadership positions at the same rate as their male peers. For example, studies have demonstrated that women are less likely to be hired and/or promoted because of their gender. Reasons for gender disparities in the C-suite of medicine are manifold. Career flexibility.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. Such ecosystems even the playing field for individuals and small firms to participate in technological progress, catalyzing both employment and innovation. Essential background. Invest in human capital.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

As health care reform evolves, large public institutions that offer a health safety net have some advantages over privately owned enterprises. Those are all assets in an era of health care reform. I head one of these institutions: Dallas-based Parkland Health and Hospital Systems. Insight Center.

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Health Care Innovation Insurance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

Systems conceived and built 50-60 years ago should be reimagined for the 20 th century, whether high speed trains, innovative public transit, or technology-enabled roads and vehicles that tap the potential of sensors, smartphones, wireless networks, and Big Data for greener, cleaner, more efficient mobility. greenhouse gas emissions.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

With technology and business model cycles becoming shorter and companies facing unrelenting pressure to innovate or suffer the consequences, more and more boards need to focus on the second of these roles. They bring a diversity of perspective that can help management understand the company’s vulnerabilities and how to overcome them.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

In fact, TFA reports that there is a gradual but steady increase in post-midlife individuals entering the program — something that the organization hopes will expand as it attempts to attract a diverse corps of talented and committed people of all ages. The program has spread rapidly over the past couple of years.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

We were on ambulance diversion for at least eight of every 24 hours, often longer. Other local EDs actually had betting pools on how long it would take us to go back on diversion after we came off. Our mantra: Patients care about getting exceptional care, not who pays your salary. Leading Change in Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Currently, home health agencies are paid based on 60-day episodes, which do not match patients’ diverse needs. These health system efforts should be complemented by greater research investments at the federal level. Clinicians need the flexibility to offer the right level of post-acute care to patients at the time they need it.

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Health Care How To Metrics Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The mobile phone is a strong contender as a key transforming agent in the future of health and healthcare. There are now more than 5.3

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Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

And the Fundaments of managing by objectives : Cascading of organizational goals and objectives, (For example, a top level goal of increasing sales by 20% over a defined period may require a bottom level goal of increasing marketing effectiveness or marketing coverage in order to reach the sales set.). stress and health. creativity.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

In fact, each of these innovations is already up and running somewhere in the world today, with more happening every day. As diverse forces such as social media, climate change, urban migration, and sprawl continue to upend the status quo, employing every tool and service available to help societies respond to disruption is critical.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

But technology doesn't need to be framed as the innovative solution itself — it can also be applied to improve existing processes. The result is that health care workers in the country now have near real-time online access to other vital reporting data. We all have a role to play in making these breakthroughs happen.

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Technology Health Care System Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

In addressing the billion-dollar adherence problem, Vitality (since acquired by NANTHEALTH ) considered the interests of the players in the diverse ecosystem, including pharmaceutical companies, retail pharmacies, and health care providers. My favorite example of this is iRobot , the maker of the innovative Roomba vacuum.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

But technology doesn't need to be framed as the innovative solution itself — it can also be applied to improve existing processes. The result is that health care workers in the country now have near real-time online access to other vital reporting data. We all have a role to play in making these breakthroughs happen.

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Technology Health Care System Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

In six years of working across 60 countries in search of the perfect health system, I have been fascinated by the fact that every country wants to deliver safe, consistently good, financially sustainable health care, but no one has been able to do it. Leading Change in Health Care. Insight Center.

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