Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

An investor-owned hospital executive whose company had acquired major nonprofit health care enterprises compared the proliferation of contracts to the growth of barnacles on the bottom of a freighter. To avoid this danger requires a discerning talent-management capacity in the human resources department.

Cost 11

Cost System Management Franchising 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

The fashion and finance verticals had the highest propensity to select the best-known, top-of-the-line product, while manufacturing and health care had the lowest. #4: Banking, technology, and consulting would be price sensitive, while manufacturing, health care, real estate, and fashion are price conscious. #5:

Price 8

Price Health Care Committee Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Recent examples include projects at firms such as General Electric, Staples, and dozens of other Fortune 1000 enterprises that span functional areas from marketing to strategy to human resources to operations. Higher out-of-pocket expenses that result when a family loses employer-provided, health care coverage.

Human Resources 8

Human Resources Bureaucracy Cost Wilde 8