Medical Services - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2008
News

Faculty Research Online

innovation. Visit http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5799.html. The Rise of Medical Tourism Medical tourism — traveling far and wide for health care that is often better and certainly cheaper than at home — appeals... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

01 Dec 2013
News

Curing Health Care

The occasion? The company, a leading supplier of cloud-based services for electronic health records (EHR), practice management, and care coordination, was expanding. In a big way. Founded in 1997, athenahealth now serves about 44,000... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

24 Apr 2014
News

Cash flow struggles can take down a company or spark ideas that transform an industry

Plans that Jonathan Bush (MBA 1997) had for an obstetrics practice ran into trouble when faced with unpaid claims and problems tracking patient records. In that, Bush saw an opportunity that forever changed the health records services... View Details

14 Mar 2019
News

The Merchant of Osaka

home-care medical team would be nearby. On a Monday afternoon draped in mid-October grays, Dr. Komei Umeda and a nurse make the 20-minute drive from the clinic in Tokyo’s western Setagaya ward. They walk up the stone path, under a... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2020
News

In Review

& Sciences and the Harvard Medical School. It initiated new faculty research initiatives on issues like US Competitiveness and the Future of Work. It marked the 50th year anniversaries of women being admitted to the MBA program and the... View Details

Web

Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

executives from nonprofit organizations that deliver health care services Executives from health care insurance companies, government entities that pay for health care, or other payor organizations Leaders from pharmaceutical companies,... View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

Research Brief: Lessons from Last Place

Ryan Buell (photo by Russ Campbell) Ryan Buell (photo by Russ Campbell) We all wait in lines—at the grocery store, the bank, or a ticket booth, or on hold to speak to a customer service rep about your cable bill. “By one estimate,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

12 May 2015
News

A Flash of Insight

specially configured, nuclear-powered submarine, a “spook boat” that was engaged in covert operations. He found his naval service rewarding, but when his five years of active duty were up, it was time to move on. “I thought that being an... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; 9/11; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2010
News

MBAs on a Mission

medical records. The idea was to improve HIV/AIDS treatment for as many people as possible by identifying fixes that could scale-up and serve as a blueprint for change. Kim’s MBA proved useful and not only in the office: His wife and... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach;Deborah Blagg;Julia Hanna; Corporate Services; Corporate Services; Corporate Services; Corporate Services

01 Feb 2001
News

Ready for Take-Off

WorldClinic, Inc., a "virtual ER," providing U.S.-quality health-care services to Americans traveling abroad. Cynthia A. Fisher (MBA '90) of ViaCell, Inc., which combines the banking of stem cells from umbilical cord blood with technology... View Details

Keywords: Spingboard

August 2022
Supplement

NOW PT (B): Should We Invest?

By: George A. Riedel, Amy Klopfenstein and Mel Martin

This (B) case examines the results of the HBS Impact Investment Fund student team’s diligence on Neurologic Optimal Wellness Physical Therapy (NOW PT). After examining Springfield’s demographics, anticipated PT demand, local competition, and NOW PT’s financial... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Investment; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Buildings and Facilities; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; North and Central America; United States; Massachusetts

Citation

Purchase

25 Feb 2020
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020

application to the U.S. National Park Service (NPS). The framework covers many benefits provided by NPS units and programs, including on-site visitation, carbon sequestration, and intellectual property such as in education curricula and... View Details

10 Dec 2021
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on the Midwest

on the business and medical sides of healthcare. We also hope to address the medical provider shortage head on through opening a primary care clinic. Nashae Roundtree (MBA 2023) Where is your hometown?... View Details

Web

Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

joint venture with a community hospital to establish Hoag Orthopedic Institute, a for-profit hospital and two ambulatory service centers. By controlling and integrating all aspects of the patients' medical... View Details

Profile

Raymond Hwang

candidate. This is perhaps the most difficult message to convey.” Why was having both an MD [Hwang graduated from Harvard Medical School in 2003] and an MBA from HBS important to you? “Well, the MD helped me get licensed to practice... View Details

Keywords: Services; Services; Services

01 Mar 2016
News

Off Script

of pharmaceuticals and medical devices work in a more coordinated way? —Rebecca Leung (MBA 1996) HASSAN: Smaller, highly advanced countries with long-term industrial strategies, such as Singapore, have a relatively well-coordinated system... View Details

Keywords: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional

by panelist Andy Slavitt (HBS MBA '93), Founder, President and CEO of Healthallies.com, is an exchange that links patients with local health care providers who offer preferred rates. Services include everything from traditional View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

03 Oct 2019
News

Clubs Convene to Focus on Health Care

health care systems. Toronto Club President Kazi Ahmed (MBA 2011) US: Public and Private Paradigms,” and featuring panelists Cleveland Clinic Canada CEO Mike Kessel and Chief Medical Director Khalil Sivjee, M.D. L-R: Khalil Sivjee, View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Health, Social Assistance

12 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

at-home services or take-home medications under the close supervision of a treatment professional. Many are taking advantage of the easing of telehealth restrictions to expand access and deliver View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

Web

Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

attending hospitalist physician at the Boston VA-Boston Medical Center and lecturer in healthcare policy at Harvard Medical School. From 2009-2011, Dr. Jain pursued government View Details

Publications