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community hospital to establish Hoag Orthopedic Institute, a for-profit hospital and two ambulatory service centers. By controlling and integrating all aspects of the patients'... View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

Gifts Create Frist Financial Aid Fund

area of for-profit hospital management and the company that established the HCA Foundation. HBS has many ties to the Frist family: Thomas F. Frist III (MBA ’97), William R. Frist (MBA ’01), Julie Damgard... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

17 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

first for-profit hospital in the southern city of Chennai in 1983. Today the Apollo Hospitals Group manages more than 30 hospitals and treats... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

24 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

different angles, and felt a deep sense of responsibility. Everyone has gone on to do amazing things and many of us continue to help each other a decade after graduation.” Jennifer Rentas Current role: Chief of Staff, Hospital for Special... View Details

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

time leads to Problematic Interactive Media Use (PIMU), affecting mental and physical health. Boston Children’s Hospital addresses these issues through CIMAID and the Digital Wellness Lab. Dr. Michael Rich provides strategies for... View Details

20 Mar 2018
News

Seeing a Way Forward

and 7 percent of diabetics in Mexico are unnecessarily blind. Since 2011 salauno has treated more than 150,000 patients and performed more than 18,000 surgeries, 40 percent of which were free of charge. In her role, Leger works to make the View Details

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Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

joint venture with a community hospital to establish Hoag Orthopedic Institute, a for-profit hospital and two ambulatory service centers. By controlling and integrating all... View Details

21 Oct 2013
News

Moving the Needle

investing, also known as impact investing. "I wanted to understand how to use the financial capital markets and for-profit mechanisms to move the dial on the world's most pressing problems." Seegull had a unique perspective from an early... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

30 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

and expenditures on accounting information in privately governed hospitals but no relation in publicly governed hospitals. Finally, we find differences in the use of accounting information within the privately governed hospitals, based on... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2011
News

Faculty Research Online

See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6812.html. How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission As nonprofits add more for-profit elements to their business models, they can suffer mission drift. Associate Professor Julie Battilana says hybrid... View Details

Keywords: Hospitals; Hospitals; Hospitals; Hospitals

05 Sep 2012
What Do You Think?

Will Business Management Save US Health Care?

for-profit health care organization led to better patient outcomes at the same time that "provider engagement and feeling of satisfaction have increased, our costs have fallen and our net profit has increased." One of the basic... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

01 Mar 2016
News

Off Script

much of the money in this large and rapidly growing market? It doesn’t seem like the drug companies, physicians, or hospitals are seeing big profit increases. Is it research labs? Drug distribution? Insurance? Where is all this additional... View Details

Keywords: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

11 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 11

bring about a just state of affairs? This paper examines whether this question can be meaningfully addressed without having to engage two contentious debates in contemporary scholarship: the debate about the moral agency of corporations and the debate about the purpose... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Apr 2011
News

Capitalism Meets Conservation

provide Patagonia’s isolated inhabitants with English education, preventative medical care, conservation and conservation education, and sustainable economic development. The for-profit company also sells carbon offsets—reductions in... View Details

Keywords: Hospitality; Hospitality; Hospitality; Hospitality

14 Mar 2019
News

The Merchant of Osaka

by Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Takashi Yasui Sato-san’s hospital bed is wedged diagonally across his living room, relics of regular life pushed to the perimeter. For four years the retired accountant traveled back and forth to a... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

26 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future

providing development grants for schools and hospitals and in catalyzing for-profit investments to jump-start growth as it attempts to be more constructively proactive in the region. This enhanced role for... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna

12 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers

number of future doctors. Many medical schools and teaching hospitals have proactive programs dedicated to recruiting would-be cadaver donors, encouraging people to explore the idea of bequeathing their bodies for medical research in lieu... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

15 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808087 Two Brattle Center: A Mental-Health Clinic in Search of a Viable Operating Model Harvard Business School Case 408-103 Two Brattle Center (TBC) is a struggling View Details