end of life care - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 May 2012
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a kitten dangling from a tree limb. One visit to Google kills that idea; there are already dozens of companies catering to premenstrual women. What about a service that can make a visit to an urgent care... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photography by Chris Churchill

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Better Accounting Transforms Health Care Delivery

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Mary L. Witkowski

The paper describes the theory and preliminary results for an action research program that explores the implications from better measurements of health care outcomes and costs. After summarizing Porter's outcome taxonomy (Porter 2010), we illustrate how to use process... View Details

Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Research; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

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20 Aug 2016
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The Business of Improving Health Care Delivery

Josue Zapata (MD/MBA 2012) is chief resident in internal medicine at the University of California in San Francisco. In this interview he discusses how he is utilizing his business training to make a difference in patient treatment and... View Details

15 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care

Be that as it may, Christensen asserts, market forces will prevail. "If high-quality, more cost-effective patient care is the ultimate goal," Christensen concludes, "medical schools, practitioners, hospitals, and insurers... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

30 Sep 2019
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The Health Care Initiative at HBS

Cara Sterling is the Director of the Health Care Initiative at HBS with over 20 years of experience in the health care industry. Cara is... View Details

26 May 2015
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Exploring tax policy and our quality of life

He’s exploring how people feel about making taxation decisions based on personal attributes, which current US tax policy does. Some of his other research, in part for his elective curriculum course at HBS, has examined social security,... View Details

15 Jun 2018
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Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life

pause, that we gain these tools of investing each other, of cultivating a sense of awe, of trying to make life... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Applying problem solving to all aspects of life

Bob McNutt (MBA 1963) talks about his third-stage careers as a youth tennis coach and emergency services volunteer. (Published April 2014) View Details

03 Mar 2014
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A Life Transformed

all we heard were the sounds of insects and the flutes played by the night watchmen who cared for cows and buffalo. We were afraid of the dark, because we heard stories about... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Finance; Transportation

01 Oct 1996
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Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life

not want to confront, because these tires greatly diminished the need for replacements. And since the replacement market was the only place they could make money, this meant the end of profitability unless... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Action Plan: Life Study

Above: photo by Beth Perkins “There’s an artistic spark in everybody,” says Ted Hartley (MMP 4, 1956). “If you can get rid of that left-brain inner critic, you can explore what will open up in the right-brain side in all of us.” Hartley came to painting a little over a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

15 Jan 2009
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Career & Life Balance

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered How do I get past a feeling of being stuck in View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

15 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

reevaluating existing processes. In the meantime, the group rests assured that the cure for health care does not hinge on a single magic bullet. "At the end of the day,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

13 Aug 2014
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Blavatnik Fellows in Life Science Entrepreneurship Named

15 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

Effective value-based competition will be centered on addressing health conditions over the entire life cycle of care (not the specific components View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

02 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Health Care Research and Prospects

and inadequate care. In short, health care in the United States appears to be broken. Enter Harvard Business School's Life Sciences & Health Care Initiative, which brings... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Health

04 Dec 2014
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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... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

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Geography of Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

cardiac care and care of end stage renal disease. They maintained Cleveland Clinic quality care through education... View Details

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Academics - Health Care

MBA Experience Academics Why HBS for Health Care? Harvard Business School The first-year “required curriculum” (RC) incorporates health care cases and topics in many courses ranging from Marketing and Finance to Entrepreneurship and... View Details

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