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- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
2001 after his IT and consultancy startup, Mainspring, was acquired by IBM. Regardless of specialty, doctors complained of rushing through their days, too over- scheduled to fully comprehend patients’ lengthy and complex medical records, each often hundreds of pages... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 23 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Break the Expert’s Curse
feeling of being a novice in the organization," she says. "This is a really important problem in organizations because transference of knowledge of skills and expertise is critical to helping new employees learn." The field studies will include hospitals, where... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Racial Bias Pervades Health Care
stereotype allows a resident to examine a black patient without drawing the curtain. White also blames the medical culture, which conditions physicians to “focus on the patient’s physiological symptoms and biomedical indications and... View Details
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
has been substantial growth in the number of physicians pursuing Master of Business Administration (MBA) degrees over the past decade, but there is continuing debate over the utility of these programs and the career outcomes of their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Ben Steiner
Raised by academically-minded physician parents, Ben Steiner always valued “the vigorous debate of politics and current affairs.” In high school, Ben was actively involved in debating clubs. At Princeton, Ben’s interests took a more... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Lydia M. Marshall: Gumption and Grace
former boss at Citicorp, her social worker mother, her physician grandfather, her husband -- she is also justifiably proud of her own accomplishments. After nine years in consumer banking at Citicorp, in 1985 Marshall was hired as a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 28 Jun 2010
- HBS Case
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
implementing a "forcing function" into the operating room process that keeps patients out of the OR until they've received antibiotics, thus reducing surgical site infections. For another project, she selects the hospital's Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Clinic, in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
an invitation-only workshop for top management and senior physician leaders. The School also launched a joint-degree program with Harvard Medical School in 2005, with the first full cohort of students graduating this past May. Left out... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard
cofounder of finalist Lucidity Health. The company’s app uses artificial intelligence to analyze x-rays and help frontline physicians lacking access to a radiologist make a diagnosis and formulate a treatment plan—a boon for hospitals in... View Details
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
interdependent. And although you may have a great doctor with the best intentions, the system may not allow him or her to give the quality of care they would like to. A: Absolutely. My heart really goes out to physicians nowadays. They're... View Details
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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Improvement. He is the co-founder and former Chair of the California Joint Replacement Registry, and past Chair of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Council on Research and Quality. Dr. Bozic has been the recipient of the UCSF Exceptional View Details
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
In Bangalore, a state-of-the-art hospital staffed by Western-trained physicians treats anyone suffering from a heart ailment. It accepts patients regardless of caste, class, religion, and perhaps most surprisingly, their ability to pay... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
as attending physician in the Emergency Department at New York Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital. Through this work, he has satisfied the call to service he felt after 9/11. “Emergency medicine is the profession that sees people in... View Details
- 10 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Business Owners Turn to ChatBots for Advice
Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout? Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image by HBSWK with assets from AdobeStock/PNG City and... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
Efforts Pay Off? Dynamic Panel Data Methods Revisited By: Chung, Doug J., Byungyeon Kim, and Byoung Park Abstract—We estimate a sales response model to evaluate the short- and long-term value of pharmaceutical sales representatives' detailing visits to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Kraft Accelerator
be able to support new clinical workflows, improve automation, and ensure that physicians are focused on the cases that are most in need of their attention. Eyal Gura speaks on how he co-founded and built Zebra Medical Vision, one of the... View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
- News
Educating the Whole Student
School, which she launched 2016 with physician and educator Priscilla Chan. “So we asked, what could we do if we started over?” Liu, who attended public school in Washington, DC, recognized from an early age that the country’s school... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
education programs or, as we like to call it, Harvard Business School. In health care, Christensen set the scene by outlining the four layers of health care professionals: The specialist and sub-specialist physicians top the pecking... View Details
- Profile
Henry McCance
Twelve years ago, when Henry McCance (MBA 1966) and his wife initially faced her diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, the couple consulted some of the world’s top physicians specializing in its treatment. McCance was shocked by their advice.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
Rational Blueprint for Success, by William N. Thorndike Jr. (Photos: Harvard Business School) “The author, a practicing physician and professor at Harvard’s Medical School and School of Public Health, argues that end-of-life quality is an... View Details