Publications

07 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat

A mid-November conference on consumer-driven health care attracted nearly two hundred providers of health-care services, technology, and information; government professionals; and insurance executives to the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

February 2015
Supplement

The Affordable Care Act (E): The August 2009 Recess

By: Joseph L. Bower and Michael Norris

During the Congress's August recess in 2009, the Tea Party makes a big push to stop the health reform bill moving through Congress. View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Policy; Government And Politics; Health; Policy; Health Industry; United States

Purchase

13 Aug 2006
News

Business, Heal Health Care

30 Nov 2016
News

Improving On-the-Fly Teamwork in Health Care

03 Jul 2018
News

Herzlinger: The Godmother of Consumer-Driven Health Care

05 Jul 2010
News

Bill George On The Ill Health Of Health Care

Jun 11 2018
Testimonial

Transforming Outcomes in Health Care

25 Oct 2006
Other Presentation

Value-Based Competition in Health Care

This presentation draws on a forthcoming book with Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg (Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Harvard Business School Press). Earlier publications about the work include the Harvard Business Review article... View Details

Keywords: Health; United States

15 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care

We know the symptoms all too well. We wait months to see a doctor. Office visits end, it seems, just moments after they begin. Managed care firms hold sway over doctors' treatment plans, and health insurance... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

October 1981 (Revised June 1985)
Case

Vicks Health Care Division: Project Scorpio (A)

The Vicks Health Care Division lacks a solid form entry in the OTC colds care category and has developed a "me-too" product. The main issues are whether there is an opportunity for the product, and, if so, how it should be positioned. Main teaching objectives are to... View Details

Keywords: Product Positioning; Health Care and Treatment; Product Launch; Market Participation; Health Industry

Educators

Purchase

22 Apr 2007
Other Presentation

Redefining Competition in Health Care

This presentation draws on Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg: Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Harvard Business School Press, May 2006, and "How Physicians Can Change the Future of Health Care," Journal of the American... View Details

Keywords: Health; United States

28 Sep 2007
Other Presentation

Value-Based Competition in Health Care

This presentation draws on Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg: Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Harvard Business School Press, May 2006, and "How Physicians Can Change the Future of Health Care," Journal of the... View Details

Keywords: Health; United States

15 Mar 2013
Other Presentation

Value-Based Health Care Delivery

Keywords: Health

30 May 2013
Other Presentation

Value-Based Health Care Delivery

Keywords: Health

10 Jun 2021
News

Health Care Management Programs: What to Know

Web

History - Health Care

Health Care Initiative History 1967 First Health Care Case: Fischer Pharmaceutical, Co. 1971 Regina Herzlinger becomes the first woman tenured at... View Details

Article

How Not to Cut Health Care Costs

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Derek A. Haas

Health care providers in much of the world are trying to respond to the tremendous pressure to reduce costs—but evidence suggests that many of their attempts are counterproductive, raising costs and sometimes decreasing the quality of care. Using evidence from field... View Details

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June 2018 (Revised November 2018)
Case

Innovation at Insigne Health

By: Srikant M. Datar, Linda A. Cyr and Caitlin N. Bowler

Insigne Health is a fictional for-profit, integrated health insurer/health care provider whose leadership believes that by shifting members’ focus from “sickness” to “well-being” it could increase the overall health of its insured population and decrease the resources... View Details

Keywords: Design Thinking; Behavior Change; Chronic Disease; Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Design; Behavior; Change; Innovation and Management