Physicians - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices

cover 90 percent of patients, jointly negotiate drug prices with manufacturers. In America's more fragmented and secretive system, pharmacy benefit managers act as mediators during many price negotiations. German consumers and physicians... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

08 Mar 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?

often had little choice before, and markedly reduced the uninsured rate. However, consumers in some states found that their new plans had narrower networks and their physicians weren’t always included. In 2016, some of the largest... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch, Dr. Gordon Moore, and Emily Boudreau

01 Jun 2007
News

Profiles from the class of 2007

quality and outcomes. Consumers need to have that information to make good decisions.” Jain believes that any health-care system should center on a strong doctor-patient relationship and allow physicians sufficient time and opportunity to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

26 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 26, 2008

needed MICU beds, forcing the patients' physicians to search for available beds on Meldon's other intensive care units. The Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) and the Thoracic Surgery Intensive Care Unit (TSICU) had available beds, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

wholesalers, and distributors. But we should also include clinical physicians and independent research scientists, who transact through knowledge markets. And we must also add shareholders and lenders, who participate through financial... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

Student-Profile

Hummy Song

times in the Emergency Department of a hospital. Another considers the impact of the cohort turnover of resident physicians on resource utilization and health care quality in teaching hospitals. Health Policy Management Program This is a... View Details

21 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

patients experience similar outcomes when treated by female physicians, suggesting that unique challenges arise when male physicians treat female patients. We further find that male physicians with more... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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“It’s like a pie-eating contest” | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

“It’s like a pie-eating contest” One night during his RC year at HBS, Josh Latson (MBA 2015) shadowed an emergency room physician through his rounds in a busy urban hospital. Josh was there as a member of the school’s Health Care Club,... View Details

01 Dec 2020
News

Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match

Capital Partners, a firm he joined after what he calls his “two magical years” at HBS during which he transitioned from medical provider to physician leader. “My first year at HBS gave me the framework to think about different parts of a... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

04 Nov 2014
News

Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years

to 2.5 million women across the country and launching his own startup, Salud Cercana (Health Near You), to address the issue of heart disease in low-income Mexico communities. One of only a few Mexican physicians with an MBA, Ocejo, 31,... View Details

Keywords: April White

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

09 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018

arteries. For each scan analyzed, Zebra charged hospitals $1. By 2018 Zebra found itself in a race with its competitors to perfect these algorithms, create software tools, distribute the tools to physician partners, and create a market.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 2

PublicationsManaging the New Primary Care: The New Skills That Will Be Needed Author:Richard Bohmer Publication:Health Affairs 29, no. 5 (May 2010) Abstract Developing new models of primary care will demand a level of managerial expertise that few of today's primary... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

30 Sep 2019
Blog Post

The Health Care Initiative at HBS

resources across the community The role of the HCI is to bridge and bring together all these tremendous resources while also adding to the mix. Right now, we host several annual activities including: a physician shadowing program in... View Details

01 Jun 2010
News

Get Well Soon

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 part because... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

28 Jul 2016
Op-Ed

Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?

see whichever physician is on duty. The best family doctors often aren’t accepting new patients. Health care is a local business, travel is global. Hotel consumers have vast numbers of options and no hotel is permanently closed to new... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?

similar ways for a limited array of traditional services, and last for only one year. In essence, managed care comes in just two flavors: plans that place constraints on access to physicians and hospitals for a lower price, and plans that... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger

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FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

travel, direct education costs Q: What space costs should be considered? A: It is preferable to think about space costs in a few categories. These include: Physician office space Clinical rooms Waiting rooms and administrative space... View Details

14 Jan 2014
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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