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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

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01 Sep 2004
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Bill Dunaway (MBA 1964)

A self-described SOB — son of the boss — Bill Dunaway grew up working in his father’s pharmacy in Marietta, Georgia, a town of 61,000 outside Atlanta. After expanding the business to a chain of 18 drug stores, Dunaway sold the operation in 1989 and opened the 1848... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores

20 Apr 2020
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To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual

of social distancing, says Carrolo. “This happened to be very timely – especially now,” she says. “So we spent some time in the VRT talking about how to prepare digital healthcare systems for a pandemic. Our alumni in health View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

28 Jun 2011
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Beyond Case Writing

interest in global health to the realization that an estimated 13 million people die each year for lack of low-cost products that could save their lives. Over the past seven years, she has conducted research projects in Zambia aimed at... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

01 Feb 1997
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New Releases

explore the dynamics of the rapidly evolving digital environment. Market Driven Health Care by Regina E. Herzlinger (Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.) Informed and assertive consumers, powerful new... View Details

01 Dec 2013
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Innovation as Antidote

Illustration by Andrea Manzati You'll see a theme emerge in this issue's stories on health care: The industry has a number of deep-seated challenges that it is just beginning to face. It's a pen-and-paper operation in a digital world. It... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2001
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Christina Ehrenberg: The Examined Life

by excesses in diet and lifestyle.” Lessons also emerged from “failure.” After weeks of training for a climb to the top of Papua New Guinea’s 14,800-foot Mount Wilhelm, Ehrenberg abandoned her quest within sight of the summit to care for... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Spreading the Health: Americans' Estimated and Ideal Distributions of Death and Health(care)

Keywords: by Sorapop Kiatpongsan and Michael I. Norton; Health

17 Aug 2011
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Breath of Life

Green: Participating in the stem-cell revolution. Courtesy David Green It was the kind of medical miracle that experts say will one day be commonplace. In June, an artificial trachea (windpipe), infused with a tracheal cancer patient’s own stem cells, was successfully... View Details

Keywords: stem cell research; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

22 Sep 2015
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Promoting a Healthy Policy Agenda

community. Starting in local government, one thing led to another and I ran for the state legislature in 2008 and now serve as a state senator in Massachusetts. “I chair the public health committee for the state legislature, so a lot of... View Details

April 1989
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Novel Combination of Two Drugs (C)

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

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

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April 1989
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Novel Combination of Two Drugs (B)

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

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

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01 Jun 2009
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Faculty Books

Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care by Richard M.J. Bohmer (Harvard Business Press) In this book, Senior Lecturer Bohmer, a medical doctor, explains that health-care... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Hospital Disclosure Practices: Results of a National Survey

By: Rae M. Lamb, David M. Studdert, Richard M.J. Bohmer, Donald M. Berwick and Troyan A. Brennan

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Practice; Health Industry

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September 1995
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Apollo Hospitals of India (B)

The Indian Hospitals Corp. (IHC), a branch of Apollo Hospitals Group, is considering building a hospital and primary-care medical center in Colombo, the capital of Sri-Lanka, a small island off the southern coast of India. This case describes economic, social, and... View Details

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

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22 Aug 2012
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A Randomized Field Study of a Leadership WalkRounds™-Based Intervention

agreed to implement an 18-month long WalkRounds -based program to improve safety. We compared their results to 138 work areas in 48 randomly selected control hospitals. Participants: We conducted the program in four types of clinical work areas: operating... View Details

Keywords: by Anita L. Tucker & Sara J. Singer; Health

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details

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01 Sep 2010
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Fair Trade

pharmaceutical companies. Avon bought health care companies and nursing homes. It turned out, however, that beauty and health had diverged too much from their common origin in... View Details