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- 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
- 08 Apr 2011
- News
Management Matters In Health Care, Too
The key finding is that improving hospital management practices is a highly effective way to increase quality and efficiency of care. Management improvements can come as relatively small innovations, like the “checklist system” popularized by Atul Gawande, a View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Racial Bias Pervades Health Care
have serious ailments unnoticed during primary care exams. White learned the lesson early on. As a young medical student in Memphis, he watched a black woman being operated on for uterine cancer, a procedure botched by the white surgeon... View Details
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
at the Narayana Health City Cardiac Hospital (NH) in India. The case discusses the factors driving the adoption of task shifting at NH and identifies the implications of task shifting for surgeon training, surgical capacity, and procedure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
One example is the heart surgeon Devi Shetty who started building Narayana Health, a chain of hospitals in India that are now the lowest-cost tertiary care centers in the world, with comparable quality to our hospitals here. They treat... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Christina Ehrenberg: The Examined Life
afterwards,” she says, “that sacrificing personal ambition and achievement for the good of the group is something leaders must be prepared to do.” Ehrenberg met her husband, John Wong, a surgeon of Chinese-Australian heritage, in Hong... View Details
- Profile
Zihan Lin
at ways we can lower the price point to increase market share. I'll be interfacing with surgeons to find out which features are unnecessary — what can we de-engineer to lower costs?" Ultimately, Zi is determined to launch his own... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Full Circle
hospital with a staff of forty) grows and demands a more sophisticated understanding of finance and managerial issues. “All of the things I turned away from to become skilled as a surgeon are becoming more important,” he observes. “As the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
students, and in the outside world as well. Said Gergen, “Let’s encourage an intergenerational dialogue about the world.” For its part, he noted, the older generation is ready and eager “to move from success to significance.” Fellow Dr. Donald Arthur, former View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Clubs Convene to Focus on Health Care
Canada’s public healthcare system. Kessel cofounded the Center for Partnership Medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, while Dr. Sivjee, a respirologist, is a fellow with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
On The Case
leadership, innovation, globalization, digital transformation, and the health care sector and Mihaljevic’s path from cardiac surgeon to leader of one of the world’s most esteemed medical centers. That initial conversation led to many more... View Details
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
Teaming: An Approach to the Growing Complexities in Health Care: AOA Critical Issues By: Nwaz, H., A. Edmondson, T.H. Tzeng, J.K. Saleh, K.J. Bozic, and K.J. Saleh Abstract—Confronted with rising costs and patients who often have multiple comorbidities, the orthopaedic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
the United States. In the absence of having to be on alert for treating infectious diseases, American hospitals have let their guard down and their skills lapse. Partisan politics has exacerbated the problem by leaving the nation in the lurch without a View Details
- 25 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
Making a Broader Impact with Multiple Disciplines: Santosh Iyer (MBA 2020)
LEGOs to build an intelligently actuated tool for precision brain biopsy. Inspired by cutting-edge research at Johns Hopkins University, where surgeons used tele-operated robotic instruments for minimally invasive neurosurgery, I realized... View Details
- 19 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Making a Broader Impact with Multiple Disciplines
fair project in which I used LEGOs to build an intelligently actuated tool for precision brain biopsy. My inspiration came from cutting-edge research conducted at Johns Hopkins University, where surgeons used tele-operated robotic... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
dramatically since then, old ways of thinking die hard. In this blend of memoir and manifesto, Dr. White draws on his experience as a resident at Stanford Medical School, a combat surgeon in Vietnam, and head orthopedic View Details
- 21 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
The Impact of Career Coaching | When Mission Meets Passion
evaluating hearing healthcare investments. For example, I recently advised a company developing gene therapies for hearing loss. For the engagement, we delivered strategic recommendations for clinical trial design based on a synthesized analysis of the market needs,... View Details
- 18 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'
Turmeric is prepared into medicine. Doucefleur In the early 1990s, an Indian plastic surgeon at the University of Mississippi, S. K. Das, was about to amputate the leg of a patient because of a wound that wouldn’t heal. Colleague Hari P.... View Details
- 05 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
The HBS New Venture Competition Turns 25: Celebrating A Quarter Century of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
(MBA 2023), Heung Kim Faced with a problem all surgeons have struggled with for decades—the buildup of fluid (blood) that prevents effective and safe tissue dissection—the ClearCut Surgical team prototyped a simple solution to the... View Details