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- March 2011
- Teaching Note
PrimedicProviding Primary Care in Mexico (TN)
Teaching Note for 811040.
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- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
country innovated in ways to minimize physical contact during the test procedure, such as drive-through and phone booth testing facilities, which protected both medical staff and other patients. These sites motivated people to voluntarily...
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- 01 Feb 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?
(iStockphoto/Mladen Zivkovic) Several years ago, my spouse and I turned to concierge medicine. We no longer wanted to deal with a US health care system that often provides basically anonymous, production line diagnosis and treatment...
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by James Heskett
- May 2007 (Revised July 2011)
- Case
The West German Headache Center: Integrated Migraine Care
By: Michael E. Porter, Clemens Guth and Elisa M. Dannemiller
Describes the joint efforts of the German health plan KKH and Essen University Hospital to develop an integrated practice unit (IPU), and the West German Headache Center's efforts to improve the quality of migraine care. Provides an overview of the German health care...
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Business Model;
Health Care and Treatment;
Medical Specialties;
Industry Structures;
Service Delivery;
Integration;
Health Industry;
Germany
Porter, Michael E., Clemens Guth, and Elisa M. Dannemiller. "The West German Headache Center: Integrated Migraine Care." Harvard Business School Case 707-559, May 2007. (Revised July 2011.)
- 28 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants
particular concern has policymakers rethinking the current kidney-allocation process, a problem ironically created by improved medical treatments for renal disease. "Because patients are living longer,...
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- 2023
- Article
Building the Business Case for an Inclusive Approach to Digital Health Measurement with a Web App (Market Opportunity Calculator): Instrument Development Study
By: Mitchell Tang, Yashoda Sharma, Jennifer C. Goldsack and Ariel Dora Stern
Background: The use of digital health measurement tools has grown substantially in recent years. However, there are concerns that the promised benefits from these products will not be shared equitably. Underserved populations, such as those with lower education and...
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Demographics;
Product Development;
Health Care and Treatment;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Tang, Mitchell, Yashoda Sharma, Jennifer C. Goldsack, and Ariel Dora Stern. "Building the Business Case for an Inclusive Approach to Digital Health Measurement with a Web App (Market Opportunity Calculator): Instrument Development Study." JMIR Formative Research 7 (2023).
- September 2010 (Revised February 2014)
- Case
The Global Sight Initiative
How to replicate a 'one of' social entrepreneurship effort: To cure blindness, Seva took the Aravind Eye Hospital & scaled it up to 100 hospitals globally.
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Social Entrepreneurship;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Medical Specialties;
Health Care and Treatment;
Globalization;
Health Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E. "The Global Sight Initiative." Harvard Business School Case 311-034, September 2010. (Revised February 2014.)
- May 1999 (Revised September 2003)
- Case
Advanced Inhalation Research, Inc.
This case presents a look at the early start-up phase and development of Advanced Inhalation Research (AIR), a company engaged in the development of a new drug-delivery technology. Focuses on the risks, the steps taken to manage it, and the manner in which the company...
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Technological Innovation;
Risk Management;
Valuation;
Financing and Loans;
Health Care and Treatment;
Acquisition;
Business Startups;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Roberts, Michael J., and Diana S. Gardner. "Advanced Inhalation Research, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 899-292, May 1999. (Revised September 2003.)
- 18 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'
Cohly was skilled in Ayurveda, the ancient Indian practice of herbal medicine, and suggested they try using turmeric to heal the wound instead. The spice worked, and Das and Cohly later conducted Western medical trials to prove that...
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- August 2009 (Revised June 2015)
- Case
MINTing Innovation at NewYork-Presbyterian (A)
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and David Kiron
Several top surgeons at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) are receiving financial and administrative support to advance their surgical device inventions through the earliest stages of commercialization.
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Health Care;
Innovation & Entrepreneurship;
Hospital;
Entrepreneurship;
Financing and Loans;
Investment;
Health Care and Treatment;
Innovation and Invention;
Intellectual Property;
Commercialization;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
New York (state, US)
Hamermesh, Richard G., and David Kiron. "MINTing Innovation at NewYork-Presbyterian (A)." Harvard Business School Case 810-004, August 2009. (Revised June 2015.)
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
million grant to scale a successful medical knowledge sharing and collaborative practice platform pioneered by Project Echo in 2003 to expand specialty care access and quality at the centers. Long involved in community initiatives, IBM...
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- April 2009 (Revised June 2010)
- Supplement
Supply Chain Partners: Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor (B)
By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem
The epilogue to Supply Chain Partners: Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor (A), the B case details the outcome of the issues discussed in Case A; namely that Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor did implement the TSCC contract. Virginia Mason also kept the suture contract...
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Health Care and Treatment;
Supply Chain Management;
Partners and Partnerships;
Measurement and Metrics;
Contracts;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Narayanan, V.G., and Lisa Brem. "Supply Chain Partners: Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 109-077, April 2009. (Revised June 2010.)
- January 2010
- Teaching Note
The Joslin Diabetes Center (TN)
By: Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth O. Teisberg and Scott Wallace
Teaching Note for [710424].
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- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
presentation given at the fifth U.S.-China Health Summit at Harvard Medical School in September by John A. Quelch, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Professor in Health Policy...
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- May 2007 (Revised September 2007)
- Case
Cleveland Clinic
By: Frances X. Frei, Amy C. Edmondson, Christine van Keuren and Eliot Sherman
Cleveland Clinic is consistently ranked among the nation's most eminent hospitals, and for decades has been a leader in pioneering cardiac care. This case evaluates the methods, processes, and personnel that the hospital has cultivated over the years in order to...
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Health Care and Treatment;
Medical Specialties;
Innovation and Invention;
Service Delivery;
Expansion;
Health Industry;
Cleveland
Frei, Frances X., Amy C. Edmondson, Christine van Keuren, and Eliot Sherman. "Cleveland Clinic." Harvard Business School Case 607-143, May 2007. (Revised September 2007.)
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
he said, patients had to be "almost dead" before they could be treated for coronary artery disease with open-heart bypass surgery. The surgery was only available at select academic medical centers at great cost and...
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- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations
the “breakeven inducement percentage,” noting that “inducement” refers to use that would not occur in the absence of assistance, even if it is medically appropriate. Among the 10 conditions with the highest drug spending per patient, the...
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- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
to innovate the products that people want at a price they can afford. For example, while public-sector organizations are hardly renowned for convenience—think about the location of your Division of Motor Vehicles—entrepreneurs created View Details
- 11 Jun 2020
- In Practice
Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?
solved by technology, no matter how good. Anybody in retail or entertainment or education has a difficult situation to handle. Anybody delivering medical services faces an entirely different and unprecedented set of problems. For business...
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by Danielle Kost
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
the Harvard Kennedy School—explored this shift in a recent essay in the Journal of the American Medical Association. We asked them to discuss their reasons in an Q&A exchange via email. Danielle Kost: You argue that sustainability and...
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