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  • 2019
  • Chapter

Characterizing the Drug Development Pipeline for Precision Medicines

By: Amitabh Chandra, Craig Garthwaite and Ariel Dora Stern
BOOK ABSTRACT: Personalized and precision medicine (PPM)—the targeting of therapies according to an individual’s genetic, environmental, or lifestyle characteristics—is becoming an increasingly important approach in health care treatment and prevention. The advancement... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Precision Medicine
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  • 2022
  • Working Paper

The Regulation of Medical AI: Policy Approaches, Data, and Innovation Incentives

By: Ariel Dora Stern
For those who follow health and technology news, it is difficult to go more than a few days without reading about a compelling new application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to health care. AI has myriad applications in medicine and its adjacent industries, with... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Health Care and Treatment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Technological Innovation; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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  • October 2012 (Revised October 2013)
  • Case

Rock Health

By: Robert F. Higgins and Ian McKown Cornell
Rock Health was a San Francisco–based nonprofit organization offering accelerator services to spur innovation at the intersection of healthcare and technology. The company was the creation of Halle Tecco (HBS '11) and her HBS classmate Nate Gross (HBS '11), who met... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Incubation; Healthcare Technology; Startups; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Business Startups; Health Industry; San Francisco; California; United States
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  • 2009
  • Book

Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care

By: Richard Bohmer
Today's health-care providers face growing criticism - from policy makers and patients alike. As costs continue to spiral upward and concerns about quality of care escalate, the debate has focused on how to finance health care. Yet funding solutions can't... View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Business Processes; Organizational Culture
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  • 27 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 27, 2009

low-cost care. But in the case of iterative care, a patient's condition is unknown, and tremendous resources may be required for diagnosis and treatment, often with uncertain outcomes. Bohmer shows that to reduce costs and manage care... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Article

A Feasibility Study Using Time-driven Activity-based Costing as a Management Tool for Provider Cost Estimation: Lessons from the National TB Control Program in Zimbabwe in 2018

By: J. Chirenda, B. Nhlema Simwaka, C. Sandy, K. Bodnar, S. Corbin, P. Desai, T. Mapako, S. Shamu, C. Timire, E. Antonio, A. Makone, A. Birikorang, T. Mapuranga, M. Ngwenya, T. Masunda, M. Dube, E. Wandwalo, L. Morrison and R. S. Kaplan
Background: This study used process maps and time-driven activity-based costing to document TB service delivery processes. The analysis identified the resources required to sustain TB services in Zimbabwe, as well as several opportunities for more effective and... View Details
Keywords: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Provider Cost; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Activity Based Costing and Management; Zimbabwe
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Overview

Phil's work aims to identify the drivers of performance for healthcare organizations and providers, and the mechanisms by which this performance can change over time. In complex healthcare settings, the optimal choice of treatment can be highly ambiguous. As a... View Details
Keywords: Primary Care; Medical Decision-making; Learning By Doing; Healthcare Organizations; Healthcare Operations; Health Economics
  • February 2016 (Revised July 2017)
  • Case

Leadership and Independence at the Federal Reserve

By: David Moss and Marc Campasano
“From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic downturn suffered by this country over the past century can be traced to Federal Reserve policy.” Ron Paul, a Republican from... View Details
Keywords: Government Legislation; Central Banking; Policy; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States
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  • 19 Jan 2023
  • Research & Ideas

What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI?

holds in higher stakes settings such as medical diagnosis and treatment or credit lending.” That finding may be useful across industries from transportation to medicine as AI evolves and the quality—and quantity—of data climbs, DeStefano... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 09 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

actual problem.” Thus, diagnosis of the situation is a prerequisite to crafting a response. They argue that volatility should be met with agility; uncertainty with information; complexity with restructuring (with internal operations... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
  • 03 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How to Succeed With Your New Boss

conversations with your new boss: The situational diagnosis conversation. In this conversation you seek to understand how your new boss sees the business situation. Is it a turnaround or a startup or a realignment or a sustaining success... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
  • 01 Oct 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Is Too Much Focus a Problem?

For example, Jerome Groopman, in his book How Doctors Think, advised us as patients to ask what might be the most important question of our lives when consulting with a doctor who has reached, and too often focused mentally on, a View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 18 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

biomedical problems? LISH team: There is an endless array of potential tools possible for better diagnosis by image analysis. However, there are reasons for why such tools have been relatively slow in development and implementation. The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 10 Jan 2008
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management

cross-functional coordination, and profitability management. Current product-tracking technology makes problem diagnosis much easier than the time of the original study. By and large, companies using this methodology see lowered costs and... View Details
  • 12 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

serious diagnosis that would be reimbursed at a higher rate. The problem is a huge drain on taxpayers, costing an estimated $44 billion in 2012, a full 10 percent of Medicare's payments. At the same time, hospitals, especially nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 23 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes

results. Some time ago, the Mayo Clinic decided to focus on the priority of reducing the amount of time patients wait to be seen. As a result, today you can get a Mayo Clinic diagnosis within 24 hours. For anxious patients who want to... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Service
  • 29 Jun 2015
  • HBS Case

Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records

IT systems that handle a good chunk of the work, Quelch says. Yet consumer trust when it comes to data privacy is not always a given, and consumers want to have a say. Some people fear that information about a serious disease diagnosis or... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Technology
  • 07 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

determinate intervals. Indeed it is, and Schumpeter's own stance is guarded and empirically informed. As he said to Mitchell, "Any such diagnosis stands and falls with the historical evidence on which it rests." Theory is... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
  • 07 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiation and All That Jazz

Wheeler has incorporated concepts and techniques from other arenas where circumstances are in flux and information is imperfect—from military combat and medical diagnosis to improvisational theater and jazz. Hitting The Right Notes "There... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 28 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 28

chosen strategy. By enabling an honest, organization-wide, and public conversation, senior management teams, working collaboratively with scholar-consultants and organizational members, have access to valid data (the unvarnished truth), can conduct a valid View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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