Medical Treatment - Publications - Faculty & Research

July 2014 (Revised January 2017)
Course Overview Note

Building Life Science Businesses Spring Term 2017: Course Outline and Syllabus

This Course Outline and Syllabus gives an overview of the Spring 2016 class Building Life Science Businesses.7 View Details

Keywords: Healthcare Ventures; Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurs; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Medical Specialties; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Asia; North America; Europe

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04 Dec 2014
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Hacking Health Care

The health care industry needs so much improvement, it will take a whole movement to fix it. “The more leaders, the better,” says Luc Sirois (MBA 1997), who sees progress coming not through a single organization, but rather from groups of passionate View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Mar 2024
News

INK: Taking Care

words in an episode of the Skydeck podcast SKYDECK: Hear more of Giusti’s story in her own words in an episode of the Skydeck podcast Fatal to Fearless tells the story of Giusti’s personal journey from diagnosis through treatment and how,... View Details

Keywords: Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2020
News

AI Enhances Diagnostic Care

treatment of disorders and diseases, including pulmonary nodules, COVID-19, and brain injuries. “AI has improved workflow through higher efficiency and has helped us deliver more personalized care, leading to an enhanced patient... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

17 Aug 2011
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Breath of Life

Green: Participating in the stem-cell revolution. Courtesy David Green It was the kind of medical miracle that experts say will one day be commonplace. In June, an artificial trachea (windpipe), infused with a tracheal cancer patient’s... View Details

Keywords: stem cell research; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

25 May 2016
Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

private treatment that they and their families can afford. In poor countries, consumers are best advised to keep their own medical records since nothing approaching an electronic record-keeping system is... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional

by panelist Andy Slavitt (HBS MBA '93), Founder, President and CEO of Healthallies.com, is an exchange that links patients with local health care providers who offer preferred rates. Services include everything from traditional medical... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

13 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

content. In 2022, Amazon introduced Amazon Clinic, a virtual health care service using AI to provide affordable treatment for common conditions. In October 2023, 10,000 clinicians and staff at the Permanente View Details

Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt; Health

22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

The coronavirus crisis forced health care providers to mobilize in ways few could have predicted six months ago, revealing not only the system’s weaknesses but its profound ingenuity. Within weeks, providers worldwide set up drive-through testing sites, makeshift View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Dec 2020
News

Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers

symptoms of diseases like diabetes or congestive heart failure. Before the implantable congestive heart failure monitor, for example, we had very poor diagnostic tools to alert the need for ASAP therapy, but these sensors can now alert providers when therapeutic View Details

Keywords: April White

January 2013 (Revised February 2013)
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Shouldice Hospital Limited (B)

By: James Heskett and Roger Hallowell

Keywords: Hospital; Hernia; Surgery; Medical Specialties; Health Care and Treatment

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28 Jul 2016
Op-Ed

Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?

combine to determine overall consumer satisfaction. Hotels can perhaps be evaluated more dispassionately. In addition, rating doctors may require reviewers to recall details of their own conditions and/or treatments which might be... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

18 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

difficult and time-consuming even in countries with sufficient medical resources, much less in developing countries where the need is great but fewer personnel have the time and training. Harvard researchers wondered: Could programmers... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Medical Devices & Supplies; Medical Devices & Supplies

01 Jun 2009
News

Faculty Books

Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care by Richard M.J. Bohmer (Harvard Business Press) In this book, Senior Lecturer Bohmer, a medical doctor, explains that health-care professionals provide two different types... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2004
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Duncan M. ("Greg") Murray (MBA 1964)

East, and in Cuba, where he was introduced to it last April while attending an ozone symposium. Murray reports that results from the treatment to date have been unspectacular but decidedly positive, with some new sensation in his affected... View Details

Keywords: Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture

15 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care

examples have already begun to appear in the form of specialized treatment centers that concentrate, for instance, on cardiac or renal disorders or high-tech medical imaging. This narrow focus minimizes... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

01 Mar 2009
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A New Approach to Health-Care Reform

patients’ needs. Today’s doctors work in a system where they are rewarded by Medicare and insurance companies for the number and cost of the services they provide rather than by the value of those services in helping patients. In short, View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance

15 Aug 2019
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Finding a Fix for Food Allergies

after eating prepared food cooked in a cross-contaminated pan. The couple cofounded End Allergies Together (EAT) to advance scientific and medical research in order to find treatments and cures. Among EAT’s... View Details

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

to Choice. Under positive-sum competition, all restrictions to choice at the disease or treatment level would disappear, including network restrictions and approvals of referrals. Reasonable co-pays and large deductibles combined with... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

25 Aug 2014
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The First Five Years: Raymond Hwang (MBA 2010)

unfiltered data: history, symptoms, test results, examination findings, and patient preferences. The surgeon’s job is essentially to distill this diverse information into a diagnosis and treatment plan. In the operating room, the process... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

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