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- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
collection of patient physiological measurements such as blood pressure, weight, or blood glucose levels—and both commercial health insurers as well as the Medicare system have seen dramatic increases in the use of these services in... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
joint venture with a community hospital to establish Hoag Orthopedic Institute (HOI), a for-profit hospital and two ambulatory service centers. By controlling and integrating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
mostly, but not entirely, settled. Some, but not all, of the key hospital leaders had signed on to participate in the event. Rittgers wondered what she could do to nudge the hackathon towards success. Were these just expected hurdles, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
widespread, the type of criticism activists levy seems less out of place. Glass Lewis and Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) both backed Peltz’s campaign for a board seat at DuPont this year, for... View Details
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
about this work, such as on airplanes with strangers, we get a similar response—"Oh yeah, I can relate to wanting to speak up but biting my tongue." It's really a shame how much apparently untapped knowledge there is out there... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
others, and unwilling to think of themselves as members of teams rather than the stars and specialists they were taught to be. Twenty years ago, when I was invited to address a group of doctors, I was nearly laughed out of the room when I... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
challenge. Who was the company competing against and how could it carve out a unique value proposition that would appeal to travelers and be differentiated from what was offered by other hospitality options?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
Interactive Controls: Which, When, and Why? Author:Anette Mikes Abstract Taking a multiple-control perspective, I investigate a control debacle and its aftermath at a financial services company (MultiBank), focusing on an insurance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
are the best managed. Firms in developing countries, such as Brazil, China, and India, tend to be poorly managed. American retail firms and hospitals are also well managed by international standards, although American schools are more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
for the number and cost of the services they provide rather than by the value of those services in helping patients. In short, medical professionals make money when their patients become sick. Here's one... View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation
customer experience is so poor across the health care industry. "Employers do. So there's no real driver for quality." Hsiang (HBS MBA 2010), a health data advisor for the White House's US Digital Service and the Office of Science and... View Details
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
Intermountain Healthcare: Pursuing Precision Medicine Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Intermountain Healthcare operates 23 hospitals and hundreds of clinics in Utah and Idaho and provides insurance to approximately 850,000 patients... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
managed. Firms in developing countries, such as Brazil, China, and India tend to be poorly managed. American retail firms and hospitals are also well managed by international standards, although American schools are more poorly managed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
services of unknown quality. The lack of transparency protects providers and insurers from needing to compete on the price and quality of their services. Lack of competition, in turn, inflates the cost and probably also diminishes the... View Details
- 30 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2013
litigations on firm strategy. Increased Speed Equals Increased Wait: The Impact of a Reduction in Emergency Department Ultrasound Order Processing Time This study of ultrasound test orders in hospital emergency departments shows that,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
politicians and the voters who elected them—fostering greater employment, say. SEC enforcement actions can be costly for companies, about a third of which go out of business after being targeted. Heese wondered, all things being equal,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
they said: Hospitals will rethink payment and operating models Leemore S. Dafny: Physician organizations will expand The decline in independent physician practices will accelerate, leading to larger physician organizations and more... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy
are in the midst of what is often described as a gold rush. Is there any danger that firms will fly so high that they may spin out of control? A: The book is built around a number of the tensions that are... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
such as the new iWatch, and I'm offered a service that will alert my doctor of any health abnormalities via the device , I'm going to agree to that. My health will win out over privacy in that case." We... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett