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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?
Diagnostics Division's operations in East Africa, noted, "We don't even have set policies on testing for HIV." We can donate drugs. But if there is no infrastructure to distribute those drugs, we can't do any good.— Ngozi... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
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
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Doctors are also using the device, finding that it works better than a traditional otoscope while offering a way to easily share images with colleagues for diagnostic purposes. "Some children have chronic ear infections, and it can get... View Details
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
of Quest Diagnostics who now serves as dean of Boston University School of Management. Freeman said that when he became dean, his plush CEO-like office was on the top floor, so he decided to move to a small windowless office in close... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
iteration to resolve into a problem that can be addressed in a predictable, rules-based way. Diagnostic abilities are the technological enablers of disruption in health care. Precise definition of the problem, in this and in every... View Details
- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
Corp.: Commercializing a Diagnostic Test Harvard Business School Case 307-055 Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307055 Good Technology: Empowering Mobility around the Globe (A) Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
stability. The authors have found that real improvement requires systemic change, not discrete fixes. They describe a five-step process for that—along with the diagnostic work you’ll need to do in advance. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
suggested that the health-care industry is also ripe for disruption. Technological innovations such as improved testing and diagnostic equipment and more targeted drugs could soon break down the existing hierarchy between specialists,... View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ordering the company to halt the sale and promotion of its genetic testing kit. The FDA stated that the product was marketed as a diagnostic and preventative tool and that it was subject to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 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
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
is based in Massachusetts and lists in London on AIM. Products are genetically modified fast-growing salmon for fish farmers and disease-prevention drugs and diagnostic kits for farmed shrimp. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
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
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
changes are human beings and so the psychology and sociology of change and who wins and who loses has to be designed into the system. Simply put, our concept of OMC is not simply a tool or methodology to measure customer satisfaction shortfalls. It also is a View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
regulators realize they may need to do something about it, they back off a little bit," says Heese. Given the bruising political fights over health-care reform, politicians may see the lack of enforcement as a more expedient public-policy strategy than changing... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
spraying, rapid diagnostic tests, and artemisinin-based combination therapy. We discuss the timing and regional coverage of the program and critically review the available health and program rollout data. To estimate the health benefits... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace