Last Updated: October 7, 2025
Analyzing Management
Leadership at public companies plays a crucial role for hedge funds and asset managers during both initial due diligence and continuous risk assessment. ManagementTrack offers a consistent framework that eliminates distractions by highlighting clear strengths and weaknesses, identifying red and green flags, and drawing a direct connection between CEO actions and financial performance.
CEO Hider’s ops wins may be offset by commercial and FDA inexperience
Analysis of Baxter International CEO Andrew Hider
While Andrew Hider’s operational playbook is well-suited for stabilizing margins, his commercial inexperience and lack of direct FDA expertise may leave him poorly aligned with reversing demand and remediating product failures.
ManagementTrack’s analysis focuses on Andrew Hider’s track record and skillset against the following key factors for BAX:
- Reversing IV fluid demand decline from hospital conservation.
- Implementing a new operating system to drive efficiency.
- Stabilizing margins to meet lowered 2025 guidance.
- Remediating NOVUM IQ pump failure to resume shipments.
Report Available: Proprietary Interviews & Analysis on Andrew Hider Answers Key Questions
ManagementTrack reports provide track record analysis, career playbooks, strengths, and weaknesses for every CEO. They allow investors to dig deeper to uncover hard-to-find data to answer the most pressing questions.
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Question Answered #1
How will Hider’s demanding, results-first management style be implemented to drive accountability without creating a cultural clash that could hinder his turnaround efforts?
Question Answered #2
How will Hider’s operational playbook, which coincided with a 15% order book decline at his prior firm, be adapted to reverse the commercial decline in Baxter’s core business?
Question Answered #3
How will Hider apply his process-driven playbook to remediate the NOVUM IQ pump failure, given his lack of direct FDA experience and a recent precedent of a major program failure?
Why Do Investors Use ManagementTrack?
Q: How does ManagementTrack assess Andrew Hider at BAX?
A: ManagementTrack establishes an executive’s track record, key strengths, and weaknesses through its proprietary career analysis and interviews with former colleagues. This profile is then measured against BAX’s most pressing challenges: reversing the decline in IV fluid demand, implementing a new operating system to drive efficiency, stabilizing margins to meet lowered guidance, and remediating the NOVUM IQ pump failure to resume shipments.
Q: What other proprietary signals does ManagementTrack use to link executive teams to future company performance?
A: To further connect leadership with performance, ManagementTrack utilizes proprietary models that flag unusual levels of executive evasion in earnings call Q&A. Its platform also analyzes the universe of insider transactions to isolate outlier trades predictive of future over- or underperformance. When combined with the ManagementTrack Rating, a forward-looking 1-10 score on every executive, these tools offer investors a clear, directional view on how management capability will shape future performance.
Q: What is the scope of ManagementTrack’s coverage?
A: ManagementTrack delivers real-time coverage on the C-suite of every public company.
How to Learn More
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Author
Colby Howard is the co-founder and President of Paragon Intel. Paragon Intel’s ManagementTrack is the premier executive analysis platform for hedge funds, asset managers, corporations, boards, and recruiters. Our proprietary data, built over a decade of analysis, allows us to analyze each public company executive to understand their fit and ability to execute at their company. We leverage our proprietary data – key quantitative research on an executive’s career plus interviews with their former colleagues – with public documents, including SEC filings (10-K, 10-Q), investor presentations, press releases, and earnings call transcripts. to build a holistic, evidence-based view of an executive’s capabilities and playbook.
Sources
- Verified Career History by ManagementTrack for Andrew Hider
- Analysis of Capital Allocation, Performance, and Fundamentals across career by ManagementTrack
- Baxter International, Inc. 10Q
- Baxter International, Inc. 10K
- Baxter International, Inc. Earnings Calls
- Baxter International, Inc. Press Releases
Relevant Links
- For more information on ManagementTrack’s Data visit: https://paragonintel.com/management-track-data/
- For more information on ManagementTrack’s Interview & Analysis visit: https://paragonintel.com/management-track-reports/
- For more information on ManagementTrack’s Interview library visit: https://paragonintel.com/management-track-report-library/
- For more information on ManagementTrack’s Evasion Analysis visit: https://paragonintel.com/earnings-call-evasion/
- For more information on how ManagementTrack helps hedge funds and asset managers visit: https://paragonintel.com/
