Publications

Keywords: by Blasco, Andrea, Michael G. Endres, Rinat A. Sergeev, Anup Jonchhe, Max Macaluso, Rajiv Narayan, Ted Natoli, Jin H. Paik, Bryan Briney, Chunlei Wu, Andrew I. Su, Aravind Subramanian, and Karim R. Lakhani; Health

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21 Mar 2019
Working Paper Summaries

Advancing Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Research Through Open Innovation Competitions

July 2016
Article

Economic Implications of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology Embryo Transfer Guidelines: Healthcare Dollars Saved by Reducing Iatrogenic Triplets

By: Malinda S. Lee, Brady T. Evans, Ariel Dora Stern and Mark D. Hornstein

Objective: To estimate the national cost savings resulting from reductions in higher-order multiple (HOM) live births (defined as three or more fetuses), following the initial publication of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) guidelines on ET in... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Cost Management; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

July 1972 (Revised November 1980)
Case

Richardson Center for the Blind

By: Benson P. Shapiro

Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Health Care and Treatment; Social Enterprise; Health Industry

01 Jun 2007
News

Profiles from the class of 2007

taken by photographer Webb Chappell, who did his excellent work in the Stamps Reading Room in Baker Library. Sachin Jain To Your Health Jain “Starting when I was about six,” Sachin Jain recalls, “I’d watch the evening news with my father,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

01 Dec 2020
News

A New Approach to Contact Tracing

access encrypted data on the phone so contact tracers can notify those who have been near the person and provide them with health care guidance. The development of the app—an example of government-supported... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Government

26 May 2022
News

Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories

Clubs News Clubs News Digital health platform Noom awarded Entrepreneurial Company of the Year In a virtual award celebration held on April 6, the HBS Association of Northern California (HBSANC) honored the digital View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

Web

Career risks and professional growth: Finding a fulfilling career with Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991) - Recruiting

Street Health Sarah Guezmir 13 Mar 2025 Launching leaders: HBS's new initiative fuels first-generation and low-income student success Shoma Simkin 04 Mar 2025 WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley Michelle Cao 26... View Details

June 2016
Article

When Doctors Go to Business School: Career Choices of Physician-MBAs

By: Damir Ljuboja, Brian W. Powers, Benjamin Robbins, Robert S. Huckman, Krishna Yeshwant and Sachin Jain

There has been substantial growth in the number of physicians pursuing Master of Business Administration (MBA) degrees over the past decade, but there is continuing debate over the utility of these programs and the career outcomes of their graduates. The authors... View Details

Keywords: Medical Education; MD; MBA; Physicians; Executive Education; Training; Personal Development and Career; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States

October 2013
Article

Barriers to Completion of Patient Reported Outcome Measures

By: Elizabeth H. Schamber, Steven K. Takemoto, Kate Eresian Chenek and Kevin J. Bozic

Patient Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMs) are commonly used in total joint arthroplasty (TJA) to assess surgical outcomes. However certain patient populations may be underrepresented due to lower survey completion rates. The purpose of this study is to evaluate... View Details

Keywords: Patient Reported Outcome Measures; PROM; Total Joint Arthroplasty; Hip; Knee; Electronic Survey; Equality and Inequality; Demographics; Surveys; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

2013
Working Paper

An Empirical Study of the Spillover Effects of Workload on Patient Length of Stay

By: Jillian Berry Jaeker and Anita Tucker

We use two years of inpatient data from 243 California hospitals to quantify the relationship between hospital-level workload and patient length of stay (LOS), and its "spillover" effects across patient types. Patients are categorized as medical or surgical, and the... View Details

Keywords: Workload; Processing Times; Healthcare; Working Conditions; Performance Productivity; Time Management; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; California

May 25, 2004
Article

Specialization and Its Discontents: The Pernicious Impact of Regulations Against Specialization and Physician Ownership on the U.S. Healthcare System

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Ownership; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Industry; United States

Web

Leadership with purpose: Redefining success and impact with Satpal Singh (SELP—India 4, 2019) - Recruiting

first-generation and low-income student success Shoma Simkin 04 Mar 2025 WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley Michelle Cao 26 Feb 2025 Exploring value-based care: My summer internship with Main Street View Details

01 Jun 2006
News

Faculty Books

ensure that alignment is sustained. Redefining Health Care by Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg (HBS Press) Professor Porter and his colleague argue that health... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

25 Jun 2020
News

Covering All Corners

patients. Fortunately, I am a member of an MBA alumni association that has addressed the problem of providing the Egyptian health care system with ventilators, which are prohibitively expensive and have been... View Details

11 Jun 2020
In Practice

Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?

provided but to augment and expand their offerings. Telemedicine is a terrific example of this. Many health care providers have already moved to virtual visits and ramped up new types of services such as... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

2022
Article

Improving Efficiency and Reducing Costs of MRI-Guided Prostate Brachytherapy Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing

By: Nikhil G. Thaker, Rajat J. Kudchadker, James R. Incalcaterra, Tharakeswara K. Bathala, Robert S. Kaplan, Ankit Agarwal, Deborah A. Kuban, Benjamin D. Frank, Prajnan Das, Thomas W. Feeley and Steven J. Frank

Integrated quality improvement (QI) and cost reduction strategies can help increase value in cancer care. We applied standard QI and TDABC methods to improve workflow efficiency and reduce costs for MRI-guided prostate brachytherapy. We constructed process maps,... View Details

Keywords: Brachytherapy; Quality Improvement; Prostate; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Cost Accounting; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Efficiency; Health Industry

Article

Team Scaffolds: How Mesolevel Team Structures Enable Role-based Coordination in Temporary Groups

By: Melissa A. Valentine and Amy C. Edmondson

This paper shows how mesolevel structures support effective coordination in temporary groups. Prior research on coordination in temporary groups describes how roles encode individual responsibilities so that coordination between relative strangers is possible. We... View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Health Care and Treatment; Cooperation; Health Industry

January 2013
Supplement

The Great East Japan Earthquake (C): Ishinomaki Kouwan Hospital's Response

By: Hirotaka Takeuchi, Yukiko Sakai, Rebecca Agonafir, Peter Cholewinski, Allison Kean and Emily Kloeblen

On the evening of March 11, 2011, Mayama Fumihiro, the Managing Director of Ishinomaki Kouwan Hospital knew that it would be a long, cold night. The 103 staff members and 162 patients and families were huddled on the top two floors of the four-story hospital, where... View Details

Keywords: East Japan; Earthquake; Ishinomaki Kouwan Hospital; Natural Disasters; Crisis Management; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Japan