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Innovating in Health Care

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Since 2001, Professor Herzlinger has written over 50 new cases and notes for this second-year MBA course on the following subjects: insurance; providers; pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, and biotechnology; medical devices sector; and health care information. She is... View Details

2021
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Go Out and Innovate! Perspectives on Educating Health Care Leadership in the Time of Innovation

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Anthony Stanowski, Edward Schumacher, Eugene Schneller, Kaveh Safavi, Quint Studer, Andrew Jay, Tom Robinson and Kevin Mahoney

The CAHME Innovation Council unanimously believes that education is essential. In evaluating the competency domain of management and leadership, and learning from programs that prioritize innovation, we ask how do we develop competencies in future leaders to succeed in... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Industry; Health Care Entrepreneurship; Innovation; Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Health Industry

17 Jun 2010
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Value-Based Health Care Delivery

This presentation draws on Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg: Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Harvard Business School Press, May 2006, and Porter, Michael E. "A Strategy for Health Care Reform." New England Journal of... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; United States

5 Nov 2007
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Value-Based Health Care Delivery

This presentation draws on Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg: Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Harvard Business School Press, May 2006, “How Physicians Can Change the Future of Health Care ” Journal of the American... View Details

Keywords: Health; Brazil

4 Jun 2010
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Value-Based Health Care Delivery

This presentation draws on Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg: Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Harvard Business School Press, May 2006, and Porter, Michael E. "A Strategy for Health Care Reform," New England... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; United States

15 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

policy changes are not essential for these changes to happen. Key policy areas to be addressed are: Access: Ultimately, access to care must be addressed through mandatory View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

28 Jun 2018
Video

Improving Health Care Through Research

24 Sep 2010
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Value-Based Global Health Care Delivery

This presentation draws on Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results (with Elizabeth O. Teisberg), Harvard Business School Press, May 2006; "A Strategy for Health Care Reform—Toward a Value-Based System," New England Journal of... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; United States

November 2019 (Revised December 2019)
Case

Martini Klinik: Prostate Cancer Care 2019

By: Michael E. Porter, Jens Deerberg-Wittram and Thomas W. Feeley

Since its establishment in 2005, Hamburg’s Martini Klinik had single mindedly focused on prostate cancer care with a commitment to measure long-term health outcomes for every patient. A wholly owned subsidiary of the University Hospital Hamburg, Martini Klinik was a... View Details

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February 2018
Case

Health Savings Accounts: Enabling Consumer Participation

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace

Health savings accounts (HSAs), a creation of the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act, had become an integral part of the drive toward consumer-driven health care. Coupled with high-deductible health plans, HSAs allowed consumers to directly control a significant part of... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Healthcare Costs; Health Insurance; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Insurance; Innovation and Invention; Health Industry; United States

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02 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Health Care Research and Prospects

health care occurring. If you look over time at the number of new cases created alone in health care that are used throughout our MBA program,... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Health

June 2012 (Revised January 2013)
Case

Great Western Hospital: High-risk Pregnancy Care

By: Michael E. Porter, Emma Stanton and Samuel Takvorian

Great Western Hospital (GWH) is a community hospital in Wiltshire, South West England and one of England's largest maternity providers; responsible for delivering over 9,000 babies per year. The case discusses the efforts of Dr. Harini Narayan, consultant obstetrician... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Service Delivery; Risk Management

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Why is There No Cure for Health Care?

Teaching Fellow for Professor David Cutler - Harvard College Course EMREAS 20

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Keywords: Health; Health Policy; Health Care; HIV; Pharmaceutical Companies; Health Care Reform; Health Economics

31 Mar 2015
News

Reinventing the Way Medicaid Delivers Care

Keywords: Medicaid; health care policy; government legislation

December 2016
Article

Health Care Needs Real Competition

By: Leemore S. Dafny and Thomas H. Lee

The U.S. health care system is inefficient, unreliable, and crushingly expensive. There is no shortage of proposed solutions, but central to the best of them is the idea that health care needs more competition. In other sectors, competition improves quality and... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States

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15 Nov 2016
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Health Care Needs Real Competition

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Supporting Value-Based Health Care—Aligning Financial and Legal Accountability

By: Mark M. Zaki, Anupam B. Jena and Amitabh Chandra

U.S. health care payment and delivery-system reforms have focused on improving care by making organizations accountable for outcomes, quality, and costs. Payers have supported the implementation of accountable care organizations (ACOs), bundled-payment models, and... View Details

Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Accountability; Health Care and Treatment; United States