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A Sewage-Laden Cruise Ship, Burning Aircraft Batteries, Neo-Nazi Factory Security - Will Jaw Dropping Cases Prompt the Public to Demand Better Leadership?

Posted by | 12:57 PM
The dysfunction of modern health care likely arises from larger trends within the economy and the society.  We frequently discuss how poor l...

Pfizer's Pfourteenth Settlement - a Small Reminder of Continuing Impunity

Posted by | 9:14 AM
Well, that did not take long.  Less than a month after its last legal settlements were announced , Pfizer had to settle again. The Details o...

Question for the New Year: Why is There Next to No Reaction to the Gilded Age of Health Care?

Posted by | 9:07 AM
For the New Year, it is time to ponder- why is there still no organized outrage over the ongoing incompetent , uncaring , self-interested ,...

Dartmouth's Governance and Wall Street

Posted by | 1:18 PM
While the money spent on health care in the US continues to increase, care becomes less accessible and its quality becomes more dubious.  Mo...

Wall Street Journal Defends Hired WellPoint Executives' Lack of Accountability to the Company's Owners

Posted by | 1:29 PM
The lack of accountability of the hired managers (or executives or bureaucrats) of health care organizations came into sharper focus thanks ...

Some of WellPoint's Owners (Stockholders) Allege Their Hired Executives Hid Political Contributions

Posted by | 1:41 PM
We have frequently had reason to question the actions of WellPoint, the second largest for-profit health insurance company/ managed care org...

A Case Demonstrating Links Between Poor Governance, Conflicts of Interest, and Excess Executive Compensation at a Hospital System

Posted by | 9:01 AM
The Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System in California first appeared on our radar in 2011 for not only giving an improbably large sev...

They Think We are "Imbeciles," and They Run Health Care Organizations

Posted by | 12:32 PM
Arrogance seems to fuel many of the problems with health care leadership that we discuss, particularly hostility to the mission , often driv...

What the Pfizer (V)? - Few Consequences of a Long History of Bad Behavior

Posted by | 11:43 AM
The recent in-depth investigation by Fortune reporters of 10 years of dysfunctional leadership at Pfizer , the "world's largest re...