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- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
reversion to very early hiring or the use of a centralized matching system such as that used for medical residencies. We suggest, however, potential avenues by which the clerkship market could stabilize at... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
countries improve trade conditions and build sustainable practices. Back then, fair trade essentially referred to a system of price-fixing, using Resale Price Maintenance contracts to help smaller businesses and associations compete... View Details
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
The ills of the U.S. healthcare system are well chronicled—soaring costs, low customer satisfaction, increasing problems with quality, and restricted coverage lead the list. But do we really understand the underlying issues well enough to... View Details
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
D. Anderson Cancer Center, and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, which are moving toward results measurement and integrated practice unit structures. Reforming the U.S. system does not require a top down,... View Details
- 11 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices
medical care, a financial burden that forces some consumers to skip doses or forgo treatment. The US isn’t Germany While Germany's approach offers a relevant policy example, the country's health system... View Details
- 04 Aug 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?
while training primarily for skills at all levels in an organization. Further, to reengineer an organization to do more with less, high-performing organizations not only hire for attitude and train for skills, they provide outstanding support View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
and reveals how to recruit, nurture, and promote this special type of leader. With a healthy supply of qualified internal candidates, companies get the leadership they need—when they need it. Who Killed Health Care? America's $2 Trillion View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
After a cancer patient's first 30 days in the American medical system, the bills start stacking up—right next to the pile of paperwork explaining benefits. "It's very hard for patients to match these things up," says Dr. Thomas... View Details
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
state after an outbreak of illness. Approved the first generic versions of Coreg, a widely used medication for high blood pressure and chronic heart failure. Proposed new standards for formulating, testing, and labeling sunscreen drug... View Details
- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
motives, our paradigms, and what we are willing to accept and ignore to get what we think that we need." C. J. Cullinane was concerned that "This trend (service sector relative growth) will indeed catch up with the United States in the form of fewer View Details
- 18 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?
medical center. You don't have to be from Boston, Los Angeles, or Houston. You don't need to be affiliated with Harvard. A winning idea could be from anywhere." Ideas submitted so far include a tool for crowdsourcing View Details
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
single-payer system. Few national politicians are working to uncover why the public exchanges aren’t working for either insurers or consumers. While it’s difficult, the question everyone should be working to answer is: How can the system... View Details
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
tied to their competitors via shared intermediary organizations. To test our theory, we examine every relationship between entrepreneurial firms and their venture capital investors in the minimally invasive surgical segment of the medical... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
diagnostic tests for screening. Screening games can apply to the cases where by-products, partner fidelity feedback, or host sanctions do not apply, therefore explaining the evolution of mutualism in systems where it is impossible for... View Details
- 01 Feb 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?
needed an advocate in case of a serious health problem. In a sense, we needed inclusion and “voice” just as much as the employees Amy Edmondson wrote about in her book, The Fearless Organization. We needed access to the medical View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
private treatment that they and their families can afford. In poor countries, consumers are best advised to keep their own medical records since nothing approaching an electronic record-keeping system is... View Details
- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
new research about how scheduling affects worker behavior. The potential result: Americans could avoid 19 million foodborne illnesses, nearly 51,000 hospitalizations, and billions of dollars of related medical costs. Government health... View Details
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
to innovate the products that people want at a price they can afford. For example, while public-sector organizations are hardly renowned for convenience—think about the location of your Division of Motor Vehicles—entrepreneurs created View Details
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
creation of a vision for the future that represents a significant departure from the past, one that requires breakthroughs for its realization; 2) the creation of a system that facilitates enrollment into and elicits voluntary commitment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
presentation given at the fifth U.S.-China Health Summit at Harvard Medical School in September by John A. Quelch, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Professor in Health Policy... View Details