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- February 2009 (Revised December 2009)
- Case
Merck: Global Health and Access to Medicines
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Katharine Lee
The case describes the effort of Merck, a global leader in pharmaceuticals, in making available its medicines to the poor. The challenge for the company (or for that matter, any pharmaceutical company) is how to integrate its business strategy with its corporate social...
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Keywords:
Globalized Firms and Management;
Health Care and Treatment;
Emerging Markets;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Poverty;
Business Strategy;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Katharine Lee. "Merck: Global Health and Access to Medicines." Harvard Business School Case 509-048, February 2009. (Revised December 2009.)
- 2011
- Chapter
Health Care Applications: From Hospitals to Physicians, from Productive Efficiency to Quality Frontiers
By: Jon Chilingerian and H. David Sherman
This chapter focuses on health-care applications of DEA. The paper begins with a brief history of health applications and discusses some of the models and the motivation behind the applications. Using DEA to develop quality frontiers in health services is offered as a...
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Keywords:
Data Envelopment Analysis;
Physicians;
Hospitals;
HMOs;
Frontier Analysis;
Efficiency;
Health Care and Treatment;
Performance;
Quality
Chilingerian, Jon, and H. David Sherman. "Health Care Applications: From Hospitals to Physicians, from Productive Efficiency to Quality Frontiers." Chap. 16 in Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis. 2nd edition Vol. 164, edited by William W. Cooper, Lawrence M. Seiford, and Joe Zhu, 445–493. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science. New York, NY: Springer, 2011.
- February 2015
- Supplement
The Affordable Care Act (B): Industry Negotiations
By: Joseph L. Bower and Michael Norris
In 2009, the Obama administration and Senator Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee enter into talks with industry groups that will be affected by the health reform that the Congress is working on.
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Bower, Joseph L., and Michael Norris. "The Affordable Care Act (B): Industry Negotiations." Harvard Business School Supplement 315-033, February 2015.
- Article
Design and Testing of a Mobile Health Application Rating Tool
By: David Levine, Zo Co, Lisa Newmark, Alissa Groisser, A Jay Holmgren, Jennifer Haas and David Bates
Mobile health applications (“apps”) have rapidly proliferated, yet their ability to improve outcomes for patients remains unclear. A validated tool that addresses apps’ potentially important dimensions has not been available to patients and clinicians. The objective of...
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Levine, David, Zo Co, Lisa Newmark, Alissa Groisser, A Jay Holmgren, Jennifer Haas, and David Bates. "Design and Testing of a Mobile Health Application Rating Tool." Art. 74. npj Digital Medicine 3 (2020).
- 31 Jan 2018
- News
Can Amazon and Friends Handle Health Care? There’s Reason for Doubt
- 24 Nov 2020
- Cold Call Podcast
Evaluating Innovative Health Care Solutions for Obesity
- January 2007 (Revised April 2011)
- Case
Farmacias Similares: Private and Public Health Care for the Base of the Pyramid in Mexico
By: Michael Chu and Regina Garcia-Cuellar
Farmacias Similares, serving Mexico's low-income sector, grew to $600 million sales and 3,400 drugstores while deep reforms to help the poor swept the public health system. Adjacent to each store, for $2 per visit, medical clinics provided access to doctors for 2.3...
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Keywords:
Private Sector;
Public Sector;
Health Care and Treatment;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Poverty;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Retail Industry;
Mexico
Chu, Michael, and Regina Garcia-Cuellar. "Farmacias Similares: Private and Public Health Care for the Base of the Pyramid in Mexico." Harvard Business School Case 307-092, January 2007. (Revised April 2011.)
- 2010
- Working Paper
Evaluating the Effects of Large-Scale Health Interventions in Developing Countries: The Zambian Malaria Initiative
By: Nava Ashraf, Gunther Fink and David N. Weil
Since 2003, Zambia has been engaged in a large-scale, centrally coordinated national anti-malaria campaign which has become a model in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper aims at quantifying the individual and macro level benefits of this campaign, which involved mass...
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Keywords:
Cost vs Benefits;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Disorders;
Performance Evaluation;
Programs;
Health Industry;
Zambia
Ashraf, Nava, Gunther Fink, and David N. Weil. "Evaluating the Effects of Large-Scale Health Interventions in Developing Countries: The Zambian Malaria Initiative." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 16069, June 2010.
- Article
Toward a Corporate Culture of Health: Results of a National Survey
By: Michael Anne Kyle, Lumumba Seegars, John M. Benson, Robert J. Blendon, Robert S. Huckman and Sara J. Singer
Context: The private sector has a large potential role in advancing health and well-being, but attention to corporate practices around health tends to focus on a narrow range of issues and on large businesses. Systematically describing private sector engagement in...
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Keywords:
Corporate Health;
Social Determinants Of Health;
Health Policy;
Public Health;
Organizations;
Health;
Policy;
Surveys
Kyle, Michael Anne, Lumumba Seegars, John M. Benson, Robert J. Blendon, Robert S. Huckman, and Sara J. Singer. "Toward a Corporate Culture of Health: Results of a National Survey." Milbank Quarterly 97, no. 4 (December 2019): 954–977.
- December 2016
- Supplement
Access Health CT: Marketing Affordable Care (B)
By: John A. Quelch and Emily C. Boudreau
Supplements the (A) case.
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Quelch, John A., and Emily C. Boudreau. "Access Health CT: Marketing Affordable Care (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 517-070, December 2016.
- December 23, 2015
- Article
The Untapped Potential of Health Care APIs
By: Robert S. Huckman and Maya Uppaluru
Huckman, Robert S., and Maya Uppaluru. "The Untapped Potential of Health Care APIs." Harvard Business Review (website) (December 23, 2015). (As part of Leading Change in Health Care, a collaboration of the editors of Harvard Business Review and NEJM Group.)
- 15 Jul 2014
- Lecture
START Program: Value Based Health Care Delivery
Porter, Michael E. "START Program: Value Based Health Care Delivery." Lecture at the Faculty START Program, Harvard Business School, July 15, 2014.
- June 1994 (Revised August 1998)
- Supplement
Marcia Radosevich and Health Payment Review--1989 (G)
Supplements the (A) case.
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Bhide, Amar. "Marcia Radosevich and Health Payment Review--1989 (G)." Harvard Business School Supplement 394-210, June 1994. (Revised August 1998.)
- 24 May 2011
- News
June 2011: Racial Bias Pervades Health Care
- August 2007 (Revised January 2008)
- Supplement
Turnaround at the Veterans Health Administration (B)
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Brian R. Golden
Edmondson, Amy C., and Brian R. Golden. "Turnaround at the Veterans Health Administration (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 608-062, August 2007. (Revised January 2008.)
- Other Article
Want to See the Future of Digital Health Tools? Look to Germany
By: Ariel Dora Stern, Henrik Matthies, Julia Hagen, Jan B. Brönneke and Jörg F. Debatin
A new law will make it easier to introduce and determine the benefits of new tools. Perhaps its most important provisions are its formalization of “prescribable applications,” which include standard software, SaaS, and mobile as well as browser-based apps, and the...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Transformation;
Internet and the Web;
Technological Innovation;
Germany
Stern, Ariel Dora, Henrik Matthies, Julia Hagen, Jan B. Brönneke, and Jörg F. Debatin. "Want to See the Future of Digital Health Tools? Look to Germany." Harvard Business Review (website) (December 2, 2020).
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived
percent were virtual visits. And Teladoc, the largest private sector telemedicine company, reported more than 300,000 virtual visits in the second quarter of 2017, a 55 percent increase over the same quarter in 2016. Patients are becoming more comfortable with virtual...
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