Varian Medical Systems - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2012
News

Alvin Roth Wins Nobel Prize in Economics

kidney exchange system could be created to help match kidney donors with recipients. Al is one of the few economists who can point to real people whose lives have been saved by his work." Roth, who joined the HBS faculty in 1998, also... View Details

2012
Working Paper

The Need for (long) Chains in Kidney Exchange

By: Itai Ashlagi, David Gamarnik, Michael A. Rees and Alvin E. Roth

It has been previously shown that for sufficiently large pools of patient-donor pairs, (almost) efficient kidney exchange can be achieved by using at most 3-way cycles, i.e., by using cycles among no more than 3 patient-donor pairs. However, as kidney exchange has... View Details

Keywords: Networks; Complexity; Performance Efficiency; Medical Specialties; Health Care and Treatment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving

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01 Sep 2008
News

In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care

treatments and toward value for patients; he defined “value” as “health outcomes per dollar spent.” Instead of the current system of disjointed, episodic medical interventions, Porter argued for an... View Details

Keywords: HIV/AIDS; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

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Tony Perez

As a candidate in the joint MD/MBA program, Tony Perez has a very specific focus: healthcare. "I'm interested in practicing medicine and in administration — running a large medical center," Tony says. "HBS helps me... View Details

Max Palevsky

Palevsky was a pioneer in the burgeoning computer electronics industry. His firm was one of the first companies to create a line of compatible and modular computers using components sourced from a variety of suppliers. Scientific Data View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

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Teams | New Venture Competition

Teams Social Enterprise Track Winners, 2025 Lexi Linh Pham (MDE 2025) Siddharth UR (MDE 2025) Jen Li (MBA 2025) Luke Fiorante (MDE 2026) Social Enterprise Track Winner Breaking language barriers with AI-powered medical interpretation for... View Details

01 Jun 2009
News

Porter Helps Jerusalem Mayor with Economic Development

a press briefing, Barkat explained that he has adopted Porter’s cluster-based development approach to focus on three existing areas of strength: culture and tourism, health care and life sciences, and outsourced medical and financial... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

01 Dec 2018
News

Collaborative Cures

sync. No one is thinking about the system as a whole—and that’s the opportunity.” —Shana Hoffman (MBA 2014), COO, Senior VP, Tri-State/Mid-Atlantic Region, Beacon Health Options Photo courtesy of Lily Fu Photo courtesy of Lily Fu “The... View Details

03 Mar 2017
News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

she had a different type of leukemia. They ran more tests but saw no sign of one. The hospital was affiliated with the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Medical Science, which had partnered with IBM Watson, a cloud-based... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

14 Mar 2019
News

The Merchant of Osaka

insight into products and a business. This is what the health care industry was lacking, she realized: a system designed from the patient’s point of view. It would be better for patients and medical staff,... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

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Patients - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

systemic restructuring driven by providers, health plans and other stakeholders. Redefining Health Care describes the roles that consumers should play in a value-based system, and the expectations they should set for health plans and... View Details

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Student Spotlight: From Nigeria to HBS: Reigniting My Passion for Healthcare Innovation - Blog: Health Supplement

challenges—ones that made me realize the universal complexities of delivering care. These early experiences planted a seed in me: a deep desire to improve healthcare systems and make a meaningful impact. That desire led me to study... View Details

15 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care

gravely ill, HBS professor Clayton Christensen finds its prognosis encouraging. These symptoms, he says, merely reflect inefficient delivery systems that market forces have already begun to reshape. Christensen's optimistic outlook stems... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

11 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices

medical care, a financial burden that forces some consumers to skip doses or forgo treatment. The US isn’t Germany While Germany's approach offers a relevant policy example, the country's health system... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

31 May 2017
News

Father Agribusiness

Agribusiness, he explains, “..[i]s not just agriculture and business, it’s people from the medical school and government and the school for public health all working together.” For Goldberg, observing those connections in the context of... View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

RX for Change

makes it necessary to reform care delivery organizations and processes,” says Richard Bohmer (above). “Our current systems date back to the early 20th century.” At Emory, Dr. Bryce Gartland, medical director... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

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Demo Day | New Venture Competition

urgent gap in medical equipment availability by facilitating equipment sharing and redistribution through an asset light model. By pioneering Africa's foremost medical equipment-sharing marketplace, the... View Details

22 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems

encountering. Drawn from the health-care industry, the research is based on a sample of 69 randomly selected hospitals, 20 of which participated in a three-part cycle of process improvement activities. Focusing on one area of the hospital at a time, the hospital's top... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

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Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog

of chronic disease, and understanding the limits of medical intervention. Module 2— Optimizing Care : This module will consider how health care systems can organize to deliver value by providing health more... View Details

30 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers

Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine published To Err is Human, a groundbreaking report that pushed the issue of medical errors into the public spotlight. That we all make mistakes was certainly nothing new: Operational failures occur... View Details