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Ginger Jiang
individual. But on that night, halfway around the world, I learned that who I am and what I do with my life have become intimately intertwined. Hippocrates – arguably the most famous physician in history – once related medicine to the love of humanity. I took this to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
billion of the excessive costs of U.S. health care while all too many quality measures have worsened. Patients learn — sometimes the hard way — to bring along an assertive, intelligent loved one to protect... View Details
- 14 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
The Case for Consumer-Driven Medicaid
with both insurers and providers. A recent Blue Cross-Blue Shield survey found that satisfaction levels exceeded those achieved by non-consumer-driven plans, while patients in Switzerland, which has a century-old consumer-driven system,... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
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Olivia Zhao
health has such a universal reach in their life. If you can improve the system in some way then you can have a lot of impact. I just knew I would find interesting problems by focusing my research on health care policy.” To learn more... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Health Care’s New Frontier
consultants in the managed care practice of Booz Allen Hamilton, acquired an obstetrics practice in San Diego with $1.6 million in seed capital. The concept of a clinic where midwives and nurses provided quality View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
that Susan had inoperable brain cancer. She was given three years to live. Nothing had prepared Sontag for the experience of being a caregiver to a terminal oncology patient and making the life-or-death decisions he and his wife faced,... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Residents & Fellows Course - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Redefining Health Care , by Michael Porter and Elizabeth Teisberg, value for patients can be measured by the health outcomes achieved per dollar spent. Value-based health care... View Details
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Nabihah Sachedina
Although Dr. Nabihah Sachedina loved practicing pediatrics in the UK, she found herself increasingly frustrated with inefficiencies in the health-care system. “Because of conflicts over funding, it was sometimes difficult to discharge View Details
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Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Health Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network VBHCD Initiative VBHCD... 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... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
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Sophia Virani
for the homeless. Then she learned about the joint MD/MBA program at Harvard. "It brought my health care and business interests together," Sophia says. "As an investment banker, I had looked at ways to turn businesses... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
with a team on a new idea in the health IT space—one she believes has the potential to increase the quality of patient care, while lowering costs by giving control of health care information back to the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
intentionally be "bad" at anything. But you can decide to not perform as well in areas that patients care less about, with the understanding that it will give you the resources to excel in those... View Details
- 19 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail
told the story of patient advocate Jackie Gruzenski, who faced an all-too-common experience when her husband was hospitalized for a cerebral bleed in 2009. Gruzenski was only allowed to see her husband during very strict visiting hours... View Details
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Teams | New Venture Competition
Orisa AI Sana Mojarradi (MBA 2025) The copilot for emergency response managers in times of crisis. Proxy Health Dora Chu (MBA 2024) Aiming to simplify healthcare access forms so that patients and their caregivers can spend less time on... View Details
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Bobby Daly
Business and service have been parallel themes in Bobby Daly's life. In high school, he volunteered with the local ambulance corps. At Stanford, where he majored in economics, he helped organize a group of student volunteers who provided companionship for Alzheimer's... View Details
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
E-See You Now Elie Ofek and Ron LauferHarvard Business School Case 510-061 What is next for healthcare IT provider American Well, whose innovative Online Care technology allows physicians to deliver care to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
“Delivering patient care is one of those situations where timely speaking up can be a matter of life and death, or frequently a matter of high- or low-quality care.” “Psychological safety describes a belief... View Details
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David Gellis
Care Center. Under the tutelage of center director Laura Esserman, MD/MBA, David examined ways to leverage information systems to improve breast-cancer treatment. "Dr. Esserman used her clinic as a lab to test ideas for improving... View Details