Publications

01 Mar 2012
News

Health Care’s New Frontier

holistic health-care clinics for women became athenahealth, a $245 million enterprise that provides cloud-based practice management, billing, and electronic health record services to over 31,000 medical... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance

01 May 2013
News

Health Care’s Service Fanatics

23 Jun 2016
News

Good Health is Good for Business

Teaching Interest

Overview

Michaela teaches management, healthcare and research methods courses across the undergraduate, master and executive levels. Her recent courses include organizational behavior, negotiation, research in health policy, and social entrepreneurship. View Details

Keywords: Organization Behavior; Health Care; Negotiation; Field Research

September 2024 (Revised March 2025)
Case

Epic: The Future of Health Information Technology

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Brian L. Walker

How should the founder and leadership team of a health IT company with more than 45 years of market leadership prepare for the future, while navigating founder transitions and industry changes? Founded by Judy Faulkner in the late 1970s, Epic pioneered electronic... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Private Ownership; Customer Focus and Relationships; Information Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry

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Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement

Blog Blog Health Care and Life Science at HBS Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Blavatnik Fellow Author Blavatnik Fellowship Team Author... View Details

14 Nov 2019
Video

Health Minute: The Real Impact of Coupons on Drug Pricing

21 Feb 2018
News

Bon Secours and Mercy Health Merger Creates Regional Hospital Giant

August 2001
Case

Aurora Health Care: Finding "a Better Way"

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Kevin M. Dwyer

The largest hospital system in Wisconsin is trying to respond to new threats from nontraditional care providers. This case presents the hospital's dilemma as it tries to create change from within. View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Strategy; SWOT Analysis; Competitive Strategy; Health Industry

Article

The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Outcomes and Expectations

By: Alexander Bartik, Marianne Bertrand, Zoë B. Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca and Christopher Stanton

To explore the impact of COVID on small businesses, we conducted a survey of more than 5,800 small businesses between March 28 and April 4, 2020. Several themes emerged. First, mass layoffs and closures had already occurred—just a few weeks into the crisis. Second, the... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Stimulus; CARES Act; Health Pandemics; Small Business; Surveys

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06 Feb 2012
News

Health Care: 8 Ways Baby Boomers Are Transforming The System

03 Jan 2014
News

This Is Not Your Parents' Health Insurance

18 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?

Several months ago, Harvard's Forum on Health Care Innovation surveyed industry executives, policy makers, academics, and doctors about the state of View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

December 2016
Article

US Hospital Engagement in Core Domains of Interoperability

By: A Jay Holmgren, Vaishali Patel, Dustin Charles and Julia Adler-Milstein

Keywords: Health Care Delivery; Information Technology

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June 2014 (Revised April 2015)
Case

OrthoChoice: Bundled Payments in the County of Stockholm (A)

By: Michael E. Porter, Clifford M. Marks and Zachary C. Landman

It was the waiting that drew the attention of the Stockholm County Council. In 2008, patients seeking a hip or knee replacement in Stockholm County faced wait times of up to two years of sometimes debilitating pain, intermittent missed work and income, and the trials... View Details

Keywords: Bundled Payment; Health Care Quality; Health Care; Sweden; Hip Replacement; Knee Replacement; Orthopedics; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Health; Health Industry; Sweden

02 Jun 2021
News

A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity

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Want to See the Future of Digital Health Tools? Look to Germany

By: Ariel Dora Stern, Henrik Matthies, Julia Hagen, Jan B. Brönneke and Jörg F. Debatin

A new law will make it easier to introduce and determine the benefits of new tools. Perhaps its most important provisions are its formalization of “prescribable applications,” which include standard software, SaaS, and mobile as well as browser-based apps, and the... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Transformation; Internet and the Web; Technological Innovation; Germany

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Social Technology: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Improving Care for Older Adults

By: Arthur Kleinman, Hongtu Chen, Sue E. Levkoff, Ann Forsyth, David E. Bloom, Winnie Yip, Tarun Khanna, Conor J. Walsh, David Perry, Ellen W. Seely, Anne S. Kleinman, Yan Zhang, Yuan Wang, Jun Jing, Tianshu Pan, Ning An, Zhenggang Bai, Jiexiu Wang, Qing Liu and Fawwaz Habbal

Population aging is a defining demographic reality of our era. It is associated with an increase in the societal burden of delivering care to older adults with chronic conditions or frailty. How to integrate global population aging and technology development to help... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Age; Service Delivery; Information Technology; Collaborative Innovation and Invention