Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

One of the main justifications for the mergers and acquisitions sweeping the health care industry is greater integration between the physicians and teams that care for patients. We chose to support independent medical centers by creating the Mayo Clinic Care Network. But consolidation does not ensure integration.

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Health Care Mayo Due Diligence Human Resources 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

Deming Institute

JUNE 11, 2018

The bulk of Muller’s research is devoted to case studies in colleges, elementary schools, health care systems, policing, the military, business, finance, philanthropy and foreign aid. Deming cared most about how measurement was appropriately used to better understand and improve the overall system.

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Metrics Deming Scientific Management Proposal 31

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. In heath care, Omada has similarly turned services into a product, packaging complementary healthcare devices, services, and support into a turnkey offering it sells to employers and health insurance plans to help people lose weight and reduce their risk of type 2 diabetes or heart disease.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Wireless Cost 8

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.

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Health Care How To Operations Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Yet this is exactly the challenge facing leaders of the finance function who are asked to help their organization improve the way that work is done. As finance shifts its focus from controlling costs to advising managers on improvement activities, CFOs must change their thinking and behaviors.

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Finance CFO Budgeting Operations 10

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

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Vital though near-term effectiveness is, the exchanges hold a longer-term potential—they can help reshape the organization, delivery, and financing of insurance. Simply put, we think that the health insurance exchange—supported at various times by both liberals and conservatives—may well fulfill the health reform dreams of both.

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Insurance Goal Health Care Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Sometimes the endless discussion about burnout in health care creates its own form of burnout — a sense of hopelessness about being able to stop an epidemic. Unfortunately, the health care environment adds stresses and rewards that are external to the care of patients and that demand a qualitatively different response.

Health Care 8

Health Care Stress Environment Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

First, the finance chief is often first among equals on the board of directors and can help engage the board more productively on strategy. Working together, finance and strategy executives can forge better links between resource allocation and strategic goals. There are two reasons for this.

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Strategy CFO Finance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Why do American employers act like helicopter parents when it comes to their employees’ health care? Today all wage earners are required to put savings into an individual account to cover future health-care expenses, a scheme called Medisave. While Health Savings Accounts have existed in the U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Company Insurance Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Not long ago, many services such as tax accounting were delivered episodically and in-person, as most health care still is today. Health care has proved resistant to a similar transition, although everyone would benefit. The ideas have also been embraced by public policy makers, health plans, and the general public.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Insurance Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

“The proper goal for any health care delivery system is to improve the value delivered to patients … To properly manage value, both outcomes and cost must be measured at the patient level,” Harvard’s Robert Kaplan and Michael Porter tell us. Martin’s Point Health Care-Bangor.

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Health Care Cost Kaplan Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Several lessons have emerged from this experiment that are applicable in medical training and, indeed, throughout health care. Any patient can tell you that health care providers are uneven at best in their greeting and communication skills. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth.

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Training Health Care Leadership Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

We face a public health emergency. Without adequate financing, ministries of health and even private hospitals in developing countries often don''t have the resources needed to purchase diagnostic equipment, train workers, and ensure access to appropriate treatment.

Health Care 8

Health Care ROI NGO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

Nearly everyone in health care wants to cut waste and reduce unnecessary costs — until the conversation turns to advanced chronic illness and end-of-life care. Fears about “pulling the plug on granny,” no matter how ill she may be, have slowed progress toward value-based care. Insight Center.

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Health Care Sharpe Document Cost 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2015

They need education, health care, decent wages, access to finance. The Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD), convening this week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is one of several important milestones toward a new international consensus on eliminating extreme poverty and hunger. We are investing.

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Consensus Finance Commitment Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2017

How can the health care system adapt to bring that kind of specialized experience to more families? My concern is that I don’t think children’s health is a national priority right now. So I think there’s a strong case to be made for pediatric care as we debate health care legislation and reforms.

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CEO System Innovation Chief Financial Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

The hardest part is connecting long-term goals to near-term actions — especially when those new actions directly threaten the way you make money right now. Consider the case of MedStar Health, the largest nongovernment health care provider in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., Competing in New Ways.

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Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 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., Another problem we’ve seen is that some providers, seeking to fit in to a payment cycle, focus on short-term results, losing sight of the end goals.

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Incentives Health Care Education Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

I am fortunate enough to work with these people all the time across a span of industries and professions: finance, health care, education, energy, technology. How do their jobs help the company meet its goals? Improve the relationship between bosses and their direct reports.

Health Care 13

Health Care Short-term Report Fashion 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

With its Emerging Businesses (EB) group (where one of us serves as President), Merck started a journey about three years ago with a core investment thesis: there are areas of growing unmet need in health care that intersect with its established competencies.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Indeed, achieving their goals required significant behavior change from multiple players who didn’t necessarily see themselves as part of the same systems even though they served largely the same families and neighborhoods. Reimagine roles. In Minneapolis and St. Change management Collaboration Government'

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Metrics Banking Learning-by-Doing Education 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Yes, they are closer to the business and should know better what they need to do so they can meet their business goals. Thats different in IT, accounting, or finance. Yes, they are closer to the business and should know better what they need to do so they can meet their business goals.

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CIO Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

By January 1, 2015, all state-based marketplaces were expected to replace federal funding with state-level financing. By June, all SBMs except Hawaii’s had reached that goal. Leading Change in Health Care. For more about innov ation in health care delivery, see NEJM Catalyst , a new resource from NEJM Group.

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Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

But most women outgrew the "cookies and crafts" stereotype a long time ago, and have their sights set on bigger goals. The same report indicates that health care, social assistance, and education are industries in which the growth of women''s ownership has been the strongest. In 1977, only 4.5%

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Benchmarking Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Today, enlightened employers know that, if they want great people to perform at the top of their game, they must engage and care for employees' well-being on a variety of fronts that go beyond a paycheck. At Starbucks, this shift is values can be seen in the health-care coverage and stock options we have long offered to part-time employees.

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Health Care Innovation Crisis Brainstorming 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

How would we deliver care to a population overburdened with severe mental illness, food insecurity (the lack of consistent access to enough food to lead an active, healthy life) and early-onset chronic diseases — and do so in locations as disparate as Tennessee and Iowa? The Future of Health Care. Insight Center.

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Health Care Metrics Cost Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

The World Economic Forum is spearheading Breaking Barriers for Health Data, a project that deploys federated database queries for the transferring and processing of health care data. India’s finance ministry has proposed such an approach to the central bank.

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Supply Chain Globalization GAAP Policies 9

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Term loans , SBA loans , lines of credit and invoice financing are just a few of the options available to small business owners. Get an ergonomic office chair or use a standing desk to avoid the health issues associated with sitting for prolonged periods. As a startup, your finances will likely be very thin as is.

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Tips Franchising Cost Travel 95

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

In 2010, when Mark Bertolini, CEO of Aetna, began articulating a strategy to invest billions to transform from a health insurance company to a health care company, analysts grumbled. In successful cases like these, CFOs have had to reorient their roles as the “gate-keeper” of a company’s finances.

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Short-term Long-term CFO Wiseman 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

From the start we asked: What are the complexities of financing these homes? And David Smith's entry on the financial challenge shows that flexibility can be born out of financing options as well. Our goal is to increase demand for local trades, not drive them away. How do you get energy and infrastructure into such dwellings?

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Suri Godin Real Estate Construction 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Transforming Health Care. However, providing nutritious meals is not nearly enough; achieving sustainable health and lifestyle improvements requires educating patients about healthy eating habits, goal setting, exercise, mindfulness, and diabetes management. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Class Insurance Cost Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Particularly in business schools, various Finance and Accounting professors have argued for including more long-term incentives, and for replacing variable pay packages that largely consist of stock options with a mix of bonds and stocks. On routine tasks where learning is not necessary, highlighting performance goals works great.

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Execution Incentives Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. The goal here is not UX for the sake of UX, but UX as a medium and platform for value creation and capture.

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Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Their business school education and their initial experience within narrower company functions ( e.g., marketing, manufacturing, finance) may leave them unprepared. They can be cross-cutting issues which impact the whole corporation (e.g., telecommunications or food safety or healthcare or aerospace or energy/environment). A needed a pproach.

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Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

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. Customers and suppliers: The ultimate goal of our business is not to sell products but to serve customers.

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Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10