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  • June 2001 (Revised July 2001)
  • Case

SKOLAR: Launching a University Technology Spinoff Company

SKOLAR is the first company formally spun out of Stanford University. The company is searching for the right business model to commercialize its Internet-based medical information offering. View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Commercialization; Higher Education; Information Technology; Business Startups; Education Industry; Education Industry; California
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  • 2006
  • Working Paper

Male Circumcision and AIDS: The Macroeconomic Impact of a Health Crisis

By: Amrita Ahuja, Brian Wendell and Eric D. Werker
Theories abound on the potential macroeconomic impact of AIDS in Africa, yet there have been surprisingly few empirical studies to test the mixed theoretical predictions. In this paper, we examine the impact of the AIDS epidemic on African nations through 2005 using... View Details
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Health Disorders; Welfare or Wellbeing; Poverty; Research; Education; Nutrition; Risk Management; Africa
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  • 27 May 2017
  • News

The Dumb Politics of Elite Condescension

  • Career Coach

Sarah Bua

Executive Leadership Program - China (SELP-China), Owner President Manager Program (OPM) and Leading Change through Organizational Renewal (LCOR) executive education offerings.  She has worked extensively with early-, mid-career and... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Entrepreneurship; Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Government; Health Care; Clean Technology; Energy

    Karim R. Lakhani

    Karim R. Lakhani is the Dorothy & Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He specializes in technology management, innovation, digital transformation and artificial... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; communications; computer; health care; high technology; information technology industry; internet; pharmaceuticals; software; video games
    • 14 Nov 2017
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

    experts to discuss how researchers can impact a broader audience, by lending their scientific expertise to pressing social issues, current events, and public debates. The landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, in which the Supreme... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • December 2010
    • Article

    Markets, Morals, and Practices of Trade: Jurisdictional Disputes in the U.S. Commerce in Cadavers

    By: Michel Anteby
    This study examines the U.S. commerce in human cadavers for medical education and research to explore variation in legitimacy in trades involving similar goods. It draws on archival, interview, and observational data mainly from New York state to analyze market... View Details
    Keywords: Education; Goods and Commodities; Trade; Lawfulness; Moral Sensibility; Market Participation; Management Practices and Processes; New York (state, US)
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      Regina E. Herzlinger

      Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She was the first woman to be tenured and chaired at Harvard Business School and serve on many established and start-up corporate health care/medical... View Details

      Keywords: medical devices; medical devices; medical devices; medical devices; medical devices
      • 03 May 2010
      • Research & Ideas

      What Is the Future of MBA Education?

      new book, Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads. Employing a wealth of interviews and quantitative data, their book takes the first comprehensive approach in decades to examine the evolving MBA marketplace and its threats... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

        John T. Gourville

        John Gourville is the Albert J. Weatherhead, Jr. Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School.  He joined the HBS Marketing Unit in 1995 after receiving his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in marketing and behavioral research.  His most... View Details

        Keywords: medical supplies; medical supplies; medical supplies; medical supplies; medical supplies; medical supplies; medical supplies; medical supplies
        • May 2021
        • Article

        Making Doctors Effective Managers and Leaders: A Matter of Health and Well-Being

        By: Lisa Rotenstein, Robert S. Huckman and Christine K. Cassel
        The COVID-19 crisis has forced physicians to make daily decisions that require knowledge and skills they did not acquire as part of their biomedical training. Physicians are being called upon to be both managers—able to set processes and structures—and leaders—capable... View Details
        Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Management; Leadership; Health Pandemics; Health Industry
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        • April 2014
        • Article

        Who Donates Their Bodies to Science? The Combined Role of Gender and Migration Status Among California Whole-body Donors

        By: Asad L. Asad, Michel Anteby and Filiz Garip
        The number of human cadavers available for medical research and training, as well as organ transplantation, is limited. Researchers disagree about how to increase the number of whole-body bequeathals, citing a shortage of donations from the one group perceived as most... View Details
        Keywords: Altruism; Donations; Body; Whole-body; Clinical Anatomy; Medical Specialties; California
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        • 2013
        • Teaching Note

        Xinhua Hospital: Implementation of EMR Project (TN)

        By: F. Warren McFarlan, Ning Jia, Weiqi Liu and Shanshan Cao
        Established in 1958, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (hereafter referred to as "Xinhua Hospital") is an integrated modern teaching and research hospital with a comprehensive set of disciplines and a specialization in... View Details
        Keywords: China; Hospitals; China
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        • 2013
        • Case

        Xinhua Hospital: Implementation of EMR Project

        By: F. Warren McFarlan, Ning Jia, Weiqi Liu and Shanshan Cao
        Established in 1958, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (hereafter referred to as "Xinhua Hospital") is an integrated modern teaching and research hospital with a comprehensive set of disciplines and a specialization in... View Details
        Keywords: China; Hospitals; China
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        What is the HBS Health Care Initiative? - MBA

        Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
        • 10 Oct 2007
        • First Look

        First Look: First Look: October 10

        performance of procedures rather than for accurate diagnosis and effective prevention. Aspinall and Hamermesh call for coordinating regulation and reimbursement so that incentives are provided for the right outcomes. Finally, the authors urge changing physicians'... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
        • 01 Nov 2006
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Male Circumcision and AIDS: The Macroeconomic Impact of a Health Crisis

        Keywords: by Eric D. Werker, Amrita Ahuja & Brian Wendell
        • 2017
        • Article

        The Impact of Training Informal Healthcare Providers in India: A Randomized Controlled Trial

        By: Jishnu Das, Abhijit Chowdhury, Reshmaan Hussam and Abhijit Banerjee
        Health care providers without formal medical qualifications provide more than 70% of all primary care in rural India. Training these informal providers may be one way to improve the quality of care where few alternatives exist. We report on a randomized controlled... View Details
        Keywords: Health Care; India; Business Training; RCT; Health Care and Treatment; Training; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; India
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        • July 2002 (Revised August 2002)
        • Case

        Washington Hospital Center (D): Emergency Medicine After September 11

        By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Michelle Heskett
        The all-risks-ready emergency room prototype project becomes widely accepted as a need after September 11, 2001. The already operational medical informatics system, Insight, comes under heavy demand after its strong performance during crises and is noticed by various... View Details
        Keywords: Change Management; Health Care and Treatment; Nonprofit Organizations; Medical Specialties; Organizational Culture; Crisis Management; Technological Innovation; Higher Education; Performance Productivity; Health Industry; District of Columbia
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        • November 1998 (Revised June 1999)
        • Case

        MedSim

        An Israeli high-tech start-up has developed an innovative simulator which makes possible non-patient training in medical ultrasound. The marketing function moves to the United States, the largest market, while other functions remain in Israel. The case describes a... View Details
        Keywords: Technological Innovation; Training; Health Care and Treatment; Problems and Challenges; Business Startups; Globalized Markets and Industries; Technology Industry; Health Industry; Israel; United States
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