Surgeons - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators

always seemed too quick to drill. “He was overtreating my mouth, and it didn’t make sense,” he says. "It’s only in the midst of the negotiation itself that ethical blind spots appear" In service professions, he explains, people often have conflicts of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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News - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

shorter amount of time... 18 July 2019 Media Mention American College of Surgeons and Harvard Business School’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness Partner to Develop Value Measurement Tool for Hospitals American College of View Details

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

2023) Heung Kim Business Track Runner-Up & Crowd Favorite Winner A medical device company founded by surgeons to identify and solve problems that practicing surgeons face every day. Social Enterprise Track,... View Details

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Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

2015) HBS Case Collection Hoag Orthopedic Institute by Robert S. Kaplan and Jonathan Warsh Two groups of orthopedic surgeons form a joint venture with a community hospital to establish Hoag Orthopedic Institute, a for-profit hospital and... View Details

20 Jan 2023
Blog Post

The Importance of Mentorship: A Conversation With Professor Ting Zhang

better attuned to what their novice mentees are thinking. Whether it’s an expert guitarist playing with their nondominant hand or a surgeon re-reading old reflections about their first surgery, these activities that take experts back to... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Wyss House | About

with a Swiss company run by four doctors who had developed a new process to help bones heal more quickly and with better results. In 1977 Wyss became president of Synthes USA, where he was responsible for expanding the company’s manufacturing operations, sales force,... View Details

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Frist Faculty Commons | About

replacing the Faculty Club formerly located in Kresge Hall. The space was named in honor of the Thomas F. Frist Jr. family, who have been generous supporters of financial aid at HBS. About the Name After serving as a flight surgeon in the... View Details

30 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way

Lagace: How did you arrive at the subject of repugnant markets? Alvin E. Roth: I started thinking about them while talking with kidney surgeons and learning about all the things they found repugnant. Meanwhile, a group of economists,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness

of health problems, including depression and social anxiety, which can impact wellbeing and productivity at work. In fact, in a 2017 Harvard Business Review article, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared that “a loneliness epidemic”... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

08 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

While some lessons can be learned by watching—a parent’s reaction after touching a hot stove can be a good lesson for a youngster on dangers in the kitchen—other lessons are harder to learn through observation alone. No matter how many times you watch a View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

strategies for nonprofit and for-profit organizations differ. 2:30 p.m. EDT OPEN TO ALL Staying Connected: How to Expand and Strengthen Your Social Circle After 50 Hosted by the Class of 1994 + More Info - Slides – Less Info - Slides In April 2024, the View Details

13 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology

PTCA going up against an established and effective procedure known as coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG), but also against the surgeons and other interests in hospitals invested in the older procedure. The authors found that "in... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Health

25 Aug 2014
News

The First Five Years: Raymond Hwang (MBA 2010)

evolving field that can have a large positive impact for many people while using power tools and a microscope? Sign me up!” What’s the life of a surgeon like? “One way to look at life as a surgeon is as an... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

19 Jan 2016
First Look

January 19, 2016

for patient risk and surgeon variability, we evaluated the impact of surgeon experience on cardiopulmonary bypass and cross-clamp times, and long-term survival. Results: Mean View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 29, 2007

and Related Research, no. 458 (May 2007): 202-219 Abstract Direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) has become an influential factor in healthcare delivery in the United States. We evaluated the influence of DTCA on surgeon and patient... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Portrait Project

Lourdes Long

Human energy is renewable energy. My energy doesn't come from pipelines or wires. My energy comes from tackling intellectual and personal challenges. I once told my father I had to stop studying medicine because, "I wanted to do something important with my... View Details

01 Jan 2007
News

Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965

instruments and implants have revolutionized the way surgeons treat the traumas that can afflict the human skeleton. While successfully navigating the complexities of this highly competitive industry, Wyss, a lifelong hiker, has... View Details

03 Feb 2014
News

Eyes on Medical Breakthroughs

says. "It was only because I was trained as an ophthalmologist that I saw the potential there." Eye surgeons had been correcting vision by reshaping the cornea for some time when Summit came along, but the accuracy of the computer-aided... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Management; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

26 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

surgical procedures. In-process analyses that allow rapid feedback to the surgeon based on surrogate markers may provide a powerful method for quality improvement. Methods: The authors reviewed performance data from all bilateral... View Details