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- June 2008
- Case
Gordon Williams: Clinical Research at Brigham and Women's Hospital
By: H. Kent Bowen and Courtney Purrington
Clinical research is a critical element of biomedical research and development. This case describes the challenges of clinical research, and its role in bringing breakthroughs to patients. Dr. Williams leads through his own research and special programs to train...
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Training;
Health Care and Treatment;
Success;
Programs;
Research and Development;
Biotechnology Industry;
Health Industry
Bowen, H. Kent, and Courtney Purrington. "Gordon Williams: Clinical Research at Brigham and Women's Hospital." Harvard Business School Case 608-168, June 2008.
- Web
Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
outcomes achieved per dollar spent . HBS Professors Robert Kaplan and Michael Porter detail how time-driven activity-based costing can be used to accurately measure costs at the patient level for the span of an entire medical condition....
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- March 2010
- Supplement
Deworming Kenya: Translating Research into Action (B)
By: Nava Ashraf, Neil Buddy Shah and Rachel Gordon
Karen Levy and her colleague, Margaret Ndanyi, learn the results of their nation-wide effort to rid Kenyan school children of parasitic worm infection.
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Ashraf, Nava, Neil Buddy Shah, and Rachel Gordon. "Deworming Kenya: Translating Research into Action (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 910-027, March 2010.
- 2020
- Chapter
Health Care Markets a Decade After the ACA: Bigger, but Probably Not Better
By: Leemore S. Dafny
Love it or hate it, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) embraced and extended the role of private markets in financing and delivering health care in the United States. Ten years after the ACA’s passage, it is unclear whether health care markets are better (along a range of...
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Health Care and Treatment;
Markets;
Laws and Statutes;
Outcome or Result;
Health Industry;
United States
Dafny, Leemore S. "Health Care Markets a Decade After the ACA: Bigger, but Probably Not Better." Chap. 15 in The Trillion Dollar Revolution: How the Affordable Care Act Transformed Politics, Law, and Health Care in America, edited by Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Abbe R. Gluck. New York: PublicAffairs, 2020.
- March 1990 (Revised March 1992)
- Case
New York Against AIDS (A): The Saatchi & Saatchi Compton Advertising Campaign
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Sohel Karim
Describes the background leading to the development of an advertising campaign to help prevention of AIDS in New York City. The three television networks, however, for various reasons reject the campaign, to the dismay of Saatchi & Saatchi executives.
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Advertising Campaigns;
Growth and Development;
Health Care and Treatment;
Marketing Communications;
Failure;
Advertising Industry;
New York (city, NY)
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Sohel Karim. "New York Against AIDS (A): The Saatchi & Saatchi Compton Advertising Campaign." Harvard Business School Case 590-036, March 1990. (Revised March 1992.)
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
consumer. The system needs to be redesigned so that each participant is motivated to increase value, measured by health outcomes per dollar expended. This excerpt discusses how healthcare providers can shift to a value-based model. An...
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
value for patients, as measured by health outcomes per dollar expended. Porter recently talked about the book. The American model of health-care delivery is largely private and competitive. Yet costs are soaring, access is restricted, and...
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- June 2021
- Article
Developing a Value Framework: Utilizing Administrative Data to Assess an Enhanced Care Initiative
By: Casey J. Allen, Jarrod S. Eska, Nikhil G. Thaker, Thomas W. Feeley, Robert S. Kaplan, Ryan W. Huey, Ching-Wei D. Tzeng, Jeffrey E. Lee, Steven J. Frank, Thomas A. Aloia, Vijaya Gottumukkala and Matthew H.G. Katz
We used national administrative data to assess multiple domains of value associated with enhanced recovery pathways for patients undergoing pancreatic surgery. Value metrics included in-hospital mortality, complication rates, length of stay (LOS), 30-day readmission...
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Value-based Health Care;
Health Care and Treatment;
Analytics and Data Science;
Outcome or Result;
Measurement and Metrics;
Performance Improvement
Allen, Casey J., Jarrod S. Eska, Nikhil G. Thaker, Thomas W. Feeley, Robert S. Kaplan, Ryan W. Huey, Ching-Wei D. Tzeng, Jeffrey E. Lee, Steven J. Frank, Thomas A. Aloia, Vijaya Gottumukkala, and Matthew H.G. Katz. "Developing a Value Framework: Utilizing Administrative Data to Assess an Enhanced Care Initiative." Journal of Surgical Research 262 (June 2021): 115–120.
- December 2009 (Revised May 2012)
- Case
Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center: Breast Cancer Care in Taiwan
By: Michael E. Porter, Jennifer F Baron and C. Jason Wang
Taiwan's Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center has developed an integrated, team-based care delivery model for breast cancer care that is being expanded to other cancer types in 2009. A decade earlier, President and CEO Dr. Andrew Huang and the Center had worked...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Medical Specialties;
Service Delivery;
Outcome or Result;
Performance Effectiveness;
Quality;
Integration;
Health Industry;
Insurance Industry;
Taiwan
Porter, Michael E., Jennifer F Baron, and C. Jason Wang. "Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center: Breast Cancer Care in Taiwan." Harvard Business School Case 710-425, December 2009. (Revised May 2012.)
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
the post-recovery stay in the hospital. This enabled the hospitals to discharge almost all of their patients to inexpensive home health recovery rather than to very costly skilled nursing facilities. And the outcomes were generally better...
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- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
quickly than inflation; restriction of access and services; standards of care that lag behind accepted benchmarks; frequent treatment errors; wide variations in practice patterns; slow adoption of best practices; and slow diffusion of...
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- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Experiment 1 compares a condition where participants sequentially predict the colored outcomes of a roulette wheel with a condition where the wheel's past outcomes are presented all at once. Subjects are...
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- April 2010
- Teaching Note
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center: Spine Care (TN)
By: Robert S. Huckman and Michael E. Porter
Teaching Note for [609016].
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- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
new achievement are further escalated by the glamorized treatment they receive in today's media-centric world. The elements of celebrity—spectacle, "bests," charisma, and any form of novelty from the latest in consumption to a...
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by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
of the business model as decisions enforced by the authority of the firm; this definition enables the analysis of business models through the analysis of individual firm choices. We situate negotiation outcomes within the strategy...
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Carmen Nobel
- Profile
Alice Yang
projects ranging from an analysis of PIH’s clinical outcomes in rural Haiti, editing and publishing a bilingual manual on AIDS treatment in resource-poor settings, overseeing potable water projects for...
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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
alone do not account for these outcomes of the country’s public health system. There are also disparities in how effectively resources are allocated and managed, says Simon DeBere (MBA/MPA-ID 2022), a 2021 HBS Social Enterprise Summer...
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April White
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
conclusion by manually going through the data,” the lead doctor told the Japan Times, “but Watson’s speed is crucial in the treatment of leukemia, which progresses rapidly and can cause complications.” This is the beauty of Watson, which...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- Summer 2021
- Article
Predictable Country-level Bias in the Reporting of COVID-19 Deaths
By: Botir Kobilov, Ethan Rouen and George Serafeim
We examine whether a country’s management of the COVID-19 pandemic relate to the downward biasing of the number of reported deaths from COVID-19. Using deviations from historical averages of the total number of monthly deaths within a country, we find that the...
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Keywords:
COVID-19;
Deaths;
Reporting;
Incentives;
Government Policy;
Health Pandemics;
Health Care and Treatment;
Country;
Crisis Management;
Outcome or Result;
Reports;
Policy
Kobilov, Botir, Ethan Rouen, and George Serafeim. "Predictable Country-level Bias in the Reporting of COVID-19 Deaths." Journal of Government and Economics 2 (Summer 2021).
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
would receive comprehensive treatment from a team designed to deliver it. Insurers would require that hospitals set fixed and transparent prices covering various ailments and their treatment. This approach, Herzlinger says, would produce...
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