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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures
their dismay they learned that because Pompe afflicts so few people — less than one in 40,000 — no treatment had yet been developed. Determined to change that, Crowley quit his job as a marketing executive for Bristol-Myers Squibb,...
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Leadership - Faculty & Research
of caring for not only the corporation and shareholders but also the patients and medical professionals. How should leaders of health-related businesses weigh the demand for efficiency and profit alongside the care of patients and the...
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- 14 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Its 2023-2024 Blavatnik Fellows
Harvard Medical School; the Wyss Institute at the Harvard University; and the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) at MIT, where she engineered drug delivery systems in collaboration with...
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- Portrait Project
Soley Olafsson
member who missed my college graduation as they attended treatment programs for substance abuse. I spent many nights sleeping on a hospital bench, as my significant other was getting treatment for leukemia....
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- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
bondholders who participate and penalize those who do not—all the while complying with securities laws that require equal treatment of creditors holding identical claims. This was the situation facing the Loewen Group Inc. as it stood at...
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by Stuart C. Gilson
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation...
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- May 15, 2012
- Article
Ensuring Quality Cancer Care: A Follow-Up Review of the Institute of Medicine’s 10 Recommendations for Improving the Quality of Cancer Care in America
By: Tracy E. Spinks, Heidi W. Albright, Thomas W. Feeley, Ron Walters, Thomas W. Burke, Thomas Aloia, Eduardo Bruera, Aman Buzdar, Lewis Foxhall, David Hui, Barbara Summers, Alma Rodriguez, Raymond DuBois and Kenneth I. Shine
Responding to growing concerns regarding the safety, quality, and efficacy of cancer care in the United States, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences commissioned a comprehensive review of cancer care delivery in the US health care system...
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Keywords:
Cancer;
Quality;
Cancer Care In The U.S.;
Quality Improvement;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry;
North and Central America
Spinks, Tracy E., Heidi W. Albright, Thomas W. Feeley, Ron Walters, Thomas W. Burke, Thomas Aloia, Eduardo Bruera, Aman Buzdar, Lewis Foxhall, David Hui, Barbara Summers, Alma Rodriguez, Raymond DuBois, and Kenneth I. Shine. "Ensuring Quality Cancer Care: A Follow-Up Review of the Institute of Medicine’s 10 Recommendations for Improving the Quality of Cancer Care in America." Cancer 118, no. 10 (May 15, 2012): 2571–2582.
- March 2008 (Revised June 2008)
- Case
The Broad Institute: Applying the Power of Genomics to Medicine
By: Vicki L. Sato and Rachel Gordon
In June 2003, Harvard University and MIT announced an unprecedented partnership to create a biomedical institute, The Broad Institute. The culture of the Broad centered on science, and those involved considered it to be at the edge of the scientific frontier. In just...
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Keywords:
Education;
Health Care and Treatment;
Innovation Leadership;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Organizational Culture;
Partners and Partnerships;
Research and Development;
Genetics
Sato, Vicki L., and Rachel Gordon. "The Broad Institute: Applying the Power of Genomics to Medicine." Harvard Business School Case 608-114, March 2008. (Revised June 2008.)
- February 1985 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
Health Stop (A): What Type of Innovation Is It? And Six Factors Alignment
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Joyce Lallman, Nancy Kane, Jefferson C. Grahling and James Wallace
How can we evaluate if innovative health care ventures can do good—benefit society—and do well—become financially viable? This question is the topic of the first module in the Innovating In Health Care course book.
This note and case series enables readers to conduct...
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Keywords:
For-Profit Firms;
Business Model;
Entrepreneurship;
Health Care and Treatment;
Strategy;
Valuation;
Health Industry;
Retail Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., Joyce Lallman, Nancy Kane, Jefferson C. Grahling, and James Wallace. "Health Stop (A): What Type of Innovation Is It? And Six Factors Alignment." Harvard Business School Case 185-084, February 1985. (Revised January 2024.)
- September 2016
- Article
Value Based Care and Bundled Payments: Anesthesia Care Costs for Outpatient Oncology Surgery Using Time-driven Activity-based Costing
By: Katy E. French, Alexis B. Guzman, Augustin C. Rubio, John C. Frenzel and Thomas Feeley
Background:
With the movement towards bundled payments, stakeholders should know the true cost of the care they deliver. Time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) can be used to estimate costs for each episode of care. In this analysis, TDABC is used to both...
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French, Katy E., Alexis B. Guzman, Augustin C. Rubio, John C. Frenzel, and Thomas Feeley. "Value Based Care and Bundled Payments: Anesthesia Care Costs for Outpatient Oncology Surgery Using Time-driven Activity-based Costing." Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation 4, no. 3 (September 2016): 173–180.
- 31 Oct 2023
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
Sijh Diagne (photo by Michael Bucher) In March 2020, Sijh Diagne (MBA 2017) was asked to serve as an advisor to Senegal’s minister of economy, planning, and cooperation. He was charged with leading the country’s private-sector development; but just as became the case...
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- 12 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
The Many Languages of Medicine to Impact Care Delivery
Ted Obi (MS/MBA 2023) is a current MBA student at HBS and a third year medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His previous experiences include co-founding Melanin Doc, a non-profit supporting the next generation...
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- November 2021
- Article
Determining Variable Costs in the Acute Urolithiasis Cycle of Care Through Time-driven Activity-based Costing
By: Tyler R. McClintock, David F. Friedlander, Aiden Y. Feng, Mahek A. Shah, Daniel J. Pallin, Steven L. Chang, Angela M. Bader, Thomas W. Feeley, Robert S. Kaplan and George E. Haleblian
Objective. To characterize full cycle of care costs for managing an acute ureteral stone using time-driven activity-based costing.
Methods. We defined all phases of care for patients presenting with an acute ureteral stone and built an... View Details
Methods. We defined all phases of care for patients presenting with an acute ureteral stone and built an... View Details
Keywords:
Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing;
Health Care and Treatment;
Cost;
Activity Based Costing and Management
McClintock, Tyler R., David F. Friedlander, Aiden Y. Feng, Mahek A. Shah, Daniel J. Pallin, Steven L. Chang, Angela M. Bader, Thomas W. Feeley, Robert S. Kaplan, and George E. Haleblian. "Determining Variable Costs in the Acute Urolithiasis Cycle of Care Through Time-driven Activity-based Costing." Urology 157 (November 2021): 107–113.
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McCollum Center | About
Health Foundation, whose floating hospital ship HOPE gave free medical treatment around the world. He also spearheaded Project Orbis, a flying eye-care facility that brings View Details
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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement
Topics Biotech/pharma Care Delivery Clinical Trials Digital Health Global Health Health Care Entrepreneurship Health Care Innovation Health Care Investment Health Care at HBS Insurance/payor Medical devices/diagnostics Precision Medicine...
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
Dialog Services Corporation Mr. McKown is president and co-founder of Health Dialog Services Corporation, a leader in providing evidence-based medical information and decision support to patients facing View Details
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Recommended Reading - Advancing Racial Equity
description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking affects the treatment of their black patients. The standard studies of medical racism examine past View Details
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The Inpatient Discharge Lounge as a Potential Mechanism to Mitigate Emergency Department Boarding and Crowding
By: Brian Franklin, Sharif Vakili, Robert S. Huckman, Sarah Hosein, Nicholas Falk, Katherine Cheng, Maria Murray, Sheila Harris, Charles A. Morris and Eric Goralnick
Delayed access to inpatient beds for admitted patients contributes significantly to emergency department (ED) boarding and crowding, which have been associated with deleterious patient safety effects. To expedite inpatient bed availability, some hospitals have...
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Keywords:
Health Care Delivery;
Emergency Room;
Operations Improvement;
Operations Management;
Health Care and Treatment;
Service Delivery;
Operations;
Management;
Performance Improvement;
Service Operations
Franklin, Brian, Sharif Vakili, Robert S. Huckman, Sarah Hosein, Nicholas Falk, Katherine Cheng, Maria Murray, Sheila Harris, Charles A. Morris, and Eric Goralnick. "The Inpatient Discharge Lounge as a Potential Mechanism to Mitigate Emergency Department Boarding and Crowding." Annals of Emergency Medicine 75, no. 6 (June 2020): 704–714.
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Key Stakeholders - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
sustainable competition. Providers Stay competitive by adopting a strategic approach, restructuring the delivery of care, and measuring costs and outcomes to increase patient value. Patients Participate actively in managing personal health, and, when faced with care...
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- 14 Jan 2019
- Op-Ed
These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership
Mayo Clinic in 2009, the world-famous medical center was struggling financially. Congress would soon be negotiating the terms of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Obama Administration’s signature health care legislation. From the outset,...
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