Publications

15 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Health is Wealth | The Path to Creating a Venture

opportunities to leverage technology to help people experience their healthcare in a better way. Driven by her own personal health experiences in where she constantly used a guess and check methodology to improve her health, she sought to... View Details

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Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement

all levels should have the opportunity to gain information and access evidence-based information related to their physical and emotional health and well-being. Employee... View Details

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Manual

Problems and Cases in Health Care Marketing - Instructor Manual

By: John T. Gourville, John A. Quelch and V. Kasturi Rangan

Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Cases; Health; Marketing; Books

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15 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.

experience, can do this with a high degree of informational accuracy, calm, and safety.” In 2013 in Liberia, ahead of the heaviest part of the Ebola crisis, some 79 percent of health care spending came from... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

19 Nov 2014
News

Creating tools to help patients be better informed about costs

Kyle Schultz (MBA 2004) works with a software company that is developing ways to notify patients about the costs of their health care procedures and the ways insurance can be applied. (Published November 2014) View Details

05 Dec 2013
Op-Ed

Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents

Edythe L. Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, at November's Healing Ourselves Health Care Forum event. There, Lander made a potent case for creating a multi-corporate consortium that would openly share validated targets. Instead of... View Details

Keywords: by Richard G. Hamermesh; Health; Health

29 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums

pricing. Hedge fund firms often hired the duo for speaking engagements, which led to informal post-speech chats with various fund managers, many of whom also sported PhDs. Cohen and Malloy found that these social View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

March 2017
Case

From mHealth Hackathon to Reality: Diabetes Care

By: Kevin Schulman and Curry Cheek

This case explores the development of a business plan for a mobile health application for diabetes care. The case depicts a student team excited about the opportunity to improve the care of patients with diabetes by contracting an app. They go through a rigorous... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Mobile Health Technologies; Health Care; Health Care Industry; Behavioral Economics; Applications and Software; Health Care and Treatment; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Innovation and Invention; Health Industry; Health Industry

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IT Strategy: Improving Service to Support Innovation | Information Technology

knowledge base, where important information can be documented and maintained in perpetuity. It is now visible to all faculty, staff, and MBA students and is a cornerstone of enabling rapid self-service IT support going forward. Onboarded... View Details

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The Global Health Delivery Project - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

is a collaboration platform for global health professionals to connect and exchange insights about their work. Launched in 2008, GHDonline now hosts 8,500 members representing more than 2,500 organizations... View Details

06 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?

Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all,... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

15 Apr 2014
News

Bertarelli Foundation Gift Names Deans' Health & Life Sciences Challenge Prize

the world's health care system by advancing new cures and therapies, developing new ways to apply information technology, and designing new health care systems to deliver... View Details

Keywords: i-Lab; Harvard Medical School; Scientific Research and Development Services

August 14, 2020
Comment

How Has COVID-19 Affected Health Insurance Offered by Small Businesses in the U.S.? Early Evidence from a Survey

By: Leemore S. Dafny, Yin Wei Soon, Zoë Cullen and Christopher T. Stanton

As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches toward its third quarter, loss of health insurance coverage has not figured prominently in the public debate. Data in this report demonstrate why that is, but also suggest that the apparent stability is fragile, with potentially... View Details

Keywords: Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Small Business; Surveys; United States

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Applying Human-Centered Design Principles to Digital Syndromic Surveillance at a Mass Gathering in India: Viewpoint

By: Ahmed Shaikh, Abhishek Bhatia, Ghanshyam Yadav, Shashwat Hora, Chung Won, Mark Shankar, Aaron Heerboth, Prakash Vemulapalli, Paresh Navalkar, Kunal Oswal, Clay Heaton, Sujata Saunik, Tarun Khanna and Satchit Balsari

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, digital health tools have been deployed by governments around the world to advance clinical and population health objectives. Few interventions have been successful or have achieved sustainability or scale. In India, government... View Details

Keywords: Digital Health Tools; Human-centered Design; Health Care and Treatment; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Design; Technology Adoption

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March 2015 (Revised June 2015)
Case

Medalogix

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Matthew G. Preble

This case examines an exciting new approach to health care that will help care providers identify when hospice services are the appropriate type of care for patients. The company, Medalogix, already has a product on the market that uses a proprietary algorithm to... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Entrepreneurship; Health Care Services; Implementing Strategy; Dissemination; Innovation; Market Selection; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Analytics and Data Science; Marketing Strategy; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Health Industry; United States

April 2014 (Revised January 2015)
Background Note

Note on Mobile Healthcare

By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez

Delivering health care to the global population was a challenge. Health care costs accounted for ten percent of world GDP by 2013. In the U.S., health care costs were expected to top $3.1 trillion in 2014. New technologies, shortages of trained personnel and... View Details

January–February 2014
Other Article

Barriers to Health Care Innovation: Regina Herzlinger Warns That Innovators Need to Know What Obstacles They Face and How to Overcome Them

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Health care in the United States and in most other developed countries is ailing, says Regina E. Herzlinger. A chaired professor of business administration specializing in health care at Harvard Business School, Herzlinger says that although the world has witnessed... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare; Healthcare IT; Innovation; Health Care and Treatment; Health; Information Technology; Innovation and Invention; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States