Showing posts with label governance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label governance. Show all posts
A Sewage-Laden Cruise Ship, Burning Aircraft Batteries, Neo-Nazi Factory Security - Will Jaw Dropping Cases Prompt the Public to Demand Better Leadership?
Pfizer's Pfourteenth Settlement - a Small Reminder of Continuing Impunity
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
The recent in-depth investigation by Fortune reporters of 10 years of dysfunctional leadership at Pfizer , the "world's largest re...
Health Care's "99 Percenters"
As Occupy Wall Street has gone from an obscure protest covered only on blogs and social media to a national phenomenon, the apparent paralle...
What the Pfizer (IV)? - One Board to Rule Them All
The recent in-depth investigation by Fortune reporters of 10 years of dysfunctional leadership at Pfizer , the "world's largest re...
