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- March 2014 (Revised September 2014)
- Supplement
Cancer Treatment Centers of America® (B)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Natalie Kindred
This case, a follow-up to Cancer Treatment Centers of America (A), HBS No. 313-012, begins with the debate over New Hampshire's certificate-of-need (CON) law, which restricts hospital expansion. This debate ignited significant public criticism of Cancer Treatment... View Details
Keywords: Cancer; Cancer Treatment; Accountability; Outcomes; Outcomes Reporting; Outcomes Measurement; Survival; For-profit Hospitals; Health Care; Healthcare; Hospital; Certificate Of Need; Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Corporate Accountability; Policy; Health Industry; United States
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Natalie Kindred. "Cancer Treatment Centers of America® (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 314-003, March 2014. (Revised September 2014.)
- February 2010
- Teaching Note
Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center: Breast Cancer Care in Taiwan (TN)
By: Michael E. Porter and Jennifer F Baron
Teaching Note for [710425]. View Details
- Article
Value-based Healthcare: Implications for Thyroid Cancer
By: A.K. Ying, T.W. Feeley and M. E. Porter
Today's delivery of care to thyroid cancer patients is complex, and costly, with uneven outcomes that can be improved. The incidence of thyroid cancer is rising and requires coordinated, multidisciplinary care with high volume centers that is not always available in... View Details
Keywords: Bundled Reimbursement; Healthcare Reform; Integrated Practice Units; Outcomes; Patient-reported Outcomes; Thyroid Cancer; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Information Technology; Value
Ying, A.K., T.W. Feeley, and M. E. Porter. "Value-based Healthcare: Implications for Thyroid Cancer." International Journal of Endocrine Oncology 3, no. 2 (May 2016): 115–129. (e-Pub 4/2016.)
- September 2011
- Article
A Cancer Center Puts the New Approach to Work: Pilot
By: Heidi W. Albright and Thomas W. Feeley
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is a National Cancer Institute–designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, located in Houston, Texas. Seeing more than 30,000 new patients every year, MD Anderson accounts for approximately 20% of
cancer care within the... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Quality; Measurement; Costing; Accounting; Health; Quality; Health Industry; North and Central America
Albright, Heidi W., and Thomas W. Feeley. "A Cancer Center Puts the New Approach to Work: Pilot." R1109B. Harvard Business Review 89, no. 9 (September 2011): 15–16. (This article is a sidebar description of a pilot of time-driven activity-based costing in the HBR article "How to Solve the Cost Crisis in Health Care" by Robert S. Kaplan and Michael E. Porter.)
- December 2011 (Revised December 2011)
- Case
Cancer Treatment Centers of America: Scaling the Mother Standard of Care
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Matthew Bird
The CEO of a private and growing national network of specialty care hospitals focusing on advanced-stage and complex cancer treatments reflected on the firm's past phase of growth before meeting with the company's Chairman and founder to discuss how to further scale... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Business Growth and Maturation; Medical Specialties; Service Delivery; Innovation and Invention; Health Industry
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Matthew Bird. "Cancer Treatment Centers of America: Scaling the Mother Standard of Care." Harvard Business School Case 312-073, December 2011. (Revised December 2011.)
- March 2014
- Article
Delivering High-quality Cancer Care: The Critical Role of Quality Measurement
By: Tracy Spinks, Patricia Ganz, George Sledge, Laura Levit, James Hayman, Timothy Eberlein and Thomas W. Feeley
In 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published Ensuring Quality Cancer Care, an influential report that described an ideal cancer care system and issued ten recommendations to address pervasive gaps in the understanding and delivery of quality cancer... View Details
Keywords: Health Care Quality; Health Care and Treatment; Quality; Measurement and Metrics; Health Industry; North America
Spinks, Tracy, Patricia Ganz, George Sledge, Laura Levit, James Hayman, Timothy Eberlein, and Thomas W. Feeley. "Delivering High-quality Cancer Care: The Critical Role of Quality Measurement." Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation 2, no. 1 (March 2014): 53–62. (PMCID: PMC4021589.)
- April 2012
- Case
Bella Healthcare India
By: Dorothy Leonard and Sunru Yong
Bella Healthcare India was originally established in Bangalore as a low-cost manufacturing facility for a U.S.-based cardiology equipment developer. Under country manager Joseph Cherian it evolved considerably, developing its own research and development capabilities.... View Details
Keywords: India; Productivity; Organizational Development; International Business; R＆D; Cross-cultural Relations; Medical Equipment ＆ Devices; Joint Ventures; Medical Specialties; Research and Development; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Care and Treatment; Product Launch; Failure; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Bangalore
Leonard, Dorothy, and Sunru Yong. "Bella Healthcare India." Harvard Business School Brief Case 124-440, April 2012.
- January 2014 (Revised March 2014)
- Teaching Note
Cancer Screening in Japan: Market Research and Segmentation
By: John A. Quelch
- Article
Comparative Costs of Advanced Proton and Photon Radiation Therapies: Lessons from Time-driven Activity-based Costing in Head and Neck Cancer
By: Nikhil G. Thaker, Steven J. Frank and Thomas W. Feeley
Time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) is an innovative costing tool in healthcare that can be used to directly compare the true cost of competing technologies over the full care cycle. Rather than only comparing therapeutic effectiveness over a limited number of... View Details
Keywords: Head And Neck Cancer; IMRT; Proton Therapy; Time-Driven ABC; Information Technology; Activity Based Costing and Management; Medical Specialties
Thaker, Nikhil G., Steven J. Frank, and Thomas W. Feeley. "Comparative Costs of Advanced Proton and Photon Radiation Therapies: Lessons from Time-driven Activity-based Costing in Head and Neck Cancer." Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research 4, no. 4 (2015): 297–301.
- October 2011 (Revised March 2012)
- Teaching Note
Cottle-Taylor: Expanding the Oral Care Group in India (Brief Case)
By: John A. Quelch and Alisa Zalosh
Teaching Note for Product Number 4350 View Details
- 28 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India
rural settings. Caste in India is both less important and more important than it used to be. In some sense business is a great leveler. In the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- September 2012
- Supplement
Intraoperative Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer (B)
By: Willy Shih
The intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) business at Carl Zeiss Meditec had struggled with growth since the time of the (A) case. Though the unit had grown revenues in excess of 50% and had exceeded its EBIT target, it faced several key strategic choices. Should it... View Details
Keywords: Radiotherapy; Breast Cancer; Brachytherapy; Therapeutic Radiation; Oncology; Oncology Treatment Systems; Elekta AB; Varian Medical Systems; Xoft; Electronic Brachytherapy; Intraoperative Radiotherapy; Disruptive Innovation; Health Care and Treatment; Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry; Germany
Shih, Willy. "Intraoperative Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 613-040, September 2012.
- March 1999 (Revised July 1999)
- Case
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, The
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Ann Winslow
Describes the death of a cancer patient in one of the nation's premier cancer treatment centers and examines the organizational and process characteristics that may have contributed to the medical error. View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Quality; Service Operations; Management Practices and Processes; Business Processes; Failure; Health Industry
Bohmer, Richard M.J., and Ann Winslow. "Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, The." Harvard Business School Case 699-025, March 1999. (Revised July 1999.)
- January 2023
- Teaching Note
Brigham & Women's Hospital: Using Patient Reported Outcomes to Improve Breast Cancer Care
By: Robert S. Kaplan
This Teaching Note was prepared to aid classroom instructors in the use of "Brigham and Women's Hospital: Using Patient Reported Outcomes to Improve Breast Cancer Care," HBS Case No. 122-010. View Details
- December 2020 (Revised April 2021)
- Case
IBM Watson at MD Anderson Cancer Center
By: Shane Greenstein, Mel Martin and Sarkis Agaian
After discovering that their cancer diagnostic tool, designed to leverage the cloud computing power of IBM Watson, needed greater integration into the clinical processes at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, the development team had difficult choices to make. The Oncology... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Operations; Failure; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Health Care and Treatment; Product Development; Health Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Houston; Texas
Greenstein, Shane, Mel Martin, and Sarkis Agaian. "IBM Watson at MD Anderson Cancer Center." Harvard Business School Case 621-022, December 2020. (Revised April 2021.)
- July 2018
- Article
Reimagining Health Data Exchange: An Application Programming Interface-Enabled Roadmap for India
By: Satchit Balsari, Alexander Fortenko MD, MPH, Joaquin A. Blaya PhD, Adrian Gropper MD, Malavika Jayaram LLM, Rahul Matthan LLM, Ram Sahasranam, Mark Shankar MD, Suptendra N. Sarbadhikari PhD, Barbara Bierer, Kenneth D. Mandl MD, Sanjay Mehendale MD, MPH and Tarun Khanna
In February 2018, the Government of India announced a massive public health insurance scheme extending coverage to 500 million citizens, in effect making it the world’s largest insurance program. To meet this target, the government will rely on technology to... View Details
Keywords: Health Information Exchange; India; Health APIs; Health Care and Treatment; Information; Analytics and Data Science; Information Technology; Health Industry; India
Balsari, Satchit, Alexander Fortenko MD, MPH, Joaquin A. Blaya PhD, Adrian Gropper MD, Malavika Jayaram LLM, Rahul Matthan LLM, Ram Sahasranam, Mark Shankar MD, Suptendra N. Sarbadhikari PhD, Barbara Bierer, Kenneth D. Mandl MD, Sanjay Mehendale MD, MPH, and Tarun Khanna. "Reimagining Health Data Exchange: An Application Programming Interface-Enabled Roadmap for India." Journal of Medical Internet Research 20, no. 7 (July 2018).
- September 2017
- Editorial
Helping Patients with Cancer Navigate Narrow Networks
By: Stephen M. Schleicher, Emeline M. Aviki and Thomas W. Feeley
The Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) was designed primarily to improve patient access to affordable health care. The access-expanding provisions of the ACA included federal- and state-based health insurance exchanges with minimum coverage requirements and preexisting... View Details
Schleicher, Stephen M., Emeline M. Aviki, and Thomas W. Feeley. "Helping Patients with Cancer Navigate Narrow Networks." Journal of Clinical Oncology 35, no. 27 (September 2017): 3095–3096.
- Article
Decisions about Medication Use and Cancer Screening across Age Groups in the United States
By: Kathleen M. Fairfield, Bethany S. Gerstein, Carrie A. Levin, Vickie Stringfellow, Heidi Wierman and Mary McNaughton-Collins
Objective
To describe decision process and quality for common cancer screening and medication decisions by age group.
Methods
We included 2941 respondents to a national Internet survey who made at least one decision about colorectal, breast,... View Details
To describe decision process and quality for common cancer screening and medication decisions by age group.
Methods
We included 2941 respondents to a national Internet survey who made at least one decision about colorectal, breast,... View Details
Fairfield, Kathleen M., Bethany S. Gerstein, Carrie A. Levin, Vickie Stringfellow, Heidi Wierman, and Mary McNaughton-Collins. "Decisions about Medication Use and Cancer Screening across Age Groups in the United States." Patient Education and Counseling 98, no. 3 (March 2015): 338–343.
- June 2014 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
Kathy Giusti and the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation
By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Joshua D. Margolis and Matthew G. Preble
What do you do when your rising professional career is cut short by an unexpected cancer diagnosis? Kathy Giusti shifted careers, built a new organization that transformed how cancer research is done, and now faces the challenge of sustaining the organization and its... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy; Philanthropy Funding; Entrepreneurship; Health Care; Management Styles; Personalized Medicine; Health Care Outcomes; Cancer; Cancer Care In The U.S.; Personal Care; Leadership; Leading Change; Social Entrepreneurship; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Health Care and Treatment; Leadership Style; Management Style; Management Skills; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Health; Health Industry; United States; Canada; Spain
Hamermesh, Richard G., Joshua D. Margolis, and Matthew G. Preble. "Kathy Giusti and the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation." Harvard Business School Case 814-026, June 2014. (Revised February 2017.)
- 2017
- Article
The Impact of Training Informal Healthcare Providers in India: A Randomized Controlled Trial
By: Jishnu Das, Abhijit Chowdhury, Reshmaan Hussam and Abhijit Banerjee
Health care providers without formal medical qualifications provide more than 70% of all primary care in rural India. Training these informal providers may be one way to improve the quality of care where few alternatives exist. We report on a randomized controlled... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; India; Business Training; RCT; Health Care and Treatment; Training; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; India
Das, Jishnu, Abhijit Chowdhury, Reshmaan Hussam, and Abhijit Banerjee. "The Impact of Training Informal Healthcare Providers in India: A Randomized Controlled Trial." Science 354, no. 6308 (October 7, 2016): 80.