Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

Writing for the Harvard Business Review in 1988, Peter Drucker predicted that in 20 years the average organization would have slashed the number of management layers by half and shrunk its managerial ranks by two-thirds. Between 1983 and 2014, the number of managers, supervisors and support staff in the U.S. in 2001 to 16% in 2015.

Bureaucracy 10

Bureaucracy Organization Health Care Drucker 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2014

He mentioned a number of themes that we cover regularly here at HBR: the minimum wage, inequality, women in the workplace, manufacturing, and health care to name just a few. As the President sets out on a post-speech tour to sell his policies, here are management experts’ perspectives on some of those proposals: Minimum Wage.

Insourcing 8

Insourcing Health Care Proposal Meyer 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

an RFID system) and a multidiscipline team of clinicians and people from other fields can play in improving the quality and cost of care delivery processes and the steps that can ease the way to applying such an approach. The project was launched in 2013, and the RFID system was rolled out in stages starting in the summer of 2015.

Technology 8

Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2017

A weak salesperson will weaken a sales territory, a bad sales manager will damage their team and dampen results in their region, and a poor sales leader will eventually ruin the entire sales force. A medical device company hired a vice president of sales with an intimidating management style. He ruled by fear.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Health Care Self-aware Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The cognitive and emotional demands on managers have rarely been more complicated or intense. One recent global research survey of employee assistance programs found that, combined, employee anxiety, stress, and depression accounted for over 80% of all emotional health cases in 2014, compared with 55% in 2012. Transforming Health Care.

Stress 9

Stress Self-aware Software Emotional Intelligence 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2017

During our careers, we have worked in industry, academia, clinical medicine, and government and have managed successful academia-industry collaborations. The Leading Edge of Health Care. Clinicians working for medical centers or health systems can be in conflict of interest without receiving money from industry.

Conflict of Interest 10

Conflict of Interest Pharmaceuticals Policies Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

Leaders of many companies — in industries ranging from contract manufacturing, and software services to consulting and health care — tell us the same thing: “We want to move up the value chain.” defend against “attack from beneath” and maintain your reputation for ethical operations.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Contract Manufacturing Outsourcing Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

With its Emerging Businesses (EB) group (where one of us serves as President), Merck started a journey about three years ago with a core investment thesis: there are areas of growing unmet need in health care that intersect with its established competencies. Experimentation is vital.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Steve, a portfolio manager for a major mutual fund company, understood that his company monitored internet use of all employees. I had been preparing a client presentation with several of my colleagues at our asset management firm. Kelly was a nuisance employee and maybe Rick had the goods on her now. Steve is torn.

EPM 8

EPM Root Cause Analysis Handbook Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

The process "has enormous consequences" not for just for aspiring doctors, the Times says, but "also for the entire health care system.". The piece reports on the radical new admissions policy at Virginia Tech Carilion , the country's newest medical school. Here's what the fuss is about. or the multiple mini-interview.

Airlines 15

Airlines Health Care Consensus Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. We have been deploying technology, re-engineering, training, and adopting modern IT-enabled management platforms to help our workers improve their productivity, hence their income.

Industry 10

Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

In the end, analysts are left uncertain about how to proceed, and managers are frustrated when the information they get isn’t what they intended. For example, advertising managers may ask analysts, “What is the most efficient way to use ads to increase sales?” HBR Guide to Data Analytics Basics for Managers.

Analysis 8

Analysis Incubator Advertising Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Too few businesses have sought to make a systemic approach to public policy an important dimension of their global posture. But many don’t have one, instead adopting only defensive, short-term, or narrowly self-interested “government relations” tactics. The stakes are very high.

Policies 8

Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Imagine one of your managers walks into their subordinate’s office and says, “Our data analysis predicts that you will soon get restless and think of leaving us, so we want to make you an offer that our data shows has retained others like you.” In the rush to ask “What can HR analytics predict?”

Report 8

Report Human Capital Health Care Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Super-specialized physicians learned how to attack disease in various organs systems, and fatalism has gone out of fashion. We believe that a comprehensive approach to measuring and reducing suffering is not just an ethical imperative; it makes strategic sense for health care organizations.

Health Care 8

Health Care Quality Constraint System 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2017

As brands assume more and more AI functionality, businesses must proactively manage any potential ethical and legal concerns. Whatever the form factor, companies must skillfully manage any future shifts in customer interactions. Executives should also be wary of how AI increases the dangers of brand disintermediation.

Brand 10

Brand Disintermediation Ethics Technology 10

Strategy Driven

JULY 23, 2019

For example, health care isn’t just about diagnosis and treatment any more, it’s also about managing data, maintaining customer privacy and implementing technological systems to improve performance. Compliance is Key. In the information age, compliance has become a huge part of business.

Information 50

Information Compliance Reputation Health Care 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

For instance, 60 institutional investors, collectively managing more than $5.5 Companies need strict policies and strong compliance systems to avoid unethical practices (from corruption to anticompetitive measures). This prevents fines and settlements, damage to their reputations, and more burdensome regulation.

Reputation 8

Reputation Pharmaceuticals Price Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

The West defeated the Soviet Union not through warfare but by maintaining a superior economic system with higher technological standards. Having spun off its hardware production divisions over the past decade, IBM now invests in artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, clean energy, and devices for high-tech health care.

First-mover Advantage 9

First-mover Advantage GDP Technology Biotechnology 9

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Without these term limits, the congress has no reason to include themselves in the health care system they impose on us. These facts raise some profound questions about personnel management of a great power. However, I have recently changes my tune. I AGREE 100%!!!!

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