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July 2020
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King's College Hospital in Crisis

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

On December 11, 2017, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (King’s), one of London’s leading teaching hospital groups, was put into “special measures” by NHS Improvement (NHSI), the financial regulator of England’s National Health Service (NHS). The future of... View Details

Keywords: Hospitals; Financing; Health Care and Treatment; Financial Condition; Crisis Management; Organizational Structure; Transformation; Strategic Planning; United Kingdom

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28 Jan 2020
Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

great organizations; it is aimed at tackling messy, recalcitrant problems that surround teams and organizations. The kinds of problems that leaders don’t fully control but that can get in the way of business as usual. And the kinds of problems that View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout

Physician burnout costs the United States health care industry $4.6 billion a year, a number that brings a new spotlight to an age-old problem. In a paper published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine this past June, a research... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

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Events - Business History

history research appears to show that profits and sustainability have been hard to reconcile throughout history. These tensions and conflicts merit careful examination from a variety of scholarly and practitioner perspectives. This... View Details

17 Feb 2022
Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

success by focusing on delivering not only for their shareholders and customers but also for their employees, communities, and the environment. In the video below, I speak with Deepak Chopra, clinical professor of medicine at the... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

01 Oct 2021
News

From Scholarship to Life-Saving Impact

Nora Rabah (MS/MBA 2022), who emigrated to the United States as a child, remembers the hardship of growing up without health care and wants to make drugs for children with rare diseases more accessible and affordable. Nora Rabah’s (MS/MBA... View Details

03 Dec 2021
Blog Post

Physicians Off the Beaten Path

(Physician, Entrepreneur, Co-founder and CEO of Arctoris) Recalling my experience at university, I asked them how they manage the tension between a strong lack of exposure to the outside world and their mission to expand that exposure. “Medicine not only prepares you... View Details

23 Mar 2023
News

Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition

ventures. The alumni event will be followed on March 30 by the student-centered New Venture Competition, taking place in-person in Klarman Hall. The remainder of the global finalists included: Haf Haf Inc. A fun, reliable, effective, eco-friendly personal View Details

12 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

In a Landscape of 'Me Too' Drug Development, What Spurs Radical Innovation?

are, on average, more valuable—they are more clinically effective; have higher patent citations; lead to more revenue; and to higher stock market value.” The researchers were careful to note they didn’t have... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health; Pharmaceutical

31 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

employed full time and reported high levels of clinical depression or anxiety, as well as those experiencing workplace distress, with signs of presenteeism or burnout. One group was given full access to the Happify platform, which offers... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

01 Dec 2019
News

Bridging the Gap

curricular requirements. By graduation they’ll have the option to complete a clinical internship as an EKG technician or certified medical assistant, in addition to being prepared to sit for certification tests. “We’ve partnered with... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

12 Sep 2018
Blog Post

Optimizing the Coaching Experience for Midcareer Professionals

midcareer professionals. "The triggers are different," says Timothy Butler, Senior Fellow and Faculty Advisor to HBS CPD. "Students are inspired by a predictable crisis – graduation. For alumni, the crises are often unpredictable: a sense that a new... View Details

24 Feb 2022
Op-Ed

Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC

advised Congress and past presidents on health care policy, and won the first HBS student award for outstanding instructor. Richard J. Boxer, MD, FACS, is clinical professor at the David Geffen School of... View Details

Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger and Richard Boxer; Health

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

"interests," or what each side really cares about. Failure to uncover interests often leads to mistakes in our second dimension, deal design, such as treating potentially more cooperative agreements as pure price deals in which... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

31 May 2023
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2023

came to Vertex in 2017, there was a medicine finishing early clinical trials with the potential to serve up to 90 percent of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). In October 2019 that became Trikafta. Now CF patients talk to me about... View Details

Keywords: leadership; management; work-life balance

10 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly

devices—first on animals and then on humans in clinical trials. "For new chemical drugs, it's typically relatively straightforward to know how to move toward approval," says Stern. "Clinical trials take time and lots of money, but... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Technology

31 Jan 2014
News

Body, Heal Thyself

for the development and exclusive use of the mRNA technology to treat cardiovascular, renal, and metabolic diseases as well as cancer. "It is one of the largest-ever initial payments in a pharmaceutical industry licensing deal that does not involve a drug already being... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; biotech; Health, Social Assistance; Scientific Research and Development Services

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

that health care organizations typically fail to analyze or make changes even when people are well aware of failures. Whether medical errors or simply problems in the work process, few hospital organizations dig deeply enough to... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

21 Aug 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively

the class toward her personal passion, precision medicine. “Health care is rife with examples like these—and such applications of big data will only expand over the coming years. I spend a lot of time thinking about questions like, How... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

02 Dec 2019
News

Championing the HBS Fund

expert in endocrinology who serves as a clinical professor of medicine at Stanford, and Stavropoulos is a partner at Threshold Ventures, an early-stage VC firm that spun out of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ). The parents of three children,... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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