Publications

April 2009
Case

Performance Management at Intermountain Healthcare

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Alexander Romney

Intermountain Healthcare is a 21-hospital integrated delivery system serving Utah and southern Idaho that is nationally recognized for its highly structured approach to managing the quality of clinical care. This case describes Intermountain's system for improving... View Details

Keywords: Financial Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Standards; Service Delivery; Outcome or Result; Motivation and Incentives; Health Industry; Idaho; Utah

20 Mar 2018
News

Seeing a Way Forward

Daphne Leger (MBA 2012), director of continuous improvement for Mexico-based social enterprise salauno, uses her business savvy to bring affordable eye care to those who most need it. “I firmly believe that business has a key role to play... View Details

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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Health Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld... View Details

21 Dec 2012
News

Kathy Giusti's Quest for a Cure

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

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News Coverage - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Health Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld... View Details

November 2005 (Revised November 2005)
Case

Massachusetts General Hospital and the Enbrel Royalty

By: David S. Scharfstein and Darren R. Smart

Massachusetts General Hospital is considering selling its royalty interest in Enbrel, Amgen's blockbuster drug for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. In assessing whether to sell, and at what price, the hospital must determine its value to a potential buyer as well... View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Price; Investment Return; Capital; Value; Revenue; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Health Industry; Massachusetts

July 2019
Case

Piramal Foundation: The Business of Philanthropy

By: Vikram Gandhi and Mahima Rao-Kachroo

The Piramal Foundation was launched by diversfied Indian conglomerate, the Piramal Group, to improve the healthcare services and quality of education of India’s economically and socially disadvantaged. The foundation operates under three verticals—‘Piramal Foundation... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Education; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Improvement; Growth and Development Strategy; Education Industry; Education Industry; India

24 Apr 2014
News

Giving hope and inspiration to cancer patients around the globe

Every new day is a good day for Kathryn E. Giusti (MBA 1985) since that morning in 1996 when her oncologist told her to get her affairs in order because she had a rare blood cancer, with three years to live. Leveraging her past experience as a pharmaceutical View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

The Ascent of Money

their support and concerns. Your Taxi Is Waiting Will a new category of “very light jets” shake up the business of flying? Three HBS entrepreneurs hope so. A look at the ups and downs of building the air-taxi industry in a turbulent... View Details

15 Nov 2016
News

Enabling the Dream of Building A Healthy Future for India

Surabhi Bhandari (photo by Susan Young) Surabhi Bhandari (photo by Susan Young) Surabhi Bhandari (MBA 2017) wants to launch a medical technology startup in India that will help revolutionize health care in... View Details

November 2009 (Revised January 2011)
Case

International AIDS Vaccine Initiative

By: Allen S. Grossman and Cathy Ross

Dedicated to accelerating the development of a safe, effective, accessible, preventive HIV vaccine, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) pioneered ways of addressing the inadequate incentive structures that prevented progress toward vaccines for AIDS and... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Globalized Firms and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Business and Government Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Research and Development; Social Enterprise; Health Industry

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Fast Facts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care View Details

June 2007
Article

Efficient Kidney Exchange: Coincidence of Wants in a Structured Market

By: A. E. Roth, Tayfun Sonmez and M. Utku Unver

Patients needing kidney transplants may have donors who cannot donate to them because of blood or tissue incompatibility. Incompatible patient-donor pairs can exchange donor kidneys with other pairs only when there is a "double coincidence of wants." Developing... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Structure; Size; Emotions; Human Needs; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Infrastructure; Supply Chain Management; Fairness; Performance Improvement; Health Industry

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November 2012
Supplement

Amylin Pharmaceuticals (B)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Amylin Pharmaceuticals brought two first-in-class diabetes drugs to market, Byetta and Symlin, in 2005, which were sold in over 80 countries with $650.7 million in sales by 2011. However, the company remained unprofitable as sales plateaued. The small pharmaceutical... View Details

Keywords: Pharmaceuticals; Bristol-Myers Squibb; Health Care and Treatment; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States

01 Mar 2006
News

MD/MBA Program Launched

will produce “a new generation of leaders in health care.” Graduates of the program, whose enrollment will increase over time, will be encouraged to practice medicine before becoming senior executives in hospitals, health-care... View Details

Keywords: MD/MBA joint-degree program; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

07 Feb 2018
News

Athenahealth Taps Former GE CEO Jeff Immelt as Chairman

Photo via BostInno Photo via BostInno Former General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt (MBA 1982) has been tapped as the new chairman of athenahealth, the Massachusetts-based health care IT company founded by... View Details

Keywords: Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

July 2004
Supplement

World Vision International: The AIDS Initiative

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

Management discusses the organizational and governance challenges of operating a global network of partner organizations. Then key managers reflect on the decision World Vision must make on the AIDS Hope Initiative--a new strategic direction that challenges many of the... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Goals and Objectives; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Problems and Challenges; Core Relationships; Welfare; Value; Health Industry