Physicians - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Apr 2014
News

Founding a bone marrow donor bank that saves thousands of lives

chance at life through bone marrow donations, and has registered more than 4 million bone marrow donors worldwide. After losing his first wife to blood cancer, Harf and his wife’s physician launched DKMS. With his daughter, Katharina,... View Details

28 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation

deviate from commonly accepted treatments. By that line of thought, medical malpractice lawsuits would put a damper on innovation, and tort reform laws that limit exposure would spur it. But, there is another potential effect. “When View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Medical Devices & Supplies

23 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

practice. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52649 Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending By: Cutler, David, Jonathan Skinner, Ariel Dora... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Women Heart Patients Have Better Survival Odds with Women Doctors

matter who that person is? And yes, it sort of does. Here we find that who you are and who is advocating for you, who is treating you, is making a difference.” Results don’t show exactly why male physicians don’t do as well with women, in... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

01 May 2013
News

Robert F. Higgins, MBA 1970

until we have people who understand both worlds: health and management,” Higgins says. “We have physicians who are doing a great job and managers who are doing a great job—but they speak different languages. The joint degree program... View Details

Portrait Project

Tina Chen

wondered how she could be so sure. What if I wasn’t true gold? What if I was never meant to shine? Yet my trials and tribulations were trivial compared to those of my parents. Giving up their careers as a renowned physician and engineer,... View Details

27 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care

Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers Shifting demographics are causing an increasing number of people to act as caregivers for family and friends—but employers seem hardly to notice the trend. The Economic Cost of View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

21 Sep 2016
News

Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier

technologies. “Innovation should be part of the mission of every physician,” says Amadio, currently chief resident in the neurological surgery residency program at Emory University, in Atlanta. “We have been at the medical game for several thousand years, and we still... View Details

01 Jan 2003
News

Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.

aspirations, purpose, and values, so that they work together as an aligned team." Dan Vasella finds that the skills he called upon as a practicing physician are equally useful in running one of the world's largest pharmaceutical... View Details

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MD/MBA | MBA

students in the fall of 2005. The program’s mission is to develop outstanding physician leaders, skilled in both medicine and management, to take positions of influence through which they will contribute substantially to the health and... View Details

01 Dec 2001
News

Teens and Magazines: Where There's Smoke, There's Advertising

According to their 1998 agreement with the attorneys general of 46 states, the four largest U.S. tobacco companies are prohibited from using advertising that targets people younger than 18. But HBS assistant professor Charles King (with View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

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Patients - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

information from physicians and the health plan Utilize independent trustworthy medical information sources when needed. Beware of un-validated information posted on the internet. Choose excellent providers based on reported results, not... View Details

06 Dec 2016
First Look

December 6, 2016

By: Kaplan, Robert S., Derek A. Haas, and Jonathan Warsh Abstract—The prevailing fee-for-service payment model has led health care administrators and physician practices to impose severe constraints on the time View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

place them in a readily available collective. Paramedics are a telling example given the costly implications of malpractice in the United States. Paramedics are supposed to bring patients to attending physicians (most often in emergency... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?

according to panelists from the healthcare field and the pharmaceutical industry, is delivering drugs that are donated or available at reduced prices to patients who need them. Government Priorities Dr. Konji Sebati, a physician with the... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

12 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them

then could be tested experimentally. Studying doctors and patients The research team devised two experiments, one involving primary care doctors, the other, patients. In the first experiment, the researchers asked physicians to evaluate... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Pharmaceutical; Health

13 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology

technologies, thereby leading to the development of a constituency of physicians around each technology. For example, when angioplasty entered mainstream use in the 1980s, most hospitals that already had cardiac surgery programs felt that... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Health

01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived

The technology behind telemedicine—health care delivered remotely and asynchronously—has been improving for years, but in 2017, the United States hit a tipping point. This year, Kaiser Permanente’s CEO announced that of the company’s 100 million–plus patient encounters... View Details

Keywords: Halle Tecco (MBA 2011), founder emeritus, Rock Health; angel investor; adjunct professor, Columbia Business School

19 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 19

312-002 McKesson, a large, diversified drug distribution and health care IT company, is considering development of new business offerings to help private practice physicians remain independent. The company, with $122 billion in 2010... View Details