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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Mayo Due Diligence Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Instead of simply providing health insurance, savvy employers are tackling health care costs by supporting the whole employee—everything from their finances to their career development to physical health. The health of the American workforce is declining , reducing both productivity and company earnings.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Morale Company 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

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

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

OCTOBER 26, 2011

It's difficult to get senior executives who have been successful managing a particular way to realize that they need to change their approach. 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.

Finance 11

Finance CFO Budgeting Operations 11

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

OCTOBER 11, 2017

To date, only small steps have been taken at most health care systems (for example, clarifying the costs of specific tests during the test-ordering process), and new clinical analytics systems that offer better insights into costs and efficiency often aren’t integrated into day-to-day clinical care. The box score.

Cost 8

Cost Management Health Care System 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The United States spends 40% more per patient than other developed countries but suffers the worse overall health outcomes. There is general consensus that a major solution lies in better managing and preventing adult chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart failure. Many adult health care outcomes are shaped in childhood.

Health Care 10

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 10

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

For chief executives, developing a good strategy is a management challenge that, at its best, involves maximizing the unique contributions of very different executives and, at its worst, requires managing counterproductive tension and turf wars between CFOs, CSOs and, quite often, business-unit heads.

Strategy 8

Strategy CFO Finance Short-term 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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Kaplan Porter 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.

Health Care 9

Health Care Sharpe Document Cost 9

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. There is still a need for accountants and face-to-face meetings, but typically accountants now require such visits for only the more complicated cases that can’t be managed with software or a call.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Insurance Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

But with their focus on clinical disease management and research, training programs actually offer little in the way of true leadership training – authentic experience that helps young doctors develop the leadership skills they will need. Health care leaders, and indeed any provider, must communicate well both verbally and non-verbally.

Training 8

Training Health Care Leadership Education 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. One of the team’s central findings is that TDABC cannot be delegated to the finance function. Gain senior leadership support.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Committee Project 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.

CEO 8

CEO System Innovation Chief Financial Officer 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? Managing people Managing yourself Personal effectiveness' It might just make their day.

Health Care 13

Health Care Short-term Report Fashion 13

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.

Incentives 8

Incentives Health Care Education Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Its the managers responsibility to lead their employees, manage performance, and provide guidance. Yes, managers often interview job candidates or identify the most talented employees as part of a talent management program. Thats different in IT, accounting, or finance. You want to build an employer brand?

CIO 15

CIO Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 15

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.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 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. Collaborative behavioral health. There were internal doubts as well. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

Health Care 8

Health Care Metrics Cost Operations 8

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. Change management Collaboration Government' Reimagine roles. In Minneapolis and St.

Metrics 9

Metrics Banking Learning-by-Doing Education 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

Investors are increasingly seeking firms with long-term growth strategies, rather than ones focused on managing short-term earnings to boost the stock price. As head of the world’s largest asset manager, with $4.6 ” Manage expectations on the pace and challenge of experimentation. “Then get out of our stock.”

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term CFO Wiseman 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The company had drawn on pioneering Indian health care models, such as Aravind Eye Care System 's affordable cataract care, to help TMH design new ways to serve low-income patients. It worked with a local partner to create India's first financing plan for medical devices.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Health Care 8

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. The Next Steps.

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Class Insurance Cost Health Care 8

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.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2018

A CEO could be forgiven for thinking it’s safest to only weigh in on political issues that affect operational and strategic goals, industry dynamics, or a company’s regulatory and policy landscape. But a company’s exposure to a political issue is also determined by its values. At a time when the U.S.

CEO 9

CEO Politics Policies Survey 9

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. We argue in favor of abolishing pay-for-performance for top managers altogether.

Execution 8

Execution Incentives Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Intense pressure from the $719 billion Medicare program on the finances of U.S. Transforming Health Care. If hospitals do not aggressively manage the cost of caring for Medicare patients against these fixed payments, losses result. However, blueprinting care processes is not enough. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

Cost 8

Cost Consensus Budgeting System 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Most of us spend most of our time chasing the immediate reward, the short-run "objective," the near-term "goal — in short, the expedient and the convenient. Or is there a bigger, more resonant, and fundamentally worthier goal we could — and should — be pursuing, like ensuring no human being goes thirsty?"

Short-term 15

Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 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. They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation.

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 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?

Suri 14

Suri Godin Real Estate Construction 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Medicine is fraught with anachronistic administrative structures, as well as competing and redundant decision-making processes involving many stakeholders (the hospital, doctors, nurses, compliance, finance, and others) who often work in silos and have differing goals. Leading Change in Health Care. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Diversity Proposal Document 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.

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Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10