Health Care Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Sep 2021
News

Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania

reach all of the 50 million patients who use the government primary care system in Tanzania. He also sees opportunity in other countries in the region such as Kenya, Uganda, and Nigeria, as well as in working with private View Details

Keywords: April White

28 Nov 2016
News

One Obstacle to Curing Cancer

Keywords: cancer; data sharing; precision medicine; healthcare; technology; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

18 Nov 2014
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Touching the lives of patients and their loved ones

Ebru Dorman (MBA 1999) is deputy CEO of the largest private health care provider in Turkey, focused on improving the patient experience. She is also working to introduce the “softer skills” into the primary... View Details

31 May 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Demystifying the Math of the Coronavirus

Keywords: by Elon Kohlberg and Abraham Neyman; Health

28 Jun 2010
HBS Case

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

well, because the senior team is tackling important problems and engaging people throughout the organization in solving them." One of the key players is Dr. Uma Kotagal, a neonatologist with a deep-seated passion for improving the quality of View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

19 Oct 2011
News

A Good Look

dominate almost every industry that touches people. Food, supplements, personal care — we have to be at the table to talk about what ‘natural’ means. Many consumers assume it means safe, but that’s not... View Details

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

24 Apr 2014
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Fighting the diabetes epidemic using mobile phones

people worldwide who suffer from this often-fatal disease. With a goal of reversing “diabesity”—the twin epidemic of diabetes and obesity that is engulfing the developing world—Jana Care is building biosensors and software apps that can... View Details

26 Aug 2016
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Improving Wellness Through Better Nutrition

With a background in consumer health care at Johnson & Johnson, when Beth Burrough (MBA 1991) joined Mom’s Meals Nourishcare as a partner and chief marketing officer in 2006, she already understood the... View Details

May 2012 (Revised February 2014)
Teaching Note

Learning About Reducing Hospital Mortality at Kaiser Permanente

By: Anita Carson Tucker

Keywords: Patient Safety; Process Improvement; Standardization; Organizational Learning; Knowledge Development; Safety; Knowledge Management; Health Care and Treatment; Business Processes; Health Industry

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January 1991
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Prepare/21 at Beth Israel Hospital (B)

Describes the president's long-term goals for improving employee awareness and understanding of the plan. View Details

Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Health Care and Treatment; Employees; Health Industry

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01 Dec 2019
News

The Race Against Resistance

resistance, we will fall back to a time when simple infections killed people.” “We are approaching a cliff. If we don’t take steps to slow down or stop drug resistance, we will fall back to a time when simple infections killed people.” The World View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

February 2012
Background Note

The Market for Healthcare

By: Joseph L. Bower and Michael Norris

Keywords: Markets; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

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May 1994
Teaching Note

Brush with AIDS, A (A) & (B) TN

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Jerry Useem

Teaching Note for (9-394-058) and (9-394-059). View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Ethics; Health Industry

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07 Jul 2020
Cold Call Podcast

SmileDirect Looks Beyond Direct-to-Consumer Marketing

Keywords: Health

November 2013
Teaching Note

Vitalia Franchise

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Ownership; Expansion; Health; Health Industry; Spain

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11 May 2017
News

Going with the Flow

with a team on a new idea in the health IT space—one she believes has the potential to increase the quality of patient care, while lowering costs by giving control of health View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

2010
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New Sources in Living Kidney Donation

By: Ruthanne L. Hanto, Alvin E. Roth, M. Utku Ünver and Francis L. Delmonico

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Health Industry

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November 1990 (Revised February 1991)
Case

Commonwealth Blood Transfusion Service

For the first time, the Commonwealth Blood Transfusion Service (CBTS) has to determine product costs for the output of its plasma fractionation center. The motivation for determining product costs is political in nature. Therefore, the CBTS has to find a way to report... View Details

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

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