Paul F. Levy is an American businessman, author, professor, and was elected on Nov 2, 2021 to a two-year term (Jan 2022 to Dec 2023) for the Ward 6 seat on the Newton (MA) School Committee.
[10] His strategic use of a blog to oppose unionization has been the subject of a book,[11] as well as academic research focused on the role, power, potential and perils of social media in negotiation.
In a blog post, Levy said that he recently had time to reflect during a biking trip through Africa and had decided to move on to new challenges after nine years with Beth Israel.
Levy continued writing his blog after leaving BIDMC, renaming it "Not Running a Hospital," broadening its reach to focus on health care policy matters and clinical practice improvement throughout the world.
Leadership Lessons from the Soccer Field, a book that offers insights from sports, health care, business, and government to help leaders get better outcomes.
[13] Levy is often invited by health care organizations throughout the world to give speeches on eliminating preventable harm, transparency of clinical outcomes, and front-line driven process improvement.
[19] Levy's leadership record at BIDMC, including his use of social media as a management tool, was the subject of a case study published in November 2010 by The Health Foundation, an independent charity working to improve the quality of healthcare in the United Kingdom.
[2] David A. Garvin and Michael A. Roberto of Harvard Business School had previously produced a multimedia case study on Levy's turn-around of BIDMC in 2002.
[20] Levy admitted on May 5, 2010, to poor judgement in his role as CEO of BIDMC, because he had hired and promoted a female employee with whom he had an allegedly inappropriate relationship.