Varian Medical Systems - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Aug 2014
News

Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981

Applitek 1988 Cofounds Sigma Network Systems 1991 Founds Nu-Link, Inc. 1996 Cofounds NetCore Systems 2000 Cofounds Starent Networks 2007 Starent Networks IPO 2009 Cisco buys Starent Networks 2012 Cofounds... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Recruiting Partners - Health Care

Carmot Therapeutics CCD International Cedars-Sinai Health System Celgene Corporation Cerner Corporation Cerulean Pharma Inc. Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Children's Hospital Boston Church & Dwight Co., Inc. Cigna City Health Works... View Details

23 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 23

accelerate growth. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509049 The Jenner Situation Harvard Business School Case 809-070 Dr. Bill Lemont is the new chief medical officer of a large academic View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

Assistant Professor of Business Administration Kaplan's co-authored 2021 article, “Accounting for Climate Change,” introduced the E-liability carbon accounting system for measuring corporate supply chain emissions and won Harvard Business... View Details

14 Jan 2019
Op-Ed

These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership

Mayo Clinic in 2009, the world-famous medical center was struggling financially. Congress would soon be negotiating the terms of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Obama Administration’s signature health care legislation. From the outset,... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Health; Banking; Food & Beverage; Consumer Products

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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

destination. In order to establish greater connection with their customers, the company decided to distribute directly to dealers. Those selling Land Cameras quickly learned the benefits of a system that could take a photograph and... View Details

03 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 3

auditor for both the financial and nonfinancial information contained in the integrated report, but these are covered by separate assurance opinions. Among the challenges of providing an integrated audit is getting the internal measurement and control View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Strategy for Health Care Delivery - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

rather than medical specialties Optimize costs through accurate measurement and reporting Apply the concept of Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) to measure health care costs and outcomes Design and implement a bundled payment... View Details

29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

research agenda to systematically address the social welfare implications of financial innovation. To complement existing empirical and theoretical methods, we propose that scholars examine case studies of systemic (widely adopted)... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2024
News

The War Within

psychiatric treatments for PTSD and found Michael Pollan’s How to Change Your Mind, about the new science of psychedelic drugs. “I am not an ‘underground person’ by nature, but I knew I had nothing to lose,” she says. Ames connected with View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

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Key Stakeholders - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Employers Suppliers Policymakers Key Stakeholders We advocate that the goal of any health care system should be to increase the value it delivers to patients. This is the underlying thesis of Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based... View Details

12 Apr 2022
Blog Post

The Many Languages of Medicine to Impact Care Delivery

Ted Obi (MS/MBA 2023) is a current MBA student at HBS and a third year medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His previous experiences include co-founding Melanin Doc, a non-profit supporting the next generation... View Details

07 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The Better Way to Forecast the Future

connecting passengers. The system allows airport and airline officials to address likely bottlenecks before the security or immigration queues back up, and identify passengers at risk of missing connecting flights. Using real-time data... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation

23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

formulate strategy in large, evolving technical systems. I argue that the points of value creation and value capture in a technical system are the system’s bottlenecks. Bottlenecks arise first as important technical problems to be solved.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

January 2025
Case

A Tiger in the Tank: Exxon Sues Investors

By: Clayton S. Rose, Sarah Sasso and James Weber

In June 2024, investors were trying to make sense of ExxonMobil’s (Exxon) lawsuit against two impact investors, Arjuna Capital (Arjuna) and Follow This, that had just been dismissed by the U.S. District Court of Northern Texas. Exxon’s suit challenged the rights of two... View Details

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01 Jun 2023
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From Big Pharma to Startup

pitch their experience and skills to each other. That’s how Goble met Dr. Wayne Lencer, a Harvard Medical School professor who had spent a decade developing technology to enable the oral delivery of biological medicines—therapies created... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

the core tensions of strategy execution, including how to balance growth, profit, and control Design measurement systems for every dimension of business performance Identify and manage risks that could derail strategy execution Empower... View Details

30 Apr 2020
Book

Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy

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Research - Health Care

Right Incentives. By: Susanna Gallani and Derek A. Haas Health care organizations have long tried to enlist physicians in their effort to control or reduce costs. One effective means for doing so is to create an incentive system that... View Details

05 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

wondered if there were biological or physiological factors that could help to explain the misconduct that we see so frequently in the real world” A new study reveals two key discoveries about the link between the endocrine system and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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