Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Businesses that are serious about reducing health care costs — and improving the health and well-being of their employees — should take a serious look at digital therapeutics, which have the potential to provide effective, low-cost ways to prevent and treat chronic diseases and their consequences. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Technology Peer Review 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

It is a widely held belief among health care leaders that comparing their hospitals and clinics to peers is very important. health care quality and safety is abysmal: The evidence suggests that between 240,000 to 400,000 deaths occur each year due to medical errors. (I Leading Change in Health Care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Process Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Few recent trends in health care delivery have more power to improve population health, patient and provider experience, and hospital business models than virtual care. Here is what we did at BWH, organized by the three clinical and strategic problems we aimed to solve through virtual care. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Consultative Video Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In the mid-Atlantic region of the United States, an effort is under way to get insurers, providers, employers, and unions to cooperate in creating a system that can reduce total health care costs and premiums while achieving better outcomes. This continuing transfer from wages to health care does not reflect better value for money.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cooper Insurance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

What makes marketing creative? Is a creative marketer more artist or entrepreneur? Historically, the term “marketing creative” has been associated with the words and pictures that go into ad campaigns. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous.

Creativity 13

Creativity Marketing Agility Budgeting 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Operations Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

Bundled payments in health care have gained favor because they can reduce costs and help improve outcomes. In essence, episodic bundles cover the cost of a patient’s care from start to finish—all the procedures, devices, tests, drugs and services a patient will need for, say, a knee replacement or back surgery.

Health Care 8

Health Care Participative System Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

However, firms can efficiently increase margin growth without much revenue growth by managing to squeeze out their fixed costs to service the same level of output. What if concentrated market power of a few companies in an industry has made these companies more profitable than usual? Are all share repurchases myopic?

EPS 8

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2011

Google Health should have become yet another of the super search engine's high-impact, paradigm-busting successes. A huge global market consistent with Google's espoused mission to 'organize the world's information.' A controversial and humongous health care reform initiative in America to promote top-of-mind awareness and concern.

Innovation 15

Innovation Health Care Core Competence Media 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

In our research into more than 8,000 companies in 20 countries, 79% of organizations reported that their management practices were above average. companies, and fewer than 5% elsewhere, scored above a 4 on a five-point management-practices scale we created. That should have been very good news. You really are above average!

Management 8

Management Benchmarking Short-term Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

In today’s health care landscape, consultants often advise independent hospitals to merge with a larger health system. Many of them want to share responsibility in how the hospital is managed. Leading Change in Health Care. Indeed, market share in each service line has grown substantially.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

CareMore’s longtime focus had been providing patient-centered, managed care to seniors in California, Arizona, Nevada, and Virginia under Medicare Advantage. The Future of Health Care. Comprehensive, relationship-based primary care. There were internal doubts as well. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

Health Care 8

Health Care Metrics Cost Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

Look at DaVita, a market leader in providing dialysis treatments for kidney patients. Fifteen years ago, Total Renal Care (as it was then known) was unprofitable and short on cash, and half of its executives had recently quit or been fired. Reward inspirational leadership as much as effective task management.

Customer Loyalty 13

Customer Loyalty Human Capital Wilde Health Care 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

When formulating a strategy, markets and segments are important categories to consider. But a market never buys anything. This is ineffective deal management, and it eventually leads to loss of positioning with customers, and, over time, the nurturing of “commodity competencies.” Only customers buy.

Strategy 8

Strategy Team Discount ROIC 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Aggravated and depressed by the decline of their core memory business in the 1980s, Intel’s top management struggled for strategic clarity. Stagnant growth in its core PC market recently led Intel to announce layoffs of roughly 12% of its workforce. But the past is merely a prologue.

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Over the past two decades, the leading sectors’ performance on various digital labor metrics — such as the share of tasks involving digital tools and the number of new digital occupations — rose eightfold, while the rest of the economy barely ran in place.

Industry 8

Industry Benchmarking Supply Chain Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The traditional fee-for-service reimbursement model is widely acknowledged to be a major driver of escalating health care costs. Harvard Pilgrim agreed to join the effort because it recognized that traditional payment models were unlikely to help control rising health care costs. The Motives of the Pilot’s Members.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care How To Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2014

Tug of war management. When companies decide to add to their design headcount, particularly in management positions, there’s often an unintended consequence: A battle between the new hires and the non-designers who have gotten used to making de facto design decisions. Leaving an empty seat at the table.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Software B2B Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

companies manage their supply chains with diligence to ensure suppliers meet their standards for quality and affordability, but the vast majority don’t behave in this fashion when purchasing health care services. Innovating for Value in Health Care. It is a costly mistake. Conventional practice.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Price Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

We have been deploying technology, re-engineering, training, and adopting modern IT-enabled management platforms to help our workers improve their productivity, hence their income. 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.

Industry 10

Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

After all, it grew from $7 billion in 2003 to $171 billion in 2013 by entering established (albeit still-emerging) markets with superior products — something the model suggests is a losing strategy. The delivery of primary health care in the United States is ripe for disruption. And Nielsen has no reason to cede control of it.

Industry 8

Industry Wireless Advertising Content 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Instead, companies must make fundamental changes to the way they work — how they market and sell, handle orders, bill for those orders, manufacture and distribute their goods, and serve customers after the sale. According to ThedaCare's chief financial officer, Tim Olson , top management viewed it as a significant waste of time.

Budgeting 11

Budgeting Chief Financial Officer Cost CFO 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

The EU’s case asserts, among other things, that Google unfairly exploits its dominance in search engines and smartphone operating systems to restrict competition in shopping services, ad placement services, and smartphone app store markets. The coming battle in antitrust will not be about controlling markets in the traditional sense.

Company 9

Company Engineering Operations Construction 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Writing decent code may prove a less marketable skill than excellence at tutoring a child or, quite literally, teaching an old dog new tricks. IQ is rapidly giving way to TQ — the Trainability Quotient — as the metric mattering most to the artificial intelligentsia.

Core Competence 12

Core Competence Human Capital Technology Health Care 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

President Obama has some unfinished business to attend to, and taking care of it will require help and support from corporate leaders across the country. This means getting state public utility commissions and regional power market operators to remove barriers to investments in efficiency and renewables. He delivered on the first two.

Cost 9

Cost Price Energy Proposal 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

I go to a lot of health care conferences and of late there’s a seemingly obligatory slide that crops up in nearly every PowerPoint. ” This is health care’s “ Triple Aim ” and it is definitely trending. No talk of profits, opening new markets, or any of the usual crowd pleasers.

Health Care 8

Health Care Quality Retail Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

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. Establishing this committee signaled that implementing value-based health-care delivery was an institutional priority.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2018

Loneliness should be as important to managers, CFOs, and CEOs as it is to therapists. The last half-decade of research has demonstrated that loneliness threatens not only our physical health and well-being , but also our livelihood. Yet we are often blind to this hidden drain on health and revenue.

Report 14

Report Health Care Sample Metrics 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2016

What is excellent health care? So imagine their reaction when University of Utah Health Care (UUHC) started surveying patients and asking them how they define excellence. Since the launch of “five-star” care, UUHC has celebrated steady gains in quality metrics and a reduction in costs.

Review 8

Review Health Care Quality Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2014

An estimated 250 funds are actively raising capital in a market that the Global Impact Investing Network estimates at $25 billion. Impact investing has captured the world’s imagination. Just six years after the Rockefeller Foundation coined the term, the sector is booming.

Development 8

Development Microfinance Biotechnology Exit Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Markets only lead to prosperity and freedom when they are genuinely free and fair. My experience has been that managers don’t seek to maximize shareholder value because they believe they are legally required to do so. Why not make it mandatory for firms to report against an appropriate set of nonfinancial metrics?

Proposal 8

Proposal Incentives Price Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

According to the Global Impact Investing Network, the market for impact capital, currently sized at $60 billion, could grow over the next decade to $2 trillion, or 1% of global invested assets. Everyone agrees that impact investing is on the rise. Intensity and immediacy of impact.

Class 8

Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

For the financial metrics, AIRINC maintains their own international salary data base that captures location-specific salary levels for professional talent. The financial metrics are aggregated to calculate the net purchasing power of a typical salary in each city, and then converted to a common currency to allow comparison among cities.

Metrics 14

Metrics Comparison Globalization Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

s Human Development Index and the standard economic measure of per capita GDP illustrates just how important it is to develop a neutral, long-term-focused metric for progress. Even though emerging markets have yet to reproduce the broad-based alchemy of the Silicon Valley ecosystem, they are rapidly training and recruiting the elite slice.

First-mover Advantage 9

First-mover Advantage GDP Technology Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

While it’s understandable that stock and currency markets would react this way to the outcome of the election, I believe that it’s somewhat of an overreaction. However, the problem with this approach (what I call the doing approach) is that it competes on race-to-the-bottom metrics: low cost, high volume, and speedy delivery.

Cooper 14

Cooper Long-term Industry Health Care 14