Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Our morality, our ethics are all emotion driven. I think the root cause of many of the problems in our organizations are a contradiction between how we do what we do and our beliefs about how we do what we do. We are still stuck in a 17th century rationalism; but yet all the neurophysiology tells us we’re irrational. We think emotively.

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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. Health Care Costs. On the latter topic, check out Michael Porter and Thomas Lee, who lay out a strategy for improving the health care industry.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

In some sectors, like health care and higher education, the bureaucratic class has grown even faster. administrators for every tenured or tenure-track faculty member within the UC system. A similar trend can be found in other OECD countries. in 2001 to 16% in 2015. At present, there are 1.2 In 1993, 47% of U.S.

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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. But it always fails eventually, and when that occurs, our system, by and large, does a lousy job. All patients would designate health care proxies.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2017

He tolerated (and even encouraged) ethically questionable sales practices. When a health care company hired the wrong leader for a sales region, it took more than three years to rebuild the team and recover from the initial error of putting the wrong person in charge. He ruled by fear. Achieving goals was everything.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

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. Should CEO performance be assessed only on “hard” measures? Should soft measures be part of a CEO’s scorecard?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2017

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. During our careers, we have worked in industry, academia, clinical medicine, and government and have managed successful academia-industry collaborations.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Transforming Health Care. Will we get to a point where disconnecting depressed or anxious people from their digital diagnostics is seen as ethically or medically irresponsible? Smart watches and fitness trackers monitor a user’s heart rate, sleep, and movement. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Not just those under attack for ethical lapses, accounting problems, or excessive compensation – retired college presidents are the latest to join corporate executives in the latter category. President Obama has stumbled in the implementation of his signature health care reform idea, the Affordable Care Act.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Martha, who manages a staff of hundreds at a health care facility, says she uses a “root cause” analysis to decifer digital errors and distinguish between a mistake caused by a systemic failure or individual oversight. Ethics IT management Technology' Steve is torn.

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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 positioned ourselves not just as a productivity-driving force but also as an agent of society by investing in education and health care for our people.

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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. Avoidable Suffering.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Cerner , a supplier of health care IT solutions, uses data sets from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to supplement their own data. Even seemingly harmless experiments may carry ethical or social implications with real financial consequences. Is the data clean and easy to analyze?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Consider the potential to influence employee behaviors in arenas such as employee benefits, health care and wellness. These questions require artfully combining analytical rigor with sensitivity and insight into the humanity and ethics of work. In the rush to ask “What can HR analytics predict?”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

Poor pay , increased health care costs , and diminished pension plans are certainly core issues — teachers in Oklahoma haven’t received a pay boost in a decade. In this view, an independent and external body best regulates teachers, in which teachers are part of an accountable and efficient production system.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2017

As brands assume more and more AI functionality, businesses must proactively manage any potential ethical and legal concerns. Remember that each interaction provides an opportunity for a customer to judge the AI system and therefore the brand and company’s performance. Indeed, Siri seems more persona than product.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

However, as I suggest in my HBR piece, we should vigorously question the ethics and effectiveness of any “asymmetrical” uses of HUDs. Hospital-borne infections like MRSA cost hospitals about 10 percent of their operating budgets, and the overall US health care system about $35 billion.

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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. Consumers are much more concerned with ethical business practice than ever before because the have access to the information.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

It will mean less health insurance for individuals; less coverage for elderly and poor Americans; less revenue for doctors, hospitals, and myriad health care businesses; and, quite possibly, a less-healthy, less-productive workforce. Many will also lose health insurance. Precipitous cuts, however, could be damaging.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Companies need strict policies and strong compliance systems to avoid unethical practices (from corruption to anticompetitive measures). Ethical conduct is particularly important in emerging markets where companies rely heavily on governments’ goodwill for market access and health care investments.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

These policies must be made real by implementing systems and processes in education and training, in leadership development, in protocols for qualifying and re-qualifying suppliers as well as for assessing second and third tier suppliers, and by imposing real sanctions when suppliers violate standards. Worker Transition at Home.

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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. I have long been an opponent to term limits, believing that "we the people" are smart enough to figure out who should serve. However, I have recently changes my tune. I AGREE 100%!!!!

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