Publications

01 Mar 2012
News

Sun Dress

Barrow: Offering a line of clothing that provides protection from the downside of solar energy. A native of sun-splashed Australia who now resides in Minneapolis, John Barrow (MBA 1989) has a fashion tip for Americans: cover up, mates. Seriously. Skin-cancer awareness... View Details

Keywords: skin cancer; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

June 2012
Teaching Note

Cancer Treatment Centers of America: Scaling the Mother Standard of Care (TN)

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Matthew Bird

26 Mar 2018
News

She Was Given Three Years To Live. So She Transformed Cancer Research

November 12, 2018
Article

Precision Medicine Has Transformed Cancer Treatment. Here's How to Move It Beyond Oncology

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Kathy Giusti

Read Now

January 2012 (Revised October 2012)
Supplement

Ganging Up on Cancer: Integrative Research Centers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (B)

By: Heidi K. Gardner, Edo Bedzra and Shereef M. Elnahal

Keywords: Health Disorders; Research

Article

Lack of Shared Decision Making in Cancer Screening Discussions: Results from a National Survey

By: Richard M. Hoffman, Joanne G. Elmore, Kathleen M. Fairfield, Bethany S. Gerstein, Carrie A. Levin and Michael P. Pignone

Find at Harvard

September 2017 (Revised February 2023)
Case

Intermountain Healthcare: Pursuing Precision Medicine

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Kathy E. Giusti, Robert S. Huckman and Julia Kelley

Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Intermountain Healthcare operates 23 hospitals and hundreds of clinics in Utah and Idaho and provides insurance to approximately 850,000 patients through its insurance arm, SelectHealth. In 2013, Intermountain, known for its commitment... View Details

Keywords: Precision Medicine; Healthcare; Innovation; Cancer; Cancer Research; Health Care; Technology; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation Leadership; Disruptive Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Industry; Insurance Industry; Utah; United States; North America

Article

Patterns of Technology Use Among Patients with Head and Neck Cancer and Implications for Telehealth

By: Chloe Warinner, Tuna Cem Hayirli, Regan Bergmark, Rosh Sethi and Eleni Rettig

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March 2012 (Revised March 2012)
Teaching Note

Ganging up on Cancer: Integrative Research Centers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Heidi K. Gardner

Keywords: Health Industry

28 Jun 2014
News

Defense Force's Mark Binskin on a long ride to raise money, awareness for prostate cancer

November 2020 (Revised May 2021)
Technical Note

Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Reducing Breast Cancer Risks | Note on the Development of Tamoxifen (through 1999)

By: Amar Bhidé, Srikant M. Datar and Katherine Stebbins

October 2023
Article

Health System Perspective on Cost for Delivering a Decision Aid for Prostate Cancer Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing

By: David R. Ho, Robert S. Kaplan, Jonathan Bergman, David F. Penson, Benjamin Waterman, Kristin C. Williams, Jefersson Villatoro, Lorna Kwan and Christopher S. Saigal

Previsit decision aids (DAs) have been shown to improve decisional quality. But the cost to deploy a DA has not been previously estimated. We interviewed or observed relevant personnel at three institutions that had implemented DA programs for men with prostate cancer.... View Details

Keywords: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Accounting; Health Industry

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16 Jul 2019
News

The Making of a Movement

making decisions that could advance treatment options for patients with rare cancers. Neither of the Linns worked in science or medicine. A few years earlier, rare cancers had not even been on their radar. Now it was possible their... View Details

Keywords: Greg Forbes Siegman; cancer

September 2017 (Revised July 2023)
Case

Adaptive Platform Trials: The Clinical Trial of the Future?

By: Ariel D. Stern and Sarah Mehta

In July 2017, Dr. Brian M. Alexander, president and CEO of the AGILE Research Foundation, was preparing to launch a new type of clinical trial—an adaptive platform trial—to study potential therapies for glioblastoma (GBM), an aggressive form of brain cancer.... View Details

Keywords: Clinical Trials; Cancer; Adaptive Platform Trials; Platform Trials; Adaptive Trials; Glioblastoma; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Business Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Health Industry; United States

June 2020
Case

Breakthroughs at Blueprint Medicines

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Kathy Giusti and Susie L. Ma

Precision medicine company Blueprint Medicines was building a successful track record for bringing drug therapies to market 40% faster than average. The company had spent $40 million dollars and two years building a compound library that became its drug development... View Details

Keywords: Precision Medicine; Cancer; Biotechnology; Drug Development; Strategy; Expansion; Science; Genetics; Information Technology; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Culture; Management; Growth and Development; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; Cambridge; Massachusetts

01 Dec 2020
News

Karmic Kickstart

Douglas Schofield (MBA 1969/DBA 1972) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) Douglas Schofield (MBA 1969/DBA 1972) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) Like many HBS alumni, I’ve experienced a number of turning points over the years. Some I initiated on my own; others were... View Details

Keywords: transitions; higher education; travel; reflection; cancer; Educational Services

May 2014
Case

Cycle for Survival (A)

By: Das Narayandas, Kerry Herman and Noah Fisher

Katie Kotkins, director of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's (MSKCC) Cycle for Survival fundraising event, had to determine the best avenue for continuing the event's success and momentum after its founder, Jennifer (Jen) Goodman Linn (HBS '99) passed away... View Details

Keywords: Not For Profit; Cancer; Partnerships; United States; Fundraising; Nonprofit Organizations; United States