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Social Class In The C-Suite

The Horizons Tracker

The potential for social mobility was far from even across different industries, however, with sectors like finance, real estate, and insurance scoring particularly poorly. “We argue that CEOs’ social class can only be understood when considering both family background and the current resources (income and education) at their disposal.”

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. Leading innovator in HR for over 25 years.

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Conflict-of-Interest Rules Are Holding Back Medical Breakthroughs

Harvard Business Review

How the most innovative providers are creating value. Equally troublesome, almost all policies focus exclusively on payments and finances but ignore the powerful influence of careerism and other non-financial motives that may compromise objectivity far more than financial incentives. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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Health Care Is an Investment, and the U.S. Should Start Treating It Like One

Harvard Business Review

To be sure, many factors influence health outcomes and the investments the health care system makes are only one input. But, like pharmaceuticals, each of these entities is represented by powerful lobbyists (such as physician and hospital organizations), who will strongly oppose any steps to reduce payments. For instance, the U.S.

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Health Care Becomes Entrepreneurial (Finally)

Harvard Business Review

Four dynamics are driving this new era of health care innovation: Finally, there is a financial incentive to innovate. Top-tier thinkers from data science, business, finance, and the digital world are coming together to find new solutions. The intelligent use of data will have a transformative influence on all points of care.

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Using Games to Get a Handle on Bank Risk

Harvard Business Review

The pharmaceutical industry also creates products with complex interactions and potentially dangerous side effects. Yet unlike in finance, where distributing risk across institutions is the goal, in drug development the focus is on isolating risk. Here, the protocols from other industries can provide some insight.

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Corporate procurement processes are opaque, secretive, and can be influenced by political pull as well as pure performance. In the clubby world of pharmaceutical purchasing executives, PACIV’s reputation for transparency spread, setting a higher bar that his competitors begrudgingly were now asked to jump over.