Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. In emergency management, Hurricane Sandy stands out. “Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.” Risk management is now a fully-developed rich scientific discipline. Northern Command. ” -Sun Tzu.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

Managing risks — especially the hard-to-pin-down, moving-target risks that any financial trading operation has to cope with — inevitably involves arguing. The words "risk management" usually evokes less subjective, more data-driven pursuits. But data and objectivity can only get you so far.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

The protests have already cost the CEO of Air France his job : He stepped down after workers rejected his proposal of a 7% wage increase over four years (unions want a 6% immediate increase). In 1995 a train strike paralyzed France and forced the government to back down from its proposed reform of the railway sector. GDP grew by 1.9%

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Carla was literally bred for success as a business manager. The daughter of a senior corporate executive, she had all the right tickets including an MBA from a top school and several years of experience with a prestigious management consulting firm. (Carla's an actual executive whose name has been changed.).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

On August 13, 1982, when Mexican Finance Minister Silva Herzog met with officials of the U.S. Following complex negotiations, Secretary of the Treasury Nicholas Brady proposed that debt reduction and/or debt service reduction be combined with increased lending and continuation of growth-oriented economic adjustment. Signs of a new U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

” A new clinical model based on an advanced illness-management program one of us (Brad) developed at Sutter Health, an integrated system in Northern California, demonstrates how to increase quality while dramatically reducing costs. One blind patient said, “The nurse case manager went with me and stayed through it all.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Clinical and administrative staff often view their work as a vocation as much as a profession, and they are historically suspicious of senior administrators and resistant to strategic agendas. Within a few years, we had dramatically turned around the organization’s finances, performance measures, and market share.

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