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- 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
- 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
- Web
Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC About the Institute About the Institute Contact Us Faculty & Staff Institute Associates Ludcke FAQs Institute Associates Institute Associates Kevin J. Bozic, Senior Institute Associate Dr. Kevin Bozic is the inaugural Chair of View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Action Plan: Just Breathe
pain: major surgery requiring months of recuperation or meditation to manage the stress that was at the root of his health issues. But the practice didn’t fit with his image of a type A, high-powered executive. “I came to meditation... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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
- 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
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
prevent high-cost incidents that could occur later,” says Kaplan. Incentives are misplaced In one study, for example, Kaplan and Haas looked at the cost of joint-replacement surgery at 30 large orthopedic hospitals across the United... View Details
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Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
examining several options for expansion and growth. International Hopital Universitaire de Mirebalais, Partners in Health in Haiti The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery Teaching Cases, Vol. 1 Robert S. Kaplan, Bipin Mistry and Karla Z.... View Details
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David Soled
ACL. Shortly after, I had surgery and started recovery. I missed a few days of class, and on my first day back, I experienced a wide range of feelings: extreme pain in my knee, nerves about being back, and angst about the previous missed... 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
- 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
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FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
is the value equation’s denominator: cost measurement is easier in medical conditions that have more standardized care pathways with fewer areas of patient variation. Therefore, conditions such as osteoarthritis of the knee requiring View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
for example, became Jefferson’s adopted home following his surgery and recuperation. As a White House Fellow working in the Department of Commerce, he organized the historic first trip of the White House Fellows to Hawaii. Within two... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
Mexico. salaUno had grown from doing 75 cataract surgeries in its first month of operation to a high of 388 surgeries 21 months later. This case explores the challenges in scaling up a healthcare venture... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
Analysis of the Reduction Mammaplasty Learning Curve: A Statistical Process Model for Approaching Surgical Performance Improvement Authors:Matthew Carty, Rodney Chan, Robert S. Huckman, Daniel C. Snow, and Dennis Orgill Publication:Plastic and Reconstructive View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail
Clinic had been consistently ranked No. 1 by US News & World Report for heart surgery survival rates, her father opted to go to the No. 2 ranked Mayo Clinic. The reason for his choice: doctors at the Cleveland Clinic had a reputation... 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
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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
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
much mid-cap European stock you should have in your portfolio, any more than it would enable you to perform surgery on yourself." Intelligence is not the issue, he emphasizes; it really is a question of knowledge and time. Retirement... View Details
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology
technologies, thereby leading to the development of a constituency of physicians around each technology. For example, when angioplasty entered mainstream use in the 1980s, most hospitals that already had cardiac surgery programs felt that... View Details