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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Action Plan: Net Proceeds
was designed to provide business expertise to places in need; Goodwin brought his emergency-response experience to provide safe water systems and support medical programs. Months later, he was alarmed by a cholera outbreak rapidly... View Details
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Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog
understanding the fundamental improvement challenges facing the health care sector and developing strategies for addressing them. Students may have career interests in organizations that provide health care (e.g., hospitals, medical... View Details
- 04 Dec 2014
- News
Hacking Health Care
The health care industry needs so much improvement, it will take a whole movement to fix it. “The more leaders, the better,” says Luc Sirois (MBA 1997), who sees progress coming not through a single organization, but rather from groups of passionate View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
payments—single payments that cover all the care for a patient’s medical condition or treatment over a specified timeframe—are increasingly being deployed to motivate the delivery of better patient outcomes at lower costs. Hoag Orthopedic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Apr 2014
- News
The Puzzle of Life
really? It's just a school. But they were right. HBS didn't change who I am as a person, but it opened doors and showed me things that I didn't even know existed." Farquharson explains that InCube Ventures follows the model of a typical... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
patients’ needs. Today’s doctors work in a system where they are rewarded by Medicare and insurance companies for the number and cost of the services they provide rather than by the value of those services in helping patients. In short, View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
fundamental business model has not changed in more than 100 years: very smart outsiders go into organizations for a finite period of time and recommend solutions for the most difficult problems confronting their clients. But at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
PORTER: Health care's zero-sum competition model adds costs and results in severe quality problems. University professor Michael Porter never planned to write a book on health-care reform. In fact, he expected brickbats in response to a... View Details
- 20 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
What is the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program? A Q&A with Bill Anderson, Senior Lecturer on Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
train a cadre of leaders prepared to deal with the broadest issues at the interface of biology and society. In the curriculum, there will be a particular emphasis on medical problems in currently underserved populations, as part of... View Details
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Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
joint venture with a community hospital to establish Hoag Orthopedic Institute, a for-profit hospital and two ambulatory service centers. By controlling and integrating all aspects of the patients' medical treatment, the physicians... View Details
- 04 May 2020
- Blog Post
Crisis Leadership with Nikhil Patel: The Critical Importance of Trust
immediately ahead. “I had to figure out how to set up isolation and quarantine sites for two to three thousand homeless people, sheltered and unsheltered,” he says. “I made epidemiological models to estimate the number of rooms we needed,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
and hand sanitizer to every household in the city of Chelsea. We’re staffing a hotel that the cities of Chelsea and Revere have rented for people who need to be quarantined, and we’re providing medical and nursing care there. We are doing... View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
correlated with less individualism. We provide three short models that help interpret this correlation. One implication of this finding is that societies that depend heavily on oil, and perhaps natural resources more generally, will... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 May 2020
- Blog Post
Crisis Leadership with Nikhil Patel: The Critical Importance of Trust
immediately ahead. “I had to figure out how to set up isolation and quarantine sites for two to three thousand homeless people, sheltered and unsheltered,” he says. “I made epidemiological models to estimate the number of rooms we needed,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
they have. The accelerator brings together research foundations with relevant datasets and analytics companies to leverage the latest in artificial intelligence and machine learning, with the ultimate goal of identifying models that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
played in improving eating disorder care over time. It ends with a discussion of Schön's innovative bundled reimbursement models and challenges the reader to explore how to develop new pricing and care delivery View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
medical advances. The effect of the ban, experts say, has been to slow research and drive it into areas where it is supported in patchwork fashion by academic institutions, individual states, private firms, and foundations. Stem cells... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
tractable endogenous growth framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multi-product firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in exploration R&D to acquire new product lines and exploitation R&D to improve their existing product lines. We View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Profile
Inessa Lurye
medical professionals listen and observe more deeply.” This approach reflects “human-centered design” and aims to direct design away from “one size fits all” product models and toward “creating experiences... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
business, organizational, financial, and institutional problems,” West recalls. Since Harvard University, with its medical school, teaching hospitals, and Nobel Prize winners, is perhaps the world’s leading institution when it comes to... View Details