Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

We invest billions of dollars each year in medicines, new technologies, doctors, and hospitals—all with the goal of improving health, arguably our most prized commodity. health care system woefully underperform relative to those made in health care in other countries. Yet, investments in the U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Pharmaceuticals Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

For too long, employers have outsourced management of their employees’ health care benefits to those with little incentive to improve value. Engage health systems in change. The HTA “anticipates delivering better health care while reducing costs” through its members’ collective work.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Company Presenteeism 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

To move from a reactive posture to a proactive leadership position in driving health care reform, large employers have a lever at their fingertips that they have not often deployed in procuring health care: their purchasing power. Providers and health plans are service suppliers paid by employers.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Incentives Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

It is a widely held belief among health care leaders that comparing their hospitals and clinics to peers is very important. health care quality and safety is abysmal: The evidence suggests that between 240,000 to 400,000 deaths occur each year due to medical errors. Define the goal. Leading Change in Health Care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Process Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

In the fall of 2014, the HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation launched the inaugural Health Acceleration Challenge — a “scale up” competition that focuses on compelling solutions to problems in health care delivery that have already been implemented at a small scale and have the potential for wider dissemination.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Cost Self-aware 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.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Operations Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

This tax represents a key public policy innovation that is a rare win-win: it will hold down health care costs while raising substantial tax revenues. Third, it is inefficient: since individuals are buying health insurance with tax-subsidized dollars, they buy too much insurance, which in turn leads to too much health care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Policies Cost 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

The client is opening new locations in new communities and asks its consultants to formulate a plan of action and oversee operating aspects. Teams of health care professionals, as found in clinics and hospitals. Corporations working with public sector and non-profit organizations to achieve mutual goals in the communities.

Cooper 50

Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

What makes marketing creative? Is a creative marketer more artist or entrepreneur? Historically, the term “marketing creative” has been associated with the words and pictures that go into ad campaigns. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous.

Creativity 13

Creativity Marketing Agility Budgeting 13

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

JULY 31, 2017

Housing market price changes can be more accurately predicted from analysis of Google searches than by a team of expert real estate forecasters. There has been a rapid uptake in health care, consumer marketing, crime reduction, agriculture, scientific research, and many other areas. It’s time for that to change.

Marketing 8

Marketing Root Cause Analysis Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Building market share by delivering rich, intuitive experiences is a key goal for all organizations. For health insurers, this customer centricity is an imperative. Individual consumers now have increasing freedom to shop for health plans and to choose how they spend their healthcare dollars. Validation of capabilities.

Health Care 8

Health Care Planning Content Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States.

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

In today’s health care landscape, consultants often advise independent hospitals to merge with a larger health system. With that goal, we thought carefully about each of our clinical service lines: Are we the best at this service line? Leading Change in Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2017

I’ve had the opportunity, over the last two decades, to immerse myself in some of the world’s most creative, energetic, and productive workplaces, from health care to financial services, from Silicon Valley to Madison Avenue. But this workplace elevates the needs of employees above all other constituencies.

Health Care 14

Health Care How To Hedge Environment 14

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

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., Sponsored by Accenture.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

But nowhere is the potential of this new era of opportunity more apparent and exciting than it is in health care. They can pinpoint treatments that sustain health in a more precise way than ever before. For the volume-to-value paradigm shift in health care, predictive analytics, though rarely visible, is the essential enabler.

Health Care 8

Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 8

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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Metrics Cost Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The success of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in placing the Mangalyaan satellite into orbit around Mars last week has three important lessons for companies about winning in emerging markets: big ambitions are critical, constraints can be liberating, and India can be an R&D powerhouse. Constraints need not be limiting.

Innovation 9

Innovation Constraint Engineering Automotive 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Manufacturing has captured some 20% to 30% of the potential, while the public sector and health care make the worst showings, realizing only 10% to 20% of the value. In many cases, the culprit is a gap between launching a few analytics experiments and embedding these insights into the operating model of the larger organization.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Marketplaces allow people to do apples-to-apples comparisons of health insurance products and prices through an online portal. California’s model is perhaps the most influential: It has affected prices and choice in the market by standardizing plans and aggressively negotiating insurance rates. Leading Change in Health Care.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Facebook, KickStarter, Kiva, Twitter, and other companies thriving in the social era are operating by the rules of the Social Era. It's not to create more jargon, it's to emphasize a point: that social is more than the stuff the marketing team deals with. Mass markets were a convenient fiction created by mass media. They get it.

Banking 15

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The traditional fee-for-service reimbursement model is widely acknowledged to be a major driver of escalating health care costs. Harvard Pilgrim agreed to join the effort because it recognized that traditional payment models were unlikely to help control rising health care costs. The Motives of the Pilot’s Members.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care How To Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

In general, organized criminals are trying to steal things of high value, and one of the most valuable industries, in terms of cost, is health care. So what you see is that criminals are going after health records because on the black market they can probably sell a health record of a person for about $50.

Health Care 8

Health Care Hedge Banking Training 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

Increasingly, I see people looking starry-eyed to business and markets to solve social problems. My view is that pretending companies and markets hold all the answers actually puts at risk our ability to deal with our most pressing societal problems — and to help our most vulnerable citizens. I have an M.B.A.

Porter 9

Porter Welch Health Care Marketing 9

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Networking and marketing are vital parts of building a business, so make sure you have a plan to tackle both. Get an ergonomic office chair or use a standing desk to avoid the health issues associated with sitting for prolonged periods. Or find a local coworking space if it’s getting old working at your home or coffee shop.

Tips 95

Tips Franchising Cost Travel 95

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2017

He had extensive market knowledge and a stellar track record. Although good at scaling and operating a sales organization, the leader was unable to succeed in a rapidly changing environment that needed experimentation and nimbleness. Achieving goals was everything. Consider two examples. He ruled by fear.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Health Care Self-aware Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2017

Different strategic values include increasing revenues, decreasing costs, gaining a competitive advantage, and standardizing operations in order to reduce risk. Instead of focusing solely on revenue, salespeople should concentrate more on helping buyers accomplish their goals. They are too self-centered. The lesson is clear.

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Competitive Advantage Health Care Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

A company must get its sales, marketing, research and development, operations, and even customers and suppliers to work together. Whether in sports or business, a team is a group of people with a shared goal. Yet teamwork across organizational boundaries is unnatural. You need a way to maintain the extended team identity.

Team 13

Team Workshop Teamwork Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

It grows out of insights in fields like high-performance sports science, cognitive science, and health care. Nudgers help you use your tracked data to guide you toward your performance or change goals over time. We can take some guidance from the health-care field. It's an emerging trend. Don't forget to do that.

Health Care 8

Health Care Participative Wireless Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

A few Middle Eastern rulers are trying this tack, changing ministers and investing in things that people want before internal dissent gets out of hand — in essence, upgrading their product before losing market position. Beating Caterpillar was the goal and " encircle Cat " the theme.

Benchmarking 15

Benchmarking Health Care Loyalty Construction 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

All companies that operate internationally face a striking dual challenge in dealing with public policy: Nations across the globe enact an ever-changing, ever-expanding array of detailed legislation and regulation to protect workers, consumers, investors, and the public welfare, and these diverse rules shape what companies can and cannot do.

Policies 8

Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

At Stanford, I conducted 35 interviews of data analysts from 25 organizations across a variety of sectors, including health care, retail, marketing, and ?nance. Today, data quality is no longer about a central truth but is instead dependent on the goal of the analytic tasks.

Analysis 11

Analysis Agility Diversity Tools 11

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

These individuals help clients by following up after leaving a home health care provider. They keep track of appointments, record notes, and coordinate care providers. . Don’t forget to consider your long-term goals. Case Manager . Customer Service Representative . Are they realistic?

Human Resources 98

Human Resources Resources How To Learning-by-Doing 98

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

The goal was to keep litigation from occurring, which was met. Another energy industry client operated coal mines. Crisis planning and strategies should be intertwined with security issues, financial goals, workforce empowerment and many other corporate dynamics. Finally comes Crisis Training. Body of Knowledge.

Crisis Management 73

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 73

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

Consider these cases (with names disguised to protect confidentiality): Bill''s venture capital-backed business concept was to operate a new revenue-producing service for large U.S. In its first year, the venture landed two almost-committed pilot sites and a prospect pipeline for a multi-billion-dollar market. Control your identity.

Innovation 8

Innovation Porter Merchandising Entrepreneur 8