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- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
patients undergoing thoracic surgery is essential for their comfort and for improving their ability to function after surgery, but it can significantly increase costs. Here, we demonstrate how time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC)... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
a purely social act with economic considerations. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-012.pdf Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery Authors:David M. Cutler, Robert S. Huckman, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain
young, had recently had a baseline mammogram, and was told by her doctor that 80 percent of tumors are benign, she was surprised to learn that hers was malignant. Eight days later, she had surgery to remove the tumor and began six months... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
standards battle between HD-DVD and Blu-ray, focusing on the events that precipitated the Blu-ray victory in early 2008. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710443-PDF-ENG Hospital for Special Surgery (C): Continuing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Field Course: Business Plans for Innovating in Health Care, Q2 - Course Catalog
Miami Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Bioengineering, Lee Kaplan , MD Visiting Lecturer Ben Creo , MDiv Executive Fellow Brian Walker, MPH, PHD in women’ health Overview and Requirements The course is designed to enable students to... View Details
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Andrew Kinard
go next?" Much of that immediate future was occupied by seventy-five surgeries and eighteen months of rehabilitation. While recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, however, a chance encounter opened new possibilities. "I... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
Black’s original conjectures, and the author highlights refinements and additions to the original list. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50338 November 2015 Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
hospitals and didn't in others. And it actually had a lot to do with the kind of power their cardiac surgery departments had. It didn't take off in places with politically strong and well respected cardiac View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
faculty member at Harvard Medical School when he received the grant. “The Sontag Foundation was pivotal in helping me design and sustain a research career,” says Johnson, who is now chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery at UMass... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
not performing the surgery at all, and treating the case in a different way. Value may be still greater if preventive care and advice is provided over time so that little or no treatment is needed at all. The relevant business in health... View Details
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
Among those who pursued residency training, the most common specialties were internal medicine (39.3%), emergency medicine (10.4%), orthopedic surgery (9.2%), and general surgery (8.6%). Physician-MBAs... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
Heart to Heart, a group of California doctors who volunteer their time to perform heart surgery on Russian infants and children. “When they began their work in 1991,” she reports, “the situation was so dire that there were hundreds of... View Details
- 24 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works
tests. Now both companies are going all out on testing. Dr. Gianrico Farrugia, CEO of Mayo Clinic, was faced with the painful decision to shut down all elective surgery in order to focus treating COVID-19 patients and other emergency... View Details
- 28 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation
laws in their own states.) The decrease in patents was highest in the riskier specialties, such as surgery and orthopedics, where liability is potentially high; it was lowest in comparatively low-risk specialties such as dentistry and... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
techniques, the changes in reimbursement for free-standing ambulatory surgery centers, the rise of telemedicine, and consumers’ preferences for surgery outside of the hospitals, will be accelerated by the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
up an advanced and highly aggressive cancer. Even with a hideous year of surgeries and chemotherapy, the best I could hope for was a 50 percent chance of surviving the next five years. I was forced into an abrupt fire sale of the business... View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- News
A Fearless Force for Change
founded with her husband Dave Linn (MBA '00) to fund research and clinical trials at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Linn died July 20 at the age of 40. Diagnosed with a soft-tissue sarcoma (a relatively rare cancer) in December 2004, Linn endured 26 months of... View Details
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
for this to happen. Q: There's an interesting phenomenon going on, and that's basically outsourcing fairly complex surgeries to India for much cheaper prices. Does this actually pose a threat to the institutionalized health care system at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
manager, for example, is the son of his father’s first employee. “It used to be a true family business,” Hsu says, “and now it’s a business family.” Hsu returned to the farm in 2011, at first taking a leave from General Mills to help out while his father underwent... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- Web
Field Course: Advanced Business Plans for Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog
University of Miami Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Bioengineering, Lee Kaplan , MD Visiting Lecturer Ben Creo , MDiv Executive Fellow Brian Walker, MPH, PHD in women’ health Overview and Requirements Field Course: Advanced Business... View Details