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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading a community of health care providers
As CEO and chairman of the board of DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc., Kent Thiry (MBA 1983) has built the second-largest kidney dialysis company in the world. He oversees 2,074 outpatient dialysis centers that serve 163,000 people View Details
- 05 Feb 2024
- Podcast
What it Takes to Lead a Successful Turnaround in Health Care
As a veteran leader in the healthcare sector, José (Joe) E. Almeida, Chairman, President & CEO of Baxter, has made a lot of tough decisions. He led the successful turnaround of the Illinois-based multinational by calling on leadership lessons he gained from his family... View Details
- May 2014 (Revised March 2016)
- Case
Health City Cayman Islands
By: Tarun Khanna and Budhaditya Gupta
Narayana Health (NH) had been successfully delivering affordable high quality tertiary care to the masses in India through its chain of hospitals for over a decade. To encourage the adoption of the NH affordable care delivery model worldwide, Dr. Shetty, Chairman of... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Emerging Economies; Innovation; India; Institutions; Pricing; Replication; Strategy; Narayana Health; Ascension; Health City Cayman Islands; Dr. Devi Shetty; International Business; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation Strategy; Innovation and Management; Disruptive Innovation; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Management Practices and Processes; Growth Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Adaptation; Adoption; India; Cayman Islands
Khanna, Tarun, and Budhaditya Gupta. "Health City Cayman Islands." Harvard Business School Case 714-510, May 2014. (Revised March 2016.)
- September 1988
- Case
Vicks Health Care Division: Project Scorpio (D)
Reveals that Vicks chose a multi-condition positioning for the product. Describes testing of name and concept, and extensively reports on a four-city test market. Students are expected to evaluate both the design and results of the test, and face options ranging from... View Details
Kosnik, Thomas J. "Vicks Health Care Division: Project Scorpio (D)." Harvard Business School Case 589-008, September 1988.
- 24 May 2022
- News
Health Equity: Aging in America
- February 2021
- Article
Assessment of Electronic Health Record Use Between U.S. and Non-U.S. Health Systems
By: A Jay Holmgren, Lance Downing, David W. Bates, Tait D. Shanafelt, Arnold Milstein, Christopher Sharp, David Cutler, Robert S. Huckman and Kevin A. Schulman
Importance: Understanding how the electronic health record (EHR) system changes clinician work, productivity, and well-being is critical. Little is known regarding global variation in patterns of use.
Objective: To provide insights into which EHR... View Details
Objective: To provide insights into which EHR... View Details
Keywords: Electronic Health Records; Health Care and Treatment; Online Technology; Health Industry; Health Industry
Holmgren, A Jay, Lance Downing, David W. Bates, Tait D. Shanafelt, Arnold Milstein, Christopher Sharp, David Cutler, Robert S. Huckman, and Kevin A. Schulman. "Assessment of Electronic Health Record Use Between U.S. and Non-U.S. Health Systems." JAMA Internal Medicine 181, no. 2 (February 2021): 251–259.
- January 2000 (Revised October 2002)
- Case
Cambridge Hospital Community Health Network - The Primary Care Unit
By: V.G. Narayanan, Lisa Brem and Ryan Moore
The Cambridge Hospital Community Health Network needed to gain a better understanding of its unit-of-service costs, which had been rising at a rate of 10% per year. The network's step-down costing system gave only aggregate costing information, and there was some... View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Accounting; Cost; Network Effects; Health Industry; Health Industry; Massachusetts
Narayanan, V.G., Lisa Brem, and Ryan Moore. "Cambridge Hospital Community Health Network - The Primary Care Unit." Harvard Business School Case 100-054, January 2000. (Revised October 2002.)
- March 2016
- Case
Evive Health and Workplace Influenza Vaccinations
By: John Beshears
Evive Health is a company that manages communication campaigns on behalf of health insurance plans and large employers. Using big data techniques and insights from behavioral economics, Evive deploys targeted and effective messages that improve individuals' health... View Details
Keywords: Vaccination; Influenza; Flu Shot; Preventive Care; Health Care; Behavioral Economics; Choice Architecture; Nudge; Experimental Design; Randomized Controlled Trial; RCT; Causal Inference; Consumer Behavior; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Communication Strategy; Health Industry
Beshears, John. "Evive Health and Workplace Influenza Vaccinations." Harvard Business School Case 916-044, March 2016.
- August 2018 (Revised February 2023)
- Case
Hubble Contact Lenses: Data Driven Direct-to-Consumer Marketing
By: Jill Avery and Ayelet Israeli
As its Series A extension round approaches, the founders of Hubble, a subscription-based, social-media fueled, direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand of contact lenses, are reflecting on the marketing strategies that have taken them to a valuation of $200 million and debating... View Details
Keywords: DTC; Direct To Consumer Marketing; Health Care; Mobile; Attribution; Experimentation; Experiments; Churn/retention; Customer Lifetime Value; Internet Marketing; Big Data; Analytics; A/B Testing; CRM; Advertising; Marketing; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; Media; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Digital Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Acquisition; Growth and Development Strategy; Customer Focus and Relationships; Social Media; E-commerce; Analytics and Data Science; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States; North America; Europe
Avery, Jill, and Ayelet Israeli. "Hubble Contact Lenses: Data Driven Direct-to-Consumer Marketing." Harvard Business School Case 519-011, August 2018. (Revised February 2023.)
- Web
Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator - Health Care
work began with one question: How to bring more treatments to the people who need them? After Myra Kraft died in 2011 of ovarian cancer, the Kraft Family Foundation sought to find an answer to this question. They spoke with a number of... View Details
- Article
Quantifying the Benefits from a Care Coordination Program for Tracheostomy Placement in Neonates
By: Christen Caloway, Alisa Yamasaki, Kevin M. Callans, Mahek Shah, Robert S. Kaplan and Christopher Hartnick
Value-based care models are becoming instrumental in structuring clinical care delivery in our healthcare climate. Our objective was to determine the value associated with implementation of a Family-Centered Care Coordination (FCCC) program for neonates undergoing... View Details
Keywords: Family-centered Care; Value-based Healthcare; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Health Care and Treatment; Value; Activity Based Costing and Management
Caloway, Christen, Alisa Yamasaki, Kevin M. Callans, Mahek Shah, Robert S. Kaplan, and Christopher Hartnick. "Quantifying the Benefits from a Care Coordination Program for Tracheostomy Placement in Neonates." International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology 134 (July 2020).
- 3 Jun 2023
- Talk
Health Care Innovation Opportunities Created by COVID-19 and How to Make Them Happen
The crush of patients created by COVID enabled the creation of sites for care outside the traditional hospital, such as retail pharmacies, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care centers, telemedicine, and wireless sensors. Public policy mirrored these changes by... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Health Industry; Health Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E. "Health Care Innovation Opportunities Created by COVID-19 and How to Make Them Happen." Harvard Business School Alumni Reunion, Boston, MA, June 3, 2023. (Link to cases described in this talk.)
- July 2006 (Revised August 2012)
- Background Note
Innovating in Health Care-Glossary
Provides a glossary of terms used in Harvard Business School's Innovating in Health Care, 2006, Course. View Details
Herzlinger, Regina E. "Innovating in Health Care-Glossary." Harvard Business School Background Note 307-011, July 2006. (Revised August 2012.)
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
FemTech, the segment of the health care and life sciences industry focused on women’s health. A combined 175 alumni attended the discussions which featured alumni panelists who are investing in, or leading,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- January 2014 (Revised March 2014)
- Case
Cancer Screening in Japan: Market Research and Segmentation
By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez
Since founding CancerScan in 2008, Jun Fukuyoshi and Yoshiki Ishikawa had helped to improve cancer screening rates in Japan. Between 2005 and 2007, awareness of breast cancer in Japan rose from 55% to 70%, but the incidence of breast cancer screenings remained... View Details
Quelch, John A., and Margaret L. Rodriguez. "Cancer Screening in Japan: Market Research and Segmentation." Harvard Business School Case 514-057, January 2014. (Revised March 2014.)
- 8 Oct 2007
- Other Presentation
What is Value in Health Care?
This presentation draws on Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg: Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Harvard Business School Press, May 2006. Earlier publications about health care include the Harvard Business Review article... View Details
Porter, Michael E. "What is Value in Health Care?" Institute of Medicine, Washington, DC, October 8, 2007.
- Web
Value-Based Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Porter, Value-Based Health Care is a framework for restructuring health care systems around the globe with the overarching goal of value for... View Details
- August 2012 (Revised January 2013)
- Case
Public Health Insurance Exchanges: The Massachusetts Experience
By: Regina Herzlinger and Jordan Bazinsky
The CEO of Tufts Health Plan, James Roosevelt, is wondering whether to offer insurance products on the Massachusetts Connector, the first U.S. exchange. He wonders if he should enter these uncharted waters at all. And, if yes, with a broad network or a narrow network... View Details
- August 2018 (Revised August 2019)
- Case
Oscar Health Insurance: What Lies Ahead for a Unicorn Insurance Entrant?
By: Leemore Dafny and Victoria Marone
Keywords: Oscar Insurance; Fintech; US Health Care; Affordable Care Act (ACA); Health Insurance Marketplaces; Insurer Competition; Provider Consolidation; Market Entry; Health Care and Treatment; Entrepreneurship; Market Entry and Exit; Negotiation; Growth Management; Health Industry; Health Industry; New York (state, US); New Jersey
Dafny, Leemore, and Victoria Marone. "Oscar Health Insurance: What Lies Ahead for a Unicorn Insurance Entrant?" Harvard Business School Case 319-025, August 2018. (Revised August 2019.)
- 2023
- Working Paper
Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: Addressing Market Failures or Providing a Social Floor?
By: Katherine Baicker, Amitabh Chandra and Mark Shepard
The United States spends substantially more on health care than most developed countries, yet leaves a greater share of the population uninsured. We suggest that incremental insurance expansions focused on addressing market failures will propagate inefficiencies and... View Details
Baicker, Katherine, Amitabh Chandra, and Mark Shepard. "Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: Addressing Market Failures or Providing a Social Floor?" NBER Working Paper Series, No. 30854, January 2023.