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- Spring 2020
- Article
Establishing High Performing Teams: Lessons from Health Care
By: Michael Anne Kyle, Emma-Louise Aveling and Sara J. Singer
Effective teams can be significant drivers of innovations that enable broader quality improvements and efficiency gains across organizations. But despite the wealth of research and managerial expertise describing characteristics of effective teams, people and... View Details
Kyle, Michael Anne, Emma-Louise Aveling, and Sara J. Singer. "Establishing High Performing Teams: Lessons from Health Care." Special Issue on Disruption 2020. MIT Sloan Management Review 61, no. 3 (Spring 2020): 14–18.
- Article
Integrating: A Managerial Practice that Enables Implementation in Fragmented Health Care Environments
By: Michaela J. Kerrissey, Patricia Satterstrom, Nicholas Leydon, Gordon Schiff and Sara J. Singer
How some organizations improve while others remain stagnant is a key question in health care research. This inductive qualitative study examines primary care clinics implementing improvement efforts in order to identify mechanisms that enable implementation despite... View Details
Keywords: Organization And Management Theory; Quality Improvement; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Improvement; Integration; Cooperation
Kerrissey, Michaela J., Patricia Satterstrom, Nicholas Leydon, Gordon Schiff, and Sara J. Singer. "Integrating: A Managerial Practice that Enables Implementation in Fragmented Health Care Environments." Health Care Management Review 42, no. 3 (July–September 2017): 213–225.
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Value-Based Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
care are widely touted as critical to improving the health outcomes of patients worldwide and controlling runaway health care costs. Value-based health care's central tenant is... View Details
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
opportunities to address systems of care issues so critical to the treatment of patients with chronic conditions." If curricula are a significant problem, they often reflect limitations in the ability of... View Details
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Research: People Use Less Energy When They Think Their Neighbors Care About the Environment
By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Oliver P. Hauser, Julie O'Brien, Erin Sherman and Adam D. Galinsky
A significant reduction in energy consumption is needed to help meet critical temperature thresholds. New research points to a way to help consumers work toward this goal – one that doesn’t rest on changing people’s personal beliefs about climate change. Rather, it... View Details
Jachimowicz, Jon M., Oliver P. Hauser, Julie O'Brien, Erin Sherman, and Adam D. Galinsky. "Research: People Use Less Energy When They Think Their Neighbors Care About the Environment." Harvard Business Review (website) (January 28, 2019).
- Web
Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog
accountability, technology, and consumer characteristics of virtually every major kind of health care organization. Understand how to align the innovation with the Six Factors that critically influence this... View Details
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Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog
dimensions of a critical challenge in health care delivery—improving the value of care delivered to patients. Beyond managing cost, the challenge of improving value depends... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Implementing New Practices: An Empirical Study of Organizational Learning in Hospital Intensive Care Units
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
Your patient health care data is most likely scattered throughout the medical universe, in everything from notes scribbled by various doctors to test results resting in far-flung computer systems. So when medical professionals need to... View Details
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Organize Care Around Medical Conditions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
IPU leadership team. Patient and clinician scheduling is critical to success. The processes of care need to be well defined and mapped accurately. Whenever possible standard View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
Illustration by Chris Gash Illustration by Chris Gash The New York City–based startup Wellthy began with a personal challenge. Lindsay Jurist-Rosner (MBA 2009) has helped arrange care for her mother, who suffers from a progressive form of... View Details
- 22 Sep 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Measuring Teamwork in Health Care Settings: A Review of Survey Instruments
- April 2025
- Case
#FutureFresenius: Implementing a New Strategy to Transform the Company and Advance Patient Care
By: David J. Collis, Benjamin C. Esty and Haisley Wert
In February 2024, Fresenius CEO Michael Sen reflected on the company’s transformation journey from his office in Bad Homburg, Germany. With revenues of €22 billion and a mission to advance patient care, Fresenius had built a strong reputation through decades of... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Corporate Strategy; Transformation; Finance; Leading Change; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Alignment; Health Industry; Germany; United States
Collis, David J., Benjamin C. Esty, and Haisley Wert. "#FutureFresenius: Implementing a New Strategy to Transform the Company and Advance Patient Care." Harvard Business School Case 725-361, April 2025.
- March 2015 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
CV Ingenuity (A): How to Evaluate the Commercial Viability of New Health Care Technologies
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Andrew Otazo
Duke Rohlen (HBS MBA ’01) hoped to win over a prominent venture capital investor for Series B financing of his firm CVI that was creating a drug-eluting balloon (DES) to treat peripheral arterial disease. As a second-mover, Duke felt he was more likely to acquire... View Details
Keywords: CV Ingenuity; CVI; Drug Eluting Balloon; DEB; Drug Eluting Stent; Angioplasty Balloon; FoxHollow; Medical Device; Medical Device Startup; Premarket Approval; PMA; Lutonix; Stellarex; LEVANT; ILLUMENATE; Clinical Trials; Peripheral Arterial Disease; PAD; Healthcare Startups; Covidien; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Business Startups; Commercialization; Health Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States; Europe
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Andrew Otazo. "CV Ingenuity (A): How to Evaluate the Commercial Viability of New Health Care Technologies." Harvard Business School Case 315-045, March 2015. (Revised January 2024.)
- 13 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
Advancing Health Care Innovation and Impact with Anita Gupta (GMP 29, 2020)
anesthesiologist, I was back on the frontlines, intubating patients, managing critical care, and witnessing firsthand how fragile our health care system could be. At the same time, policies I had spent years... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
perhaps as expected in a time of worldwide politicization and polarization. For one thing, Republicans are the only ones doing the talking—Democrats have not yet been invited to come to the table and likely won’t if Republican leaders can muster 50 votes for passage.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- January 2020
- Article
Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing to Demonstrate Value in Perioperative Care: Recommendations and Review from the Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement
By: O. Allin, R. D. Urman, A. F. Edwards, J. D. Blitz, K. J. Pfeifer, T. W. Feeley and A. M. Bader
A shift in health care payment models from volume toward value-based incentives will require deliberate input into systems development from both perioperative clinicians and administrators to ensure appropriate recognition of the value of all services... View Details
Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Outcomes; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Value; Activity Based Costing and Management
Allin, O., R. D. Urman, A. F. Edwards, J. D. Blitz, K. J. Pfeifer, T. W. Feeley, and A. M. Bader. "Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing to Demonstrate Value in Perioperative Care: Recommendations and Review from the Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement." Journal of Medical Systems 44, no. 1 (January 2020).
- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
4 Ways the MS/MBA is Preparing Me for a Career in Health Care and the Life Sciences
understood that it was critical to gain practical experience outside of academia. I decided to join McKinsey & Company, motivated to attain the best possible position to provide me with the essential business experience I lacked. That... View Details
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My research seeks to understand and improve service integration across specialized professions and organizations. A critical idea driving my research is that work is becoming more dynamic, complex and interconnected, particularly for work that addresses difficult... View Details