Publications

Article

New Physicians: A Natural Experiment in Market Organization

By: A. E. Roth

Keywords: Markets; Organizations; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

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April 2010 (Revised April 2010)
Teaching Note

Managing Orthopaedics at Rittenhouse Medical Center (TN)

By: Robert S. Huckman and Richard M.J. Bohmer

Teaching Note for [607152]. View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Management; Health Industry

May 1993
Teaching Note

Alexander Hospital Gift Shoppe TN

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Health Industry

13 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Making Biotech Work as a Business

No matter how you slice the numbers, all arrows in biotechnology's financial performance after twenty years are still pointing downward, said HBS professor Gary P. Pisano recently. Despite the great promise of the sector—to improve the understanding of disease,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Health; Health

11 Jun 2021
News

The Power of Resilience

and more treatable stage. And so when I came across this company it just so personally resonated with me. And I pivoted my corporate career into the health care space and into genomic space, all inspired by... View Details

Article

Ein Booster für die Pharmabranche [A Booster for the Pharmaceutical Industry]

By: Ariel Dora Stern, Timo Minssen, W. Nicholson Price, II and Christoph Grimpe

mRNA technology has just helped to develop vaccines against COVID-19. Now, like Apple's iOS, it could provide the basis for new innovation platforms. View Details

Keywords: mRNA; COVID-19; Vaccines; Health Care and Treatment; Health Pandemics; Innovation and Invention; Health Industry

Career Coach

Christina LaMontagne

Christina (HBS '09, Dartmouth '03) has held senior roles across innovative healthcare companies. She has led small digital health companies to achieve market leadership and >$100M ARR and has helped larger global companies embrace... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care

Gil Addo

Gil Addo is CEO and Co-founder of RubiconMD, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CVS Health. RubiconMD’s digital health platform empowers primary care clinicians with access to virtual specialist support to improve... View Details

Keywords: Digital Health

28 Jun 2010
HBS Case

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

well, because the senior team is tackling important problems and engaging people throughout the organization in solving them." One of the key players is Dr. Uma Kotagal, a neonatologist with a deep-seated passion for improving the quality of View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

25 Apr 2014
News

Laser focus on medical breakthroughs

Dr. Marlene Krauss (MBA 1967, MD 1979) is one of the first female graduates of HBS and the first person to hold both an MD and an MBA degree from Harvard University. She combines business skills and medical knowledge in her work as a leading View Details

07 Jul 2020
Cold Call Podcast

SmileDirect Looks Beyond Direct-to-Consumer Marketing

Keywords: Health

14 Jul 2021
Blog Post

From Colombia to the District of Columbia: Making an Impact with Paulina Llano (MBA 2022)

flat, nimble, Moderna culture.” Looking ahead, Llano knows that the experience of working for a company who is contributing so much to world health will be an experience she’ll never forget. She’ll also be able to utilize her experience... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

December 2003
Article

Unraveling Reduces Mobility in a Labor Market: Gastroenterology with and without a Centralized Match

By: Muriel Niederle and Alvin E. Roth

Keywords: Labor; Markets; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

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01 Dec 2011
News

At Your Service

advantages of making tradeoffs aren’t as obvious in service businesses, and part of it is that there are a lot of heroic people in service organizations who feel compelled to be the best at everything. That’s particularly evident in mission-driven and View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; customer service; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Air Transportation; Transportation

03 Mar 2017
News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

only one to ask that question. At the time, Sean Hogan (MBA 1993), a VP in IBM’s health care unit, was tasked with finding the major trends in the health and life sciences... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

July 1999 (Revised July 1999)
Teaching Note

Guidant: Cardiac Rhythm Management Business (A) and (B) TN

By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Edward T Smith

Teaching Note for (9-698-021) and (9-698-024). View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Product Marketing; Health Industry

May 2016
Teaching Note

Residency Select or J3Personica?

By: William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell

Keywords: Training; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

Article

Practicing Medicine in the Age of Facebook

In my second week of medical internship, I received a "friend request" on Facebook, the popular social-networking Web site. The name of the requester was familiar: Erica Baxter. Three years earlier, as a medical student, I had participated in the delivery of Ms.... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Relationships; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry