Publications

January 2003 (Revised August 2005)
Case

CareGroup

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Robert D. Austin

Describes the circumstances leading to the three-and-a-half-day collapse of a major hospital group's IS capabilities. Identifies the technical reasons for the failure, management steps in dealing with the problem short term, and the long-term lessons they believe they... View Details

Keywords: Information Management; Information Technology; Safety; Crisis Management; Infrastructure; Health Industry

fall 1975
Article

Analysis and Control of Nurse Staffing

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Health Industry

October 1997
Case

Planned Parenthood Federation of America (B)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Elaine V. Backman

Outlines the process of strategy reinvention adopted by Planned Parenthood. It lays out the new strategic proposals, and the reactions of the various constituencies to those proposals. View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Framework; Core Relationships; Risk and Uncertainty; Adaptation; Health Industry

June 1991 (Revised March 1995)
Case

Becton Dickinson (D): Strategic Human Resource Management Profiling

By: Michael Beer

Describes a strategic human resource management process applied at the business unit and corporate level. The purpose of the process is to provide a means for aligning human resource management policies and practices with strategy and to hold managers accountable for... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Human Resources; Business or Company Management; Strategic Planning; Corporate Strategy; Health Industry

April 1978 (Revised August 1991)
Case

St. Mary's Hospital

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Health Industry

August 1986 (Revised January 1988)
Teaching Note

Johnson & Johnson (A), (B): Hospital Services, & Johnson & Johnson: Hospital Services, Teaching Note

By: Francis Aguilar

Teaching Note for (9-384-053), (9-384-054), and (9-392-050). View Details

Keywords: Health Industry

February 1985 (Revised October 1988)
Case

National Medical Enterprises

By: Francis Aguilar

Keywords: Health Industry

Web

2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

who focuses on democracy innovation, public health and health equity, justice reform, education, and political economy. She also directs the Democratic Knowledge Project , a K-16 civic education provider.... View Details

Web

History | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

and pursues an action research agenda with practitioners, which results in multiple papers and course notes, a project-based field course, and a case-based course module on the mobilization of financial resources for social change. 2010 New MBA Elective Managing Global... View Details

03 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors

Spencer Stuart, directed by Julie Hembrock Daum; and independent researcher and management consultant Deborah Bell. The team worked for over a year before that to identify board members from more than 60 countries, in industries including... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

Fast Answer

Student Proposed Fellowship Program - Resources for selecting your organization

industry, (e.g. health care). GuideStar will produce a results list that can be filtered by geography and organization details. You may also choose to enter a blank search on the main page to see additional filters and advanced search... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

3-Minute Briefing: Burunda Prince (MBA 1987)

My parents were both public school teachers, but they also owned a repair shop called Satellite TV. After school and on Saturdays we’d all go over to the family business. That was my first insight into the hard work of entrepreneurship. At RICE, we help Black... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; leadership; Black; African American

Web

IFC India 2025: SELCO - Decentralized Renewable Energy to Develop While Decarbonizing - Blog - Business & Environment

visits in January 2025 in Mumbai and Bangalore and this is one of 9 student essays that highlights their reflections on uncovering sustainable solutions across the country. On the final day of the India IFC, we visited a rural public View Details

18 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'

blocked from more traditional work, opened restaurants. But they had to cater to the American palate by adding sweetness to their dishes and combining Chinese and American ingredients into innovations like chop suey and the aforementioned General Tso’s. The American... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Health; Health

23 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

practice. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52649 Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending By: Cutler, David, Jonathan Skinner, Ariel Dora... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

April 1998
Case

Cephalon, Inc.

By: Peter Tufano

In early 1997, Cephalon, awaited an FDA panel's decision on whether its drug, Myotrophin, would be approved. If the drug was approved, the firm might need substantial additional funds to commercialize as well as to buy back rights to it (which had been sold earlier to... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Financing and Loans; Health Care and Treatment; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States

June 2005
Article

A Rising Drug Industry: Pharmaceuticals since 1870

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich

Keywords: Health; Business History; Pharmaceutical Industry

October 1999 (Revised November 1999)
Case

VITAS: Innovative Hospice Care

VITAS, a for-profit hospice, has grown through acquisitions and start-ups. The company considers a rollup strategy, and Deirdre Lawe must decide whether to make a particular acquisition. View Details

Keywords: Value Creation; For-Profit Firms; Service Delivery; Health Care and Treatment; Acquisition; Service Industry