Posted by Admin | 9:07 AM

Modern Healthcare just put out their list of the "100 Most Influential People in Healthcare" for 2013.  A look at what sorts of p...

Labels: executive compensation, generic managers, Health Care Reform, health policy

Posted by Admin | 2:40 PM

Health Care Renewal presents a guest post by Dr Howard Brody, John P McGovern Centennial Chair of Family Medicine, Director of the Institut...

Labels: corporate physician, financialization, generic managers, mission-hostile management

Posted by Admin | 12:00 PM

In 2006, we wondered what a former hotel manager, Mr Gerard van Grinsven, admittedly known for putting the "wow" back in the Detr...

Labels: Cancer Treatment Centers of America, deception, generic managers, Henry Ford Health System, Hospitals, ill-informed management

Posted by Admin | 8:40 AM

Marilyn Mann's blog discussed the appointment of a former pharmaceutical company executive, most recently at Actelion, and previously a...

Labels: Actelion, American College of Cardiology, generic managers, medical societies

Posted by Admin | 6:08 PM

Health Care Renewal is about problems with the leadership and governance of health care organizations.  Since the global financial collapse/...

Labels: executive compensation, finance, financialization, generic managers, peer benchmarking, perverse incentives, power elite, superclass

Posted by Admin | 12:20 PM

Over the last two weeks, the Naked Capitalism blog ran a multi-part series (1-4) on what has gone wrong with US public for-profit corporati...

Labels: core values, executive compensation, generic managers, mission-hostile management, out-sourcing

Posted by Admin | 12:47 PM

The extremely well compensated CEO and Chairman of Johnson and Johnson, the huge and recently hugely troubled US based pharmaceutical and de...

Labels: executive compensation, generic management, generic managers, Johnson and Johnson, marketing, mission-hostile management, perverse incentives

Posted by Admin | 11:00 AM

Since Enthoven called for the break up of the physicians' "guild," and handing over its supposed power to managers, (see post ...

Labels: fraud, generic management, generic managers, mission-hostile management, outsourcing

Posted by Admin | 8:49 PM

Students and faculty at the University of California have come up with a vivid, and prescient example of how the hired executives and bureau...

Labels: biotechnology, contract research organizations, generic management, generic managers, managers' coup d'etat, mission-hostile management, UCSF, University of California