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- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Clubs Convene to Focus on Health Care
Canada’s public healthcare system. Kessel cofounded the Center for Partnership Medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, while Dr. Sivjee, a respirologist, is a fellow with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)
his business background may also be a valuable asset in what he sees as the "tough times ahead" for health-care management. "Insurance companies used to write a check for just about anything a physician wanted to do, but today medicine is... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Founding a bone marrow donor bank that saves thousands of lives
chance at life through bone marrow donations, and has registered more than 4 million bone marrow donors worldwide. After losing his first wife to blood cancer, Harf and his wife’s physician launched DKMS. With his daughter, Katharina,... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
2001 after his IT and consultancy startup, Mainspring, was acquired by IBM. Regardless of specialty, doctors complained of rushing through their days, too over- scheduled to fully comprehend patients’ lengthy and complex medical records, each often hundreds of pages... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Teens and Magazines: Where There's Smoke, There's Advertising
According to their 1998 agreement with the attorneys general of 46 states, the four largest U.S. tobacco companies are prohibited from using advertising that targets people younger than 18. But HBS assistant professor Charles King (with View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
technologies. “Innovation should be part of the mission of every physician,” says Amadio, currently chief resident in the neurological surgery residency program at Emory University, in Atlanta. “We have been at the medical game for several thousand years, and we still... View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
neuroscience entrepreneurs capture the value around their idea,” Amadio says. “I believe very strongly that we’re starting a movement.” In that same spirit, he has found ways to forge relationships between the physicians at Emory and the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 07 Oct 2014
- News
Network Effect
Henry McCance, founder (left), and Tim Armour, President & CEO, of Cure Alzheimer's Fund Twelve years ago, when Henry McCance (MBA 1966) and his wife initially faced her diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, the couple consulted some of the world’s top View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 20 Aug 2016
- News
The Business of Improving Health Care Delivery
patients and how we deliver health care. “One thing that I feel passionately about is training our physicians to become leaders. I teach medical students about how to actually have a way in your mind for if you see something that you... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Mickey Herbert (MBA 1969)
graduating from HBS, I worked briefly as a management consultant in New York City before getting laid off. An opening at a nonprofit health-policy research firm lured me to Minneapolis, where I learned about health maintenance organizations. I moved to Connecticut when... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived
The technology behind telemedicine—health care delivered remotely and asynchronously—has been improving for years, but in 2017, the United States hit a tipping point. This year, Kaiser Permanente’s CEO announced that of the company’s 100 million–plus patient encounters... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Health IT at the Bedside
surprisingly personal twist when my mother phoned to say that my father had been admitted to our local ER with unexplained fevers and chest discomfort. We soon learned that my dad’s past records — from care that took place across several doctors’ offices and hospitals... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
attending meetings, but searching for information. It doesn’t have to be that way. Federal Express and UPS drivers have handheld technology that gives them the information they need to work efficiently. Why are we so late in getting all View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Cooper Elected Alumni Board President
president last year. Cooper, a native of South Africa, moved to Canada 24 years ago. He and a physician partner founded Scienta Health in 2004 to focus on preventive health care. View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Get Well Soon
implementing a “forcing function” into the operating room process that keeps patients out of the OR until they’ve received antibiotics, thus reducing surgical site infections. For another project, she selects the hospital’s Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Clinic, in part because... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
Omar Maniya (MBA 2016) Illustration by Gisela Goppel Omar Maniya (MBA 2016) Illustration by Gisela Goppel I was primed to become a doctor from an early age. Both of my parents are physicians who talked shop at the dinner table, so I grew... View Details
- 06 Dec 2012
- News
New Thinking on Healthcare Reform
written of his personal experience with the healthcare system. Cue MinuteClinic, located in 640 CVS stores across 25 states. Staffed with nurse practitioners and physician assistants, it provides on-the-spot care for routine ailments such... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
physicians are skeptical of recent innovations. Their “first do no harm” training favors a trial-and-error approach based on treating for the most likely diagnosis first, and moving on to something else if that doesn’t work. Third, View Details
- 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
- 01 May 2013
- News
Robert F. Higgins, MBA 1970
until we have people who understand both worlds: health and management,” Higgins says. “We have physicians who are doing a great job and managers who are doing a great job—but they speak different languages. The joint degree program... View Details