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- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
for the number and cost of the services they provide rather than by the value of those services in helping patients. In short, medical professionals make money when their...
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- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
Under positive-sum competition, providers would not attempt to match competitors' every move. Instead, they would develop clear strategies around unique expertise and tailored facilities in those areas where they can become distinctive. Most hospitals would retain a...
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- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
medications and services used to treat chronic conditions. Companies are tracking the ROIs of these investments in health with good results. These kinds of health and wellness initiatives are a great place...
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- 19 Feb 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?
discussion on health care management, experts looked to the retail industry as a possible model for delivering medical services more effectively. What's your take on Amazon? Share your thoughts in the reader...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Racial Bias Pervades Health Care
kidney and liver transplants, and less pain medication when they are operated on. Furthermore, women with heart disease receive less angioplasty than men; Hispanics have a lower rate of recommended health-care View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
Personalized Medicine,” a Harvard Business Review article that outlines an agenda that could hasten the transition from “trial-and-error” therapies for life-threatening illnesses to a more targeted line of attack. Aspinall began her career at Bain & Company, working...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
researchers and professors from HBS, Harvard Medical School (HMS), and other Harvard schools. In 1994, in about 100 days of internecine violence, some 800,000 of Rwanda’s 9 million people were murdered, 1 million were internally...
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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Medical Center Boston Children’s Hospital Brigham & Women’s Hospital Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Chicago Prostate Center Connecticut Joint Replacement Institute Intermountain Healthcare Johns...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
patients’ needs. Today’s doctors work in a system where they are rewarded by Medicare and insurance companies for the number and cost of the services they provide rather than by the value of those services...
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- January 2010
- Teaching Note
The Joslin Diabetes Center (TN)
By: Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth O. Teisberg and Scott Wallace
Teaching Note for [710424].
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Health Plans - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
services Share information with providers to enable improved outcomes and cost measurement Assist in coordinating patient care across the care cycle and across medical conditions Direct care to appropriate...
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- September 2007 (Revised January 2009)
- Case
Reading Rehabilitation Hospital: Implementing Patient-Focused Care (A) (Abridged)
By: Roy D. Shapiro
Reading Rehab Hospital has experimented with a popular concept in health care--patient-focused care--intended to increase quality and reduce costs by organizing care delivery around particular diagnoses or "service lines," rather than around the functions or...
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Health Care and Treatment;
Medical Specialties;
Quality;
Cost;
Management Practices and Processes;
Business Strategy;
Service Delivery;
Health Industry
Shapiro, Roy D. "Reading Rehabilitation Hospital: Implementing Patient-Focused Care (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 608-070, September 2007. (Revised January 2009.)
- Profile
Maya Babu
Government policy changed the way Maya Babu thinks about health care. For a summer internship, she worked in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of Health and Human Services. "It was run very much like a...
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- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Incentives and Operational Excellence
Whether you're running a major medical supply company or a hole-in-the-wall video store, chances are you know how common operational problems are. If you are the medical supplier, for instance, you probably...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
their start-up pitches to a panel of judges in late April. To his surprise, Mahesh, representing the HBS Club of India, took top honors and was awarded a $25,000 cash prize for his plan to manufacture low-cost medical beds for Indian...
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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Tony Sanchez - Team Builder
Photography by Robert Schoen The résumé of Roger Anthony (“Tony”) Sanchez reads like a laundry list of military superlatives: U.S. Naval Academy engineering major, water polo team captain, and battalion commander; Navy SEAL platoon commander with View Details
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Lumry Chair Supports IT and Entrepreneurship
(FAS) will fund both the Lumry Family Professorship at HBS and the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center in FAS's Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Lumry's gift reflects his professional interests and expertise in technology and business, his longtime...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Allston Options Up for Discussion
The report recommended fast and frequent shuttle service between Cambridge, Allston, and the Longwood Medical Center. It also suggested several transportation options, including new through streets, a new...
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- 27 Sep 2021
- News
Sewn with Love
Hanazawa, who also founded Fashion Girls for Humanity (FGFH), a nonprofit that provides humanitarian services and funds to victims of natural disasters, began to study a medical gown given to her by a friend...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
New HBS, KSG Joint Degree
years of the program, in a public service or policy-based position; the second, between the third and fourth years, in a private sector or for-profit organization. “There is no academic program in the world that can match the theoretical,...
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