Publications

Educators

September 2010 (Revised February 2014)
Case

The Global Sight Initiative

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

How to replicate a 'one of' social entrepreneurship effort: To cure blindness, Seva took the Aravind Eye Hospital & scaled it up to 100 hospitals globally. View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Medical Specialties; Health Care and Treatment; Globalization; Health Industry

Educators

May 2007 (Revised September 2007)
Case

Cleveland Clinic

By: Frances X. Frei, Amy C. Edmondson, Christine van Keuren and Eliot Sherman

Cleveland Clinic is consistently ranked among the nation's most eminent hospitals, and for decades has been a leader in pioneering cardiac care. This case evaluates the methods, processes, and personnel that the hospital has cultivated over the years in order to... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Innovation and Invention; Service Delivery; Expansion; Health Industry; Cleveland

Educators

March 3, 2005
Article

Adopting New Technologies: Turf Battles in Coronary Revascularization

By: Robert S. Huckman and Gary P. Pisano

Keywords: Information Technology; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

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01 Mar 2008
News

Conference Examines Intersection of Medicine and Business

With a focus on cutting-edge ideas shaping global health care, the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association drew some 300 participants to its annual three-day conference in early November, held for the first... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

25 Apr 2014
News

Laser focus on medical breakthroughs

Dr. Marlene Krauss (MBA 1967, MD 1979) is one of the first female graduates of HBS and the first person to hold both an MD and an MBA degree from Harvard University. She combines business skills and medical knowledge in her work as a leading View Details

April 1985 (Revised May 1993)
Case

Center for Nutritional Research

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Nutrition; Research; Health Industry

1977
Chapter

Cost Benefit Analysis of Surgery: Some Additional Caveats and Interpretation

By: Jerry R. Green

Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

January 2020
Teaching Note

GeBBS Healthcare Solutions: Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind? (A) and (B)

By: Shai Benjamin Bernstein

This teaching note is meant to accompany “GeBBS Healthcare Solutions: Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind? (A),” HBS No. 820-041, and “GeBBS Healthcare Solutions: Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind? (B),” HBS No. 820-074. The cases follow Nitin Thakor, President... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Acquisition; Decision Making; Health Industry

May 2016
Article

How the Affordable Care Act Has Affected Cancer Care in the United States: Has Value for Cancer Patients Improved?

By: Stephen M. Schleicher, Nancy M. Wood, Seohyun Lee and Thomas W. Feeley

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), passed in 2010, contained a number of provisions with potential to directly or indirectly affect cancer care. Value for patients was widely discussed throughout the bill, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid... View Details

Keywords: Value; Laws and Statutes; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States

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18 May 2015
News

The First Five Years: Rena Xu (MBA 2014, MD 2014)

patient and doctor has few parallels, and I am sure my appreciation of it will only continue to grow as I advance in my career. “HBS greatly enriched my understanding of the challenges and opportunities in health care today. It’s an... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

August 2017
Article

Effective Leadership of Surgical Teams: A Mixed Methods Study of Surgeon Behaviors and Functions

By: J. Stone, E. Aveling, M. Frean, M. Shields, C. Wright, F. Gino, T. Sundt and S.J. Singer

The importance of effective team leadership for achieving surgical excellence is widely accepted, but we understand less about the behaviors that achieve this goal. We studied cardiac surgical teams to identify leadership behaviors that best support surgical teamwork.... View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Leadership; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

February 1998 (Revised April 1999)
Case

Medical Consultants Network, Inc.

By: Paul W. Marshall and Jefferson C. Grahling

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry

September 2016
Article

Communicating Value in Healthcare Using Radar Charts: A Case Study of Prostate Cancer

By: Nikhil G. Thaker, Tariq N. Ali, Michael E. Porter, Thomas W. Feeley, Robert S. Kaplan and Steven J. Frank

Question: Can we create a value-based tool to visualize the outcomes and cost of various treatments that could facilitate patient-centered decision making?

Summary Answer: We developed a standardized value framework by using radar charts to visualize and... View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

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Article

New Physicians: A Natural Experiment in Market Organization

By: A. E. Roth

Keywords: Markets; Organizations; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

Article

Innovations à l'hôpital: perspectives américaines [Hospital Innovations: U.S. Perspectives]

By: Maryaline Catillon

Keywords: Hospital Management; Innovation; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Management; Health Industry