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  • January 2024
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Evaluating Innovations in the Organization of Primary Care: What Type of Innovation Is It and How Well Does It Align with the Six Factors?

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace
How can we evaluate if innovative health care ventures can do good—benefit society—and do well—become financially viable? This question is the topic of the first module in the Innovating in Health Care course book.

This note and "Health Stop (A): What Type... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Health Care and Treatment; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Mission and Purpose; Alignment; Health Industry
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Herzlinger, Regina E., and James Wallace. "Evaluating Innovations in the Organization of Primary Care: What Type of Innovation Is It and How Well Does It Align with the Six Factors?" Harvard Business School Background Note 324-037, January 2024.
  • 13 Nov 2015
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If CEOs Care About the Long Term, Why Don’t They Talk About It?

  • September 2014 (Revised March 2021)
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La Ribera Health Department (A)

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Emer Moloney and Daniela Beyersdorfer
The La Ribera case studies depict an innovative low cost/high quality privately financed hospital model struggling to achieve alignment with the Six Factors. It is reimbursed by the public sector in a Spanish environment whose Consumers, Structure, and Public Policy... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Financing; Health Care Industry; Health Care Operations; Health Care and Treatment; Operations; Business Model; Government and Politics; Programs; Innovation Strategy; Vertical Integration; Health Industry; Europe; Spain
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Herzlinger, Regina E., Emer Moloney, and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "La Ribera Health Department (A)." Harvard Business School Case 315-006, September 2014. (Revised March 2021.)
  • 09 Mar 2018
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Cigna to Buy Express Scripts in $52 Billion Health Care Deal

  • December 2018
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The Global-Local Tension: Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao Leading with 'International Values and Local Roots' (B)

By: Tsedal Neeley
Vittorio Colao, CEO of telecommunication giant Vodafone, must respond to reports of disturbing accounting practices at two of Vodafone’s operating companies. In one case, €60 million have been misreported due to a series of failures to check manual accounting... View Details
Keywords: GLOBAL-LOCAL; Global Identity; Local Identity; Accounting Discrepency; Globalization; Leadership; Trust; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Organizations; Identity; Local Range; Global Range; Values and Beliefs; Accounting Audits
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Neeley, Tsedal. "The Global-Local Tension: Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao Leading with 'International Values and Local Roots' (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 419-032, December 2018.
  • February 8, 2022
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Time-Driven Activity-Based Cost Comparison of Treating Five Acute, Low-Severity Conditions

By: Alan Yang, Andy Hung-Yi Lee, Joseph W. Kopp, Katherine D. Rose, Adam M. Licurse, Philip D. Anderson and Robert S. Kaplan
In 2017, patients made 145 million visits to emergency departments (EDs), generating $76.3 billion in charges. About a third of ED visits, however, were for conditions that were treatable in lower-resourced settings. We used time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC)... View Details
Keywords: Time-Driven ABC; Health Care Costs; Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Care and Treatment
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Yang, Alan, Andy Hung-Yi Lee, Joseph W. Kopp, Katherine D. Rose, Adam M. Licurse, Philip D. Anderson, and Robert S. Kaplan. "Time-Driven Activity-Based Cost Comparison of Treating Five Acute, Low-Severity Conditions." NEJM Catalyst (February 8, 2022).
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How Does Accountability Affect Mission? The Case of a Nonprofit Serving Immigrants and Refugees

By: Rachel Christensen and Alnoor Ebrahim
Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Nonprofit Organizations; Refugees; Demography
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Christensen, Rachel, and Alnoor Ebrahim. "How Does Accountability Affect Mission? The Case of a Nonprofit Serving Immigrants and Refugees." Nonprofit Management & Leadership 17, no. 2 (Winter 2006).
  • 06 Sep 2018
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Should US Companies Still Care About the Paris Climate Change Agreement?

Keywords: Re: Vincent Pons; Manufacturing; Mining
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Pushing decision authority downward and increasing employee autonomy have become watchwords for the modern organization. Leaders of contemporary organizations view efforts to replace “command and control” systems with less-hierarchical approaches to organizing as... View Details
Keywords: Formalization; Teams; Decentralization; Hierarchy; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Self-managing Organizations; Future Of Work; Flat Organization
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Surgeons and Administrators Co-Creating Value

By: Michael Nurok, Thoralf Sundt, Robert S. Kaplan and Bruce Gewertz
Most hospitals have arms-length relationships with physicians, viewing them as people they must ‘‘manage,’’ not as potentially valuable strategic partners. But surgeons make clinical decisions every day that have great influence on both patient outcomes and hospital... View Details
Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Collaboration; Healthcare Administration; Health Care and Treatment; Management; Strategy; Value Creation
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Nurok, Michael, Thoralf Sundt, Robert S. Kaplan, and Bruce Gewertz. "Surgeons and Administrators Co-Creating Value." Annals of Surgery 274, no. 6 (December 2021).
  • 20 Dec 2021
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Care Is Needed to Ensure the Hybrid Office Works for All

  • August, 2022
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Billing and Insurance-Related Administrative Costs: A Cross-National Analysis

By: Barak D. Richman, Robert S. Kaplan, Japees Kohli, Dennis Purcell, Mahek Shah, Igna Bonfrer, Brian Golden, Rosemary Hannam, Will Mitchell, Daniel Cehic, Garry Crispin and Kevin A. Schulman
Billing and insurance-related costs are a significant source of wasteful health care spending in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development nations, but these administrative burdens vary across national systems. We executed a microlevel accounting of these... View Details
Keywords: Health Care Costs; Administrative Costs; Cost; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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Richman, Barak D., Robert S. Kaplan, Japees Kohli, Dennis Purcell, Mahek Shah, Igna Bonfrer, Brian Golden, Rosemary Hannam, Will Mitchell, Daniel Cehic, Garry Crispin, and Kevin A. Schulman. "Billing and Insurance-Related Administrative Costs: A Cross-National Analysis." Health Affairs 41, no. 8 (August, 2022): 1098–1106.
  • 26 Jan 2021
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Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response

FemTech, the segment of the health care and life sciences industry focused on women’s health. A combined 175 alumni attended the discussions which featured alumni panelists who are investing in, or leading, companies in the FemTech space.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

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  • March 2018
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Sandra Brown Goes Digital (A): The Promise and Perils of Social Movements in a Healthcare Company

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
As a middle manager at a biotechnology company, Sandra Brown harnessed digital tools and social media to engage others and build campaigns for change in the company. This case follows her career at the company and describes the challenges she faced as a change agent,... View Details
Keywords: Digital; Engagement; Stakeholder Engagement; Grassroots Movement; Organization Change And Adaptation; Quality; Health Care; Health Care Industry; Career Path; Leading Change; Management; Innovation and Management; Personal Development and Career; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Biotechnology Industry; Health Industry
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Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Jonathan Cohen. "Sandra Brown Goes Digital (A): The Promise and Perils of Social Movements in a Healthcare Company." Harvard Business School Case 318-082, March 2018.
  • 01 Oct 2024
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Choosing Passion: A Founder’s Mission to Meet a Need for Obesity Care

  • 13 Mar 2025
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Advancing Health Care Innovation and Impact with Anita Gupta (GMP 29, 2020)

lasting impact in health care. As a physician anesthesiologist and pharmacist, I had spent years advocating for access to care, navigating complex health care systems, and working on policies to address the opioid crisis. But I knew that... View Details
  • 02 Sep 2014
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Many of the best ideas for improving health care are quite simple

better together than people who haven’t—and most organizations could do a far better job of exploiting this simple but powerful insight,” he says. Huckman’s research points to five factors that make team familiarity powerful: the ability... View Details
  • 14 May 2018
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HBS Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator Brings Together Five Leading Cancer Organizations to Engage Patients and Accelerate Precision Medicine across Cancers

  • March 2023 (Revised November 2023)
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The Social Purpose of the Firm

By: Debora L. Spar and Julia M. Comeau
The Social Purpose of the Firm (SPF) is a short module designed to explore how, and under what circumstances, business leaders can harness the power of capitalism and markets to “make a difference in the world” – that is, to address a significant societal problem as a... View Details
Keywords: Social Accounting; Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Enterprise; Mission and Purpose; United States; Sweden; Kenya; Netherlands
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Spar, Debora L., and Julia M. Comeau. "The Social Purpose of the Firm." Harvard Business School Module Note 323-051, March 2023. (Revised November 2023.)
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