Diagnostics - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Jun 2020
News

Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic

featured are Rishad Premji (MBA 2005), chair of Wipro Ltd., which is supporting COVID-19 relief efforts in India; Ameera Shah (OPM 42, 2012), promoter and managing director of Metropolis Healthcare, a diagnostics business in India’s... View Details

25 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 25

Accountability and Span of Control to Implement Business Strategy By: Simons, Robert Abstract—This study focuses on the relationship between business strategy, organization structure, and diagnostic control systems. The project analyzes... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

01 Dec 2020
News

Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match

turn around and help the next person.” MORE STORIES ABOUT IMPACT: The Digital Transformation of Health Care Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers A New Approach to Contact Tracing AI Enhances Diagnostic Care View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

14 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 14

Course MaterialsThe DiagnoFirst Opportunity Harvard Business School Case 309-112 John Mason, a principle at Oldwell Partners, was facing a decision of whether or not to invest in DiagnoFirst, a molecular diagnostics firm. DiagnoFirst's... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “When this type of work is outsourced it should not be viewed as a mere commodity.” Teleradiology is the reading and interpretation of CT, MRI, X-ray, and other diagnostic images. Increasingly,... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health

01 Dec 2020
News

Two Truths and a Lie About 5G

decisions on the ground. It’s also testing a diagnostic app that relays data from the site of an emergency to the hospital to save time and, perhaps, lives. Fortunately there’s been only one fire since implementation and one opportunity... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2009
News

Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award

research. I’m interested in very focused and very early investing. What’s the next big thing in that area? Stem cell initiatives are going to produce interesting therapeutics. Good diagnostic and early detection, particularly of cancer,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; awards; fishing; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

16 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 16

Management Distinguished Fellows Award, given at Columbia University, June 18, 2012. We wrote this article at Paul's request. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2241548 Helping You Help Me: The Role of Diagnostic... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

20 Apr 2020
News

To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual

search for treatments, and the desperate lack of critical data. “Right now we’re plagued by a paucity of proper data,” says Seftel. “We need expanded diagnostics to determine who has been infected and how their immune system has... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

10 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 10

consider: Where are you in the senior executive life cycle? How much cross-organization collaboration is required? How much time do you spend on activities outside your direct span of control? What's the scope of your role? What's the best mix of roles for your team? A... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

25 May 2016
Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

savings. In the area of prevention, the spread of ever-cheaper mobile smart phones enables citizens in remote rural areas to receive online medical consultations, treatment suggestions, and prescriptions. Readings on diagnostic machines... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

01 Dec 2020
News

A New Approach to Contact Tracing

surveillance. It was then, and is now, a matter of using personal data to secure public health. That raises both its promise and its perils, and the leadership task is to navigate the balance.” MORE STORIES ABOUT IMPACT: The Digital Transformation of Health Care... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Government

01 Jun 2000
News

Books

and creating a balanced scorecard. Finally, he demonstrates how to achieve profit-oriented goals and strategies by using diagnostic and interactive control systems, aligning performance goals and incentives, identifying and managing... View Details

13 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

history. Sensitivity to ambiguity was lower in individuals who met diagnostic criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder. Lower ambiguity sensitivity was also associated with higher externalizing (but not psychopathy) scores and with... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

they hear the words "national health insurance," but it is disturbing that we fail to provide health care to so many of our citizens. At the same time, firms in the United States are global leaders in inventing and bringing to market new drugs, devices, View Details

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

15 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.

recruits workers who are “literate and numerate, but otherwise not experienced in the health sciences” and trains them in the basics of health diagnostics and treatment, such that they can play an important role in a health outbreak,”... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

07 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

powerful in communicating what that company stands for—they're not just neutral mechanisms.—Thomas R. Piper In the good times, it seemed as if most of the emphasis was on diagnostic performance measures—which were often incomplete and... View Details

Keywords: by Harvard Management Update

18 Oct 2016
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October 18, 2016

diagnostic firm, is evaluating the offer made by Ron Zwanziger, the firm’s founder and former CEO, to acquire the company and take it private. The offer arrives at the end of a tumultuous year for the company, which saw Zwanziger fighting... View Details