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- 15 Jan 2019
- News
Working to Improve the End of Life
educate the public and medical professionals about end-of-life issues, like advance directives, palliative care, and hospice. We provide individual counseling to patients who are dying and their families, and advocate to get the laws...
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- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
Healthcare Partners Inc. (DaVita), in August 2013. The two would discuss whether Golomb should lead a new DaVita venture, Paladina Health (Paladina), which operated a network of primary care clinics. DaVita...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices
market—they must demonstrate to an independent panel from the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) that a new product works better than existing options for an identifiable group of patients. The rule doesn’t apply...
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- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
Abstract—Improving the way we pay for health care must be a central component in health care reform. Payment reform must link provider reimbursement and accountability to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
medical technology and health-insurance sectors, when it comes to health services, the 800-pound gorilla of our system, entrepreneurs are nowhere to be found. And their absence has enabled the status quo providers to get fat and sloppy....
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- 04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4
E-See You Now Elie Ofek and Ron LauferHarvard Business School Case 510-061 What is next for healthcare IT provider American Well, whose innovative Online Care technology allows physicians to deliver View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
primary or generative appropriability. By contrast, years later, Apple broke new ground in the creation of the iPod, a simple portable device that allowed users to play music through a digital library. But it didn't stop there. Realizing...
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- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
whereas South Korea has 216 cases per million. "South Korea created a vast number of testing sites, which included not only big hospitals but local clinics and public health care facilities." What South Korea teaches us is that proactive...
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- 01 Feb 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?
(iStockphoto/Mladen Zivkovic) Several years ago, my spouse and I turned to concierge medicine. We no longer wanted to deal with a US health care system that often provides basically anonymous, production...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
ample opportunity for miscommunication," explains Gittell. In interviewing health-care providers and administrators from nine major urban hospitals about their organizational practices, Gittell and Weiss found that hospitals are actively...
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Judith Ross
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Eager to Help Shape School’s Future
have been as diverse as the School’s more than 70,000 alumni. Yet there has been one clear and consistent area of agreement: Alumni care passionately about the future of HBS, and we welcome the opportunity to support HBS and the new Dean...
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Ann Kelly
Max (Francis) Factor, Jr.
Taking over the family company after the death of his father in 1938, Factor is regarded as a pioneer in the cosmetics and makeup business. He transformed the company from a Hollywood makeup studio into a worldwide provider of name brand...
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Personal Care & Home Products
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System
Experience," HBS professor Clay Christensen analogized that just as the computer industry evolved from massive mainframes to customer-friendly personal devices, "We need to bring technology to outpatient clinics and patients' homes so they can View Details
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
she continues — even a small bicycle shop in China could rent or loan bicycles to deliver medication. “My sense is that people are innately sympathetic. If you provide specific tools, it makes it easier for them to act in a responsible...
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- 21 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Finding My North Star at the Crossroads of Profit and Purpose
and career choices. Graduating from IIT Kharagpur, I decided to join Schlumberger – the world’s largest oilfield services company. Schlumberger, founded in 1926, in many ways reminded me of Tata Steel, a company that cares for its people...
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- 15 Apr 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
work with the foundation. It wasn’t just her diagnosis, though; it also was her parents’ commitment to giving back. Throughout Smyth’s childhood, Anne had volunteered with Plunket, an organization that provides health View Details
- 17 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Five Ways to Rethink Your Job Description
specific headlines and bullets. But be careful with bullet length; you do not want them to be a paragraph in disguise. Write as you would speak If you were speaking to a candidate in-person, how would you describe the role? You probably...
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- 28 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation
Defensive medicine spurs innovation They found, ultimately—and perhaps counterintuitively—that far from being an inhibitor to innovation, the practice of defensive medicine might have actually encouraged it. Legal liability pressure in health View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
organizing care around medical conditions, not simply around hospitals and doctors. We need to do more team-based medicine and to better integrate specialty care with primary...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
provide a track for professionally trained VCs; the Kauffman Fellows program brought top flight MBAs, both men and women, together with sponsoring VC firms. Its primary goal was to View Details
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by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace