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categories and a wider consumer segment. The company needs to decide on the features that would go into the new membership service while being careful not to cannibalize their core product. In Case B, set in spring 2017, the company has... View Details

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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

ordering practices. Keywords: Health Care ; Operations Management ; Productivity ; Health Care and Treatment ; Operations ; Outcome or Result ;... View Details

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Information Technology - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care View Details

07 Feb 2022
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Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

also why they are going there. We heard time and again that too often leaders neglect to connect the dots between who they are, whom they serve, and how digital technology will help them deliver. The sense of collective identity keeps employees aligned and committed to... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards

10 Feb 2022
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Why Are Prices So High Right Now—and Will They Ever Return to Normal?

including food and beverages, health products, household items, electronics, and personal products like shampoo. As the researchers looked closely at what stores were carrying, it became clear that three distinct phases to stocking woes... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

May 2024 (Revised May 2024)
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Choosing the Course of Passion: Brooke Boyarsky Pratt at knownwell

By: Jon M. Jachimowicz and Alexis Lefort

Brooke Boyarsky Pratt (HBS ’13) enjoyed considerable success in her early career, quickly climbing the ranks to associate partner at McKinsey, and later becoming an executive vice president at Berkadia, a Berkshire Hathaway portfolio company. Throughout these years,... View Details

Keywords: Passion; Career; Career Planning; Purpose; Personal Development and Career; Mission and Purpose; Identity; Business Startups; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Health Industry; United States

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July 2020
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King's College Hospital in Crisis

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

On December 11, 2017, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (King’s), one of London’s leading teaching hospital groups, was put into “special measures” by NHS Improvement (NHSI), the financial regulator of England’s National Health Service (NHS). The future of... View Details

Keywords: Hospitals; Financing; Health Care and Treatment; Financial Condition; Crisis Management; Organizational Structure; Transformation; Strategic Planning; United Kingdom

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16 Nov 2021
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How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

employee departures. Company officials kept a careful count of departing workers and doled out bonuses to managers based on the number of workers in their groups that left. Managers and workers alike exhibit stress Many managers,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007

Case 707-559 Describes the joint efforts of the German health plan KKH and Essen University Hospital to develop an integrated practice unit (IPU), and the West German Headache Center's efforts to improve the quality of migraine care.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

31 Jul 2019
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Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

times more likely to experience work-related problems than employees with chronic physical illnesses like diabetes or heart disease. So why do many companies fail to help their workers battle mental health disorders? “There’s a silence... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

operations, and supply chains. With engaging videos, short readings, and exercises, the course seeks to enable future leaders to integrate climate solutions into core business strategies, product and service design, operational decisions, and more. Given the increasing... View Details

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Profiles - MBA

technology especially as it relates to neurodevelopment and disability. I'd like to eventually leverage my clinical and technical experience to explore roles in healthcare management, biotech startups, and healthtech venture capital to optimize the role technology can... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

first genetic tests focused on ancestry were coming on the market. Though they were expensive and of limited utility, Cusenza saw the science rapidly improving, and he recognized opportunity not just in the health View Details

Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

Justine Boudou

Justine Boudou is a doctoral student in the Technology and Operations Management (TOM) unit at Harvard Business School.

She is primarily interested in the economics of science and innovation. Justine holds a MSc from the engineering school... View Details

Keywords: health care; health care; health care

01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead

business of delivering health care than making a diagnosis and prescribing medication,” she says. Today, as cofounder and CEO of Systole, a healthtech startup, Lee is developing a personalized,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

14 Jun 2022
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HBS Announces Its 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows

22 Mar 2024
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Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted

and thinking about the global demand for software and what companies already spend on software, combined with the fact that open source has become so predominant in so many companies whether they know it or not, then that giant number... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Computer; Information Technology; Technology

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HBS - The year in Review

how to eradicate inequality, as well as the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship , which is a one-year program for alumni in health care startups. Recipients for 2021-22 were Dan Ahlstedt... View Details

May 2024
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DRSi (A)

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff

In March of 2019, Jen Ransom Fuller purchased DRSi. DRSi, located in Bellevue, Washington, printed and reproduced architectural plans and drawings. Fuller planned to use her first year of ownership to learn the business and to run it in much the same way as the seller.... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Small Business; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Business Education; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Health Pandemics; Selection and Staffing; Employee Relationship Management; Production; Logistics; Safety; United States; Washington (state, US)

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September 2019
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Dementia Discovery Fund

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Kathy Giusti and Sarah Gulick

The case is set in March 2019, and tells the story of the founding of the Dementia Discovery Fund (DDF). The idea for the fund began in 2015, when then-Prime Minister David Cameron spoke about the importance of making breakthroughs in dementia research, and pledged... View Details