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Intelligent Redesign of Health Care

Harvard Business Review

The health care industry has survived economically by cross-subsidizing margin shortfalls in one activity with the revenues generated from others. But the very existence of these cross-subsidies is symptomatic of deep flaws in the health care reimbursement system. Kaplan and Michael E.

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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. Michael Porter has defined value as “health outcomes achieved per dollar spent.”

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Hospital Budget Systems Are Holding Back Innovation

Harvard Business Review

health care system. The audience for such innovation wants to be receptive: A recent American Hospital Association (AHA) survey found that 75% of senior hospital executives endorsed the importance of digital innovation. surgery, medicine, oncology), care areas (e.g., Health Care’s New Frontier.

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The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013

Harvard Business Review

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters.

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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

But what many economists generally gloss over is a notion that I will argue is highly complementary to market failures: management failures. Businesses and management experts, in contrast, tend take the opposite position. This is a reminder that serious students of market performance take market failures seriously.

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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

But what many economists generally gloss over is a notion that I will argue is highly complementary to market failures: management failures. Businesses and management experts, in contrast, tend take the opposite position. This is a reminder that serious students of market performance take market failures seriously.

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HBR’s Guide to Obama’s 2014 State of the Union

Harvard Business Review

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.