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- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
recently when it sent an enrollee to Cancun, Mexico, for an orthopedic procedure, covering all of the patient’s travel and out-of-pocket expenses. The company paid an American surgeon three times Medicare’s rate to perform the procedure...
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- 28 Jul 2016
- Op-Ed
Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?
hernia surgeons in my area by going online and reading patient reviews, rather than just relying on a referral from my primary care physician, no matter how much I trust him or her. Hopefully, the operation goes well and I recover...
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- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
particular ailment. A patient would visit a primary care physician in one location, an outpatient specialist in another, an imaging center in another, a blood lab in another, a surgeon in another, and so on. "The patient was a ping pong...
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- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
deeply and think imaginatively. Most managers don't want to devote this much time to thinking. But they would never go to a surgeon who approaches his job the way they approach theirs, nor would they send their children to a school that...
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Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
personnel. How to Design a Bundled Payment Around ValueHARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW ONLINE (October 2013)Mary Witkowski, Larry Higgins, Jon Warner, Michael Sherman, and Robert S. Kaplan This paper describes the HBS partnership with two orthopedic View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
of Thoracic Surgery Effective Leadership of Surgical Teams: A Mixed Methods Study of Surgeon Behaviors and Functions By: Stone, J., E. Aveling, M. Frean, M. Shields, C. Wright, F. Gino, T. Sundt, and S.J. Singer Abstract—The importance of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
are here. To relieve the agony of children with heart disease. God sent you to this world to fix it.' To my mind, this is the best definition ever given of a pediatric cardiac surgeon and perhaps the best compliment that I have ever...
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- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
when he said, “Let’s see what real disruption looks like, reminding us that, “A noted surgeon said his students, though very smart, often had rotten hand eye skills and made terrible surgeons. He said he could train a dexterous high...
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- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
PeopleImages In 2012, federal court jurors listened as Ani Chopourian described the sexual harassment she endured as a cardiac surgery physician assistant at a Sacramento hospital. One surgeon greeted her each morning with “I’m horny” and...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
care, value is determined by how well the needed set of skills and functions come together. In surgery, for example, value depends on not only the surgeon but also the anesthesiologist, the nurses, the radiologist, the skilled...
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- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
actually holding my newborn baby in my arms when I got the call, and could see on the phone that it was the breast surgeon calling. And I knew that the fact that she was calling on a Saturday, with the results of my biopsy, that it...
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- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
improve their productivity. Other surgeons in the practice do not copy Dr. Shingleton's practices nor use his trained surgical team. The dilemma relates to why his methods do not spread to other doctors and other clinics. Purchase the...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-082.pdf Individual Rationality and Participation in Large Scale, Multi-Hospital Kidney Exchange Authors:Itai Ashlagi and Alvin E. Roth Abstract As multi-hospital kidney exchange clearinghouses have grown, the set of players has grown...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
is constrained. We assess these predictions by examining how the 1996 repeal of certificate-of-need (CON) legislation in Pennsylvania affected the market for cardiac surgery in the state. We show that entry led to a redistribution of surgeries to higher-quality View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
devices today is cost control. It turns out that the last thing the surgeon in the OR thinks about is how, on a total cost basis, to deliver a service in a lower cost way. Gilbert: Especially if it doesn't include the doctor. Bower: So a...
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by Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
and geographic reach. Q: How widespread are noncompetes today? And what are the consequences for those who sign them? A: These days, noncompetes seem nearly universal, and not just in technology companies. I recently spoke with an eye View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
power involves three components: respect for legitimate expectations, procedural fairness, and distributional fairness. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315067-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 115-023 Hoag Orthopedic Institute Two groups...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
orthopedic procedures, and on-field athletic management strategies empowers readers with real tips and tricks used by orthopedic surgeons at top-tier institutions. From Wall Street to Bay Street: The Origins and Evolution of American and...
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- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
failure and success and from the experiences of others. For our empirical analyses, we use ten years of data from 71 cardiothoracic surgeons who completed over 6,500 procedures using a new technology for cardiac surgery. We find that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
MaterialsMINTing Innovation at NewYork-Presbyterian Richard G. Hamermesh and David KironHarvard Business School Case 810-004 Several top surgeons at NewYork-Presbyterian hospital (NYP) are receiving financial and administrative support to...
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Martha Lagace