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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Student turns family health crisis into online solution
When Shana Hoffman (MBA 2014) and her family tried to navigate the world of health care in the US to help Hoffman’s father with his medical issues, the electrical systems engineer looked at the problem from a distinct perspective. “No... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
hospitality. Offices and health care facilities could both offer the company access to huge sectors of the $80 billion lighting market. The Question: Hoskins describes the competitive landscape as “a land grab.” He’d love to do some pilot projects in hospitals and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- Web
THE VALUE OF THE PHYSICIAN SHADOW PROGRAM: Witnessing The Front Lines of Care Delivery - Blog: Health Supplement
Topics Biotech/pharma Care Delivery Clinical Trials Digital Health Global Health Health Care Entrepreneurship Health Care Innovation Health Care Investment Health Care at HBS Insurance/payor Medical... View Details
- March 1997 (Revised October 2017)
- Case
Hospital Equipment Corporation
By: Clayton M. Christensen and Rory McDonald
Hospital Equipment Corp. is a very successful maker of hospital beds. Due to outstanding performance in new product development, it grew to dominate its primary market and is searching for other opportunities to grow through new product development. It discovers that... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation and Management; Opportunities; Business Processes; Product Development; Technological Innovation; Expansion; Markets; Problems and Challenges; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States
Christensen, Clayton M., and Rory McDonald. "Hospital Equipment Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 697-086, March 1997. (Revised October 2017.)
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Health Care’s New Frontier
Bush Photo courtesy athenahealth Main article: Where Innovation Rules What do you do if your start-up turns out to be a little too far ahead of its time? If you’re Jonathan Bush (MBA 1997), you use what you’ve learned to jump-start a... View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
rounds. “Many physicians don’t have opportunities for interdisciplinary interaction,” Amadio says, “but we can’t afford not to be interdisciplinary. Innovation should be part of the mission of every physician. We have been at the View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
health and medical advances, says Johnston, "there are huge possibilities for new products and services [see sidebars], but business needs to change its mentality about aging. With innovation will come... View Details
- 22 Jun 2023
- News
Finding Her Place
Photo: Courtesy Chapman Partnership Symeria Hudson (MBA 1997) never expected to find herself leading a nonprofit. Hudson had spent the first 25 years of her career in the corporate world—the first 10 years in consumer goods and then 15 in the medical technology sector.... View Details
- Web
Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
multi-year strategy to expand next-generation care management/care delivery model nationally. Prior to joining CareMore, Dr. Jain was Chief Medical Information and Innovation Officer at Merck & Co, where he... View Details
- 04 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Making the Case for Consumer-Driven Health Care
of health care is a major research topic at Harvard Business School and its Healthcare Initiative, where some 40 faculty conduct research on questions as diverse as how "work-around" cultures develop in hospitals to the best ways deliver high-impact View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
she had a different type of leukemia. They ran more tests but saw no sign of one. The hospital was affiliated with the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Medical Science, which had partnered with IBM Watson, a cloud-based... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 11 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
Meet the 2018-2019 Blavatnik Fellows in Life Science Entrepreneurship
including; the New Venture Competition, the Harvard Innovation Lab, Entrepreneurs-in-Residence and entrepreneurial-focused courses. More than 50 percent of HBS graduates create ventures in a quest to change the world. In that spirit,... View Details
- September 1993
- Case
Manufacturing at ALZA: The Right Prescription? (A)
ALZA, a company specializing in drug delivery systems such as transdermal patches, considers manufacturing its own products. Until now, the company has conducted research and development on its patented system but has then licensed the technology to client-partner... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Technological Innovation; Innovation and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Production; Research and Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Leonard, Dorothy A. "Manufacturing at ALZA: The Right Prescription? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 694-019, September 1993.
- 19 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Making a Broader Impact with Multiple Disciplines
The idea that novel engineering techniques could be used for medical purposes fascinated me and I sought to build smart devices for other anatomical and physiological needs. While LEGO provided an easy medium to accomplish this vision,... View Details
- Profile
Maya Babu
realize that beyond the medical issues, there's a need for leaders who can build morale, inspire employees, negotiate with contractors—just as there is in business. To be effective in the public sector, long-term, I needed a background in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System
Shape up, people! That was the message for both the health-care industry and the public at a November forum of more than 150 medical practitioners, health-industry executives, academics, and others who gathered at HBS. Titled "Healing... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
In the past decade, physician burnout has evolved from a serious concern to a troubling epidemic, affecting 50 percent of physicians and physicians-in-training. Excessive workloads, process inefficiencies, and administrative burdens related to electronic View Details
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Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences - Course Catalog
with the appropriate financial and human resources, and scaling. The course will explore which areas of the life sciences are ripe for innovation and entrepreneurship and will cover therapeutics, devices, diagnostics, and related service... View Details
- Web
Kraft Accelerator
Find More Resources Find More Resources Recent Publications Partnering with the VA to Accelerate Cures and Reduce Disparities HBS Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator Innovative Funding Approaches to Get Breakthrough Science Applied to... View Details
- February 2002 (Revised August 2002)
- Case
Inhale Therapeutics: Executing and Growing the Business Model
Inhale is about to bring a novel technology to market that uses inhalation to administer drugs that formerly required injection. Inhale must now decide which way to evolve its business model. This will determine the future direction of growth for the company. View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Technological Innovation; Health Care and Treatment; Growth and Development Strategy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Chesbrough, Henry W., and Gillian Morris. "Inhale Therapeutics: Executing and Growing the Business Model." Harvard Business School Case 602-132, February 2002. (Revised August 2002.)