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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) Watch an interview with Professor Kaplan on VBHCD Medical Conditions The VBHCD team has examined the following medical conditions: Acute Conditions Joint (knee and hip)... View Details
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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Business School professors Michael Porter and Robert Kaplan, engages with leading health care providers in the U.S. and around the world to measure and manage patient-level costs over complete cycles of care for a variety of medical... View Details
- Portrait Project
Shaan Gandhi
Every physician and medical student remembers the first patient who died on his or her watch. I remember mine. Her name was Sarah, and she came to us in respiratory distress. After running some tests, we concluded that she likely had a... View Details
- 02 Jul 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Risk-Mitigating Technologies: The Case of Radiation Diagnostic Devices
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
for the number and cost of the services they provide rather than by the value of those services in helping patients. In short, medical professionals make money when their patients become sick. Here's one example of how the problem plays... View Details
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Michael Farias
When Michael Farias initially arrived at Harvard Medical School, he did not think about the business side of medicine. "I thought medicine was just about treating disease," he says. "But my first year in med school opened... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Geisha Secrets
TSAI: A luxury skin-care line based on ancient Japanese rituals. Years of work-related testing of beauty products had left Victoria Tsai (MBA 2006) with acute dermatitis. After trying various medications to no avail, she turned to Japan... View Details
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Luc Sirois
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
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
already have products on the market, as does Amgen, where Gordon M. Binder (MBA '62) served as CEO until his retirement last month (he will continue to serve as chairman through December). Amgen's Epogen (a treatment for anemia in kidney... View Details
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2.9 Leaves of Absence | MBA
satisfactory standard of conduct. Following an individualized assessment, the School may require students who are on leave for medical reasons to comply with a treatment plan during their time away.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Health IT at the Bedside
medical history existed. His primary care doctor was unaware of what his specialists were doing. A summary I had once written was now outdated. As much as any medication, my father needed health IT. This need became obvious during his... View Details
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Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator - Health Care
work began with one question: How to bring more treatments to the people who need them? After Myra Kraft died in 2011 of ovarian cancer, the Kraft Family Foundation sought to find an answer to this question. They spoke with a number of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
treatments and toward value for patients; he defined “value” as “health outcomes per dollar spent.” Instead of the current system of disjointed, episodic medical interventions, Porter argued for an... View Details
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
Global health care is entering its most challenging era, with increasing demand for services from consumers newly arrived in the middle class, under-served people, and rapidly aging populations, all the while dealing with the need to manage advanced View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
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Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care
BRAILER: Aiming to give every American an electronic health-care record by 2014. American health-care providers may use the best technology in the world, but when it comes to patient records, the system is an inefficient maze responsible for unacceptably high numbers... View Details
- July 2001 (Revised March 2020)
- Case
Medtronic: Patient Management Initiative (A)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Mark P. Allyn
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Mark P. Allyn. "Medtronic: Patient Management Initiative (A)." Harvard Business School Case 302-005, July 2001. (Revised March 2020.)
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
not performing the surgery at all, and treating the case in a different way. Value may be still greater if preventive care and advice is provided over time so that little or no treatment is needed at all. The relevant business in health... View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
Frustrated by the slow pace and poor success rate of entrepreneurial startups bringing innovation from bench to bedside in his field, Jordan Amadio (MD/MBA 2010) and two partners founded NeuroLaunch, the world’s first neuroscience-focused accelerator, to help... 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
- 15 Nov 2016
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Enabling the Dream of Building A Healthy Future for India
Surabhi Bhandari (photo by Susan Young) Surabhi Bhandari (photo by Susan Young) Surabhi Bhandari (MBA 2017) wants to launch a medical technology startup in India that will help revolutionize health care in her native country.... View Details