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  • 12 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program). Health plans could choose to cover more services and treatments for competitive reasons, but they could not be forced to do so by lawsuits. This change would refocus health View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
  • Web

Value-Based Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

and then costs are based on the people involved in providing care for specific events.... See All Publications Cases & Teaching Notes Martini Klinik Prostate Cancer Care 2019... View Details
  • August 1983 (Revised June 1986)
  • Case

Johnson & Johnson (B): Hospital Services

By: Francis Aguilar
The main issue has to do with the lack of fit or incompatibility between the early environmental requirements for strategy and the cultural constraints on the organization. Describes the internal resistance to the proposed changes and top management's efforts to... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Change Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Health Care and Treatment; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry
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  • 13 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative

of its inadequate payments. In the end, the Democrats' health care reform will require drastic rationing of health care for the sick to control its costs. The government-controlled UK health View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Health
  • September 2014 (Revised March 2016)
  • Case

Mayo Clinic: The 2020 Initiative

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Robert S. Huckman and Jenny Lesser
Describes the challenges facing Dr. John Noseworthy, President and CEO, in implementing a long-term strategy for the growth of the Mayo Clinic—a leading academic medical center with a reputation for excellence in tertiary and quaternary health care. The case highlights... View Details
Keywords: Health; Health Care Industry; Health Care Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
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  • 11 Sep 2018
  • Blog Post

Care for the Elderly: Process is More Important Than the Destination

400 million by 2033 and one third of the population by 2050), I wanted to utilize my background in health care services / life insurance, to be part of the solution to provide better care to this population... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
  • 09 Feb 2016
  • News

Providing the Care That Seniors Need

out of Harvard Business School, I became a real estate developer with a specialty on medical campuses. Almost simultaneously, my mother-in-law developed what we know today to be early-stage Alzheimer’s disease and I found myself caught between my day job on medical... View Details
  • 2009
  • Book

Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care

By: Richard Bohmer
Today's health-care providers face growing criticism - from policy makers and patients alike. As costs continue to spiral upward and concerns about quality of care escalate, the debate has focused on how to finance health care. Yet funding solutions can't... View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Business Processes; Organizational Culture
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  • January 1978
  • Case

Zero-Base Budgeting in the Public Health Service

By: Regina E. Herzlinger
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Budgets and Budgeting
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  • June 10, 2021
  • Article

Preparing Hospitals for the Next Pandemic

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Barak D. Richman
The COVID-19 epidemic response has shown that the U.S. is blessed with heroic physicians and other health care providers, researchers, and facilities. But it has also revealed a health care system that was woefully unprepared for the surge of pandemic patients. In the... View Details
Keywords: Hospital; Hospital Management; Hospitals—administration; Health Care; Health Care Industry; Health Care Investment; Health Care Operations; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Operations; Performance Improvement; Investment; Health Industry; United States
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  • 21 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

Global health care is entering its most challenging era, with increasing demand for services from consumers newly arrived in the middle class, under-served people, and rapidly aging populations, all the... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Education
  • 04 Dec 2023
  • Blog Post

My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service

Hi all, my name is Rhea! I was lucky enough to work for the National Park Service this summer as a business management intern with the Submerged Resources Center (SRC). The SRC is the NPS national dive program, responsible for... View Details
  • 20 Aug 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

Can Shared Service Delivery Increase Customer Engagement? A Study of Shared Medical Appointments

Keywords: by Ryan W. Buell, Kamalini Ramdas, and Nazlı Sönmez; Health
  • Web

Fostering Innovation in Life Sciences - Health Care

Impact Fostering Innovation in Life Sciences Gaining Ground on ALS Re: Rob Blum (MBA 1991) Health Minute: How Can Technology Improve 21st Century Health Care Health Minute: How Can Companies Bring "Missing Drugs" to Market? More “Life... View Details
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Leading a community of health care providers

organized in the form of a company.” Among its many philanthropic and outreach activities under Thiry—who was the focus of a 2010 HBS case study—DaVita provided $1.75 million to charities in 1,000 communities in 2012–2013, sponsors free kidney disease screenings, and... View Details
  • April 2003
  • Module Note

Design and Management of Health Care Delivery Processes, The

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer
Discusses the design and management of clinical processes in health care. Presents a framing of the clinical process as a problem-solving process that fundamentally involves learning along two dimensions and at least two levels. The two dimensions are: 1) learning in... View Details
Keywords: Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Service Delivery; Management Practices and Processes; Learning; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator - Health Care

Faculty & Research Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator About the Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator From 2015–2020, the Harvard Business School Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator (KPMA) worked to create business solutions which would help solve View Details
  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care

BRAILER: Aiming to give every American an electronic health-care record by 2014. American health-care providers may use the best technology in the world, but when it comes to patient records, the system is an inefficient maze responsible for unacceptably high numbers... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services
  • Web

Geography of Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

full-service hospitals. Traditional geographic expansion has been focused on acquiring health care facilities that merely reproduce the same services in the different areas without regard to value. In these... View Details
  • Web

Health Care Curriculum - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Cancer Center are the subject of cases, but there are cases on smaller providers and community hospitals as well. Cases include not only U.S. organizations, but also providers in Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and a growing number... View Details