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Fast Facts - Health Care

Health Care MBA Health Care Club 600+ Students engaged in Health Care Club... View Details

13 Jul 2011
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Experimental Researcher Helps Improve Health Care in Zambia

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: by Roger Thompson; Health

02 Nov 2016
News

How Health Care Hurts Your Paycheck

04 Jan 2021
Working Paper Summaries

Hospital Allocation and Racial Disparities in Health Care

Keywords: by Amitabh Chandra, Pragya Kakani, and Adam Sacarny; Health

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Recruiting Partners - Health Care

Careers Recruiting Partners Our recruiting partners include leading biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device, and diagnostic companies, as well as financial services, consulting, health care delivery,... View Details

Retailers and Health Systems Can Improve Care Together

Health systems are struggling to address the many shortcomings of health care delivery: rapidly growing costs, inconsistent quality, and inadequate and unequal access to primary and other types of care. However, if retailers and health... View Details

01 Jun 2011
News

Racial Bias Pervades Health Care

Distinguished Professor of Medical Education and professor of orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School and was the first African American department chief at Harvard’s teaching hospitals. In his new book, Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Health, Social Assistance

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Consumerism and the Distributed Delivery of Health Care

By: Robert S. Huckman

This stream of Professor Huckman's work examines the growing tendency for health care to be delivered in a more distributed manner. Examples of this phenomenon include health IT, teleradiology, medical travel, remote monitoring of chronic medical conditions, and retail... View Details

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Health Care Club | MBA

Health Care Club Our mission is to promote the image of HBS as an institution that produces leaders who have an impact in the business of health care. This mission is achieved... View Details

01 Apr 2007
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Book Review: Redefining Health Care

23 Jun 2015
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Overview of HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation

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Innovation and Performance Improvement in Health Care

By: Robert S. Huckman

This stream of Professor Huckman's work examines how organizations delivering health care can structure and manage their activities to improve operational performance. It addresses issues including the impact of various forms of familiarity on performance, the impact... View Details

February 2012 (Revised June 2013)
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Moving to Universal Coverage: Health Care Reform in Massachusetts

By: Michael E. Porter and Jennifer F Baron

State health care reform in Massachusetts has involved a phased process, focusing first on coverage expansion and then turning to delivery system innovation and cost containment. In 2006, the state adopted an individual mandate to obtain health care coverage which,... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Business and Government Relations; Insurance; Massachusetts

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Purchase

21 Nov 2016
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Giving Patients an Active Role in Their Health Care

16 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Health Care Club: Summer Spotlight

effort. What course are you most excited to take when you're back at HBS? Something out of my comfort zone i.e. not in Health Care. This blog post was originally published in the HBS Health View Details

Keywords: Health Care

27 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care

Harvard Business School spends a significant amount of research funds each year on the health care industry, answering questions such as: How can the business of health View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Health

September 2013 (Revised October 2016)
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A Note on Healthcare IT and Applications to the Healthcare Industry

By: Robert F. Higgins and Diana Maichin

This note provides an overview of three key healthcare IT areas: electronic medical records and electronic health records, revenue cycle management, and telemedicine. This note also contains a glossary of key terms and acronyms in this space as well as exhibits... View Details