Directors & Boards articles from January 1992

Directors & Boards archives from January 1992

The inalienable right. (health care)
January 1, 1992... On the 200th anniversary of the passage of the Bill of Rights, a poll by the AMA, revealed that over three-quarters of Americans think that the Constitution should ensure adequate health care coverage for everyone. Health care is considered an...

Prescription for a system in crisis. (US health care system) (Chairman's Agenda: Managing Health Care Costs)
January 1, 1992... Here are a set of principles that address cost, access, and quality in reforming the American health care system. The health care crisis facing our nation is an issue far broader than steel industry concerns. It is an issue affecting both...

How healthy is the U.S.? (Americans' health status) (Chairman's Agenda: Managing Health Care Costs)
January 1, 1992... An overview of the societal environment and health trends that underlie the management of health care costs. The Twentieth Century has seen dramatic improvements in the longevity and health status of Americans. Yet, these very achievements...

The gathering regulatory storm. (legislative proposals for health care reform) (Chairman's Agenda: Managing Health Care Costs)
January 1, 1992... The health care reform debate will likely center on legislative proposals which fall into three fundamentally distinct categories. Any candidate running for office in 1992 who hasn't yet begun to talk about the need for health care reform...

Current efforts at cost control. (Chairman's Agenda: Managing Health Care Costs)
January 1, 1992... A review of the sometimes basic, sometimes innovative cost-containment steps that companies are taking. Seeking solutions to the urgent problem of soaring medical costs ranks high on the agenda of corporate concerns. Annual health care...

Cost-containment scenarios of the future. (employers' part in health care costs) (Chairman's Agenda: Managing Health Care Costs)
January 1, 1992... How the coming decade of cost control is likely to unfold -- with employers being part of the solution rather than the bearer of a lion's share of the problem. Health care costs in America appear to most observers to be out of control....

How to launch a managed-care effort. (Allied-Signal Inc.'s managed care plan called Health Care Connection) (Chairman's Agenda: Managing Health Care Costs)
January 1, 1992... The story of Allied-Signal's Health Care Connection, a nationwide managed-care plan that was the first of its kind in the U.S. One of the most challenging problems facing our country is the need to control the cost of health care. Health...

Taking the pulse of the industry. (Biomedical industry as solution to health care cost problem) (Chairman's Agenda: Managing Health Care Costs)
January 1, 1992... A growing and prosperous biomedical industry is not the cause of the health care cost problem but the best hope for a solution. Management of health care cost has become an important agenda item for corporate chairmen, as the size and...

Cost containment as a stimulative force. (Chairman's Agenda: Managing Health Care Costs) (Panel Discussion)
January 1, 1992... A roundtable discussion with health care analysts on the cost-control movement and other competitive forces sweeping the industry. One constituency keenly interested in the cost-containment issue is the investment analysts who cover the...

What to do about retiree health care. (includes related article) (Chairman's Agenda: Managing Health Care Costs)
January 1, 1992... The time to act is now because, for most employers, the liability grows every day if no action is taken. Retiree health care is one of the biggest financial challenges currently facing Corporate America. This problem is of concern to the...

Shareholder litigation and the board. (includes related article) (Chairman's Agenda: Managing Health Care Costs)
January 1, 1992... Any company involved in a controversial transaction, business reversal, or just a plain bad quarter is susceptible to a shareholders' suit. Corporate officers and directors operate in a more complex business and legal environment today...

A tension-raising list of questions. (corporate governance)
January 1, 1992... "Corporate governance in the United States is going through a major transformation," says Dr. Clifton R. Wharton Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Teachers Insurance Annuity Association and College Retirement Equities Fund. TIAA-CREF...

Good businesses will get good prices. (Mergers & Acquisitions) (Panel Discussion)
January 1, 1992... Major investment banking firms face 1992 with restrained optimism on merger and acquisition activity. In a recent roundtable discussion with Mergers & Acquisitions magazine (an affiliate publication of Directors & Boards), a group of investment...

Key organization issues for the board. (board of directors)
January 1, 1992... Long-term planning is the most critical issue directors say they face today. And companies are increasingly turning to noncash compensation for their boards of directors. These and other findings are contained in the 1991 Organization and...

Health care firms bring talent aboard.
January 1, 1992... In keeping with the health care theme of this edition of Directors & Boards, we present a selection of directors who joined the boards of health care-related companies during the fall of 1991. Author and international health commentator...

Hans Mueller, Nova Pharmaceutical. (President and CEO of Nova Pharmaceutical Corp.) (Profile of the Board) (Interview)
January 1, 1992... Start-up health care and biotech companies have been at times both criticized and complimented for recruiting "big name" boards of directors in the effort to get launched and established. Skeptics label the practice as mere window dressing to...