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- 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015
payments—single payments that cover all the care for a patient’s medical condition or treatment over a specified timeframe—are increasingly being deployed to motivate the delivery of better patient outcomes...
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Carmen Nobel
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
By: Kaplan, Robert S., Derek A. Haas, and Jonathan Warsh Abstract—The prevailing fee-for-service payment model has led health care administrators and physician practices to impose severe constraints on the time physicians spend talking,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
patient at a time,” he says. “I’m changing myself in the process. I’m investing in my own humanity, rather than accumulating physical assets.” Cooper believes his work as a physician has a strong interrelationship with his ongoing...
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- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
looking to hire. Holding contests to seek advice from the crowd may help companies fill the need for innovative answers more cheaply and quickly. “Contests create incentives and drive parallel search,” Lakhani said. “What you want when you View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
making decisions that could advance treatment options for patients with rare cancers. Neither of the Linns worked in science or medicine. A few years earlier, rare cancers had not even been on their radar. Now it was possible their...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
Shah Gordion Knots Books This is a collection of casebooks written as part of Harvard Medical School’s Mentored Clinical Casebook Project. The project pairs a first-year medical student with a clinical mentor and a patient to follow...
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- 04 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
it could drive a reorganization of our existing organizational structures.” Other participants in the refinement stage include a health care professional, who proposed an experiment around the idea of “creating cross organizational teams...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
goals has different effects on performance. This paper reports on a longitudinal study of 23 neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in a structured, quality-improvement program. We test the relationship between collaboration within the...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2018
- Op-Ed
'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year
vibrant and politically involved University. We employed a wonderful Kikuyu lady from Nyeri to help take care of our four young children; she told us, totally without rancor, about how she had been detained in one of the 'concentration...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
patient person. I like doing and executing,” Claire said with a laugh. She worries that corporations aren’t moving fast enough to address the climate crisis. “The incentive structures are not set up to force people to change how they act....
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- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
to help organizations better access, integrate, and leverage the talents and insights of their employees. An earlier career as an organizational change consultant led me to realize how many thoughtful, caring individuals were stymied in...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Crisis in Health Care Authors:Robert S. Kaplan and Michael E. Porter Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 9 (September 2011) Abstract Existing health care costing systems have serious flaws that make...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
they took in this guy who didn’t know much about retail at all and were quite patient in showing me the ropes. I’ve been very fortunate in that sense. Your annual revenues for fiscal 2009 totaled $1.3 billion. It’s so interesting to think...
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- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
organizations focused on patients and consumers" to advance health care. Why is this important? A: Americans are remarkably—sometimes painfully—resistant to acknowledging that we have a health-care system that is national in scope. I...
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- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
July 31, 2017 AIDS A Commitment Contract to Achieve Virologic Suppression in Poorly Adherent Patients with HIV/AIDS By: Alsan, Marcella, John Beshears, Wendy S. Armstrong, James J. Choi, Brigitte C. Madrian, Minh Ly T. Nguyen, Carlos Del...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
presents one home healthcare organization's efforts to use telemonitoring to improve the quality of care provided to at-risk patients who were discharged from hospitals and needed home care. After two years...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
has a positive effect on quality performance. We then distinguish between positive spillovers and complementarities to examine the following: (1) the extent to which a hospital's specialization in areas related to cardiovascular care...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Business School Case 607-150 Describes the history of clinical computing at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital and the development, since the 1996 merger to form the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, of an information system designed to...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
same concept can be applied to health care. In its current form, most of us pay for blanket health care coverage that entitles us to a number of periodic services such as checkups, shots, mammograms, etc. The problem is that the costs of...
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by Manda Mahoney
- Web
Annual Report 2017 - Annual Report 2017
aims to replace large delivery trucks with a platform that enables anyone to deliver packages in their car. Satchu-Burgstone Runner-Up Award: CozyKin pairs families seeking infant child care with in-home Montessori View Details