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- 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
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading the way in times of crisis
the city’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, got the city’s transit system back on track using the same take-charge skills he displayed on September 11, 2001, when, as Rudy Giuliani’s deputy mayor, he helped coordinate emergency... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Student turns family health crisis into online solution
When Shana Hoffman (MBA 2014) and her family tried to navigate the world of health care in the US to help Hoffman’s father with his medical issues, the electrical systems engineer looked at the problem from... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Collaborative Cures
sync. No one is thinking about the system as a whole—and that’s the opportunity.” —Shana Hoffman (MBA 2014), COO, Senior VP, Tri-State/Mid-Atlantic Region, Beacon Health Options Photo courtesy of Lily Fu Photo courtesy of Lily Fu “The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
“an incredibly dedicated and brilliant group of physicians, as well as patients with such courage and grace that I knew I wanted to do something to get more involved in their battle.” This year she is on a “working sabbatical” at Dana-Farber and Harvard View Details
- 27 Sep 2021
- News
Sewn with Love
When Kikka Hanazawa (MBA 2002), CEO of VPL, a women’s underwear and athleisure company, heard stories of the shortages of personal protective equipment for front-line medical workers faced with the coronavirus crisis, the fashion-industry... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
health care systems to simplify the process of finding doctors and booking appointments for patients. It also provides a sophisticated enterprise management tool that helps health systems track, maintain,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
employees, rapidly rising health-care costs, and the likely loss of existing protection against lawsuits for pain and suffering from medical events. She then disclosed the results of a 1999 KPMG survey of CEOs and consumers about... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
referring physicians. We think that health plans are also the logical place in the system at which to aggregate medical records. Right now, the medical record resides with each... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
go for the money. In your first job, you're naive and will make a lot of mistakes. You need someone who will protect you, push you, and support you." CURRENT READING On Chesil Beach, by Ian McEwan For thirty years, Hansjörg Wyss has led Synthes, a global View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alvin Roth Wins Nobel Prize in Economics
kidney exchange system could be created to help match kidney donors with recipients. Al is one of the few economists who can point to real people whose lives have been saved by his work." Roth, who joined the HBS faculty in 1998, also... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Porter Helps Jerusalem Mayor with Economic Development
a press briefing, Barkat explained that he has adopted Porter’s cluster-based development approach to focus on three existing areas of strength: culture and tourism, health care and life sciences, and outsourced medical and financial... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Feedback
perseverance, and teamwork. —Michael Brown (MBA 1970) via LinkedIn Curing Health Care Re: How can our health care system be fixed? This is all very well and good, but technical solutions will only work around the edges until two main... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
insight into products and a business. This is what the health care industry was lacking, she realized: a system designed from the patient’s point of view. It would be better for patients and medical staff,... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 31 May 2017
- News
Father Agribusiness
Agribusiness, he explains, “..[i]s not just agriculture and business, it’s people from the medical school and government and the school for public health all working together.” For Goldberg, observing those connections in the context of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
makes it necessary to reform care delivery organizations and processes,” says Richard Bohmer (above). “Our current systems date back to the early 20th century.” At Emory, Dr. Bryce Gartland, medical director... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
of pharmaceuticals and medical devices work in a more coordinated way? —Rebecca Leung (MBA 1996) HASSAN: Smaller, highly advanced countries with long-term industrial strategies, such as Singapore, have a relatively well-coordinated 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
- 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
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Personal crises inform a life’s work
director from 1990 through its closure in 2004, and an internationally recognized advocate. “Our efforts started a movement that vastly escalated breast cancer research funding and gave patients and survivors a permanent voice in medical... View Details