Publications

Educators

November 2004 (Revised January 2010)
Teaching Note

World Vision International's AIDS Initiative: Challenging a Global Partnership (TN)

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

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Keywords: Health Disorders

December 2022
Article

Collaborative Rooming: An Innovative Pilot Project to Overcome Primary Care Challenges

By: Gagandeep Singh, Jill G. Lenhart, Richard A. Helmers, Michele Renee Eberlee, Heather Costley, Joel B. Roberts and Robert S. Kaplan

Primary care physicians are overburdened with growing complexities and increasing expectations for primary care visits. To meet expectations, primary care physicians must multitask during visits and spend extra hours in the office for charting, billing, and... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Groups and Teams; Job Design and Levels; Health Industry

August 2022
Article

Regulatory Considerations to Keep Pace with Innovation in Digital Health Products

By: John Torous, Ariel Dora Stern and Florence T. Bourgeois

Rapid innovation and proliferation of software as a medical device have accelerated the clinical use of digital technologies across a wide array of medical conditions. Current regulatory pathways were developed for traditional (hardware) medical devices and offer a... View Details

Keywords: Emerging Technologies; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Innovation and Invention; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

2005
Book

Problems and Cases in Health Care Marketing

By: John T. Gourville, John A. Quelch and V. Kasturi Rangan

Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Cases; Health; Marketing

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24 Apr 2014
News

Addressing roadblocks to innovation in health care

challenges health care professionals face and applied her findings to a framework for developing successful solutions. Herzlinger has identified three types of innovation—focused on technology, consumers,... View Details

October 2022
Case

Weapons of Self Destruction: Zak Pym Williams and the Cultivation of Mental Wellness

By: Lauren Cohen, Ronnie Stangler and Grace Headinger

Zak Pym Williams, mental health advocate, grappled with the question of how to create a proactive mental health family environment for his children. Having witnessed how mental health challenges such as addiction and depression had impacted the past four generations of... View Details

Keywords: Family; U.S.; Mental Health; Family Business; Entertainment; Values and Beliefs; Ethics; Leading Change; Family and Family Relationships; Well-being; Social Issues; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States; California

Educators

01 Mar 2006
News

Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care

costs, and widespread patient frustration. The cure for these ailments lies in better use of health-care technology, says David J. Brailer, national coordinator for Health Information Technology, a newly created position he has held since... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

Web

Mental Health Awareness Month | Baker Library

Mental Health Awareness Month Explore Baker Library resources with a connection to Mental Health and business. Want to stay up-to-date on relevant topics? Consider subscribing to our monthly Inclusion &... View Details

02 Jul 2018
Blog Post

Pursuing A Passion in Health Care

notice that there are no take-away boxes in our cafeteria – everyone is forced to take time to enjoy lunch and the company of their colleagues. (Go Denmark!) On a separate note, the most challenging part of my day is my 40-minute bike... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

Feb 2014
Case

Flying High, Landing Low: Strengths and Challenges for U.S. Air Transportation

areas. It becomes clear that individual airlines have often been managed back to health and focus on innovation, but the overall system itself and its governmental connections need attention, including the desire for NextGen air traffic... View Details

02 Mar 2007
What Do You Think?

What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?

from government. Suggestions of causes of the current challenge of rapidly rising costs in relation to quality of outcomes, at least by the imperfect measure of life expectancy, included waste in the system (Julie Maire, Edward Hare, and... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

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Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care

companies including devices, therapeutics, diagnostics, consumer health, and health IT and raised more than $500 million through angel investors, seed and funding rounds, seed, grants, and venture funding. An additional $244M was raised... View Details

January 2, 2020
Article

Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace

The United States has serious health care problems: More than 27 million uninsured people, costs that are growing faster than income, and a staggering $37 trillion of unfunded liabilities in the Medicare program. Perhaps most alarming: The US ranks lowest among... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare; Public Option; Medicare; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Cost Management; Problems and Challenges; United States

October 2017
Case

Pricing PatientPing

By: Frank V. Cespedes, Julia Kelley and Amram Migdal

In 2017, Jay Desai, the CEO of Boston-based health care technology company PatientPing, had to consider a number of interrelated pricing challenges. Founded in late 2013, PatientPing sold a software platform that allowed health care providers to receive real-time... View Details

Keywords: Pricing; Health Tech; Health Technology; Marketing; Sales Process; Sales Strategy; Price; Sales; Marketing Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Health Industry; Boston; North America; Massachusetts; United States

Educators

2021
Working Paper

The Luck of the Draw: The Causal Effect of Physicians on Birth Outcomes

By: Arlen Guarin, Christian Posso, Estefania Saravia and Jorge Tamayo

Identifying the effect of physicians’ skills on health outcomes is a challenging task due to the nonrandom sorting between physicians and hospitals. We overcome this challenge by exploiting a Colombian government program that randomly assigned 2,126 physicians to 618... View Details

Keywords: Physicians' Health Skills; Health Birth Outcomes; Birthing Outcomes; Experimental Evidence; Health Care and Treatment; Competency and Skills; Outcome or Result; Health Industry; Colombia