"In healthcare, brokers help most companies buy, manage, and choose healthcare plans. But, judging by rates of change, spending trends, and objectivity, it’s debatable where they’re adding value and how keen their eye is for innovation." Read more at AJM ...
Corporate Capital Allocation and Healthcare Spending
I just re-read "The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success" by Willam Thorndike. It's an analysis of eight relatively unknown Jack Welch-record-beating CEOs and how they trounced the market and industry pee ...
Intentional Discomfort
I used to wonder why airline seats were so uncomfortableNow we have economy seats that charge for the right to choose a seat and check a bag (and sometimes even for a carryon. Thanks Frontier). Then I started to understand metrics like revenue per seat, t ...
A Transparency Lesson from Harvard
There's an employee benefit that ranks higher than flexible work hours, more vacation time, student loan assistance, triple-strained yogurt, organic tofu, or German ping pong tables. It's outlined in a 20-40 page document, relates to your health and finan ...
Is The Cheesecake Factory in the Healthcare Business?
People who work on the business side of healthcare often wish that companies would think about healthcare more often, or even concede that they are in "the healthcare business." I suppose part of this is the law of the instrument, which even if not said b ...