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- January 28, 2021
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Lessons from the U.S.'s Rocky Vaccine Rollout
By: Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats
The rocky rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines is emblematic of many of the problems with the U.S. health care system. The United States is blessed with highly trained, excellent, and compassionate care providers and terrific research and development that has led to novel... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; COVID-19; Vaccines; Operations Improvement; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Operations; Performance Improvement; Health; Health Industry; United States
Huckman, Robert S., and Bradley R. Staats. "Lessons from the U.S.'s Rocky Vaccine Rollout." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (January 28, 2021).
- Article
Germany's Digital Health Reforms in the COVID-19 Era: Lessons and Opportunities for Other Countries
By: Sara Gerke, Ariel D. Stern and Timo Minssen
Reimbursement is a key challenge for many new digital health solutions, whose importance and value have been highlighted and expanded by the current COVID-19 pandemic. Germany’s new Digital Healthcare Act (Digitale–Versorgung–Gesetz or DVG) entitles all individuals... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Reimbursement; Digital Health Reforms; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Internet and the Web; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Germany
Gerke, Sara, Ariel D. Stern, and Timo Minssen. "Germany's Digital Health Reforms in the COVID-19 Era: Lessons and Opportunities for Other Countries." Art. 94. npj Digital Medicine 3 (2020).
- 14 Nov 2019
- Video
Why HBS for Health Care?
- January 1991 (Revised March 1991)
- Case
Responsible Care
By: George C. Lodge and Jeffrey F. Rayport
Describes a 1989 initiative of the Chemical Manufacturer's Association (CMA) to secure chemical industry support for and implementation of a series of codes of conduct in the field of environmental health and safety. Called "Responsible Care", the program makes... View Details
Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Fairness; Ethics; Environmental Sustainability; Safety; Chemical Industry
Lodge, George C., and Jeffrey F. Rayport. "Responsible Care." Harvard Business School Case 391-135, January 1991. (Revised March 1991.)
- Research Summary
Overview
We are studying the practical application of Michael Porter's value-based strategy to reform health care by examining best practices of integrated practice units, outcome measurement, cost measurement, value-based payment, episode based payment, regionalization of... View Details
- November–December 2010
- Article
A Method for Defining Value in Healthcare Using Cancer Care as a Model
By: Thomas W. Feeley, Heidi Albright, Ronald Walters and Thomas W. Burke
Value-based healthcare delivery is being discussed in a variety of healthcare forums. This concept is of great importance in the reform of the US healthcare delivery system. Defining and applying the principles of value-based competition in healthcare delivery models... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Cancer Care In The U.S.; Healthcare; Health; Management; Measurement and Metrics; Health Industry; North and Central America
Feeley, Thomas W., Heidi Albright, Ronald Walters, and Thomas W. Burke. "A Method for Defining Value in Healthcare Using Cancer Care as a Model." Journal of Healthcare Management 55, no. 6 (November–December 2010): 399–412. (This article won the Edgar C. Hayhow Award from the American College of Healthcare Executive in 2012 as the article of the year in the Journal of Healthcare Management.)
- Article
Market-Based Solutions to Antitrust Threats—The Rejection of the Partners Settlement
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Barak D. Richman and Kevin A. Schulman
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Industry; Health Care Policy; Health Care Services; Antitrust; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
Herzlinger, Regina E., Barak D. Richman, and Kevin A. Schulman. "Market-Based Solutions to Antitrust Threats—The Rejection of the Partners Settlement." New England Journal of Medicine 372, no. 14 (April 2, 2015): 1287–1289.
- February 18, 2022
- Article
Transparency as a Solution for COVID-19 Related Hospital Capacity Issues
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard Boxer
In the initial phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, many U.S. hospitals could not provide an adequate supply of beds to meet demand. Solving the problem of hospital bed capacity is of great importance in the “new normal,” which requires recognizing that SARS-CoV-2 is but... View Details
Keywords: COVID; COVID-19 Pandemic; Health Care; Health Care Demand; Health Care Delivery; Health Care Industry; Health Care Operations; Health Care Policy; Transparency; Hospital; Hospital Management; Hospitals; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Operations; Performance Capacity; Policy; Health Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Richard Boxer. "Transparency as a Solution for COVID-19 Related Hospital Capacity Issues." Health Affairs Forefront (February 18, 2022).
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
An Excerpt from The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care
“The current health-care system generally is modular. Specialized companies operate hospitals, process paperwork, negotiate blanket service contracts, and manage outpatient and retail clinics. Most doctors’ offices are set up as independent businesses. Each can improve... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 02 Sep 2014
- News
Many of the best ideas for improving health care are quite simple
Managers know that individuals who have experience working together can influence team performance. Yet most managers underestimate the benefit of such familiarity, according to Robert S. Huckman, Professor and Chair of the MBA Required Curriculum. Studying teams in... View Details
- March 2021
- Supplement
Humana (C) — Reorganization
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ashley Ifeadike
A summary of Humana's restructuring of its business around its pillars. View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Industry; Health Insurance; Health Care Operations; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Operations; Restructuring; Health Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Ashley Ifeadike. "Humana (C) — Reorganization." Harvard Business School Supplement 321-122, March 2021.
- 2021
- Government Testimony
How Health Care Consolidation Is Contributing to Higher Prices and Spending, and Reforms That Could Bolster Antitrust Enforcement and Preserve and Promote Competition in Health Care Markets
By: Leemore S. Dafny
Reforms to antitrust law and enforcement can help to address rising healthcare prices and spending. View Details
Keywords: Antitrust Law; Health Care and Treatment; Consolidation; Price; Spending; Cost Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competition; United States
Dafny, Leemore S. "How Health Care Consolidation Is Contributing to Higher Prices and Spending, and Reforms That Could Bolster Antitrust Enforcement and Preserve and Promote Competition in Health Care Markets." Government Testimony, Washington, DC, United States, April 2021.
- 8 Oct 2020
- Panel Discussion
Perspectives in Health: Verily Health: "The Long Fix—Lessons from the Front Lines of Health Care and Health Tech"
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Vivian Lee
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Vivian Lee. Perspectives in Health: Verily Health: "The Long Fix—Lessons from the Front Lines of Health Care and Health Tech". Harvard Business School, October 8, 2020.
- 2013
- Book
The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More Is Getting Us Less
By: Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor
Bradley, Elizabeth H., and Lauren A. Taylor. The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More Is Getting Us Less. New York, NY: PublicAffairs, 2013.
- 2014
- Chapter
Reframing Hierarchical Interactions as Negotiations to Promote Change in Health Care Systems
By: Patricia Satterstrom, Jeff Polzer and Robert Wei
Satterstrom, Patricia, Jeff Polzer, and Robert Wei. "Reframing Hierarchical Interactions as Negotiations to Promote Change in Health Care Systems." Chap. 18 in Handbook of Conflict Management Research, edited by Oluremi B. Ayoko, Neal M. Ashkansy, and Karen Jehn, 291–307. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014.