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December 4, 2023
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The Great Resignation, Employment, and Wages in Health Care

By: Amitabh Chandra and Louis-Jonas Heizlsperger

Notwithstanding concerns about staffing levels and burnout in health care, federal wage and employment data does not support the suggestion that a COVID-19 pandemic-related spike in quitting has had an enduring impact for hospitals or physician offices. Employment in... View Details

Keywords: Resignation and Termination; Employment; Wages; Health Industry

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We are studying the practical application of Michael Porter's value-based strategy to reform health care by examining best practices of integrated practice units, outcome measurement, cost measurement, value-based payment, episode based payment, regionalization of... View Details

02 Feb 2021
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Finding My Focus in Health care Amidst a Global Pandemic

I applied to the HBS and Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) MBA/MPP (Master of Public Policy) Class of 2023 to learn about the interplay between the public and private sectors in health care. Health View Details

30 Oct 2017
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The Innovation Health Care Really Needs: Help People Manage Their Own Health

September 2003 (Revised January 2005)
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Bridges to Excellence: Bringing Quality Health Care to Life

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Ingrid Marie Nembhard and Robert Galvin

General Electric launched Bridges to Excellence Diabetes Care Link, a program through which enrolled physicians receive bonuses of up to 10% of their salary for delivering quality care to diabetic patients covered by a participating employer or health plan. A day... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Motivation and Incentives; Programs; Ethics; Quality; Moral Sensibility; Service Delivery; Compensation and Benefits; Health Industry

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10 Mar 2015

Health Care Sector at HBS Webinar

This webinar will provide an overview of the resources available at HBS to students coming from (or who are interested in pursuing a career in) health care. A member of our Career and Professional Development Office will review View Details

March 2002
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Leading Organizational Learning in Health Care

By: J. S. Carroll and A. C. Edmondson

Keywords: Leadership; Organizations; Learning; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

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13 Mar 2014
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Democratizing Health Care Innovation with MOOCs

02 Jul 2018
Blog Post

Pursuing A Passion in Health Care

Hej! Reporting from Copenhagen here. My first year of HBS is complete, and I moved here one month ago for my summer internship. I’m working in New Product Development at Radiometer – a medical device subsidiary of Danaher. I came to HBS from consulting and was hoping... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

04 Jun 2021

Women in Industry Series: Health Care

Please join Cara Sterling, Director of the Health Care Initiative at HBS, as she moderates a panel of HBS women making a difference in the Healthcare space. Learn about their experiences and how HBS has... View Details

16 Dec 2015
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The Kinds of Teams Health Care Needs

19 Jul 2022

Industry Spotlight: Health Care at HBS

Wonder what an MBA could do to help with your professional growth in health care? Hear from alumni in the health care industry as they reflect on the amazing resources that HBS... View Details

07 May 2015
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Renegotiating Retiree Health Care Plans After New Supreme Court Guidance

19 Aug 2009
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Government should get back to the basics on health care

3 Jun 2005
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How Business Can Lead a Health Care Revolution

By: Michael E. Porter

This presentation draws on a forthcoming book with Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg (Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Harvard Business School Press). Earlier publications about the work include the Harvard Business Review article... View Details

Keywords: Health; United States

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May 2020
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Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care

By: Amitabh Chandra and Douglas O. Staiger

In medicine, the reasons for variation in treatment rates across hospitals serving similar patients are not well understood. Some interpret this variation as unwarranted and push standardization of care as a way of reducing allocative inefficiency. However, an... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity; Mathematical Methods

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Medical Group Structural Integration May Not Ensure That Care Is Integrated, From The Patient's Perspective

By: Michaela J. Kerrissey, Jonathan Clark, Mark Friedberg, Wei Jiang, Ashley Kay Fryer, Molly Frean, Stephen Shortell, Patricia Ramsay, Lawrence Casalino and Sara J. Singer

Structural integration is increasing among medical groups, but whether these changes yield care that is more integrated remains unclear. We explored the relationships between structural integration characteristics of 144 medical groups and perceptions of integrated... View Details

Keywords: Integration; Health Care Delivery; Organization Structure; Organizational Structure; Health Care and Treatment; Perception; Perspective; Health Industry; United States

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