What is the "Worst Biotech CEO" Worth?

Recently, we posted about misadventures of the leadership of biotechnology giant Genzyme.  Although the company has long priced its drug Ce...

What is the "Worst Biotech CEO" Worth? 2015-05-18T00:25:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Teaching Would-be Health Care Leaders About Health Care: Why Is This News?

The Wall Street Journal just published a story on a big innovation in the business school curriculum: David Song was in the middle of a t...

Teaching Would-be Health Care Leaders About Health Care: Why Is This News? 2015-05-17T18:47:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

ONC Defines a Taxonomy of Robust Healthcare IT Leadership

As in my post " More On Healthcare Management By Domain Neutral Generalists ", Roy Poses' post " Health Care Leaders: D...

ONC Defines a Taxonomy of Robust Healthcare IT Leadership 2015-05-15T04:20:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

On Automobile, and Health Care Companies Run by Finance People

The New Republic published " Upper Mismanagement " about what happens when businesses are run by people who do not understand thei...

On Automobile, and Health Care Companies Run by Finance People 2015-05-15T03:53:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Members of the Board of Now Bankrupt Lehman Brothers as Leaders of Health Care?

In our own Providence Journal, Michael Hiltzik  commented about the Valukas report on the fall of the once proud Lehman Brothers.  He asser...

Members of the Board of Now Bankrupt Lehman Brothers as Leaders of Health Care? 2015-05-12T19:46:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

An Attempt to Hold Health Care Leaders Accountable for Their Organizations' Bad Behavior?

We have frequently noted how health care organizations accused of kickbacks, fraud, and other unethical and sometimes illegal behavior invo...

An Attempt to Hold Health Care Leaders Accountable for Their Organizations' Bad Behavior? 2015-05-10T23:57:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

More Hospitals Hiring CEOs' Children, Doing Business with Board Members' Firms

As we predicted ( here ), the new reporting requirements imposed on US not-for-profit organizations are beginning to yield interesting resul...

More Hospitals Hiring CEOs' Children, Doing Business with Board Members' Firms 2015-05-10T23:28:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Edwin Lee on the Tiger We Are Now Riding

Some insights about why the leadership of large health care organizations has gone so wrong may be found on a blog I just discovered entitle...

Edwin Lee on the Tiger We Are Now Riding 2015-05-07T21:38:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

The Failure of "Success Healthcare" - When Financial Maneuvering Takes Precedence Over the Health Care Mission

In the last few years, it seems that the whole world got tangled up in a web of complex financial dealings that mostly benefited those movin...

The Failure of "Success Healthcare" - When Financial Maneuvering Takes Precedence Over the Health Care Mission 2015-05-07T19:54:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Where No Hospital CEOs are Below Average

In Lake Woebegon, all children are above average.  Now it seems that hospital CEOs have moved there.  Ventura County, Where No CEO is Belo...

Where No Hospital CEOs are Below Average 2015-05-06T21:32:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Being a Health Insurance Executive Means Never Being Able to Say You Are Sorry

WellPoint, the largest US for-profit health care insurance company, has provided a steady stream of examples of poor management and bad beha...

Being a Health Insurance Executive Means Never Being Able to Say You Are Sorry 2015-05-06T20:13:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Leadership by Those Who "Live Insulated from the Daily Travails of Ordinary" People; the University of Washington Example

On the University Diaries blog , Prof Margaret Soltan picked up on an article on the privileges now given to university leaders, using the e...

Leadership by Those Who "Live Insulated from the Daily Travails of Ordinary" People; the University of Washington Example 2009-09-16T07:54:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

More On Healthcare Management By Domain Neutral Generalists: CIO's Running Hospital Pharmacies and Home Healthcare Divisions?

Both Roy Poses and I have written on a plague of healthcare mismanagement and perhaps malfeasance in part due to leadership by domain amateu...

More On Healthcare Management By Domain Neutral Generalists: CIO's Running Hospital Pharmacies and Home Healthcare Divisions? 2009-09-11T16:38:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown