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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
diagnosis right saves a lot of wasted and unnecessary treatment, so costs go down. Avoiding errors reduces costs. More skilled or less invasive surgery allows the patient to go home quicker, and costs go down. The lowest costs of all... View Details
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Engineering Meets Advocacy: Driving Innovation in Women’s Health - Blog: Health Supplement
becoming a doctor, but by designing the tools they rely on. Early in my career, I worked on advanced cardiovascular devices that were highly technical tools that allowed patients to avoid open-heart surgery through minimally invasive... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 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
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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
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
fewer than 5 percent of neuroscience-related patents are successfully commercialized. Amadio, currently chief resident in the seven-year neurological surgery residency program at Emory University, in Atlanta, was troubled by the gap... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 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
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
Levine, G. Paul DeRosa, and Serena S. Hu Publication:Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (forthcoming) Abstract Currently, approximately ninety percent of the six hundred twenty graduating orthopaedic residents are planning on entering a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
for six years in a row; but leadership saw CHOP as more than the large main campus in western Philadelphia. Beginning in the 1990s, CHOP had created a large network of Primary Care Providers, Specialty Care Centers, Ambulatory Surgery... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell host of Skydeck. When I was in high school, I worked as a dishwasher at a steakhouse chain in upstate New York. It was not glamorous work. I would clock out covered in a... View Details
- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
of students, the researchers surmised it may dampen innovation among competitive companies. To test that hypothesis, McDonald, Pahnke, Hallen and Wang looked at close to 200 medical device startups that developed products for minimally invasive View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
PeopleImages In 2012, federal court jurors listened as Ani Chopourian described the sexual harassment she endured as a cardiac surgery physician assistant at a Sacramento hospital. One surgeon greeted her each morning with “I’m horny” and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
startup scene. In addition to moving home, she'd had open heart surgery and changed jobs several times. Meanwhile, Egypt had become a hotbed of startup activity. Last fall, Enan stepped into the role of partner at San Francisco-based VC... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
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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
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
Reviews John Moran's 25-year career in the orthopedic industry and his current decision whether to start a hand and foot surgery company. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=805026 Molecular... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
that angioplasties and bypass surgeries are funded. Despite compelling statistics that show preventive measures are far more effective and would cost much less than the $2 billion Medicare spends on those surgical procedures each year,... 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
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
Norris: Leading Change in the General Surgery Unit Harvard Business School Case 409-090 Barbara Norris struggles to address the many problems facing her as a recently promoted nurse manager in the General View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace