Publications

19 Feb 2015
Video

Health Care is Every Company’s Business

04 Dec 2014
News

Hacking Health Care

The health care industry needs so much improvement, it will take a whole movement to fix it. “The more leaders, the better,” says Luc Sirois (MBA 1997), who sees progress coming not through a single... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

20 Nov 2014
Video

Health Care Acceleration Challenge Finalists

August 2018 (Revised July 2021)
Case

Navy Medicine: Moving to Value-Based Care

By: Michael E. Porter, Robert S. Kaplan, Alee Hernandez and Mary L. Witkowski

15 Jul 2013
News

Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

20 Sep 2009
News

Why We Need Universal, Consumer-Driven Health Care

August 2017
Teaching Note

Health Stop (A) and (B)

By: Regina Herzlinger

Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 185-084 and 196-051. View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health; Health Industry

TeachingInterests

Managing Health Care Delivery - Executive Education

By: Robert S. Huckman

While delivering patient care has always been a primary goal of health care organizations, financial outcomes have long been the metric by which success is measured. Increasingly, however, health care leaders are being held accountable for... View Details

Program

Strategy for Health Care Delivery—Virtual

insights and capabilities, you will return to your organization prepared to implement and oversee a value-based health care approach that lowers costs and improves outcomes.... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care

Article

Better Accounting Transforms Health Care Delivery

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Mary L. Witkowski

The paper describes the theory and preliminary results for an action research program that explores the implications from better measurements of health care outcomes and costs. After summarizing Porter's outcome taxonomy (Porter 2010), we illustrate how to use process... View Details

Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Research; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

Find at Harvard

21 Nov 2016
News

Giving Patients an Active Role in Their Health Care

February 2021 (Revised March 2022)
Case

Marvin: A Personalized Telehealth Approach to Mental Health

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Eshani Sharma, Andrew Nguyen, Thomas Arsenault, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Julia Kelley

More than one third of Americans were said to suffer some type of behavioral health ailment at some point in their lifetime, with many people requiring chronic therapy or intervention. Despite significant clinical needs, access to reliable treatment has been difficult... View Details

Keywords: Mental Health; Applications; Startup Management; Telehealth; Health Care Entrepreneurship; Health ＆ Wellness; Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Customization and Personalization; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Applications and Software

March 2012 (Revised April 2013)
Case

Schön Klinik: Eating Disorder Care

By: Michael E. Porter, Emma Stanton, Jessica A. Hohman and Caleb Stowell

The Schön Klinik is a private, for-profit German hospital group trying to establish itself as a premium health care provider in a competitive German market. The case details Schön Klinik's founding, its early focus on measurement and improvement, and the design and... View Details

Keywords: Health Care Quality; Outcomes; Quality Improvement; Strategy And Performance Measurement; Integration; Measurement and Metrics; Competition; Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Performance Evaluation; Business Processes; Health Industry; Germany