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Getting Real About Health Care Value

Harvard Business Review

Let’s hope that’s true for “value” in health care. Where other mantras – such as quality or managed care – have failed to galvanize the system’s diverse stakeholders, value may have a chance. The question, of course, is whether the term will help spur the fundamental changes that our health care sector so desperately needs.

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Value-Based Health Care Is Inevitable and That’s Good

Harvard Business Review

That breakthrough is value-based care, the goal of which is to lower health care costs and improve quality and outcomes. Not everyone, however, is onboard yet, because part of the value-based equation is that hospitals will be paid less to deliver better care. How the Health Care World Will Change.

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The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013

Harvard Business Review

The good news is that millennial men are changing the way they define leadership and demanding work that fits around their families. The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care. Special Forces Innovation: How DARPA Attacks Problems. Gender Innovation Managing people Technology' Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption.

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The Mayo Clinic Model for Running a Value-Improvement Program

Harvard Business Review

In the last six years, a Harvard Business School team has worked with dozens of health care organizations to help them understand the true costs of their treatments for many medical conditions. Each Mayo Clinic value-improvement project must: gain senior leadership support, including an approved charter.

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How Big Business Created the Politics of Anger

Harvard Business Review

And the choice to hold on to cash or use it to repurchase shares, rather than invest profits in new opportunities for innovation and expansion, has had real consequences for our economy that have contributed to the current political upheaval. Whether that kind of leadership positions a company for long-term success is a different question.