Hospitals - Publications - Faculty & Research

Robert W. Johnson

Johnson created a large-scale medical products company, specializing in surgical dressings and medical supplies for hospital markets. His name and products have become synonymous with quality health care treatment. View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

04 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon

Medical School professor, surgeon, and New Yorker staff writer Atul Gawande; and HBS professor Raffaella Sadun, who has led an international research project on the role of management in acute care hospitals and medical schools. David... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

Curtis L. Carlson

variety of retail and hospitality sectors. Carlson expanded his offerings by purchasing the Radisson Hotel in Minnesota and building it into a national chain. He also acquired TGI Fridays and hundreds of other View Details

Keywords: Services

01 Sep 2018
News

Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out

Raffaella Sadun (photo by Russ Campbell) Raffaella Sadun (photo by Russ Campbell) In the face of economic challenges, hospitals in the English National Health Service have turned to a strategy that has proven effective for small private... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Dec 1997
News

Short Takes

winners and losers?" he asks. Bradach will continue to study these issues in future work. Coordinating Patient Care With tight hospital budgets and shorter hospital stays the norm today, View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

Portrait Project

Lorrayne Ward

profit motive directly clashes with doing what's right. The stakes of this conflict – between individual gain and broader societal benefit – are nowhere higher than in the field of health care. Profits are necessary so that hospitals can... View Details

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Health Business Fulltext Elite | Baker Library

Health Business Fulltext Elite Journal articles on all non-clinical aspects of health care management. Read More Includes aspects of health care administration and other non-clinical aspects of health care management, including hospital... View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

A New Approach to Health-Care Reform

CHRISTENSEN: “By some estimates, 50 percent of all health care is driven by physician and hospital supply, not by patients’ needs.” An acclaimed author and expert on the development and commercialization of technological and business... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance

23 Dec 2009
News

Managing Starwood's Brand & Expansion Strategy

Keywords: Hospitality; Hospitality

26 Oct 2015
News

Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush: A Disruptive Force in Health Care

Keywords: Hospitals; Hospitals

30 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

practices which encourage managers to use accounting information to improve performance. In contrast, government organizations are publicly governed and are constrained in their compensation practices because hospital CEOs are... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

Using Competition to Reform Healthcare

Knowledge next month.How can providers compete on value? To do so, they must embrace a series of strategic and organizational imperatives, shown in Figure 5-1. We describe the imperatives in the context of hospitals and physician groups.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

01 Mar 2004
News

Zanzibar: Something for Everyone

The Zanzibar portion of the trip allowed us to slow our pace and take advantage of the seaside resort as well as a series of optional side trips. Given the legendary lure of Zanzibar as one of the Spice Islands, many of us elected to take a tour that explored the... View Details

Keywords: Hospitality; Hospitality; Hospitality; Hospitality

01 Mar 2017
News

Starting Lineup: No Reservations

$1.5 billion in sales last year. There are also rumors of an IPO. Chorus Hospitality Founder and CEO Michael Tisch (MBA 2014) Founded 2015 “A service-focused management partner,” Chorus Hospitality invests... View Details

Kenneth T. Wessner

Wessner landed ServiceMaster’s first hospital services contract that became the foundation for the company’s rapid growth. ServiceMaster eventually provided maintenance and housekeeping services for over 1,300 View Details

Keywords: Services

12 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

SEC that plays favorites in this way, Heese found. In another study, Heese looked at regulation by Medicare of hospital fraud. It's an all-too-common practice for hospitals to claim patient ailments more... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Mar 2025
News

Venture: Time Heals All

Assembling a nursing schedule for a hospital ward can be surprisingly difficult—a little like playing three-dimensional Tetris, says Ilana Springer Borkenstein (MBA 2022). “It is a really challenging, tedious task.” Nurse managers must take into consideration a host of... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford; Illustration by Klaus Kremmerz; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2004
News

Safari Beauty

The natural beauty that we saw on the safari portion of the trip — both plant and animal — were truly spectacular. In the Ngorongoro crater, Serengeti, and Lake Manyara regions, we drove around in vans that had pop-up roofs so that we could stand and get an... View Details