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- 28 Feb 2011
- News
Rebooting the Human Condition
(with former Harvard Medical School faculty member Steve Gullans), Homo Evolutis: A Short Tour of Our New Species. Enriquez cites as particular influences HBS professors Ray Goldberg on agribusiness as a global system, Bruce Scott on... View Details
- 07 Jan 2022
- News
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 Massachusetts View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Health Care’s New Frontier
holistic health-care clinics for women became athenahealth, a $245 million enterprise that provides cloud-based practice management, billing, and electronic health record services to over 31,000 medical providers across the United States.... View Details
- April 2009 (Revised June 2010)
- Supplement
Supply Chain Partners: Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor (B)
By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem
The epilogue to Supply Chain Partners: Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor (A), the B case details the outcome of the issues discussed in Case A; namely that Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor did implement the TSCC contract. Virginia Mason also kept the suture contract... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Supply Chain Management; Partners and Partnerships; Measurement and Metrics; Contracts; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Narayanan, V.G., and Lisa Brem. "Supply Chain Partners: Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 109-077, April 2009. (Revised June 2010.)
- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
preventable deaths, despite its world-class resources and medical technology. The Democratic presidential candidates have been debating the benefits of the “Medicare for All” approach versus a public insurance option. The former would... View Details
- 18 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'
Cohly was skilled in Ayurveda, the ancient Indian practice of herbal medicine, and suggested they try using turmeric to heal the wound instead. The spice worked, and Das and Cohly later conducted Western medical trials to prove that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Get Well Soon
Medical Center” (CCHMC) details how one institution has implemented its own version of health-care reform, taking overall perfor-mance levels from well below average to the top 10 percent in the industry. Coauthored by HBS assistant... View Details
- October 2003 (Revised February 2010)
- Case
The Duke Heart Failure Program
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Laura Feldman
Duke University Health System has for the past five years operated a specialized clinic for the management of congestive heart failure, a very common and costly condition in the surrounding community. Nurse practitioners, whose work is guided by highly specified... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Medical Specialties; Time Management; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Outcome or Result; Health Industry
Bohmer, Richard M.J., and Laura Feldman. "The Duke Heart Failure Program." Harvard Business School Case 604-033, October 2003. (Revised February 2010.)
- July 2009
- Teaching Note
The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis (TN)
By: Robert Steven Kaplan, Christopher Marquis and Ben Creo
Teaching Note for [408003]. View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
million grant to scale a successful medical knowledge sharing and collaborative practice platform pioneered by Project Echo in 2003 to expand specialty care access and quality at the centers. Long involved in community initiatives, IBM... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
variety of known causes, but this is the first time a genetically driven form of hearing loss has received rare disease recognition. We think the designation will broaden medical research in this field and ultimately lead to a range of... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
Julia Cole, Tina Keshani, and Sophia Richter (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Tina Keshani (MBA 2020), Julia Cole (MBA 2020), and Sophia Richter (MBA 2020) met at Startup Boot Camp in their first year at HBS, they quickly discovered they shared a vision to create a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
really works.” Henry McCance (MBA ’66) Cure Alzheimer’s Fund www.curealzfund.org When his wife was diagnosed seven years ago with the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, Henry McCance found himself searching for the best treatments in... View Details
- November 2009 (Revised December 2009)
- Case
GTC Biotherapeutics: Developing Medicines in the Milk of Goats
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Sarah Morton
GTC is the first company in the animal world to receive FDA approval of a transgenic pharmaceutical. What are the implications for other firms in plants and animals and their opportunities to produce new medicines in an economical and safe fashion? View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Science-Based Business; Medical Specialties; Product; Technological Innovation; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
Goldberg, Ray A., and Sarah Morton. "GTC Biotherapeutics: Developing Medicines in the Milk of Goats." Harvard Business School Case 910-403, November 2009. (Revised December 2009.)
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations
the “breakeven inducement percentage,” noting that “inducement” refers to use that would not occur in the absence of assistance, even if it is medically appropriate. Among the 10 conditions with the highest drug spending per patient, the... View Details
- July 2014
- Case
BMVSS: Changing Lives through Innovation One Jaipur Limb at a Time (Abridged)
By: Srikant Datar, Saloni Chaturvedi and Caitlin Bowler
Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS) is an Indian not-for-profit organization engaged in assisting differently-abled persons by providing them with the legendary low-cost prosthesis, the Jaipur Foot, and other mobility-assisting devices, free of cost. Known... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Financial Condition; Health Care and Treatment; Diversity; Growth and Development Strategy; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; India
Datar, Srikant, Saloni Chaturvedi, and Caitlin Bowler. "BMVSS: Changing Lives through Innovation One Jaipur Limb at a Time (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 115-009, July 2014.
- 11 Jun 2020
- In Practice
Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?
solved by technology, no matter how good. Anybody in retail or entertainment or education has a difficult situation to handle. Anybody delivering medical services faces an entirely different and unprecedented set of problems. For business... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
he said, patients had to be "almost dead" before they could be treated for coronary artery disease with open-heart bypass surgery. The surgery was only available at select academic medical centers at great cost and... View Details
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
Employers, insurers, taxpayers, and individual consumers pay widely varying prices for treatments, medical technology, and for digital information of fluctuating quality. One patient may receive a small charge for a treatment, while... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Your Keyboard Is Listening
And unlike many other medical tests used to diagnose neurological diseases, it is also noninvasive and therefore can be used to monitor healthy people for signs of disease. “A lot of people may say, ‘Do I really want to know if I have one... View Details
Keywords: April White