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The Information Technology Ecosystem: Structure, Health, and Performance
By: Marco Iansiti and Gregory L. Richards
A number of modern industries are organized as complex networks of firms whose integrated efforts are necessary to deliver value to end customers. The complexity of these networks, or business ecosystems, and the associated interdependencies among firms, make... View Details
Keywords:
Business Ventures;
Networks;
Value;
Customers;
Performance Productivity;
Product;
Applications and Software;
Innovation and Invention;
Competition;
Business Model;
Information Infrastructure;
Information Technology Industry
Iansiti, Marco, and Gregory L. Richards. "The Information Technology Ecosystem: Structure, Health, and Performance." Antitrust Bulletin 51, no. 1 (Spring 2006).
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care (Harvard Business Press, 2009), explains how to create more knowledgeable, flexible, and responsive delivery organizations. “Some of the most important innovations are not technologic—they...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
every time," Tecco notes. "It's a great example of using technology to reduce costs and save time." Musing on the risk-reward equation of launching a start-up in the digital health space, Tecco acknowledges...
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- September 2011 (Revised January 2012)
- Case
Telemonitoring at Visiting Nurse Health System
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Mark Keil and Mala Kaul
The Telemonitoring at Visiting Nurse Health System case presents one home healthcare organization's efforts to use telemonitoring to improve the quality of care provided to at-risk patients who were discharged from hospitals and needed home care. After two years of...
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Keywords:
Capital Budgeting;
Cost vs Benefits;
Risk Management;
Technology Adoption;
Technological Innovation;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Competitive Strategy;
Health Industry;
Health Industry
McFarlan, F. Warren, Mark Keil, and Mala Kaul. "Telemonitoring at Visiting Nurse Health System." Harvard Business School Case 112-030, September 2011. (Revised January 2012.)
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Leadership - Health Care
Health Care Initiative Leadership 1ms Robert S. Huckman Howard Cox Health Care Initiative Faculty Chair Professor Huckman teaches the second-year course in Operations Strategy and has taught HBS Executive...
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- August 2003 (Revised August 2006)
- Case
New Sector Alliance (A): An Entry into Health Care?
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Stacy Smollin Schwartz and Jeffrey Cronin
Describes the structure of the U.S. health care system and presents a study of a nonprofit consulting firm that hopes to enter the health care system. Includes descriptions of hospitals, doctors, insurers, medical technology providers, medical devices, pharmaceuticals,...
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Keywords:
Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Disorders;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Health Industry;
United States
Herzlinger, Regina E., Stacy Smollin Schwartz, and Jeffrey Cronin. "New Sector Alliance (A): An Entry into Health Care?" Harvard Business School Case 304-004, August 2003. (Revised August 2006.)
- August 2022 (Revised January 2023)
- Case
Icario Health: AI to Drive Health Engagement
By: David C. Edelman
Icario Health has built a market-leading artificial intelligence (AI) engine to help health insurers drive better health behaviors for their members, enabling the insurers to improve their Medicare performance.
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Keywords:
Marketing;
Health Care and Treatment;
AI and Machine Learning;
Health Industry;
United States
Edelman, David C. "Icario Health: AI to Drive Health Engagement." Harvard Business School Case 523-025, August 2022. (Revised January 2023.)
- March 2024 (Revised July 2024)
- Case
WeightWatchers: Promoting Weight Health
"In December 2023, the 60-year-old weight management industry stalwart WeightWatchers announced the launch of WeightWatchers Clinic, which incorporated GLP-1s , a new class of prescription weight-loss medications, into the company’s portfolio of products and mobile app...
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Keywords:
Business Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Resource Allocation;
Technology Industry;
Technology Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States;
New York (city, NY)
Gulati, Ranjay, Cynthia A. Montgomery, Ashley Whillans, Allison Ciechanover, and Emily Grandjean. "WeightWatchers: Promoting Weight Health." Harvard Business School Case 424-029, March 2024. (Revised July 2024.)
- November 2004
- Case
Technology Commercialization at the Massachusetts General Hospital
The Department of Corporate Sponsored Research & Licensing (CSRL) at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) serves as the primary interface between the hospital and the private sector. Examines the range of issues related to the commercialization of MGH's...
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Keywords:
Technological Innovation;
Conflict of Interests;
Commercialization;
Higher Education;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry;
Health Industry;
Massachusetts
West, Jonathan, and Mona Ashiya. "Technology Commercialization at the Massachusetts General Hospital." Harvard Business School Case 605-049, November 2004.
- 04 Dec 2014
- News
Hacking Health Care
The health care industry needs so much improvement, it will take a whole movement to fix it. “The more leaders, the better,” says Luc Sirois (MBA 1997), who sees progress coming not through a single organization, but rather from groups of...
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Keywords:
Jill Radsken
- October 2020 (Revised August 2022)
- Case
Epic Games: Nineteen Eighty-Fortnight
By: Andy Wu, Miaomiao Zhang and Christopher Zhang
In the midst of intensifying public and political attention towards the market power of big technology, Epic Games in 2020 challenged the status quo that has existed for years in the Apple iOS and Google Android mobile application marketplaces and payment systems....
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Keywords:
Mobile Platforms;
Mobile App Industry;
Mobile Payment Systems;
Antitrust;
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Entrepreneurship;
Competitive Strategy;
Digital Platforms;
United States
Wu, Andy, Miaomiao Zhang, and Christopher Zhang. "Epic Games: Nineteen Eighty-Fortnight." Harvard Business School Case 721-395, October 2020. (Revised August 2022.)
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Research - Health Care
(UAE). Utilization times for patients undergoing outpatient UAE for fibroids or adenomyosis were captured from electronic health record timestamps and... May 2024 Article Tepid Uptake of Digital Health View Details
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
Technologies within the Firm: Evidence from Cardiac Procedures," [PDF] Management Science Michael E. Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor In health insurance, the two fundamental issues are...
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- 15 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem
Only about 10 percent of retailers use NFC readers, and at least one retailer—Best Buy—stopped using them because they were too expensive. Officials with both Best Buy and Walmart have said the retailers have no plans, at least right now, of accepting the new payments...
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- 15 Sep 2019
- News
Israel Prepares to Unleash AI on Health Care
- September 2017 (Revised March 2018)
- Case
Chai Point: Disrupting Chai
By: Shikhar Ghosh, Ramana Nanda and Rachna Tahilyani
Chai Point is India’s largest organized chai retailer. It has missed its target for retail store openings by approximately 25%, goals that are very important to its investors who are also board members. However, it has developed an exciting new internet-based tea...
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Keywords:
Strategy;
Venture Capital;
Stock;
Business Model;
Mobile Technology;
Technological Innovation;
Marketing;
Marketing Strategy;
Internet and the Web;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Food;
Selection and Staffing;
Employee Stock Ownership Plan;
Resignation and Termination;
Compensation and Benefits;
Resource Allocation;
Product Positioning;
Distribution Channels;
Product Design;
Supply Chain;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Retail Industry;
Asia;
India;
Karnataka;
Bangalore
Ghosh, Shikhar, Ramana Nanda, and Rachna Tahilyani. "Chai Point: Disrupting Chai." Harvard Business School Case 818-020, September 2017. (Revised March 2018.)
- 2014
- Teaching Note
Zenglibao: An Internet Money Market Fund Run By Tianhong Asset Management Co., LTD. (TN)
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Yongjun Jin and Xiaohui Li
Mobile Internet has imposed an increasing impact on traditional finance. Firstly, some financial business modules can be operated via mobile Internet, and the corresponding transaction cost is greatly reduced. For example, payment by traditional bank draft is replaced...
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Keywords:
Internet;
China;
Mobile Devices;
Finance;
Internet and the Web;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
China
McFarlan, F. Warren, Yongjun Jin, and Xiaohui Li. "Zenglibao: An Internet Money Market Fund Run By Tianhong Asset Management Co., LTD. (TN)." Tsinghua University Teaching Note, 2014.
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The IT Transformation Health Care Needs
By: Nikhil R. Sahni, Robert S. Huckman, Anuraag Chigurupati and David M. Cutler
In recent years, health care organizations have made sizable investments in information technology. They’ve used their IT systems to replace paper records with electronic ones and to improve billing processes, thereby boosting revenue. But so far, IT has been of little...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Information Technology;
Performance Improvement;
Business Model
Sahni, Nikhil R., Robert S. Huckman, Anuraag Chigurupati, and David M. Cutler. "The IT Transformation Health Care Needs." Harvard Business Review 95, no. 6 (November–December 2017): 128–136.