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- 01 Jul 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Social Interactions in Pandemics: Fear, Altruism, and Reciprocity
- Article
TDABC Cost Analysis of Ocular Disorders in an Ophthalmology Emergency Department versus Urgent Care: Clinical Experience at Massachusetts Eye and Ear
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Jonathan Chou, Mahek Shah, Amy Watts, Matthew Gardiner, Joan Miller and John I. Lowenstein
Purpose
To perform a cost analysis comparison for managing common ocular disorders in an eye emergency department (ED) versus an urgent care setting using a time-driven activity-based cost model (TDABC) to assist physicians and staff in appropriate allocation of... View Details
Keywords: Time-driven Activity-based Cost Model; Emergency Room; Urgent Care Clinic; Cost; Analysis; Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Care and Treatment
Kaplan, Robert S., Jonathan Chou, Mahek Shah, Amy Watts, Matthew Gardiner, Joan Miller, and John I. Lowenstein. "TDABC Cost Analysis of Ocular Disorders in an Ophthalmology Emergency Department versus Urgent Care: Clinical Experience at Massachusetts Eye and Ear." Journal of Academic Ophthalmology 10 (2018).
- 23 Apr 2014
- News
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
- August 2008
- Teaching Note
Go Red for Women: Raising Heart Health Awareness (TN)
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Madelene Bell
Teaching Note for [507026]. View Details
- November–December 2015
- Article
Active Postmarketing Drug Surveillance for Multiple Adverse Events
By: Joel Goh, Margrét V. Bjarnadóttir, Mohsen Bayati and Stefanos A. Zenios
Postmarketing drug surveillance is the process of monitoring the adverse events of pharmaceutical or medical devices after they are approved by the appropriate regulatory authorities. Historically, such surveillance was based on voluntary reports by medical... View Details
Keywords: Drug Surveillance; Health Care; Stochastic Models; Queueing; Diffusion Approximation; Brownian Motion; Health Care and Treatment; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis
Goh, Joel, Margrét V. Bjarnadóttir, Mohsen Bayati, and Stefanos A. Zenios. "Active Postmarketing Drug Surveillance for Multiple Adverse Events." Operations Research 63, no. 6 (November–December 2015): 1528–1546. (Finalist, 2012 INFORMS Health Applications Society Pierskalla Award.)
- 07 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Revolutionizing Wellness: Kate Twist (MBA 2008) Shapes the Future of Consumer Health Brands
$100mm to expand nationally, and has partnered with major retailers, developed products, launched campaigns, and digitized consumer experiences. With a passion for high-growth businesses View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Spreading the Health: Americans' Estimated and Ideal Distributions of Death and Health(care)
- July 2014
- Article
Second-Opinion Pathologic Review is a Patient Safety Mechanism That Helps Reduce Error and Decrease Waste
By: Lavinia Middleton, Thomas W. Feeley, Heidi W. Albright, Ronald Walters and Stanley Hamilton
We have a crisis in health care delivery, originating from increasing health care costs and inconsistent quality-of-care measures. During the past several years, value-based health care delivery has gained increasing attention as an approach to control costs and... View Details
Keywords: Pathology; Diagnostic Errors; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; North and Central America
Middleton, Lavinia, Thomas W. Feeley, Heidi W. Albright, Ronald Walters, and Stanley Hamilton. "Second-Opinion Pathologic Review is a Patient Safety Mechanism That Helps Reduce Error and Decrease Waste." Journal of Oncology Practice 10, no. 4 (July 2014): 275–280. (e-Pub 4/2014. PMID: 24695900.)
- 2013
- Working Paper
Work Design Drivers of Organizational Learning about Operational Failures: A Laboratory Experiment on Medication Administration
By: Anita L. Tucker
Operational failures persist in hospitals, in part because employees work around them rather than attempt to prevent recurrence. Drawing on a process improvement tool—the Andon cord—we examine three work design components that may foster improvement-oriented behaviors:... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Process Improvement; Organizational Learning; Behavioral Operations; Prosocial Behavior; Experiments; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Behavior; Performance Improvement; Health Care and Treatment; Business Processes; Health Industry
Tucker, Anita L. "Work Design Drivers of Organizational Learning about Operational Failures: A Laboratory Experiment on Medication Administration." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-044, November 2012. (Revised September 2013.)
- 09 Nov 2023
- HBS Case
What Will It Take to Confront the Invisible Mental Health Crisis in Business?
health research fund after his son experienced a psychotic break. In the following interview, Cohen, the L.E. Simmons Professor of Business Administration at HBS, discusses why it’s important for organizations to address mental View Details
- 26 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
Exploring value-based care: My summer internship with Main Street Health
The summer between my first and second year at HBS I had the opportunity to intern at Main Street Health, a Nashville-based startup focused on facilitating value-based care for rural Medicare populations.... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 23 Jun 2016
- News
Making better decisions when it comes to your health
- March 2010
- Teaching Note
Narayana Hrudayalaya Heart Hospital: Cardiac Care for the Poor (TN)
By: Tarun Khanna and V. Kasturi Rangan
Teaching Note for [505078]. View Details
- August 2013 (Revised September 2013)
- Course Overview Note
Entrepreneurship in Healthcare IT Services (EHITS) Fall Term 2013: Course Outline and Syllabus
By: Robert F. Higgins
This is the syllabus and course outline for "Entrepreneurship in Healthcare IT and Services (EHITS)" taught by Prof. Bob Higgins in the fall of 2013. Contains the course overview, objectives, goals and themes. View Details
Keywords: Healthcare Technology; Health Services; Healthcare Ventures; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States
Higgins, Robert F. "Entrepreneurship in Healthcare IT Services (EHITS) Fall Term 2013: Course Outline and Syllabus." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 814-022, August 2013. (Revised September 2013.)
- February 2000
- Background Note
Medicine, Incentive Compensation, and the Law
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Bruce L. Hall
Summarizes legal issues in structuring a health care incentive plan, such as tax laws and federal regulations. Draws from an interview conducted with a New England lawyer in October 1999. View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Compensation and Benefits; Law; Health Care and Treatment; Taxation; Laws and Statutes; Health Industry
Bohmer, Richard M.J., and Bruce L. Hall. "Medicine, Incentive Compensation, and the Law." Harvard Business School Background Note 600-087, February 2000.
- 15 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Health Is Wealth | The Path To Creating A Venture
opportunities to leverage technology to help people experience their healthcare in a better way. Driven by her own personal health experiences in where she constantly used a guess and check methodology to... View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
enrolled at centers with biometric monitoring are 25% less likely to interrupt their treatment than those at regular centers—an improvement driven by increased attendance and efforts by View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Get to Know Past New Venture Competition Winners: Everly Health
and their time at HBS helped shape their entrepreneurial journey. Alumni Track: Julia Cheek (MBA 2011), CEO and Founder, Everly Health What inspired you to start your company... View Details
- 22 Feb 2021
- Working Paper Summaries