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  • June 2014 (Revised April 2015)
  • Supplement

OrthoChoice: Bundled Payments in the County of Stockholm (B)

By: Michael E. Porter, Clifford M. Marks and Zachary C. Landman
By the end of 2008, all major hospitals (one of which was private) and three private specialized orthopedic centers signed OrthoChoice contracts. In 2009, hip and knee replacements in the County of Stockholm for relatively healthy patients began being reimbursed. By... View Details
Keywords: Hip Replacement; Bundled Payment; Knee Replacement; Value Agenda; Strategy; Health Care Industry; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Health Industry; Sweden
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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Broadening Focus: Spillovers, Complementarities and Specialization in the Hospital Industry

By: Jonathan R. Clark and Robert S. Huckman
The long-standing argument that focused operations outperform others stands in contrast to claims about the benefits of broader operational scope. The performance benefits of focus are typically attributed to reduced complexity, lower uncertainty, and the development... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Performance Capacity; Diversification; Health Industry
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  • June 1999 (Revised May 2000)
  • Exercise

Working with your "Shadow Partner" in the healthcare industry (A)

By: Richard L. Nolan
Intended to introduce individuals to search engines and databases on the Internet, in particular those that are available to HBS. This exercise is a more difficult version of Working with Your "Shadow Partner" and is intended for those with some previous Internet... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Internet and the Web; Health Industry
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  • January 2018
  • Case

Partners In Health: Costing Primary Care in Haiti

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Mahek A. Shah
Partners in Health, a global NGO focused on delivering health care to residents of rural underserved communities, conducts a project on the cost of primary care at five sites in the Central Highlands of Haiti. It devises a simple approach for tracking the resources... View Details
Keywords: Global Health; Public Health; Health Care and Treatment; Activity Based Costing and Management; Cost Accounting; Rural Scope; Health Industry; Haiti
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  • June 2021
  • Teaching Note

Michael Phelps: 'It's Okay to Not Be Okay'

By: Boris Groysberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Michael Norris
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 421-044. In 2020, Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, with 28 medals in various swimming events, was now retired. As he looked back on his 20+ year athletic career, he considered what had gone into making him the... View Details
Keywords: Mental Health; Talent and Talent Management; Training; Health; Success; Performance Improvement; Personal Development and Career; Family and Family Relationships; Sports; Competition; Sports Industry; United States; Baltimore; Arizona; Sydney; Athens; Beijing; London
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  • August 2003 (Revised September 2008)
  • Background Note

Note on Financing of the U.S. Health Care Sector

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Jeff Grahling
This course describes the public and private sources of financing of the U.S. health-care sector,and identifies the characteristics of insurance policies, their costs, the structure of the insurance industry, and the role of consultants and brokers. The insurance... View Details
Keywords: Economic Sectors; Financing and Loans; Insurance; Industry Structures; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States
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  • 2004
  • Book

Consumer-Driven Health Care: Implications for Providers, Payers, and Policymakers

By: Regina E. Herzlinger
Keywords: Customers; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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  • January 2017 (Revised January 2017)
  • Case

Sesame Workshop: Bringing Big Bird Back to Health

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Ryan Raffaelli and Jonathan Cohen
Sesame Workshop was transforming in 2016. CEO Jeff Dunn had reorganized and shifted the iconic institution to respond to digital disruption and a consensus culture. This case examines his efforts to turn Sesame Workshop around. It notes Sesame's storied history and the... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Technology; Education; Education Industry
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  • 2016
  • Book

Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health: A Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Business

By: John A. Quelch
The public health footprint associated with corporate behavior has come under increased scrutiny in the last decade, with an increased expectation that private profit not come at the expense of consumer welfare.

Consumers, Corporations, and Public... View Details
Keywords: Consumer; Corporate Culture; Public Health; Consumer Behavior; Marketing Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Health; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Supply Chain Management; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Asia; Oceania; North and Central America; Middle East; Latin America; Europe
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  • 2021
  • Article

Public Health Risks Arising from Food Supply Chains: Challenges and Opportunities

By: Lu Chen, Donovan Guittieres, Retsef Levi, Elisabeth Paulson, Georgia Perakis, Nicholas Renegar and Stacy Springs
Safe, healthy, and resilient food supply chains are essential to ensuring the livelihood and well-being of humans and societies, as well as local and global economies. However, the ability to provide and sustain access to nutritious and safe food continues to be a... View Details
Keywords: Food Safety; Adulteration; Malnutrition; Supply Chain; Health; Government Administration; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • Research Summary

Overview

We are studying the practical application of Michael Porter's value-based strategy to reform health care by examining best practices of integrated practice units, outcome measurement, cost measurement, value-based payment, episode based payment, regionalization of... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Outcomes; Healthcare IT; Health Care Quality; Health Economics; Value Agenda; Information Technology; Mobile App; Big Data; Electronic Health Records; Pers; Value Creation; Information Technology Industry; United States
  • February 2014
  • Teaching Note

Community Health Workers in Zambia: Incentive Design and Management

By: Nava Ashraf and Kristin Johnson
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Training; Health Care and Treatment; Compensation and Benefits; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Mission and Purpose; Non-Governmental Organizations; Motivation and Incentives; Health Industry; Zambia
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  • 10 Mar 2020
  • News

'They're getting pummeled': Travel industry reeling from coronavirus concerns, anxiety

  • June 2002 (Revised November 2005)
  • Case

Life, Death, and Property Rights: The Pharmaceutical Industry Faces AIDS in Africa

By: Debora L. Spar
In the final years of the 20th century, the world was hit by a plague of epidemic proportions--AIDS, a life-threatening disease that remained stubbornly immune to any cure or vaccine. In the developed nations of the West, AIDS was slowly brought under control through a... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Health Pandemics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Pharmaceutical Industry; Africa
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  • September 2015
  • Article

Design and Implementation of a Privacy Preserving Electronic Health Record Linkage Tool in Chicago

By: Abel Kho, John Cashy, Kathryn Jackson, Adam Pah, Satyender Goel, Jorn Boehnke, John Eric Humphries, Scott Duke Kominers and et al.
Objective
To design and implement a tool that creates a secure, privacy preserving linkage of electronic health record (EHR) data across multiple sites in a large metropolitan area in the United States (Chicago, IL), for use in clinical... View Details
Keywords: Information; Customers; Safety; Rights; Ethics; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Chicago
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  • August 2008
  • Teaching Note

Go Red for Women: Raising Heart Health Awareness (TN)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Madelene Bell
Teaching Note for [507026]. View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Financing and Loans; Risk and Uncertainty; Advertising Campaigns; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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  • February 2009 (Revised June 2019)
  • Case

Cleveland Clinic: Transformation and Growth 2015

By: Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth O. Teisberg
The Cleveland Clinic's health care services are internationally renowned for quality. In 2008, The Clinic began to restructure the organization into teams defined around patient needs, rather than traditional medical specialties. "Patients First!" takes shape as the... View Details
Keywords: Health; Health Care Operations; Health Care Quality; Health Care; Strategy And Leadership; Strategy Development; Health Care and Treatment; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Measurement and Metrics; Service Delivery; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Outcome or Result; Health Industry; Cleveland
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  • 2016
  • Blog

Building A Culture of Health - John A. Quelch: The Marketing of Prevention

By: John A. Quelch
The US will devote 17.5% of GDP to health care this year, around $3 trillion. Yet only 3 percent of that will be spent on prevention, including both primary prevention (preventing illness in the first place) and secondary prevention (preventing sick people getting... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Healthcare Marketing; Prevention; Wellbeing; Health; Marketing; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry; Europe; North and Central America
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  • 2012
  • Report

Competing by Saving Lives: How Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Companies Create Shared Value in Global Health

By: Mark R. Kramer, Kyle Peterson, Matthew Rehrig, Mike Stamp and Samuel Kim
Examples of how pharmaceutical and medical companies are addressing unmet health needs in low- and middle- income economies, creating shared value by providing products and services that tackle global health problems. View Details
Keywords: Shared Value; Low- And Middle-income Economies; Health Care and Treatment; Global Range; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • January–February 2000
  • Article

Consumer-Driven Changes in Health Care in the United States

By: Regina E. Herzlinger
Keywords: Health Industry; United States
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