Posted by Admin | 12:49 PM

A Washington Post investigation into diversion of money from US not-for-profit organizations provided a striking case study showing the app...

Labels: American Legacy Foundation, fraud, managers' coup d'etat, non-profit organizations

Posted by Admin | 2:15 PM

There seems to be a reasonable argument that the US health care system is more dependent on the private sector, and in particular the for-pr...

Labels: bureaucracy, generic management, managers' coup d'etat

Posted by Admin | 1:53 PM

A typical excuse for the multi-million dollar compensation now enjoyed by many leaders of health care organizations is these leaders' su...

Labels: EPIC, executive compensation, healthcare IT cost, healthcare IT difficulties, manager-kings, managers' coup d'etat, public relations, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Wake Forest University

Posted by Admin | 9:29 AM

Score another for our new would be royalty, that is, for the hired managers who run big corporations.  Early this month a few scattered repo...

Labels: executive compensation, golden parachutes, imperial CEO, manager-kings, managers' coup d'etat, WellPoint

Posted by Admin | 8:47 AM

Recently, we discussed the latest stupefyingly big golden parachute given to a departing pharmaceutical executive.  Former Novartis CEO an...

Labels: accountability, executive compensation, government, managers' coup d'etat, Novartis

Posted by Admin | 1:29 PM

The lack of accountability of the hired managers (or executives or bureaucrats) of health care organizations came into sharper focus thanks ...

Labels: boards of directors, governance, managers' coup d'etat, Wall Street Journal, WellPoint

Posted by Admin | 1:06 PM

The Indianapolis Star published the latest story about anti-gravity health care executive compensation .  The report emphasized how the lar...

Labels: boards of trustees, executive compensation, Hospitals, Indiana University, managers' coup d'etat

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

Posted by Admin | 2:25 PM

Health care organizations are now most often run by people with management, not clinical backgrounds.  It seems like business schools have t...

Labels: Duke University, generic management, generic managers, health care prices, managers' coup d'etat, marketing, medical devices, SSM Health Care, Tenet, University of Chicago