Category: Leadership & Management

The rise of the $1K professional headshot

A professional headshot conveys professionalism and personality and serves as a personal brand. LinkedIn reports that bios with headshots get 21 times more views than those without, and users receive nine times more connection requests when they includ…

Tenet’s $100M cyber incident raises 10 must-ask questions for boards

Cyberattackers don’t need to steal data to cause chaos, they just need to pose enough of a threat that management is forced to halt business.

‘Listen and respond accordingly’: 5 hospital CEOs share advice for successors

When a healthcare leader takes the helm of a hospital, they bring with them advice from mentors as well as their own career learning experiences. Now, five CEOs — one who recently retired and four preparing to do so — shared their advice with Beck…

Reading between the lines when CEOs abruptly ‘step down’

Ambiguous language around CEO departures can obscure the circumstances or drivers of their exits. Researchers are trying to find correlations that get the real story. 

Landmark bill’s cost-reduction efforts draw praise from healthcare groups

Groups across the healthcare industry had overall favorable reactions to a sweeping $739 billion bill passed by Senate Democrats on Aug. 7 that touches healthcare, energy and tax reform.

4 hospitals seeking CEOs

Below are four hospitals that recently posted job listings seeking CEOs.

4 health systems on Seramount’s list of top companies for executive women

Four health systems made Seramount’s 2022 list of the top 75 companies for executive women.

Corner Office: How meeting a stranger helped lead Anita Jenkins to the Howard University Hospital CEO role

An encounter with a stranger played a key role in the beginning of the road that led Anita Jenkins to the CEO role at Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C.

8 women making moves in healthcare

The following executive moves made by women have been reported by or shared with Becker’s since July 29. 

Nursing philanthropist Donald Jonas dies at 92

Donald Jonas, an entrepreneur and philanthropist who donated millions of dollars to nursing education, died July 23 at age 92, The Wall Street Journal reported.