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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
have died.” Chan, who hails from the People’s Republic of China, obtained her medical degree from the University of Western Ontario in Canada. In 1994, she was named Director of Health for Hong Kong, where she began her public-health... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
The Birds and Bees in China
information seemed to be pornography or very clinical information on reproductive health from the government." Shunning risqué material, Kenny's Hong Kong-based Dotlove.com Web... View Details
- July 2016
- Article
Economic Implications of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology Embryo Transfer Guidelines: Healthcare Dollars Saved by Reducing Iatrogenic Triplets
By: Malinda S. Lee, Brady T. Evans, Ariel Dora Stern and Mark D. Hornstein
Objective: To estimate the national cost savings resulting from reductions in higher-order multiple (HOM) live births (defined as three or more fetuses), following the initial publication of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) guidelines on ET in... View Details
Lee, Malinda S., Brady T. Evans, Ariel Dora Stern, and Mark D. Hornstein. "Economic Implications of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology Embryo Transfer Guidelines: Healthcare Dollars Saved by Reducing Iatrogenic Triplets." Fertility and Sterility 106, no. 1 (July 2016): 189–195.e3.
- 14 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Does December's Drug-Approval Dash Mean for COVID-19 Vaccines?
of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, finds that 19 percent of all drugs approved worldwide are reviewed in December, twice the percentage of a typical month. However, drugs passed before an informal “desk-clearing”... View Details
- June 1999 (Revised May 2000)
- Exercise
Working with your "Shadow Partner" in the healthcare industry (A)
By: Richard L. Nolan
Intended to introduce individuals to search engines and databases on the Internet, in particular those that are available to HBS. This exercise is a more difficult version of Working with Your "Shadow Partner" and is intended for those with some previous Internet... View Details
Nolan, Richard L. Working with your "Shadow Partner" in the healthcare industry (A). Harvard Business School Exercise 399-177, June 1999. (Revised May 2000.)
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
New Releases
explore the dynamics of the rapidly evolving digital environment. Market Driven Health Care by Regina E. Herzlinger (Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.) Informed and assertive consumers, powerful new... View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- News
Where Are They Now?
the HBS Club of India—over the top. “We identified a significant global market and focused on an unmet but essential need, as health care is not optional,” says Mahesh, who got a very personal perspective on India’s deep deficit of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
The Network Effect
Raj Kapoor (MBA 1996) Raj Kapoor (MBA 1996) Each year Lyft’s Chief Strategy Officer Raj Kapoor (MBA 1996) and several of his HBS classmates gather for an informal reunion. After catching up in Aspen in early March, the group dispersed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Faculty Books
supervisors engage in officially prohibited yet tolerated practices. When discovered, these transgressions may provoke disapproval or, when company materials are diverted in the process, be labeled theft. Assistant Professor Anteby examines the manufacture and View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Rena Xu (MBA 2014, MD 2014)
patient and doctor has few parallels, and I am sure my appreciation of it will only continue to grow as I advance in my career. “HBS greatly enriched my understanding of the challenges and opportunities in health care today. It’s an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Health-Care Initiative to Leverage Ongoing Efforts
Dean Kim B. Clark has announced the formation of a faculty initiative in health care, with HBS professor of management practice Richard G. Hamermesh serving as chair. Technology strategy, the design of care delivery, consumer-driven View Details
- 17 Aug 2020
- News
Democratizing Medicine
Inspired by a family member’s experience with a lack of timely access to health care, Carlos Reines (MBA 2014) built RubiconMD make sure others get the medical expertise they need, when they need it. In this interview, he talks about how... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
incorporates human rights, development, and health issues — it’s the ultimate strategic challenge.” At the Kennedy School workshop, participants discussed a case coauthored by Barrett and Ballou-Aares on Heineken’s efforts to implement an... View Details
- June 2010 (Revised September 2010)
- Case
athenahealth: Innovating in Response to a Crisis in Healthcare
When Jonathan Bush and his partner, Todd Park, realized that their revolutionary approach to delivering clinical care was being stymied by the inefficiencies in the healthcare system and insurance red tape, they turned their proprietary technology, athenaNet, to a new... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Information Management; Innovation and Invention; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Health Industry; United States
Chakravorti, Bhaskar, Laura Winig, and Naeem Husain Arastu. "athenahealth: Innovating in Response to a Crisis in Healthcare." Harvard Business School Case 810-079, June 2010. (Revised September 2010.)
- March 2025
- Case
Niramai: An AI Solution to Save Lives
By: Rembrand Koning, Maria P. Roche and Kairavi Dey
Founded in 2017, Niramai developed Thermalytix, a breast cancer screening tool. Thermalytix used a high-resolution thermal sensing device and machine learning algorithms to analyze thermal images and detect tumors. Its patented solution leveraged big data analytics,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Sterling Joins Healthcare Initiative
Cara Sterling has joined HBS as the founding director of the Healthcare Initiative, recently launched by former Dean Kim B. Clark and faculty chair Richard Hamermesh. The initiative seeks to create a community for students, faculty, and alumni who are interested in... View Details
- 23 Aug 2018
- News
Healthcare Alumni Keep Learning Through Virtual Programming
from fellow health care leaders,” says Jon Puz (MBA 2008), who started the VRT program. “What started as a pilot project involving around two dozen alumni attendees, is now entering its eighth year with several thousand alumni having... View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
Professor Herzlinger shared her vision for health care in an email interview with HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace. Herzlinger's next book, Consumer-Driven Health Care, will be published in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Cash flow struggles can take down a company or spark ideas that transform an industry
hospitals, and patients were hurting athenahealth’s bottom line. Bush shifted the company’s focus from clinical care to Internet billing and information processing, and athenahealth now provides cloud-based practice management, billing,... View Details
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
be able to give a kidney to the person you want to give to," Roth says. Historically, those incompatible donors would be sent home, and their sick loved ones would wait for a deceased donor. But a few years ago Roth started studying the idea of a kidney View Details