Small Hospital System Loses $61 Million Betting on Financial Derivatives, But Pays CEO Nearly a Million Dollars
As we have quoted many times, sunlight is the best disinfectant.  New US Internal Revenue Service requirements for reporting by not-for-profit organizations has resulted in more transparency about the finances of many health care organizations, and this transparency has shown that the culture of perverse incentives and management privilege has spread far and wide. How [...]
Follow-Up Thoughts on the Innovations Conference
In a prior post, the Disease Management Care Blog examined the emergence of “trade association” behavior among the presenters at the Health Affairs “Innovations” conclave. Yet, the DMCB does not weep. Between the doctrinal belief in large provider systems and the allure of $10 billion in government largess, who can be blamed for a fall [...]
Special issue: Sport event marketing: creating relationship value
International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing 7(3/4) 2010 Introduction: New perspectives in sport event marketing Do boys and girls go out to play? Women’s football and social marketing at Euro 2005 Permission to promote: a conjoint investigation of e-newsletter preferences Distinguishing between amateur sport participants and spectators: the List of Values approach Corporate support: [...]
The creativity thing
It’s Wednesday, so we get our weekly digest of articles from Americans for the Arts in my inbox. Their lead story this week comes from Business Week, where Frank Kern, “senior vice-president of IBM Global Business Services”, writes: CEOs identify “creativity” as the most important leadership competency for the successful enterprise of the future. That’s [...]
Before the Internet was ready for prime time
—doctors were limited in terms of educational resources. Today webcasts are available on demand for the topic of your choosing. Back then docs relied on broadcast media like Physicians Radio Network (PRN) and Lifetime Medical Television. LMT ran all day every Sunday. I spent many a Sunday afternoon in the 80s and early 90s watching [...]
