Physicians - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2003
News

James E. Burke, MBA 1949

senior executives. They encouraged him, for instance, when he made early forays into television advertising in the 1960s and when he suggested that Tylenol, originally available only from physicians and hospitals, be sold as a consumer... View Details

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

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

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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 treatment, the physicians... View Details

01 Apr 1999
News

A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News

serve recovering cardiac patients and other individuals who may have potential heart problems. Reis, a medical doctor and former emergency-room physician from Israel, explained that a similar service has operated in Israel for some ten... View Details

25 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset

and we were relying purely on volunteers. But once the project surpassed 1,000 counties, interest really picked up. Epidemiologists, economists, and physicians have been impressed by the amount and quality of data we’ve collected and... View Details

07 Oct 2014
News

Network Effect

Henry McCance, founder (left), and Tim Armour, President & CEO, of Cure Alzheimer's Fund 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 View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush

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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

05 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

part of the physician's learning and socialization. The first incision is something few physicians forget. That procedure is reproduced time after time, in country after country, and provides a seminal building block of medical education... View Details

Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health

01 Oct 2002
News

Faculty Research Symposium

manager as accessible; relations between nurses and physicians were characterized as “respectful“ and “collaborative“ with high job satisfaction. As one participant reported, “There is an unspoken rule here to help each other and check... View Details

01 Feb 1997
News

Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution

that patients may feel are necessary; and squeezing down compensation for talented physicians and hospitals. Indeed, activist American consumers even rebel against perfectly rational HMO tactics like reducing hospital lengths of stay.... View Details

08 Aug 2013
News

Cause Marketing Gets Personal

different departments. "NABCO was instrumental in changing the course of breast cancer screening, treatment, and care," she says. "Our physician and corporate partnerships to educate women replaced fear with facts. We helped craft and... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

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

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Feb 2000
News

Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care

senior executives from Fortune 1000 companies. Among employees, 73 percent expressed interest in a defined contribution system, citing advantages such as the ability to choose the best quality plan in which their physician participates... View Details

15 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 15

private practice tradition while remaining effective and competitive in a healthcare industry demanding increasing integration between physicians and hospitals? This is the decision facing Newton-Wellesley Hospital president Mike Jellinek... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

14 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 14

were longer when physicians were assigned patients under a pooled queuing system, compared to when each physician operated under a dedicated queuing system. The dedicated queuing system resulted in a 10%... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative

prospective physicians who must incur massive debt for their education reluctantly opt for other occupations in which the government is not their sole source of revenues. A government market with an underpriced Medicare would likely lead... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

23 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

knowledge to solving the problems of individual patients—offer enormous potential to help patients and the U.S. health-care system overall, says HBS senior lecturer Richard M.J. Bohmer, a physician and researcher on the intersection of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

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