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- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
to be known as the Black-Scholes option pricing model. "Don't misunderstand me—getting some education about your financial affairs is a good idea, just as having some understanding of your medical needs is a good idea," Merton... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
perform automated scans of its clients’ systems for the duration of their policies, finding and plugging security holes as they appear. With approximately 14,000 customers and 2,000 more signing up each month, the company performs roughly... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- Profile
Humbulani Dombo
Humbulani's father is a doctor, her sister is a doctor, her mother is a medical technologist. "Having grown up in that environment," she says, "I wanted to buck the trend a little bit. Business seemed broad, a way to... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Silent Killers: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Learning
pharmaceutical, medical product, hotel, banking, and building product industries, the authors examined the findings of twelve profiles conducted in four companies. In those organizations, the same six issues arose time after time: unclear... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
Will the real Robert Kinloch Massie (DBA '89) please stand up? Priest. Politician. University lecturer. Medical marvel. Social activist. Prize-winning historian. Environmentalist. Executive. While Bob Massie is justified in rising to... View Details
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
Employers, insurers, taxpayers, and individual consumers pay widely varying prices for treatments, medical technology, and for digital information of fluctuating quality. One patient may receive a small charge for a treatment, while... View Details
- 14 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Rewriting the Rules of Service Competition
well. As a result, these organizations staff very carefully, hiring for attitude and then training for skills, whether the business is fast food or cutting-edge medical organizations such as the Mayo Clinic. These are not good places to... View Details
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What Others Are Saying - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
would if the medical marketplace even remotely resembled an efficient, competitive market.” — John C. Goodman, Ph.D., President, National Center for Policy Analysis “Redefining Health Care has the makings of a classic, one that likely... View Details
- April 2012
- Article
Broadening Focus: Spillovers, Complementarities and Specialization in the Hospital Industry
By: Jonathan R. Clark and Robert S. Huckman
The long-standing argument that focused operations outperform others stands in contrast to claims about the benefits of broader operational scope. The performance benefits of focus are typically attributed to reduced complexity, lower uncertainty, and the development... View Details
Keywords: Performance Capacity; Operations; Advertising; Production; Corporate Strategy; Relationships; Medical Specialties; Complexity; Risk and Uncertainty; Experience and Expertise; Diversification; Quality; Health Industry
Clark, Jonathan R., and Robert S. Huckman. "Broadening Focus: Spillovers, Complementarities and Specialization in the Hospital Industry." Management Science 58, no. 4 (April 2012): 708–722.
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
Global health care is entering its most challenging era, with increasing demand for services from consumers newly arrived in the middle class, under-served people, and rapidly aging populations, all the while dealing with the need to manage advanced View Details
- 02 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 2
Evidence from a Field Experiment Authors: Kevin Boudreau, Tom Brady, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva Guinan, Karim Lakhani, and Tony Hollenberg Abstract We present the results of a field experiment conducted within the Harvard Medical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
hospital stays and doctors' visits showed her the health care system up close. "I realized that I really wanted to make a difference," she recalls. At Harvard, this self-described "contrarian" recalls having to push her idea of promoting... View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
provided-physician visits, hospitalizations, procedures, and tests-to the patient outcomes achieved. And we must replace today's fragmented system, in which every local provider offers a full range of services, with a system in which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows
launched and scaled digital health products and founded the digital health team’s first diversity, equity, and inclusion program. This initiative was instrumental in lifting up underrepresented voices, creating systems for equitable... View Details
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
Julia Cole, Tina Keshani, and Sophia Richter (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Tina Keshani (MBA 2020), Julia Cole (MBA 2020), and Sophia Richter (MBA 2020) met at Startup Boot Camp in their first year at HBS, they quickly discovered they shared a vision to create a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
Delivery System In 2013, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) was the top ranked hospital in Tennessee by U.S. News & World Report and among the leading academic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Student-Profile
Hummy Song
and the productivity of the health care workforce. I am currently working on several projects that examine various operational and organizational factors that may affect worker productivity and quality of care. One of my projects explores the impact of different queue... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Rhenisch Rick Bern/Courtesy Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority A community organizer during the 1960s, Madelyn Rhenisch was a pioneering advocate for better medical care for the people of rural upstate New York. More... View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
This strategic response is more pronounced for vendors whose stocks of patents are small and whose home markets have weak IP systems. Our study is the first to examine the relationship between heterogeneity in national patent systems and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
to help, has the government unwittingly created the mother of all moral hazards — implicit rescue guarantees as far as the eye can see? No doubt about it, says HBS professor and economic historian David Moss. “The extension of implicit guarantees to all View Details