medicine - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 May 2007
What Do You Think?

How Do Managers Think?

key success factor—like with doctors (is) management's willingness to hear as input in their decision processes." Alberto Souto said, "Both medicine and management are socio-technologies plus art . There is still a lot of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

24 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

world's premier regulator of food, drugs, cosmetics, and other products and also of helping to lead the transformation of medicine to a molecular level. Current logistical challenges include ever-more rapid movement of products across... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health

19 Nov 2014
HBS Case

Marketing Marijuana

segment shows different dynamics in terms of its sensitivity to price, marketing, and convenience. Medicinal consumers, for example, do not care so much about variety. "Once you find the strain and supply source that best alleviates... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

05 Sep 2012
What Do You Think?

Will Business Management Save US Health Care?

doctors and hospitals to remove the cartel and guild aspects of medicine and put more of the purse strings directly into the consumers' hands " Addressing incentives, Tom Dolembo suggested that "We should pay doctors well who... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

07 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Intermountain Healthcare: Pursuing Precision Medicine Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Intermountain Healthcare operates 23 hospitals and hundreds of clinics in Utah and Idaho and provides insurance to approximately 850,000 patients... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

Improving Public Health for the Poor

School of Public Health, Project Antares aims to create a system for devising commercial incentives that provide affordable public health initiatives, or "interventions" in healthcare parlance. Examples of commercial high-impact interventions might be... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

13 Jun 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

That's Classic: Modern-Day Business Lessons from Ancient Rome

everyone, they’ll be that version of themselves more often. Q: Were there any surprise favorites with the students? Dench: Cato’s On Agriculture. It’s a back-to-the-land handbook, very practical. You learn about all the amazing medicinal... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

Fetter, a senior lecturer, is former CEO of Tenet Healthcare. Regulations that limit care might be loosened Richard Hamermesh: Cutting the red tape in diagnostic testing The crisis has revealed the weakest part of our medical system—the lack of rewards for diagnostics.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

18 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

non but instead rely on a synthesis of many findings into a consistent, but not definitive, diagnosis. Lagace: How do crowdsourcing contests fit in or not with the usual pace of innovation in medicine or oncology in particular? LISH team:... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

30 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Health Care Under a Research Microscope

says, "will kill us financially and medically it will ruin our economy, deny us the health care services we need, and undermine the important genomic research that can fundamentally improve the practice of medicine and control its... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Biotechnology

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Market for Babies

reproductive medicine have indeed created a market for babies, a market in which parents choose traits, clinics woo clients, and specialized providers earn millions of dollars a year. In this market, moreover, commerce often runs without... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

05 Aug 2015
What Do You Think?

What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?

use of new information technologies in medicine is a favorite piece of evidence cited in support of this argument. Brynjolfsson and McAfee cite the importance of changes in the workforce alongside the introduction of new technologies if... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

28 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time

you are saving lives. So it has to have a humanitarian angle to it." (Cipla manufactures generic versions of a number of commonly prescribed medicines and is the world's largest manufacturer of the antiretroviral drugs that fight HIV and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

10 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

and licensed to practice radiology in the United States. The data set included 2.7 million scans read by the radiologists for 1,431 customers over a 30-month period. Nearly 85 percent of the scans were CT; roughly 10 percent were ultrasound; and X-ray, MRI, and nuclear... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health

18 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 18

considering whether or how to deepen the company's investment in Arogya Parivar, its profitable program that sold Novartis medicines in rural India while expanding access to medicine and health information... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health 33:166-167. Anteby, Michel, and Mikell Hyman. 2008. "Entrepreneurial Ventures and Whole-Body Donations: A Regional Perspective from the United States." Social... View Details

Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health

01 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients

Visiting the doctor can sometimes feel like being slammed down on an assembly line: Make co-pay. Check vitals. Diagnose the problem. Get a prescription. Next! The fee-for-service model of American medicine doesn’t put much value on long... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

07 Sep 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

of all stripes with the Seventh Sense?(Just envision this training occurring in law schools that originate most of our politicians.) Could sanctions against malpractice that have been established in professions such as law and medicine... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Mar 2009
Op-Ed

Credit is Not the Bogey

to live. Try paying for an apartment, food, transportation, clothes, and medicines on the $20,000 annual salary of a low-wage worker. We have an anodyne myth that everybody who works full-time in this country can somehow make do: The... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas & Eric S. Belsky; Construction; Real Estate; Financial Services

29 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

loomed large. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/215036-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 910-403 GTC Biotherapeutics: Developing Medicines in the Milk of Goats GTC is the first company in the animal world to... View Details