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- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
digital platform, and the increased fiscal pressures created by the worldwide economic crisis. Unfortunately, the educational programs for future health care leaders fail to provide many of the needed...
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- July 1982
- Supplement
Vicks Health Care Division: Project Scorpio (C), Student Assignment
Provides a blank five-year profit-and-loss statement for students to complete.
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Keywords:
Financial Statements
Yip, George S. "Vicks Health Care Division: Project Scorpio (C), Student Assignment." Harvard Business School Supplement 583-009, July 1982.
- 10 Mar 2015
Health Care Sector at HBS Webinar
This webinar will provide an overview of the resources available at HBS to students coming from (or who are interested in pursuing a career in) health care. A member of our Career and Professional Development Office will review health...
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- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
for each discrete service. Many other industries have solved the problem of how to issue a single bill for customized services; among them aerospace, construction, auto repair, and consulting. A competitive health care industry could...
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- 21 Mar 2016
Health Care Sector at HBS Webinar
This webinar will provide an overview of the resources at HBS available to students interested in Health Care. It will include a presentation from the Health Care Initiative followed by a current student...
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- 2024
- Working Paper
Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Zirui Song
Private Equity (“PE”) has come under increased scrutiny by the press, academics, and policymakers, as well as the public, for its investments in health care delivery. This scrutiny has been exacerbated by recent high profile hospital bankruptcies following PE...
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Lietz, Nori Gerardo, and Zirui Song. "Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-012, September 2024.
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Health Care Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Primary Care, Integrated Practice Units, Outcomes Measurement, Cost Measurement, Value-based Payments, and Safety Net Hospitals. Value-Based Health Care Curriculum Value-Based Health View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
Care for the Elderly: Process is More Important Than the Destination
400 million by 2033 and one third of the population by 2050), I wanted to utilize my background in health care services / life insurance, to be part of the solution to provide better care to this population...
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Health Care
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
average wait for a primary care visit in Massachusetts, world renowned for its medical facilities, is a whopping 50 days. Only 3 percent of American physicians regularly e-mail their patients, less, he said,...
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Patient Portals: The Provider Role
Patient portals are widespread, but evidence of impact is limited. In this study, we use a large dataset spanning 2 years and >1 million patients across 650 primary care practices to explore the "other side" of portals: health... View Details
Patient portals are widespread, but evidence of impact is limited. In this study, we use a large dataset spanning 2 years and >1 million patients across 650 primary care practices to explore the "other side" of portals: health... View Details
- July 2021 (Revised July 2022)
- Case
Brigham & Women's Hospital: Using Patient Reported Outcomes to Improve Breast Cancer Care
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Navraj S. Nagra and Syed S. Shehab
Dr. Andrea Pusic, breast cancer reconstruction surgeon, wants to extend outcomes measurement beyond traditional surgical metrics of infections, complications, and survival rates. The case describes her development of a new mobile phone app, which collects patients’...
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Health Care and Treatment;
Outcome or Result;
Cost Management;
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Health Testing and Trials;
Surveys;
Health Industry;
Boston
Kaplan, Robert S., Navraj S. Nagra, and Syed S. Shehab. "Brigham & Women's Hospital: Using Patient Reported Outcomes to Improve Breast Cancer Care." Harvard Business School Case 122-010, July 2021. (Revised July 2022.)
- 04 Feb 2010
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?
learned that it is helpful to host a 'conversation' between my rational/analytical side and my intuitive side." Phil Clark's advice provides a useful close: "If you are seeking the perfect solution, you likely are making no...
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by James Heskett
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Value-Based Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
the correct provider, treatment, and setting. Geography of Care National centers of excellence providing care for exceedingly complex patients. Information Technology An...
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- 20 Aug 2016
- News
The Business of Improving Health Care Delivery
practices to bear on how we run hospitals. In America, we spend 17 percent of the GDP on health care, for some of the worst outcomes in the developed world. We’re in dramatic need of novel, creative ideas to improve the care that we View Details
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Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog
understanding the fundamental improvement challenges facing the health care sector and developing strategies for addressing them. Students may have career interests in organizations that provide health View Details
- March 2024
- Article
Differences in Care Team Response to Patient Portal Messages by Patient Race and Ethnicity
By: Mitchell Tang, Rebecca Mishuris, Lily Payvandi and Ariel Dora Stern
Importance: The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with substantial growth in patient portal messaging. Higher message volumes have largely persisted, reflecting a new normal. Prior work has documented lower message use by patients who belong to minoritized racial...
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Health Pandemics;
Technology Adoption;
Prejudice and Bias;
Equality and Inequality;
Communication Technology;
Race;
Ethnicity;
Health Industry
Tang, Mitchell, Rebecca Mishuris, Lily Payvandi, and Ariel Dora Stern. "Differences in Care Team Response to Patient Portal Messages by Patient Race and Ethnicity." JAMA Network Open 7, no. 3 (March 2024).
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Fostering Innovation in Life Sciences - Health Care
SCIENCE ENTREPRENEURSHIP is led by Professor Peter Barrett , and provides a select group of alumni with the opportunity to work with Harvard inventors to promote the commercialization of life science technologies with significant market...
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- 2020
- Working Paper
Vertical Integration of Healthcare Providers Increases Self-Referrals and Can Reduce Downstream Competition: The Case of Hospital-Owned Skilled Nursing Facilities
By: David Cutler, Leemore S. Dafny, David Grabowski, Steven S. Lee and Christopher Ody
The landscape of the U.S. healthcare industry is changing dramatically as healthcare providers expand both within and across markets. While federal antitrust agencies have mounted several challenges to same-market combinations, they have not challenged any...
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Antitrust;
Health Care and Treatment;
Vertical Integration;
Organizational Structure;
Competition;
Health Industry;
United States
Cutler, David, Leemore S. Dafny, David Grabowski, Steven S. Lee, and Christopher Ody. "Vertical Integration of Healthcare Providers Increases Self-Referrals and Can Reduce Downstream Competition: The Case of Hospital-Owned Skilled Nursing Facilities." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28305, December 2020.