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- April 2014 (Revised January 2015)
- Background Note
Note on Mobile Healthcare
By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez
Delivering health care to the global population was a challenge. Health care costs accounted for ten percent of world GDP by 2013. In the U.S., health care costs were expected to top $3.1 trillion in 2014. New technologies, shortages of trained personnel and... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Mobile; Mobile App; Public Health; Startups; Hardware; Software; Telemedicine; Global; Medical Devices; Medical Services; Medical Solutions; Entrepreneurs; Government And Business; Technological Change; Health Care and Treatment; Entrepreneurship; Government and Politics; Technological Innovation; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Health Industry; Health Industry
Quelch, John A., and Margaret L. Rodriguez. "Note on Mobile Healthcare." Harvard Business School Background Note 514-122, April 2014. (Revised January 2015.)
- 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
- July–September 2020
- Article
Innovation Contest: Effect of Perceived Support for Learning on Participation
By: Olivia Jung, Andrea Blasco and Karim R. Lakhani
Background: Frontline staff are well positioned to conceive improvement opportunities based on first-hand knowledge of what works and does not work. The innovation contest may be a relevant and useful vehicle to elicit staff ideas. However, the success of the... View Details
Keywords: Contest; Innovation; Employee Engagement; Organizational Learning; Health Care; Health Care Delivery; Innovation and Invention; Organizations; Learning; Employees; Perception; Health Care and Treatment
Jung, Olivia, Andrea Blasco, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Innovation Contest: Effect of Perceived Support for Learning on Participation." Health Care Management Review 45, no. 3 (July–September 2020): 255–266.
- March 2020
- Case
Maven Clinic: Women's Health in the Digital Age
By: Ariel D. Stern and Sarah Mehta
In late 2017, Kate Ryder, the founder and CEO of digital women’s health telemedicine company Maven Clinic, faced an important decision. Maven offered both a direct to consumer (D2C) product that anyone could use to book virtual appointments with health practitioners... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Strategy; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States
Stern, Ariel D., and Sarah Mehta. "Maven Clinic: Women's Health in the Digital Age." Harvard Business School Case 620-035, March 2020.
- 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
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Brian L. Walker. "Epic: The Future of Health Information Technology." Harvard Business School Case 325-028, September 2024. (Revised March 2025.)
- Article
Why Apps for Managing Chronic Disease Haven't Been Widely Used, and How to Fix It
By: Robert S. Huckman and Ariel Dora Stern
Keywords: Health Care; Digital Health; Chronic Disease; App; Health Information Technology; Information Technology; Health Industry; United States
Huckman, Robert S., and Ariel Dora Stern. "Why Apps for Managing Chronic Disease Haven't Been Widely Used, and How to Fix It." Harvard Business Review (website) (April 4, 2018).
- 06 Feb 2012
- News
Health Care: 8 Ways Baby Boomers Are Transforming The System
- February 2024
- Article
Investing in Long-Term Health
By: Katherine Baicker and Amitabh Chandra
Baicker, Katherine, and Amitabh Chandra. "Investing in Long-Term Health." e240193. JAMA Health Forum 5, no. 2 (February 2024).
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
COVID-19” ( Health Care Management Science , June 2021) with Dimitris Bertsimas, Léonard Boussioux, Ryan Cory-Wright, et al. Antonio Moreno : Finalist for the 2020 Management Science Best Paper Award in... View Details
- 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 health View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity
- March 1997 (Revised March 1998)
- Case
Help the World See: Self-Sustaining Eye Care in Belize
In 1992, Help the World See (HTWS), a U.S. nonprofit organization dedicated to improving eye care in developing countries, established permanent, self-sustaining eye care clinics in Belize in conjunction with the Belize Council for the Visually Impaired (BCVI). The... View Details
Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Nonprofit Organizations; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Belize
Dees, J. Gregory, Jaan Elias, and Jeffrey Orenstein. "Help the World See: Self-Sustaining Eye Care in Belize." Harvard Business School Case 897-142, March 1997. (Revised March 1998.)
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
If one thing has been made clear by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is this: The health care system in the United States (and most other nations) is not set up to respond to a large-scale medical emergency that affects tens of thousands of citizens simultaneously. But there... View Details
- 2018
- Government Testimony
Health Care Industry Consolidation: What Is Happening, Why It Matters, and What Public Agencies Might Want to Do About It
By: Leemore S. Dafny
Dafny, Leemore S. "Health Care Industry Consolidation: What Is Happening, Why It Matters, and What Public Agencies Might Want to Do About It." Government Testimony, U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Washington, DC, February 2018.
- Article
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
Kleinman, Arthur, 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. "Social Technology: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Improving Care for Older Adults." Art. 729149. Frontiers in Public Health 9 (2021).
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
the number of telemental health providers across Canada by 1,400 percent since the start of the pandemic." CAMH has launched a COVID-19 Mental Health Resiliency & Coping Fund to meet emerging needs.... View Details
- November 2024
- Article
The Health Costs of Cost Sharing
By: Amitabh Chandra, Evan Flack and Ziad Obermeyer
What happens when patients suddenly stop their medications? We study the health consequences of drug interruptions caused by large, abrupt, and arbitrary changes in price. Medicare’s prescription drug benefit as-if-randomly assigns 65-year-olds a drug budget as a... View Details
Chandra, Amitabh, Evan Flack, and Ziad Obermeyer. "The Health Costs of Cost Sharing." Quarterly Journal of Economics 139, no. 4 (November 2024): 2037–2082.
- 09 Feb 2016
- News
Providing the Care That Seniors Need
from real estate mode to operating mode, and we launched from scratch—blank sheet of paper—an operating company. Today that company is operating in eight states; we are under... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- News