Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. PM Images/Getty Images.

Cost 10

Cost System Management Franchising 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2018

Even when they have Harvard MBAs, black women are generally absent in leadership positions at most Fortune 500 companies, and black men are in high-ranking roles in only a handful. These are important findings that give some insight into how race and gender operate together to yield specific outcomes for black women.

Bond 10

Bond Engineering Mentor Health Care 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Many hospitals, including the Cleveland Clinic , are implementing a variety of strategies to improve the patient experience —an issue that’s rapidly becoming a top priority in health care. The Accountable Care Act now links performance related to patient-experience metrics to reimbursement.

Health Care 9

Health Care COO Operations Storytelling 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

Similarly, Procter & Gamble''s Pampers team in Nigeria find happiness facing the problem of infant mortality and devising solutions, such as mobile clinics that sent a physician and two nurses to areas lacking access to health care. Social bonds and a feeling of membership augment the meaning that comes from values-based work.

Motivation 10

Motivation Health Care Morale Bond 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

What Was Once There Resigned: The Fast Fall of a Washington Career The Washington Post Their faces are plastered on TV sets and web pages in brief moments of public outrage; but what happens to the people forced out of their jobs by scandal, particularly if their resignations were more symbolic than indicative of any leadership failure?

Rogers 8

Rogers Conference Health Care Bond 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2013

American corporations operated in a very different environment in the postwar period. A form of low-grade debt known as "junk bonds" provided a new source of funds. Corporate social responsibility Leadership Politics' What was the source of this corporate statesmanship, and why has it largely disappeared?

Banking 8

Banking Crisis CEO Politics 8