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- 13 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Women Heart Patients Have Better Survival Odds with Women Doctors
prospects of lower pay or fewer chances at promotion than men. In the medical world, recent studies show doctors are less alert to symptoms in older adults when a patient is female. Heart attacks are the leading cause of death in the...
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Finalists | New Venture Competition
barrier to healthcare with its AI-powered virtual medical interpreter. Crop Diagnostix Brandon Chi (MBA 2024) Joseph Swift Amitesh Pratap Redefining precision agriculture through AI-powered, genetic insights. Poka Labs Malay Shah (MBA...
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- 07 Jan 2022
- News
Learning to Fight
Mark Johnson, one of the early recipients of the foundation’s signature Distinguished Scientist Award. Johnson is now chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery at UMass Memorial Health and a professor at the University of Massachusetts View Details
- 21 Mar 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Advancing Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Research Through Open Innovation Competitions
- September 2011
- Teaching Note
Tengion: Bringing Regenerative Medicine to Life (TN)
By: Elie Ofek and Natalie Kindred
Teaching Note for 510031.
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- 23 Mar 2016
- News
Curing Parkinson’s Disease
properties of a virus known as M13—properties first recognized by Solomon’s mother, a leading Alzheimer’s researcher—and produce a medication to treat diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimers’s. As Solomon tells Palreman: “A single...
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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
- 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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- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
preventable deaths, despite its world-class resources and medical technology. The Democratic presidential candidates have been debating the benefits of the “Medicare for All” approach versus a public insurance option. The former would...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Your Keyboard Is Listening
And unlike many other medical tests used to diagnose neurological diseases, it is also noninvasive and therefore can be used to monitor healthy people for signs of disease. “A lot of people may say, ‘Do I really want to know if I have one...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
The occasion? The company, a leading supplier of cloud-based services for electronic health records (EHR), practice management, and care coordination, was expanding. In a big way. Founded in 1997, athenahealth now serves about 44,000 View Details
- 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.)
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Fighting the diabetes epidemic using mobile phones
The company has raised $500,000 through private funding and government grants. “Diabetes is not just a medical problem, it’s a lifestyle and a social problem rooted in rapid urbanization, sedentary lives, and bad diets. It requires a...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
an unsatisfactory outpatient experience at a government-run facility, she also received ineffective treatments from an untrained local practitioner. She is feeling increasing physical discomfort, general weakness, and growing alarm about...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alvin Roth Wins Nobel Prize in Economics
kidney exchange system could be created to help match kidney donors with recipients. Al is one of the few economists who can point to real people whose lives have been saved by his work." Roth, who joined the HBS faculty in 1998, also designed the nationwide match...
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- 30 May 2024
- News
Women’s Association Goes Nationwide; Connecticut Club Hosts Beshears
rate of mail-order prescriptions, which has been proven to increase medication adherence. “We focused on health care, where a 40 or 50 percent medication adherence is considered really effective,” says...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
The sci-fi future for cancer treatment has become a reality, with breakthrough therapies that can use a cancer patient’s genetic information to create personalized treatments or employ the body’s immune...
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Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 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.)
- 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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