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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Involved Videos Books Value-Based Health Care Delivery – Measuring and Managing Costs The Value-Based Health Care Delivery (VBHCD) initiative, led by Harvard Business School... View Details
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
“Maybe you don’t get the perfect answer,” he says, “but for $50,000 you get three-quarters of the way to an answer that otherwise would have cost $500,000.” Or perhaps philanthropists who underwrite a drug’s development could receive... View Details
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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative VBHCD Initiative Cost Measurement Research The Value... View Details
- 28 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation
Defensive medicine spurs innovation They found, ultimately—and perhaps counterintuitively—that far from being an inhibitor to innovation, the practice of defensive medicine might have actually encouraged it. Legal liability pressure in View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
Chairman and CEO, Integrated Micro-electronics Inc.: “Ayala-led Integrated Micro-Electronics Inc. (IMI) seeks to bring down the cost of nursing COVID-19–afflicted patients back to health by manufacturing... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
new research about how scheduling affects worker behavior. The potential result: Americans could avoid 19 million foodborne illnesses, nearly 51,000 hospitalizations, and billions of dollars of related medical costs. Government health... View Details
- 22 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems
Motions: An Empirical Test of Management Involvement in Process Improvement," HBS professor Anita L. Tucker and Harvard School of Public Health professor Sara J. Singer show that communicating with frontline workers can backfire if... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
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including start-up, funding, growth, alliances and collaboration, and performance measurement — to help readers gain an in-depth understanding of the distinctive characteristics of the social enterprise context and organizations. Who Killed View Details
- 16 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?
technologies, industries, and organizations. He has also conducted extensive research on the watch industry. Raffaelli weighs in below on everything from battery life to the Apple Watch's implications for the health care industry. Read an... View Details
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Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
care with health care partners Increase operational efficiencies: Match clinical resources to clinical processes and improve resource utilization Optimize costs over the full cycle of care Manage... View Details
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Suppliers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Value-Based Health Care... View Details
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Research in Action - Alumni
the origins of his research interests and taxation in a global context. Action Research to Put Health Care Ideas into Practice Professor Emeritus Robert Kaplan explains his action research, which aims to lower the View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
resistance, we will fall back to a time when simple infections killed people.” “We are approaching a cliff. If we don’t take steps to slow down or stop drug resistance, we will fall back to a time when simple infections killed people.” The World View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
With more than 7,500 views and 180-plus tweets, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read the original HBS Working Knowledge piece, The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking, and, in particular, for sharing your thoughts with one... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
postdoctoral students who are pursuing careers in science. Labs have many different projects under investigation simultaneously. Most labs have annual budgets of $1 million to $5 million, with most of that money coming from grants from institutions like the National... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
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Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care by Richard M.J. Bohmer (Harvard Business Press) In this book, Senior Lecturer Bohmer, a medical doctor, explains that health-care professionals provide two different types... View Details
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
thing? That's tougher to say. If people are happier to attend to sunk costs than to let the money spent on an item "go to waste," perhaps it's a good thing. Can it be used by companies to influence consumers' behavior?... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
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Employers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
their employees for complex conditions and bring in house care for common conditions. Key Action Steps for Employers Set the goal of increasing health value, not minimizing health benefit View Details
- April 1, 2024
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Paying For AI In Healthcare: Setting The Right Precedent Amidst Growing Use
By: Mitchell Tang, Kaylee Wilson and Ateev Mehrotra
Tang, Mitchell, Kaylee Wilson, and Ateev Mehrotra. "Paying For AI In Healthcare: Setting The Right Precedent Amidst Growing Use." Health Affairs Forefront (April 1, 2024).
- October 2007 (Revised May 2009)
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Offering the Right Service in the Right Place: Growing Orthopedics at the Brigham and Women's/Faulkner (BW/F) Hospitals
By: V.G. Narayanan, Michael G. Wilson and Rachel Gordon
After the merger of two local hospitals, hospital leaders much decide how to reorganize services to take advantage of newly created efficiencies. Focuses on the Orthopedics department at one of the hospitals. View Details
Keywords: Cost Accounting; Mergers and Acquisitions; Cost vs Benefits; Service Operations; Organizational Structure; Performance Efficiency; Competitive Advantage; Health Industry
Narayanan, V.G., Michael G. Wilson, and Rachel Gordon. "Offering the Right Service in the Right Place: Growing Orthopedics at the Brigham and Women's/Faulkner (BW/F) Hospitals." Harvard Business School Case 108-016, October 2007. (Revised May 2009.)