Jeffrey Sonnenfeld: The CEO Whisperer

Howie and Harlan are joined by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, an expert on leadership at the Yale School of Management, to discuss his decades of dialogue with top executives and his insights on healthcare leadership. Harlan reports on his new study exploring the causes of persistent hypertension; Howie reflects on CVS’s acquisition of Oak Street Health and asks who benefits from recent innovations in the healthcare industry.  Links: Harlan Krumholz: “Developing an Actionable Taxonomy of Persistent Hypertension Using Electronic Health Records” Yale School of Management: Chief Executive Leadership Institute “How Poisoned Tylenol Became a Crisis-Management Teaching Model” “Why the Amazon, JPMorgan, Berkshire Venture Collapsed: ‘Health Care Was Too Big a Problem’” “CVS Health to Acquire Oak Street Health” “Amazon and One Medical Sign an Agreement for Amazon to Acquire One Medical” Donald Berwick: “Salve Lucrum: The Existential Threat of Greed in US Health Care” “CVS Health and RUSH collaborate to increase health care access for Chicago-area Medicare patients” RubiconMD: Virtual Specialty Care & Online Consultation