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- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
Regina Herzlinger is not afraid to call them as she sees them. And what she sees looking at the American health care industry is a bunch of killers. Not only are hospitals, insurers, employers, Congress, and academics killing health care,... View Details
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
private governance of working conditions, initiated and implemented by companies, labor unions, and non-governmental activist groups. Whether these codes represents a substantive or merely symbolic approach to governing working conditions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
strategy, decision making, and innovation. Download the paper (HBS only): http://intranet.hbs.edu/dept/drfd/papers/1011/11-099.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsChina Construction America (A): The Road Ahead Regina M. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2017
- Cold Call Podcast
Making Health Insurance That Consumers Actually Like
- 02 Mar 2021
- HBS Case
The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?
Early on the morning of June 1, 1921, more than 5,000 white residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma, invaded the African-American neighborhood of Greenwood. They came armed with guns, sticks, and other weapons—some supplied by the city’s police... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Dec 2024
- Interview
A New Model for Funding Healthcare Innovation
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Duke Rohlen
Ajax Health founder Duke Rohlen (HBS MBA 2001) and HBS Professor Regina Herzlinger join host Brian Kenny to discuss the key success factors for both start-up and established medical technology firms. The case “Ajax Health: A New Model for Medical Technology Innovation”... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Business Model; Private Equity; Health Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Duke Rohlen. "A New Model for Funding Healthcare Innovation." Cold Call (podcast), Harvard Business Review Group, December 10, 2024.
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia
exchange for the right to drill in developing countries. But should companies be responsible for government services? What happens when MNC investment moves on? Something has gone wrong with the spirit of corporate social responsibility when it becomes akin to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
service centers, which are primarily owned by physicians. Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration. Amy C. Edmonson: New ways to balance prevention and sick care... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
establishments, and they acquire and divest establishments more rapidly. When we consider these additional adjustment margins, net relative job losses at target firms are less than 1% of initial employment. In contrast, the sum of gross job creation and destruction at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
book, Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth, coauthored with HBS professor William Kirby and Regina Abrami of the Wharton School. In addition to teaching in several HBS Executive Education... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
chains lengthened by 20% following the collapse of a flagship dealer in 2008 and even more for institutions strongly connected to this dealer. Finally, dealers drastically reduced their inventory during the crisis. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
quality service, attention to patients, and an attractive work environment for doctors and staff—must be taken into account. By showing the positive impact of making health care more consumer-oriented, Shouldice has helped recraft... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System
overcome the limits placed upon it by the Party. Or, as the authors call it, "Party, Inc." It's not spoiling anything to say that the book answers its own question with, if not an outright no, then at least a highly qualified maybe. Click... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- August 2012 (Revised July 2025)
- Module Note
Evaluating the Viability of Innovative Technology-Commercializing Ventures
This case enables evaluation of innovative health care technologies by those who are not an expert in the technology by introduction of a framework for evaluating technology - commercializing innovation. It is the introductory case for the first of four modules in a... View Details
Herzlinger, Regina E. "Evaluating the Viability of Innovative Technology-Commercializing Ventures." Harvard Business School Module Note 313-070, August 2012. (Revised July 2025.)
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
The $2 trillion health care system is one of the United States' largest industries—but one of its worst performing by almost any measure other than technological innovation. The problems are painful, including escalating costs, expensive... View Details
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
unemployed, and demands for police reform and racial justice. But in the wake of one of the most tumultuous presidential elections in US history—marked by outgoing President Donald Trump claiming the election was stolen, deadly violence... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech
pharma," said HBS professor Regina Herzlinger, moderating a panel discussion titled "Pharma and Biotech—Where does Europe Stand in the World?" The discussion was held at the conference on November 22. At the start of the... View Details
- 06 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School
product." A Class of 1973 alumna recalls professors "who, in the middle of a class, would look at the women and the African Americans and say, 'Is this too difficult for you?' " By 1985 women made up 25 percent of the... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
the sale of insurance products). Moreover, the use of CLV information did not have a negative impact on pricing, as some of the literature suggests, nor on default risk, indicating that managers increased sales to more profitable customers View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne