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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
for her innovative research and teaching on the business of health care, Herzlinger has long predicted the unraveling of managed care in the United States, along with the rise of consumer-driven health care... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
the pair look for new businesses to support, one area that personally interests Levy is family caregiving. “We have 50 million unpaid, untrained family caregivers. I'm really interested in the care that’s happening in the shadows and how... View Details
- 11 Jun 2020
- In Practice
Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?
provided but to augment and expand their offerings. Telemedicine is a terrific example of this. Many health care providers have already moved to virtual visits and ramped up new types of services such as... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
Electric and used a portion of the proceeds to establish the Sontag Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting brain cancer research and brain cancer patients and caregivers. The foundation’s signature... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
American Cancer Society for the mental health field—an organization that can increase awareness, reduce the stigma, and rally donors to make large, multiyear funding commitments to the most promising care... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
my cancer care and helping me find the right place for treatment and answering my questions around medications, etc. But given their expertise in the broader health care space,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
drove productivity in the IT sector. These entrepreneurs, and so many others, have fundamentally improved our economy by making goods and services better, cheaper, and more accessible. But can you name any innovators in our bloated,... View Details
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Books - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Health Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
system that pays for quantity without regard to quality and opaque regulations, in fact one study found that nearly 80 percent of the rules patients and physicians cited as barriers to great care were basically rumors. Plus, we have a... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
health care system. Bushkin’s unassuming item is MedKaz®, a 4-GB flash drive carried on a keychain or in a wallet that can hold a lifetime of medical records, giving patients control over their data and providing a full picture for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Pedal Mettle
The Tour of Hope is a bicycle relay from San Diego to Washington, D.C., a 3,300-mile journey intended to raise awareness about cancer research, prevention, and detection. One of the 25 participants in the October ride was cancer-survivor... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A 'reluctant entrepreneur' draws on the HBS network
Cancer survivor Kathryn Giusti (MBA 1985) gives a talk about being a "reluctant entrepreneur" in founding the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
world in life expectancy, at 77.9 years. Half the U.S. population does not receive standard preventive care such as cancer screening, blood pressure checks, or vaccinations. A 2007 McKinsey study found that... View Details
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
resulted in a breast cancer diagnosis, and Langer's battle against the disease led her to volunteer at the then-pioneering National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO) in 1988. "We had the first... View Details
- 03 Feb 2014
- News
Eyes on Medical Breakthroughs
1979), she learned not only about the workings of the human body, but also about the value of relationships and collaboration. It all added up to make her one of the savviest health care sector investors in the country. In the early... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
community through board work at Rising Ground and Service Program for Older People, both of which have rallied to help New York City through the crisis,” he says. Pandemic exposes underlying weaknesses in health View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
possible for organizations and individuals to donate unused computer time for use in AIDS and cancer research, which requires huge amounts of data-processing capacity. What is the difference between the “no child left behind” approach to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
are following their own business models—whether they are for-profit or not-for-profit. The additional spend on health care is due to increased utilization of health-care services as the population gets... View Details
- Portrait Project
Matthew Naunheim
hand. I, too, have begun to leave scars on the people and things I care about. In health care, the wounds are many, and they need fixing: An elderly Haitian immigrant without insurance. A smoker with throat View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Founding a bone marrow donor bank that saves thousands of lives
Peter Harf (MBA 1974) transformed Joh. A. Benckiser SE, a small, privately held German company into a global powerhouse, but it’s his cofounding of Delete Blood Cancer DKMS that he considers his most important role. Since 1991, the... View Details