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  • 11 Jun 2016
  • News

Navigating Fertility Clinics with a Click

fertility treatments and thousands of dollars, the couple realized how difficult it was to find and compare information about clinics, doctors, and other care providers. “It attacks you emotionally in a way that’s hard to fathom,”... View Details
  • February 2019 (Revised October 2019)
  • Case

Extend Fertility: Conceiving the Market for Egg Preservation (A)

By: Debora L. Spar and Olivia Hull
In April 2003, entrepreneur and MBA student Christy Jones was planning a new venture to help women preserve their fertility. Her company, Extend Fertility, would commercialize a technique known as egg freezing, in which a woman’s eggs were extracted and stored at low... View Details
Keywords: Assisted Reproduction; Entrepreneur; Health And Wellness; Fertility; Infertility; Women's Health; Creating Markets; Egg Freezing; Fertility Clinic; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Marketing Strategy
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  • 20 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

Being patients compelled us. Sequoia inspired us. HBS sustained us.

“We better get off this plane ASAP,” Deborah belted out as our plane skittered to a halt at SFO. Deborah re-read the text from our fertility clinic: “We misread your chart. Your sodium levels are dangerously low. Get to a hospital soon.... View Details
  • July 2008 (Revised August 2008)
  • Case

In-Vitro Fertilization: Outcomes Measurement

By: Michael E. Porter, Saquib Rahim and Benjamin Chung-Shi Tsai
As of 2007, there were very few examples of widespread measurement and reporting of health outcomes, a critical quality measure. In-vitro fertilization clinics have been required to report their patient's health outcomes since 1995. The protagonist of the case, Dr.... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Measurement and Metrics; Operations; Outcome or Result; Health Industry; Cleveland
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  • 13 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Hidden Market for Babies

and children are sold via fertility clinics, sperm banks, women selling their eggs, surrogates, and adoption services. We don't couch these transactions in terms of profit-making businesses. Orphans aren't sold—they are... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls; Biotechnology; Health; Technology
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

The Psycho-Social Benefits of Access to Contraception: Experimental Evidence from Zambia

By: Nava Ashraf, Marric Buessing, Erica Field and Jessica Leight
In a field experiment in Lusaka, Zambia, married couples in the catchment area of a family planning clinic were randomly assigned to either a treatment group (N=503) or a control group (N=768). Those in the treatment group received vouchers guaranteeing free and... View Details
Keywords: Contraceptive Access; Mental Health; Zambia
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  • 23 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

experiments are underway with professionals trying different ways of configuring and managing services. On that list I include experiments with disease management programs, substituting nurse practitioners for physicians in certain circumstances, the in-store View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • Web

Doubling Down on Women’s Health Innovation and Leveraging the Private Sector in a Post-Roe v. Wade Era - Blog: Health Supplement

Topics Biotech/pharma Care Delivery Clinical Trials Digital Health Global Health Health Care Entrepreneurship Health Care Innovation Health Care Investment Health Care at HBS Insurance/payor Medical devices/diagnostics Precision Medicine... View Details
  • Web

Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

AI-based analysis of cardiac arrhythmias to expedite clinical decision making. Alumni Track, 2022 fleetzero Steven Henderson (MBA 2016) Alumni Track Winner Ocean cargo. Zero emissions. Collective Patricio Bichara (MBA 2015) Alumni Track... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • News

Delivering Trust

fertility doctors and 90 percent of all clinics in the United States. “High-quality assessments are the lifeblood of what we’re offering,” he adds. “Every new review helps hopeful parents and women trying to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 19 Apr 2016
  • News

LuminOva Makes Great Strides Tackling Infertility

Alexandra Dickson (MBA 2013) Alexandra Dickson (MBA 2013) LuminOva, a biotech startup in Boston that won the 2015 Bertarelli Prize, is making progress on its quest to develop a new technology that could increase in vitro fertilization... View Details
Keywords: Blavatnik; Scientific Research and Development Services
  • 01 Jun 2006
  • News

The Baby Business

for creating and acquiring children is, Spar argues, disorganized, legally conflicted, and virtually unfettered. It includes people who sell their eggs; buy sperm from strangers; undergo fertilization procedures; pay surrogates to bear... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Government; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Case Study: Your Data, Your Health

potential fertility with her ob-gyn, Tariyal was told that she could come back for a clinical workup after she had tried and failed to conceive for a year. Determined to give women more agency over their... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • Web

Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement

Topics Biotech/pharma Care Delivery Clinical Trials Digital Health Global Health Health Care Entrepreneurship Health Care Innovation Health Care Investment Health Care at HBS Insurance/payor Medical devices/diagnostics Precision Medicine... View Details
  • 10 Sep 2020
  • Blog Post

Founding a Company at the Intersection of Medicine and Technology

have healthier children. Having started the company during my EC year, I decided to enter the company into the New Venture Competition and to my surprise, took home the grand prize. Since then I have gone on to raise a pre-seed round, make four exceptional hires, and... View Details
  • 19 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

Nations Clean Development Mechanism Executive Board to China, for use of Arcadia's rice varieties, since they enabled farmers to reduce nitrogen fertilizer use, in turn lowering greenhouse gas emissions. But the company's proprietary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Health Care Under a Research Microscope

regulated industry, so anyone who's interested in business and government would be a player. It has a social and ethical component to it. So this is fertile ground to study a lot of other phenomena." The School has assembled a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Biotechnology
  • 01 Dec 2004
  • News

The Future of Stem Cells

infertile women to conceive. Excess fertilized eggs are routinely discarded by clinics at the conclusion of the in vitro process. Opponents say such practices are immoral because they destroy human life;... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 01 Jun 2020
  • News

Vital Signs

and CEO of Natalist, a direct-to-consumer fertility company. We talked with Tecco about how the pandemic has impacted the health care startup and venture capital ecosystem. What ideas and companies have seen an increase in funding during... View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele; COVID-19; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 09 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409003 In-Vitro Fertilization: Outcomes Measurement Harvard Business School Case 709-403 As of 2007, there were very few examples of widespread measurement and reporting of health outcomes, a critical quality measure. In-vitro View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne