Engaging Leader

APRIL 25, 2014

Many companies are spending huge amounts of health care dollars paying for treatment of medical conditions caused primarily by poor food choices. Many companies are spending huge amounts of health care dollars paying for treatment of medical conditions caused primarily by poor food choices.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Many hospitals, including the Cleveland Clinic , are implementing a variety of strategies to improve the patient experience —an issue that’s rapidly becoming a top priority in health care. The Accountable Care Act now links performance related to patient-experience metrics to reimbursement. National trends in data on the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

competitiveness strikes a pessimistic tone about certain demographic facts — the education gap between young people and the jobs which are and will be available, the aging of the American population, and the related rise in health care costs. In the context of a not-yet-entirely-settled system of healthcare finance in the U.S.,

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Health Care Human Capital Education Insurance 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Not long ago, many services such as tax accounting were delivered episodically and in-person, as most health care still is today. Health care has proved resistant to a similar transition, although everyone would benefit. The ideas have also been embraced by public policy makers, health plans, and the general public.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

They assume that there are no counter-trends or embryonic developments. Consider these plausible scenarios based on small but already-visible phenomena that might become big future trends: 1. Innovative forms of financing, such as Kickstarter, will continue to grow, also invented by social entrepreneurs.

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Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2013

That means these firms and a lot of others are at a serious disadvantage relative to competitors with the resources and expertise to mine data on customer behaviors and market trends. But trends such as cloud computing, open-source software, and software as a service have changed all that. Take Kaggle , for instance.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

The growing skills gap provides one explanation, but another clue is the significant downward trend in workforce mobility. Highly skilled workers — especially in health care, engineering, and IT — have fared the best during the recovery. Last fall, the U.S. percent in 1985.

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Health Care Engineering Skills Finance 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

I am fortunate enough to work with these people all the time across a span of industries and professions: finance, health care, education, energy, technology. Are you fluent in those numbers, and do you keep your boss apprised of where they are trending? And from my vantage point, the messages are clear and constant.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 29, 2014

The study explores net growth in private-sector business establishments from 2001 to 2012, ranking the best and worst states for new establishments post-recession and shedding light on national trends. A business establishment 1 is defined as a single physical location that produces some form of economic activity.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

But with the rapid implementation of electronic health records (EHRs), CNOs are now expected to master new trends in health care information technologies to engage hospital leaders in strategic discussions about major technology investments. Managers must keep that in mind as they’re assessing each position.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

How would we deliver care to a population overburdened with severe mental illness, food insecurity (the lack of consistent access to enough food to lead an active, healthy life) and early-onset chronic diseases — and do so in locations as disparate as Tennessee and Iowa? The Future of Health Care. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

In 2010, when Mark Bertolini, CEO of Aetna, began articulating a strategy to invest billions to transform from a health insurance company to a health care company, analysts grumbled. In successful cases like these, CFOs have had to reorient their roles as the “gate-keeper” of a company’s finances.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

And The Saint Paul Foundation filled financing gaps, using loans, loan guarantees and even equity investments — investments commonly associated with banks or other private investors, but likely too risky for traditional lenders until there was a more proven track record. Build, measure, learn, and declare. This is not an easy task.

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Metrics Banking Learning-by-Doing Education 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

The trend sees big companies such as CVS Health, State Street, and American Express evolving small hiring programs for opportunity youth, driven by corporate social responsibility, into core business strategy (see our study “Hidden Talent: How Smart Companies Are Tapping into Unemployed Youth” ).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

The idea of revealing human capital data in annual reports is not new and the reports won’t change overnight; however there is now an unmistakeable trend towards enhanced reporting. For example, recruitment, development, and retention is particularly important in the knowledge intensive health care sector.

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Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In past years, we heard mostly from startup founders and academics — people who pay attention to early, far-reaching trends in technology. Next up will be finance, transportation, and agriculture because of the volume of data available and their sheer economic value. But this year was different.

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Software Transportation Tools Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

The problem is that creativity works by taking what we know and applying it to something new ; and what engineers understand is new enabling technology trends like cloud, mobile, social and big data. There are so many industries ripe for technology startups to disrupt: Education, Health Care, Business, Art and Government just to name a few.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

The problem is that creativity works by taking what we know and applying it to something new ; and what engineers understand is new enabling technology trends like cloud, mobile, social and big data. There are so many industries ripe for technology startups to disrupt: Education, Health Care, Business, Art and Government just to name a few.

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Their business school education and their initial experience within narrower company functions ( e.g., marketing, manufacturing, finance) may leave them unprepared. health or energy) or in general cross-cutting subjects (e.g., They can be cross-cutting issues which impact the whole corporation (e.g., A needed a pproach.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2017

To date, only small steps have been taken at most health care systems (for example, clarifying the costs of specific tests during the test-ordering process), and new clinical analytics systems that offer better insights into costs and efficiency often aren’t integrated into day-to-day clinical care. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

This change in Wharton students’ plans for parenting is part of a larger trend; a nation-wide baby bust. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, child care workers earn even less than home health care workers. Support Portable Health Care. The Affordable Care Act is a step in this direction.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

Two factors triggered my unease: the trends described by my co-authors and I in our recent HBR article and new work by Nobel Prize-winning economist Michael Spence. In a Council on Foreign Relations working paper co-authored with Sandile Hlatshwayo of NYU's Stern School, Spence turns his attention to employment trends in the U.S.

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Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Trends 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

There are three trends are behind this shift: The ease of innovation and its decreasing cost mean that start-ups now face the same short-term pressures that have constrained innovation at large companies. It worked with a local partner to create India's first financing plan for medical devices.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2018

CEO activism, the growing trend of top executives speaking out on sensitive social and political issues, has been labeled the “ new normal.” fotog/Getty Images. ” But behind the scenes, executives do not feel in control. So why are leaders responding so readily when employees pressure them to demonstrate integrity?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. It allows companies to hire foreign workers for specialized jobs that can be challenging to fill. But in April, just after U.S.

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Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9