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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Get Well Soon
implementing a “forcing function” into the operating room process that keeps patients out of the OR until they’ve received antibiotics, thus reducing surgical site infections. For another project, she selects the hospital’s Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Clinic, in part because... View Details
- 22 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems
Tucker notes that these systems have their place, as they provide the opportunity for workers to anonymously report safety violations being made by physicians and other health-care workers. But her research shows that they can also be... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
attending meetings, but searching for information. It doesn’t have to be that way. Federal Express and UPS drivers have handheld technology that gives them the information they need to work efficiently. Why are we so late in getting all View Details
- 25 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset
and we were relying purely on volunteers. But once the project surpassed 1,000 counties, interest really picked up. Epidemiologists, economists, and physicians have been impressed by the amount and quality of data we’ve collected and... View Details
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
has been substantial growth in the number of physicians pursuing Master of Business Administration (MBA) degrees over the past decade, but there is continuing debate over the utility of these programs and the career outcomes of their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
SABO." Since leaving the company, Andresen and his wife, a physician from Yugoslavia, have enjoyed traveling, sailing, studying art history, and keeping in touch with Harvard friends. Reflecting on the professorship that bears his name,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
Harvard's School of Public Health since 1976 and has spent much of her professional career applying corporate and industrial models to the health-care field. Her research activity at HBS focuses on the current trend of hospital mergers and how View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
quality and outcomes. Consumers need to have that information to make good decisions.” Jain believes that any health-care system should center on a strong doctor-patient relationship and allow physicians sufficient time and opportunity to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
senior executives from Fortune 1000 companies. Among employees, 73 percent expressed interest in a defined contribution system, citing advantages such as the ability to choose the best quality plan in which their physician participates... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
themselves and learn to respect non-docs who are competent managers." If management cannot lead the charge in saving the US health care system, from where will the leadership come? What role will management play? What do you think? Original Article Judging from... View Details
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
disease-based integrated practice units called multidisciplinary care centers. These units were supported by a new construction project that had created new disease-specific facilities and a widely supported administrative plan in which View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
interdependent. And although you may have a great doctor with the best intentions, the system may not allow him or her to give the quality of care they would like to. A: Absolutely. My heart really goes out to physicians nowadays. They're... View Details
- Web
Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Improvement. He is the co-founder and former Chair of the California Joint Replacement Registry, and past Chair of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Council on Research and Quality. Dr. Bozic has been the recipient of the UCSF Exceptional View Details
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
news. It frees physicians and hospitals to focus their energies on what they do best-tackling complex medical problems and moving more and more problems along the spectrum from intuitive toward precision medicine. However, in the history... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
education programs or, as we like to call it, Harvard Business School. In health care, Christensen set the scene by outlining the four layers of health care professionals: The specialist and sub-specialist physicians top the pecking... View Details
- Profile
Henry McCance
Twelve years ago, when Henry McCance (MBA 1966) and his wife initially faced her diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, the couple consulted some of the world’s top physicians specializing in its treatment. McCance was shocked by their advice.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
Rational Blueprint for Success, by William N. Thorndike Jr. (Photos: Harvard Business School) “The author, a practicing physician and professor at Harvard’s Medical School and School of Public Health, argues that end-of-life quality is an... View Details
- 28 Jul 2016
- Op-Ed
Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?
see whichever physician is on duty. The best family doctors often aren’t accepting new patients. Health care is a local business, travel is global. Hotel consumers have vast numbers of options and no hotel is permanently closed to new... View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?
similar ways for a limited array of traditional services, and last for only one year. In essence, managed care comes in just two flavors: plans that place constraints on access to physicians and hospitals for a lower price, and plans that... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
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FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
travel, direct education costs Q: What space costs should be considered? A: It is preferable to think about space costs in a few categories. These include: Physician office space Clinical rooms Waiting rooms and administrative space... View Details