Health Birth Outcomes - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Jan 2022
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Learning to Fight

Mark Johnson, one of the early recipients of the foundation’s signature Distinguished Scientist Award. Johnson is now chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery at UMass Memorial Health and a professor at the University of... View Details

01 Jun 2020
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Vital Signs

schedules to reduce the spread of disease. So for non-high-risk mothers who would’ve had 12 in-person appointments before, that’s getting cut in half. Perhaps we’ll find that outcomes are the same, and we just made the prenatal View Details

Keywords: Jen Mele; COVID-19; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

Summer 2014
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Designed for Workarounds: A Qualitative Study of the Causes of Operational Failures in Hospitals

By: Anita L. Tucker, W. Scott Heisler and Laura D. Janisse

Frontline care providers in hospitals spend at least 10% of their time working around operational failures, which are situations where information, supplies, or equipment needed for patient care are insufficient. However, little is known about underlying causes of... View Details

Keywords: Supply Chain; Health Care and Treatment; Failure; Business Processes; Health Industry

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Rahima Dosani

I will love, unconditionally and with abandon. For my mother. Having already given birth to eleven children, my grandmother tried to abort her. It failed. My mother was brought into this world unwanted, neglected, and abused. No one knew... View Details

24 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

point out in the book's introduction, the FDA must also operate as a political and governing agency. Decisions are expected to be made in transparent rule- and procedure-based ways, and in many cases they produce outcomes that reach... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Health; Health; Health

11 Jun 2021
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The Power of Resilience

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Three days before giving birth to her second daughter, Parul Somani (MBA 2009) felt a lump in her breast. Still unable to walk from her C-section, her husband... View Details

21 Nov 2024
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Mother Nurture

health. “We’d all had experiences that left us feeling that the current health care system wasn’t serving us, as women,” Keshani says. The name Seven Starling was inspired by the flocking behavior of starlings. By following their seven... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2005
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Health-Care Initiative to Leverage Ongoing Efforts

Dean Kim B. Clark has announced the formation of a faculty initiative in health care, with HBS professor of management practice Richard G. Hamermesh serving as chair. Technology strategy, the design of care delivery, consumer-driven View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

13 Nov 2020
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Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19

startup, which is led by Sophia Richter, Tina Beilinson, and Julia Cole (all MBA 2020), quickly adapted its affordable online offerings to include classes geared to birth and postpartum challenges associated with the coronavirus. Hikma... View Details

March 1999 (Revised July 1999)
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, The

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Ann Winslow

Describes the death of a cancer patient in one of the nation's premier cancer treatment centers and examines the organizational and process characteristics that may have contributed to the medical error. View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Quality; Service Operations; Management Practices and Processes; Business Processes; Failure; Health Industry

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June 2008
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Gordon Williams: Clinical Research at Brigham and Women's Hospital

By: H. Kent Bowen and Courtney Purrington

Clinical research is a critical element of biomedical research and development. This case describes the challenges of clinical research, and its role in bringing breakthroughs to patients. Dr. Williams leads through his own research and special programs to train... View Details

Keywords: Training; Health Care and Treatment; Success; Programs; Research and Development; Health Industry; Health Industry

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23 Oct 2020
News

Educating the Whole Student

Initiative, apart from other models. First, The Primary School enrolls students as close to birth as possible. “We know the majority of brain development happens in the first few years of life,” Liu explains. Second, the school partners... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

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Suppliers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Employers Suppliers Policymakers Suppliers Suppliers Suppliers of medical products, technology, and services play vital roles in the value of health care delivery and innovation in health care practice. By... View Details

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Naiyya Saggi

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I am passionate about creating social impact (specifically improving healthcare outcomes in emerging economies). At HBS, leadership is not interpreted narrowly: it is not sectoral,... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care

26 Aug 2016
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Connecting with the Past

Photography by Owen Egan Stanley Diamond (MBA 1958) was thinking about the health of future generations of his family when he went searching for records of his relatives in Poland. Prompted by the diagnosis of his nephew, Mark Diamond... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

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Paris Wallace

maternal health and create an ability to predict significant outcomes such as birth defects and autism. In an interview with HIStalk.com, Wallace said, “Research shows that 40... View Details

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Policymakers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Creating a Value-Based Health Care Delivery System: Implications for Policymakers Reduce regulatory obstacles to care coordination and integration across the care cycle like the Stark and anti-kickback laws, HIPAA, and EMTALA Create a... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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The Race Against Resistance

and cancer. Antibiotics helped lift the average life expectancy at birth from 54 years in 1920 to 78.6 today. But almost as soon as the treatments were made available, physicians had to cope with the specter of antibiotic resistance, a... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

03 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

Effects of Sex Selection on Intrahousehold Outcomes in India By: Hussam, Reshmaan Abstract—Sex ratios at birth have risen steadily over the last three decades across much of the developing world. Many... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne