Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Businesses that are serious about reducing health care costs — and improving the health and well-being of their employees — should take a serious look at digital therapeutics, which have the potential to provide effective, low-cost ways to prevent and treat chronic diseases and their consequences. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Technology Peer Review 8

LDRLB

JUNE 30, 2011

Rather, it is for organization-altering decisions such as: Do we expand into this market? Do we invest in this new service/product? Mission Discernment: A preventative ethics strategy for leaders in Catholic health care organizations. Health Progress. Do we lay-off part of our workforce? Stephen’s College.

Strategic Planning 97

Strategic Planning Planning Mission Statement Gordon 97

LDRLB

JUNE 30, 2011

Rather, it is for organization-altering decisions such as: Do we expand into this market? Do we invest in this new service/product? Mission Discernment: A preventative ethics strategy for leaders in Catholic health care organizations. Health Progress. Do we lay-off part of our workforce? Stephen’s College.

Strategic Planning 90

Strategic Planning Planning Mission Statement Gordon 90

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

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. (I Leading Change in Health Care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Process Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2018

Inside candidates, often groomed by their predecessors, bring firm-, market-, and industry-specific knowledge that outsiders might take years to acquire. Our research , which focused on CEO succession in the American health care system, examined the impact of CEO succession on productivity and efficiency.

CEO 8

CEO Competitive Advantage Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2012

She certainly wouldn't disapprove of an employee seeking prescription help to become more productive. Increasingly, prescription ADHD drugs like Adderall , dedicated to improving attention deficits, are finding their way into gray market use by students looking for a cognitive edge. Roughly 10% of workers in Europe and the U.K.

Health Care 13

Health Care Ethics Pharmaceuticals Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

This is a tale first pioneered by insurance companies in the 1950s to convince older Americans that they weren't being ejected from the productive workforce, but rather had the freedom from work. Consider Prudential's recent marketing campaign, prominently featuring Day One stories — tales of the first day of retirement.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Finance Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Instead, they question the motives of a company for even offering a wellness program, which they slam as an “employee control tool” and “a marketing tool for health plans.” Many companies may have instituted workplace wellness programs initially as a way to reduce health care costs.

Health Care 8

Health Care Absenteeism Presenteeism Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

In the 1980s, our organizations learned a great deal about how to improve productivity, quality, and costs from Japanese practices. That would never fly in marketing, operations research, or even accounting, where academics are all over new developments. So schools need to step up.

Lean Production 8

Lean Production Operations Health Care Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

In the quest to improve productivity and work life, the information that companies can analyze about you at work is limited only by software. It’s no coincidence that this sounds like consumer marketing. Marketing often influences consumers through unconscious habits, as described in Charles Duhigg’s book, “ The Power of Habit.”

Human Resources 11

Human Resources Information Technology Report Human Capital 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Energy, agriculture, insurance, retail, human resources — no industry is unaffected. 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. But not for long.

Health Care 8

Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

No major and widely embraced employee productivity enhancement initiative has veered farther off course than wellness. But human resources departments can reconfigure their offerings so they are embraced, not resented. Second, wellness has become a marketing tool for health plans, nowhere more so than at Aetna.

Human Resources 10

Human Resources Guidelines Morale Insurance 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

The fastest-growing segments of America''s job market — by far — are temporary and part-time employment. Their greatest human capital concerns have shifted. They seem increasingly focused on productively cultivating that core 20% to 25% of people who reliably generate the 70% to 80% of enterprise value.

Human Capital 9

Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

competitiveness strikes a pessimistic tone about certain demographic facts — the education gap between young people and the jobs which are and will be available, the aging of the American population, and the related rise in health care costs. But there is more to human capital than education and training.

Health Care 11

Health Care Human Capital Education Insurance 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

companies manage their supply chains with diligence to ensure suppliers meet their standards for quality and affordability, but the vast majority don’t behave in this fashion when purchasing health care services. Here’s how most employers deal with the health care services they offer their employees and their dependents.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Price Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

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CIO 15

CIO Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2016

health care system. Standardization of best practices in delivering care reduces unnecessary treatment, improves safety, and allows buyers and sellers of health care to use the same vocabulary, with the same information about quality and value. Change is difficult.

Health Care 8

Health Care Proposal Quality Cooper 8

Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

They ran productive meetings. And the Fundaments of managing by objectives : Cascading of organizational goals and objectives, (For example, a top level goal of increasing sales by 20% over a defined period may require a bottom level goal of increasing marketing effectiveness or marketing coverage in order to reach the sales set.).

Management 40

Management CRM Objective Human Resources 40

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Everyone knows that dentists, nurses, social workers and respiratory therapists are all health care professionals. Niche consultants place emphasis in the areas where they have training, expertise and staff support for implementation… and will market their services accordingly. Human resources management.

Consultative 62

Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 62

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

There’s a tendency to assume that the salesperson lost because their product was inferior in some way. However, in the majority of interviews buyers rank all the feature sets of the competing products as being roughly equal. 3: Market Leaders Have an Edge. In most industries a single company controls the market.

Price 8

Price Health Care Committee Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Here are some of the challenges that I’ve observed: Product management. Successful IoT plays require more than simply adding connectivity to a product and charging for service — something many companies don’t immediately understand. When product-based companies add services and connectivity, operational requirements increase.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

While advances in health care in the developed world often emphasize new technologies, in developing lower- and middle-income countries simply expanding the reach of basic primary care services is crucial to improving health. The Leading Edge of Health Care. Market focus. Insight Center.

Development 8

Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2018

The last half-decade of research has demonstrated that loneliness threatens not only our physical health and well-being , but also our livelihood. Research shows that loneliness has the same effect as 15 cigarettes a day in terms of health care outcomes and health care costs. billion ($3.5 billion U.S.)

Report 15

Report Health Care Sample Metrics 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2015

The options for getting work done — beyond regular full-time employment — are increasing and, in a world of constant change, we should be asking not simply whether a worker should be categorized as an employee or a contractor but whether regular full-time employment is really the only way to deliver high pay and marketable skills.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Globalization Health Care Innovation 8