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- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
SEC that plays favorites in this way, Heese found. In another study, Heese looked at regulation by Medicare of hospital fraud. It's an all-too-common practice for hospitals to claim patient ailments more... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
Care for the Elderly: Process is More Important Than the Destination
the same purpose. We have visited many local senior care homes, talked to customers and industry insiders, launched a social media channel to gain customer insights, and have been developing local partnerships with View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
strengthened by the rise of craft guilds in the sixteenth century. Legal scholars claim it was not until the Industrial Revolution that courts began to routinely enforce restrictions on employee mobility, though they generally held that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
and build the capacity to create a second brand that focuses on off-the-rack dress. Many examples are available in fashion and the hospitality industry, such as Banana Republic and Old Navy or Andaz and Hyatt Place hotels. —Cindy Park... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
industry to the production of mechanical (“dumb”) and electronic (“smart”) beds. Eventually, he expects to develop an entire suite of compact hospital room furnishings. The Alumni New Venture Contest was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
in the growth of retail medical centers, too. If they are conveniently located, people will take care of minor medical issues, such as an ache, or a mole that might be cancerous. Most people also prefer them to hospitals overwhelmed with... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
the hospital, which we can then use to price our drug appropriately,” Kimble says. Kimble and Triola also stress the importance of developing antibiotics that can be used both in a hospital setting and at home, reflecting a dramatic... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
Building a Startup at HBS
Our group initially came together through a deep passion for health care – with the goal of creating a novel product that addressed an unmet need and made a tangible difference in patients’ lives. We felt that if we combined our prior experiences in the View Details
- Web
Maya Burhanpurkar | MBA
Fund. What began as a research project at the University of Toronto developed into a finished product: an autonomous wheelchair for both hospital and consumer markets. My work as a Venture Partner with Contrary Capital and an intern at... View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Incentives and Operational Excellence
Whether you're running a major medical supply company or a hole-in-the-wall video store, chances are you know how common operational problems are. If you are the medical supplier, for instance, you probably deal with a hospital group that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Faculty Research Online
can boost the power of products in industries as diverse as food and beverages, technology, airlines, and automobiles. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6351.html. Turning Employees into Problem Solvers To improve patient safety, View Details
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
Bumping up against accepted theories in process improvement, a new research paper from Harvard Business School questions the value of prioritizing problems identified by frontline employees. Citing a hospital safety improvement program... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- Profile
Fumi Tamaki
method, we practice making sound decisions based on limited information – it truly mimics reality. We learn to balance data with judgment.” Learning through collaboration and the support of peers With help from MBA Career & Professional Development, Fumi has been... View Details
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
reactor" in accelerating the rise in health-care costs. Why is this system such a problem? A: By some estimates, 50 percent of all health care is driven by physician and hospital supply, not by patients' needs. Today's doctors work in a... View Details
- Student-Profile
A Jay Holmgren
of papers examining the efficacy of hospital IT systems at flagging and preventing adverse drug events. He credits the diverse expertise of his fellow doctoral students with helping him expand and enrich his research pursuits. “I’ve... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Delta’s Flight from Bankruptcy
on Tuesday and did not go home until Friday, September 14,” said Whitehurst, who is now Delta’s COO. Invited to HBS in March by the Hospitality and Travel Industry Club, Whitehurst discussed lessons learned... View Details
- Alumni WDYDWYD
Mary Dell Harrington
industry is exciting, deeply satisfying, and a logical career extension from NBC, Discovery, and Lifetime Television – where I worked for twenty years post-MBA. Launching a blog and relaunching my career – after a ten year hiatus – has... View Details
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
practices which encourage managers to use accounting information to improve performance. In contrast, government organizations are publicly governed and are constrained in their compensation practices because hospital CEOs are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Portrait Project
Margaret Watson
A dark hospital waiting room was not how I imagined spending my night. I was about to start the second week of my internship and instead of getting a good night’s sleep, I was waiting for my boyfriend to get out of emergency surgery. I... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
Thriving Online After three decades in service of people who are over the age of 50, Meredith Oppenheim is working to nudge the industry in a new direction—broadening the scope of its offerings to include meaningful online engagement. Her... View Details