Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2012

Increasingly, prescription ADHD drugs like Adderall , dedicated to improving attention deficits, are finding their way into gray market use by students looking for a cognitive edge. Or should management pretend those options don't exist? Should that be encouraged? There should be neither stigma nor stimulus to their use.

Health Care 14

Health Care Ethics Pharmaceuticals Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

Partisans from both sides of the aisle believe it transformed presidential politics. There's not a brand manager, health care administrator, CMO or CIO who wouldn't benefit big-time from benchmarking their own operations to this campaign's. All these near-real-time "market" data helped determine resource allocation.

Marketing 8

Marketing Chief Technology Officer Case Study Critical Success Factor 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

The past year has been difficult for many markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, although some of our clients have been facing difficulties resulting from the current environment, primarily because of currency pressures, many others are continuing to see strong growth, even in troubled markets such as South Africa and Angola.

GDP 8

GDP Politics Marketing Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Myriad potential public policy-related risks and opportunities for companies arise across a broad spectrum of political and economic systems — from the state capitalism of former Communist states to the “ mixed economies ” in traditional “liberal” democracies, from developed to developing markets.

Policies 8

Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

political system at some point has to adjust to the reality that we are just one more country trying to make it in a big, bad global economy and probably ought to stop shooting ourselves in the foot on a regular basis. Go get 'em, Madame Managing Director! One is that the U.S. The other, scarier, problem is that, without the U.S.

Politics 15

Politics Health Care Globalization Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2011

Think health care is immune ? In marketing, bad data make it more difficult to know the potential client. And the bloodiest political battle I've seen erupted when two divisions, using "close but not the same" data, reached two very different conclusions. In the military and health care, bad data kill people.

Health Care 15

Health Care Credit Rating Reputation Quality 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

These include being familiar with the variation from country to country of social norms, healthcare traditions, religious influences, negotiating tactics, contract law, effective local sales and marketing strategies, media coverage, and political influence. Leading Health Care Innovation: Editor’s Welcome.

Health Care 8

Health Care Agility Due Diligence Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

It's a fascinating read, and full of hidden tips on the best (and worst) ways to make a business comeback in a particularly saturated market. In general, respondents reported having a negative perception of all three companies, mostly around the same time higher ups made a public statement about the health care law.

Health Care 8

Health Care Software Politics Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. Traditionally, it has been government’s role to provide equality of opportunity (particularly through education), an effective safety net, and social, political, and economic stability. These are the seven areas: 1. Shape the next wave of globalization.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

When it comes to health care costs, America’s employers are at a crossroads. Competing for scarce labor in a tight market, they will have trouble continuing to shift medical bills onto employees as they have for several decades. The Future of Health Care. Tim Robberts/Getty Images. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Insurance Price 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

” Health care. And the Health Care Transformation Task Force , a newly formed coalition of private insurers and provider organizations in the U.S., There’s trust between the parties and the outcome is not “political.” ” Too much subjectivity and sensitivity can scupper the scheme.

Incentives 8

Incentives Health Care Education Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

But pushing for open markets elsewhere — mainly through the World Trade Organization — is a key element of competitiveness that has been neglected in recent years. is still an undisputed global leader in coming up with new business ideas and bringing them to market. Innovation and entrepreneurship : The U.S.

Outsourcing 12

Outsourcing Education Policies Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

I made a career switch seven years ago, when I went from working as a reporter at the Financial Times , where I covered health care in the United States, to consulting — advising CEOs in the pharmaceutical industry on thought leadership and articulating their corporate strategies. You should also ask: How you should market them?

Career 8

Career Skills Health Care Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

Yes, there are reasons for concern, both technical and political. Automation anxiety is made more acute by a labor market that has tilted against workers over the last 30 years, with increasing income inequality and stagnant real wages. The solutions, and any obstacles, are political, not economic or technical. Insight Center.

Policies 8

Policies Aggregate Demand Technology Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2011

As political scientist Murray Edelman noted decades ago , political speech is all the more effective when, by engaging our emotions, it distracts us from analysis. Health care is more than a matter of reining in the abuses of insurance companies and debating whether or not the law as passed is going to cost or save money. (By

Power 15

Power Insurance Retail Politics 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

There was a spike in the 2000s when Venezuela began to provide petroleum at deeply discounted market prices, and that peaked just before the 2008-09 financial crisis. It is probably the best, most well-trained workforce at the cheapest labor-market price that any international investor could find anywhere in the world.

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Tourism Human Capital Pharmaceuticals 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 11

Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Most people fleeing conflict and political oppression don’t want handouts – they want to work in order to create some semblance of a normal life for their families. Refugees face specific issues in entering a new labor market that will require investment in dedicated processes. Interfacing with the job market.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing NGO Marketing Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

On May 28, 2011, the Boston Globe reported that Carney Hospital President Bill Walczak fired its entire staff of 29 health care delivery employees from a 14-bed locked unit for troubled teens. It means they want a polite conversation, and polite interviews do not work in your favor. Addressing the Albatross in the Room.

How To 13

How To Reputation Health Care Politics 13

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. But as Obama is fond of saying, presidents are not elected to do the easy things, and political realities are not set in stone. He delivered on the first two. Some 30 U.S.

Cost 9

Cost Price Energy Proposal 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

You know how your mobile operator manages to slyly slide hidden costs past you — and the service you get is patchy and unpredictable? Once companies have to account for the costs they've been externalizing, new jobs to manage new competencies will emerge. Innovation atrophy. That's the Enronian economy in a microcosm.

Incentives 15

Incentives GDP Hypercompetition Self-aware 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2016

health care system. Standardization of best practices in delivering care reduces unnecessary treatment, improves safety, and allows buyers and sellers of health care to use the same vocabulary, with the same information about quality and value. Change is difficult.

Health Care 8

Health Care Proposal Quality Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

The innovation roadmap was hauled out and reviewed less in the spotlight of global opportunities than the cold reflection of domestic politics. State satisfaction mattered more than market disruption. With apologies to Ted Levitt , a new “Marketing Myopia 2.0” The unhappy innovation inference? ” has emerged.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Levitt Tourism Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

This delightful tour through the history and marketing of the “amber restorative” is a blueprint for how to use our aspirational desires to sell us lots and lots of stuff — all over the world. The key, of course, is managing when rivalry is appropriate — and when it's dangerous for both your employees and your company.

Class 8

Class Health Care Supply Chain Globalization 8

Curious Cat

MARCH 30, 2016

Edwards Deming named 7 deadly diseases of western management. One of those was excessive health care costs. The drug price situation in the USA is greatly exsaserbated by the corrupt political process. Health care is extremely expensive everywhere. Related: USA Health Care Spending 2013: $2.9

Health Care 40

Health Care System Deming Letter 40

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 15

Report Health Care Sample Metrics 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Taken literally, a single-minded focus on profit maximization would seem to require that firms not only drive down wages but also attempt to fix political processes in their own favor. Markets only lead to prosperity and freedom when they are genuinely free and fair. This can’t be right. business needs to go.

Proposal 8

Proposal Incentives Price Education 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

Cartoonists shift their gaze from politics to the budget circus and TV channels gather all the “experts” to pontificate. Will doors open further to foreign investment or competition? In the hype that surrounds the moment each year, newspapers dedicate dozens of articles to this guessing game. This year was no different.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Cost Globalization Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. But as the digital revolution continues to spark widespread disruption in other industries — automotive, financial services, health care, and retail — who will win?

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

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.” But a company’s exposure to a political issue is also determined by its values. The same dynamic may now complicate Google’s plans to re-enter China’s search market.

CEO 10

CEO Politics Policies Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Although rewards were not tied to performance in 2012 (they will be in later years), Pioneer ACOs did better on blood pressure and cholesterol control for beneficiaries with diabetes than did managed-care plans, and better on readmissions relative to the Medicare fee-for-service benchmark. Leading Health Care Innovation.

Organization 8

Organization Health Care Insurance Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

The traditional economy provides us with most of the basic necessities of life: food, shelter, health care, clothing, transportation, and energy. Property managers forecasted an 8% increase in rents in 2016. Often the markets they supply shrink in size. Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time. Related Video.

Retail 10

Retail Automotive Supply Chain Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

GDP spent on health care continues to rise, reaching 17.9% At the same time, health insurance premiums have increased as much as 60% in the individual market in some states. Now, with the rollback of the mandate that individuals must purchase health insurance, the number of uninsured in the country will climb.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

In a world of such diverse political forms — democracies, monarchies, authoritarian states — we will increasingly differentiate societies on the basis not of their regime type or income, but of their capacity to harness technology. Technik , then, is the technological quotient of civilization.

First-mover Advantage 9

First-mover Advantage GDP Technology Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

Despite the current political headwinds blowing against globalization, companies continue to recruit talent from around the world and talented people continue to want overseas work experience. Cat Yu for HBR. For firms, it’s become imperative to look beyond geographic borders to attract and retain top talent.

Metrics 14

Metrics Comparison Globalization Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2013

There is widespread agreement that if the United States is to achieve sustainable levels of health care spending, it must make greater use of payment mechanisms that reward physicians, hospitals, and health systems for the results achieved. In short, REBP can serve as a bridge to more comprehensive total-cost-of-care approaches.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Analysis Competitive Advantage 8