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Balancing Work & Life - Alumni

primary care physician for recommendations. If you live near a university, you can reach out to their counseling center for recommendations of therapists in the area as well. Additionally, below are resources to help you. How to Choose a... View Details

22 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Side Effects: The Case of Propecia

physicians, using the company's army of field representatives. The problem of so-called "detailing" to physicians was that the sales reps have literally a few minutes or even seconds to pitch directly to the doctor, and are... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Pharmaceutical

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Published CSV Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

its retail stores. In 2015, the U.S. health care system continued to evolve. Health systems were expanding and consolidating, new health care delivery models were emerging, reimbursement was changing, while some physician lobbying groups... View Details

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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement

severe nosebleeds being one of the most common. My mother’s nosebleeds started to intensify after having us, and although we lived in an area with great access to care, there were no physicians that recognized the disorder. Finally, after... View Details

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Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

new relationships with payers, hospitals, and physicians to become more accountable for patient outcomes and total costs. The case describes new forms of... May 2018 HBS Case Collection Kaiser Permanente Colorado: Primary Care Plus by... View Details

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Doubling Down on Women’s Health Innovation and Leveraging the Private Sector in a Post-Roe v. Wade Era - Blog: Health Supplement

care, companies in states with restrictive abortion laws having a harder time attracting female employees, communities with more families entrenched in poverty . From a clinical standpoint, physicians in restrictive states have become... View Details

12 Apr 2022
Blog Post

The Many Languages of Medicine to Impact Care Delivery

alongside physicians and students alike who believed there was a dire need to leverage technology to address the social needs of the patients we cared for. Our mission for the DIH is to support innovation that addresses social... View Details

02 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity

and possibly took African American patients to different hospitals than their white neighbors. Primary care physicians recommended these hospitals. Patients’ families had long histories of receiving care at these institutions, a holdover... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

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Student Activities - Health Care

together more than 600 students, alumni, and professionals, plus 30 speakers from diverse areas of health care. Physician Shadow Program Enables students who are interested in health care delivery to shadow View Details

25 Aug 2014
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Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981

value of education, changing the world through entrepreneurship, and finding meaning by helping others. Dahod’s first taste of entrepreneurship came as a teenager, when he helped his physician father produce and distribute medication that... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success

you've ever received? The way my father lived his life was very important to me. He was a gifted physician who spent most of his life doing research and teaching, turning his back on the more lucrative aspects of his profession. He was an... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

every medical student is now required to master. The medical school curriculum proceeds from the premise that in order to diagnose and treat disease, the would-be physician must have a firm grounding in what science (or, perhaps more... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

28 Mar 2016
Blog Post

Why I Chose to Pursue an MD/MBA at Harvard

like escalating costs. I soon realized that this was the issue I wanted to work on in medicine. I didn’t yet know what kind of physician I wanted to be, but I knew that this issue of increasing costs would affect me and my patients... View Details

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

Radio-frequency identification devices for grocery stores, smart cards, and automated ordering systems for hospital physicians are all examples of new process targets that technologies will soon address. In the more distant future we will... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

Kaiser [Permanente's] Dr. [Kim] Adcock, it is not enough just to know that a particular physician is making more than the acceptable number of errors [in misread x-rays]. Unless deeper analysis of the nature of the radiologists' errors is... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

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Student Spotlight: 2023 HCC Co-Presidents Reflect on Their Time at HBS and the Current Health Care Systems - Blog: Health Supplement

in healthcare, which will require enormous systems change. What industry of health care are you most interested in? I will be continuing my training as a medical doctor for the next decade or so, and am interested in remaining in the care delivery space. I think the... View Details

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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

American College of Physician Executives in 2008 in recognition of her many contributions to the advancement of medical management. Rosabeth M. Kanter : Awarded an Honorary Doctoral degree by Aalborg University, Denmark, in November 2008.... View Details

20 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting the Marketing Mix Right

they studied the three primary ways these drugs were marketed by Pfizer, Merk, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and AstraZeneca: "detailing," in which drug firm representatives personally visit physicians to sell the drug; at professional... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 Sep 2019
Blog Post

The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact

pressures, such as physician workload, financial constraints, insurance regulations, and policy decisions. —Bobbie Collins Claire Wagner In pursuing her joint degree from Harvard’s medical and business schools, Claire Wagner, a rising... View Details

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