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  • 05 Sep 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Will Business Management Save US Health Care?

Summing Up What Role Will Management Play in Saving US Health Care? The verdict is in, according to respondents of this month's column: Problems confronting health care in the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health
  • 08 Nov 2021
  • Blog Post

4 Ways the MS/MBA is Preparing Me for a Career in Health Care and the Life Sciences

health care value chain in Israel and Western Europe, an experience that culminated in supporting the COVID-19 vaccine response as part of the McKinsey Social Sector Hub in Geneva. Why the MS/MBA... View Details
  • 06 Mar 2018
  • News

State health officials endorse Beth Israel-Lahey merger

  • March 2014
  • Teaching Note

E-Cigarettes: Marketing Versus Public Health

By: John A. Quelch
Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) were heralded by some as a healthcare game changer, enabling smokers to switch to a new product which carried lower risk of cancer. However, there were concerns about the public health risk of e-cigarettes, particularly the chance... View Details
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  • Article

Describing Wait Time Bottlenecks for ED Patients Undergoing Head CT

By: Jonathan G. Rogg, Robert S. Huckman, Michael Lev, Ali Raja, Yuchiao Chang and Benjamin White
Study objectives: Facing increased utilization and subsequent capacity and budget constraints, EDs must better understand bottlenecks and their effect on process flow to improve process efficiency. The primary objective of this study was to identify bottlenecks in... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Bottleneck; Health Care and Treatment; Operations; Health Industry; United States
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  • November 8, 2018
  • Article

Transitioning Payment Models: Fee-for-Service to Value-Based Care

By: Thomas W. Feeley and Namita Seth Mohta
In a survey of the NEJM Catalyst Insights Council in July 2018, 42% of respondents say they think value-based reimbursement models will be the primary revenue model for U.S. health care. Indeed, this transition is already happening. Respondents report that a quarter of... View Details
Keywords: Payment Methods; Value-based Healthcare Reimbursements; Health Care and Treatment; Value; Transformation
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  • 01 Apr 2015
  • News

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

  • September 2013
  • Supplement

The Abraaj Group and the Acibadem Healthcare Investment (B)

By: Paul A. Gompers, Bora Uluduz and Firdevs Abacioglu
This case provides an update on the ultimate outcome of the transaction presented in The Abraaj Group and the Acibadem Healthcare Investment (A). View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Leveraged Buyouts; Private Equity; Health Care and Treatment; Europe
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  • March 2012 (Revised December 2014)
  • Case

Schön Klinik: Measuring Cost and Value

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Mary L. Witkowski and Jessica A. Hohman
The case illustrates how a leading German hospital group has invested deeply in the measurement of patient-level outcomes and costs, the foundations of a health care value framework. The company launches a pilot project to use time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC)... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Costing; Activity-Based Costing; Hospitals; Activity Based Costing and Management; Value; Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Health Industry; Germany
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  • fall 2007
  • Article

Pharmaceutical Regulation in the United States and Europe

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
Keywords: Health; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Europe; United States
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  • Article

Surgeons and Administrators Co-Creating Value

By: Michael Nurok, Thoralf Sundt, Robert S. Kaplan and Bruce Gewertz
Most hospitals have arms-length relationships with physicians, viewing them as people they must ‘‘manage,’’ not as potentially valuable strategic partners. But surgeons make clinical decisions every day that have great influence on both patient outcomes and hospital... View Details
Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Collaboration; Healthcare Administration; Health Care and Treatment; Management; Strategy; Value Creation
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  • November 2020 (Revised February 2022)
  • Case

CommonSpirit Health: Integrating a Merger of Equals

By: Robert S. Huckman, Hise Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
Soon after closing the 2019 merger of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health to create CommonSpirit Health, Lloyd Dean and Kevin Lofton-–jointly appointed to the role of CEO—must make several operational and strategic decisions related to the integration... View Details
Keywords: Health Care Delivery; Hospital; Merger; Merger Integration; Hospital Mergers; Health Information Technology; CEOs; Health Care and Treatment; Mergers and Acquisitions; Integration; Leadership; Customer Value and Value Chain; Decision Choices and Conditions; Governance; Information Technology; Health Industry; United States
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  • July 2006 (Revised August 2012)
  • Background Note

Innovating in Health Care-Glossary

By: Regina E. Herzlinger
Provides a glossary of terms used in Harvard Business School's Innovating in Health Care, 2006, Course. View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention
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  • 04 Oct 2006
  • News

Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-based Competition on Results

  • April 2009 (Revised May 2010)
  • Case

Partners In Health: HIV Care in Rwanda

By: Michael E. Porter, Scott S. Lee, Joseph Rhatigan and Jim Yong Kim
In 2005, Partners in Health (PIH) was invited by the Rwandan Ministry of Health to assume responsibility for the management of public health care in two rural districts in Eastern Rwanda and create an HIV treatment program at these sites. PIH successfully implemented a... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Medical Specialties; Service Delivery; Nonprofit Organizations; Expansion; Health Industry; Rwanda
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  • March 2021
  • Case

Humana (A)

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ashley Ifeadike
To implement a bold new strategy, Humana needed to decide how to prioritize the pillars; where to own and where to partner; how much risk is acceptable; and how to continue to deliver strong operational performance while implementing a new strategy. Had the firm made... View Details
Keywords: Health ＆ Wellness; Health Care Industry; Health Care Costs; Health Insurance; Health Insurance Marketplaces; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Insurance; Strategy; Health Industry; United States
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  • 13 Mar 2020
  • News

Expanding Cancer Care

after graduating from Harvard Business School, I started to volunteer at Brigham and Women's Hospital. And then I ended up working there for a little while. And in working at Brigham and Women's, I actually realized that being in health... View Details
  • March 2015
  • Case

Bloodbuy

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Michael Norris
In 2015, Chris Godfrey, founder and CEO of Bloodbuy, has to consider the best path to growth for his young company, which is attempting to disrupt the blood donation industry. View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Entrepreneurship; Blood Donation; Health Care and Treatment; Entrepreneurship; Health Industry; United States
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  • September 2007 (Revised January 2009)
  • Case

Reading Rehabilitation Hospital: Implementing Patient-Focused Care (A) (Abridged)

By: Roy D. Shapiro
Reading Rehab Hospital has experimented with a popular concept in health care--patient-focused care--intended to increase quality and reduce costs by organizing care delivery around particular diagnoses or "service lines," rather than around the functions or... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Quality; Cost; Management Practices and Processes; Business Strategy; Service Delivery; Health Industry
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  • 25 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

Editor's note. In the United States, a primary provider of health care is through employers. "Every corporation is a player in public health," writes John A. Quelch in a new book of case studies,... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health