Nursing - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Mar 2007
What Do You Think?

What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?

medications?" In citing the need for more doctors and nurses, David Stahl comments that "it could be a way to help open immigration in this country." Michael Robbins adds, "Healthcare has been a closed guild." David Othmer cited "the maze of regulations that keep, for... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

30 May 2024
Research & Ideas

Racial Bias Might Be Infecting Patient Portals. Can AI Help?

impact response rates. The researchers acknowledge that some messages may have a more business-like tone and more sophisticated terminology, while others come across as informal, perhaps due to typos. These differences in syntax could lead triage View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Health

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies

coordination; and engagement in process innovation. Teams that prepare by setting aside time to gather together and preview all aspects of a disruptive procedure, for example, are more likely to successfully implement the technology. At one of the successful hospitals,... View Details

Keywords: by Hilah Geer

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Mental Health - MBA

Initial Consultation may increase. CAMHS clinicians are a dedicated group of licensed mental health clinicians, nurse prescribers, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers. Services are available in-person (office located in... View Details

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Past Programs - Crossover Into Business

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29 Jan 2024
News

On the Road to Recovery

Alejandro Moreno (MBA 1988) didn’t know much about travel nursing when he met a fellow entrepreneur by chance at a child’s birthday party in 2003. The man was considering starting a new business providing short-term staffing assistance to hospitals around the country.... View Details

22 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

How to Learn from the Big Mistake You Almost Make

accountable to each other and comfortable speaking up, but there was significant variance depending on position, with higher-ranked employees, like physicians, generally feeling safer to speak their minds compared to lower-ranked employees, like View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Health

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Systems Integration - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

scheduling system. They also provided CHOP care for all children in the region at all times of the day, night and weekends through urgent care centers and a nurse run telephone triage system. They linked the network with their own patient... View Details

22 Feb 2024
News

Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1996, she was overwhelmed. It was the pre-Internet era, with limited available information, but... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

Vital Signs

greatest benefit is the tool’s ability to give clinicians confidence over a wider range of expertise, Gresser says. Health systems in the UK and elsewhere have been responding to the staffing shortages by recruiting more nurse... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

19 Jan 2024
News

The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details

12 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

proliferation of arbitration Companies from internet service providers to nursing home operators use arbitration to shield themselves from expensive, protracted lawsuits. Proponents say the approach resolves disputes faster than the court... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

01 Dec 2019
News

Bridging the Gap

drilled on how to measure and interpret blood pressure readings. “My blood pressure is 200/110,” says Mrs. Smith, a former nurse with 30 years of experience. “Am I hypertensive or hypotensive?” “Hypertensive,” chorus the 20 or so... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

2024
Working Paper

Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Zirui Song

Private Equity (“PE”) has come under increased scrutiny by the press, academics, and policymakers, as well as the public, for its investments in health care delivery. This scrutiny has been exacerbated by recent high profile hospital bankruptcies following PE... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Government Administration; Acquisition; Health Industry

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27 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams

Policy (Management) doctoral program at HBS. (Edmondson chaired her dissertation committee.) Prior to the redesign, the hospital used ad hoc groupings in the emergency department—any available nurse would triage a patient, then return the... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

23 Mar 2023
News

Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition

brief pitch to the judges and audience, with the more than 400 audience members then invited to vote for a Crowd Favorite winner. Grand Prize winner M7 Health is “making nursing jobs work for nurses.” Cofounders Ilana Springer Borkenstein... View Details

28 Mar 2012
What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

book The Next Convergence, Spence focuses on what he calls tradable jobs (making things like cars that can be made somewhere else—largely manufacturing jobs) and nontradable jobs (like nurses and auto mechanics, the vast majority of whom... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

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Introducing LivelyHood, A Volunteer Nonprofit Founded in Response to COVID-19 - 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

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Socioeconomic Inclusion - MBA

undergraduate degree required to resume the nursing career she left behind when she immigrated from Nigeria. Her efforts to lift her family out of poverty instilled in Mbanusi both an understanding of the difficulty of doing so and a... View Details

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Recruiting Partners - Health Care

Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers University of Pennsylvania Health System V Vecna Technologies Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. Visiting Nurse Service of NY Vizient W Wellcare Health Plans, Inc. Withings - Digital Health Z Zimmer Inc.... View Details

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