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14 Mar 2019
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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 2017
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Case Study: The Doctor Deficit

market for medical services there is almost no risk of being swept by “winner takes all.” Every regional market will have to be sold individually, so there is ample time to build up the business. The real... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Ashley McCray

of college, I conducted my own medical research in rural Tanzania. While there, I realized my passion for helping people was not in medicine but food, specifically food insecurity. I came back from that trip and decided to not apply to... View Details

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Kavya Kopparapu | MBA

Kavya Kopparapu Computer Science/Neuroscience Lowell 2022 Cohort 3 All my life, I've been an inventor working on projects to solve significant problems that I care about. In just the past five years, I've tackled problems such as access to accurate View Details

09 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Startup Balancing Act

said to my coworker, and with that I stepped off the hover board. “Hopefully, you can learn it by the end of the summer” he replied while laughing. I gave him a firm handshake and returned to my desk. My summer internship is at a medical... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

August 2022 (Revised January 2025)
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NOW PT (A): Should We Invest?

By: George A Riedel, Amy Klopfenstein and Mel Martin

In fall 2021, a team of students from the HBS Impact Investing Fund considered Neurologic Optimal Wellness Physical Therapy (NOW PT) for a potential investment. Dr. Banks, the founder of NOW PT, drove to visit patients. She sought an investment from the fund to open a... 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

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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

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 Feb 2001
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The Doctor Is In

CEO of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization (MGPO), which supports its seventeen hundred members with a range of financial and business-related services for physicians in group and individual practice. The MGPO's mission is... View Details

Keywords: healthcare; Health, Social Assistance

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Demo Day | New Venture Competition

services that are slow, expensive, and unreliable - yet language barriers still cause medical errors, costly liability, and worse health outcomes for 30 million Limited English Proficiency patients in the... View Details

02 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Health Care Research and Prospects

As is clear to anyone who pays medical insurance premiums or has undergone any kind of medical procedure, the business of health care is an expensive one. The technology is expensive. The research is... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Health

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

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

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Benefits & Compensation | Research Associates

our vibrant campus means you can access several truly exceptional facilities—from the Shad Fitness and Recreation Center to the Spangler Center cafeteria to the Stamps Reading Room in Baker Library. Outside the workplace, we support employees through an array of View Details

25 Feb 2020
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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

01 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

After a cancer patient's first 30 days in the American medical system, the bills start stacking up—right next to the pile of paperwork explaining benefits. "It's very hard for patients to match these things up," says Dr. Thomas... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

23 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 23

MIT Sloan Management Review Experiments in Open Innovation at Harvard Medical School By: Guinan, Eva C., Kevin J. Boudreau, and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract—Harvard Medical School seems an unlikely organization... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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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

04 Sep 2019
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Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives

and commercialize medical diagnostic tools that will, ultimately, improve health outcomes. Lee’s DZD was one of the inaugural startups in 2016 at the Life Lab, a state-of-the-art wet lab and coworking space in Allston for Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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

05 Sep 2012
What Do You Think?

Will Business Management Save US Health Care?

need to achieve "a cooperative effort on the part of physicians, hospitals, and yes, even patients." Milton Recht provided a list of responses: "Increase competition, allow medical business failures, remove guaranteed... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

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