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Guardian Pharmacy Services Model Grows Through Today’s Obstacles

Chief Executive

Formerly head of Central Pharmacy Services and a long-time executive in the pharmaceutical benefit-management industry, Morris co-founded the Atlanta-based outfit in 2004 with president and CEO Fred Burke, and executive vice president of sales and operations Kendall Forbes. They’re not getting a lot of price increases even now.”.

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The Single Greatest Source of Your Organizational Problems (and their solutions)

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This is huge when you consider the relationship between engagement and a variety of benefits: Meanwhile, research from Evolv and Wharton (UPenn) has shown the absolute largest variance in predicting employee performance is how effective their manager is. While a focus on numbers brings many benefits, numbers alone do not tell the whole story.

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Transformation During Crisis | Simon Leslie

Peter Winick

What is the benefit to the business of having a CEO that’s become a bit of a personality that you’ve never personality before? How does the business benefit from all this energy and effort that you put into various projects? You love to consume stuff and get your head wrapped around stuff, etc. That was the first question.

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The Problem with the Profit Motive in Finance

Harvard Business Review

Executive compensation has been reformed significantly to align with long-term performance. Banks have developed fortress balance sheets, improving credit quality by 54 percent, increasing net income and, restoring aggregate lending to pre-crisis levels of nearly $7 trillion. . • The largest U.S.

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Warren Buffett's 2010 Shareholder Letter: What to Expect

Harvard Business Review

Create a corporate culture that admits problems and maximizes talent : Buffett allocates capital, monitors enterprise risk, chooses the managers, and sets their compensation. Buffett compares float to getting an interest-free deposit that the company can use to invest for its own benefit. Buffett is cerebral and emotional.

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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business Review

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. Variable compensation is often tied to some measure of economic value added. Vincent Tsui for HBR. Financial capital is relatively abundant and cheap.

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business Review

My guess is that while a poor balance sheet might cause restless sleep, it’s the thought of an incorrectly reported balance sheet that brings on night terrors. Most boards would benefit from richer data sets that compare their company to others. It’s not surprising. Let’s take pay.