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- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
influence when the vast majority can't? The authors tracked 68 change initiatives in the UK's National Health Service, an organization whose size, complexity, and tradition can make reform difficult. They discovered several predictors of... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
With a yearly price tag of roughly $87 billion in lost productivity and adverse health consequences, the flu is nothing to sneeze at. It’s no surprise that workplace flu vaccination clinics have gained popularity as employers try to keep... View Details
- 17 Aug 2020
- News
Democratizing Medicine
suffered the consequences of that lack of access. “And in particular, we looked at the health care space in the US and realized that 40% of the referrals to specialists were unnecessary. And at the same... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
health-care system is in critical condition: The cost of U.S. health care not only hampers its citizens’ well-being and the country’s ability to compete globally, but it also... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
level of creatine kinase—an enzyme indicative of muscle damage—in a normal person's blood is around 50 units per liter, maybe as high as 100 after a workout. Charley's was 20,000. It suggested muscular dystrophy. Related Links Curing View Details
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Brittani Rettig
Your Twitter bio reads like that of a superhero ("Management consultant by day, fitness instructor & wellness blogger by night"). Can you tell us about your day and evening jobs? "By day I'm a manager at Deloitte Consulting. I work with clients in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
innovation. Visit http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5799.html. The Rise of Medical Tourism Medical tourism — traveling far and wide for health care that is often better and certainly cheaper than at home — appeals... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
finance, it seems, are never far from the minds of anyone in health care these days, even at fiscally sound MGH, the Harvard-affiliated teaching hospital that is recognized as an industry model. Indeed, with... View Details
- 08 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: DaVita Healthcare Partners, Inc.
commitment to clinical excellence and improving patients' health and quality of life. DaVita focuses on setting worldwide standards for clinical, social, and operational practices in kidney care, with over 2,200 dialysis clinics worldwide... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 28 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation
Defensive medicine spurs innovation They found, ultimately—and perhaps counterintuitively—that far from being an inhibitor to innovation, the practice of defensive medicine might have actually encouraged it. Legal liability pressure in View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
Massachusetts,” he says, adding that his goal is to “put ourselves out of business.” DECEMBER 15 Eighteen months ago, when Bill Hatanaka (AMP 115, 1994) was appointed the inaugural chair of the Board of Ontario Health, the organization set about consolidating 20 major... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
Kyruus’s search engine enables consumers to find the best providers for their health care needs. Since he was eight years old, Graham Gardner, MD (MBA 2007) knew he wanted to be a doctor. Once he completed... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Support for the Healers
As COO of the UK-based Point of Care Foundation, Deborah Sandford (MBA 1990) runs an organization that addresses the needs of health care professionals who spend their careers... View Details
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
entrepreneurial spirit, these ventures serve this atypical demand by acting as matchmakers between donors and health care areas. Such a development makes many observers pause since there is a strong taboo in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Health-Care Initiative to Leverage Ongoing Efforts
Dean Kim B. Clark has announced the formation of a faculty initiative in health care, with HBS professor of management practice Richard G. Hamermesh serving as chair. Technology strategy, the design of care... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
government and other institutions” to expand the service. Like any good businessman, Raju saw in emergency care an untapped market. The need was clear enough: Every day some 200,000 Indians face a medical emergency. Each year some 136,000... View Details
- 14 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Video Perspectives: Tara Basu Trivedi
This desire to make an impact in health care first started when I was in sixth grade, and I saw my grandfather recover after open heart surgery, and then my dad go through a long series of doctor's... View Details
- 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
- February 2008 (Revised August 2014)
- Case
MedVal Ventures
Is medical travel a viable business opportunity? A group of MBA students consider the pros and cons of starting a business that would send people from the U.S. to India for elective non-emergency surgeries. View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Cost Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Health Industry; India; United States
Herzlinger, Regina E. "MedVal Ventures." Harvard Business School Case 308-087, February 2008. (Revised August 2014.)
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping: A Healthy Dialogue
make decisions in challenging situations. Health care reform was making national headlines—and not in a good way—about the time the conference was held. Did you find that it quelled optimism or that people... View Details