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16 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?

technologies, industries, and organizations. He has also conducted extensive research on the watch industry. Raffaelli weighs in below on everything from battery life to the Apple Watch's implications for the health care industry. Read an... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ryan L. Raffaelli; Health; Health; Health

13 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Making Biotech Work as a Business

No matter how you slice the numbers, all arrows in biotechnology's financial performance after twenty years are still pointing downward, said HBS professor Gary P. Pisano recently. Despite the great promise of the sector—to improve the understanding of disease,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Health; Health

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

vulnerable families and individuals are suffering from job losses, mental health issues, and food shortages due to significant disruptions in the food system.” SecondBite is a national food relief organization committed to “ending waste,... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

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

November 2009 (Revised December 2009)
Case

GTC Biotherapeutics: Developing Medicines in the Milk of Goats

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Sarah Morton

GTC is the first company in the animal world to receive FDA approval of a transgenic pharmaceutical. What are the implications for other firms in plants and animals and their opportunities to produce new medicines in an economical and safe fashion? View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Science-Based Business; Medical Specialties; Product; Technological Innovation; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States

summer 1985
Article

High-tech Cardiology-Issues and Costs: A Panel Discussion

By: Lynn Sharp Paine and George L. Atkins

Keywords: Health; Cost; Technology; Health Industry

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Naiyya Saggi

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I am passionate about creating social impact (specifically improving healthcare outcomes in emerging economies). At HBS, leadership is not interpreted narrowly: it is not sectoral, geographic or time bound. That is what... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care

01 Jun 2020
News

Inside Out

Spaces Drive Performance and Creativity, coauthored with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Assistant Professor Joe Allen. “Public health is obviously directly connected to society’s success in... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

01 Mar 2012
News

Sun Dress

Barrow that this cohort often ignores doctors’ recommendations that they use sunscreen. “We wanted to super-focus on this customer, who sort of has this health problem and is not going to want to shop at a discount store,” said Barrow,... View Details

Keywords: skin cancer; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2014
News

Forecasting ’15

Health Care: Data-Driven Diagnosis Robert Wah (AMP 175, 2008) President, American Medical Association; Global Chief Medical Officer, Computer Sciences Corporation “We’re entering the third phase of health... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

November 2016 (Revised April 2017)
Case

Hygeia Group: Delivering Quality Care in Nigeria

By: Robert F. Higgins and Ifedayo O. Kuye

Fola Laoye is the Group Managing Director of Hygeia Group, a Nigerian healthcare insurer and provider, and she is deciding on the optimal strategy to grow the provider arm of her business. Hygeia Group was founded in the 1980s by her physician parents, and although... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare; Healthcare Industry; Hospitals; Nigeria; Health Care and Treatment; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry; Nigeria

Article

Applying the Balanced Scorecard in Healthcare Provider Organizations

By: Syeda Noorein Inamdar and Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Health; Organizations; Health Industry

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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

March 2022 (Revised March 2024)
Case

DaVita Responds to COVID

By: Susanna Gallani and David Lane

Early in August 2021, DaVita CEO Javier Rodriguez was assessing the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on his firm, which provided life-sustaining kidney dialysis to roughly 240,000 people. Effective infection control practices and information sharing had ensured... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Change Management; Communication; Talent and Talent Management; Fairness; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Health Care and Treatment; Health Pandemics; Human Resources; Employee Relationship Management; Retention; Wages; Working Conditions; Leadership Style; Crisis Management; Organizational Culture; Health Industry; United States