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  • 15 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

Innovation in health care treatment seems to far outpace innovation in health care business management. Just ask President Obama—two weeks ago he delayed enactment of a key provision of the new health care law for fear its requirements... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • Video

Jorge Cárdenas Gutiérrez

Jorge Cárdenas Gutiérrez, former General Manager of the FNC, discusses the organization's unique position as a private institution that manages public assets. View Details

    Roy D. Shapiro

    Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

    • January 1995 (Revised March 1995)
    • Case

    GuateSalud

    Dr. Glenn Lopez, the founder and general director of GuateSalud, faces cash flow problems and some crucial choices about how to expand his innovative health maintenance organization for agricultural workers in rural Guatemala. The case describes Lopez's six-year... View Details
    Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Government and Politics; Conflict and Resolution; Health Industry; Guatemala
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    • 18 Sep 2014
    • News

    Entrepreneurs anonymous

    • 11 Apr 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide

    industry lines as companies increasingly bring seemingly unrelated business lines together in unconventional ways. New research by Awada, Harvard Business School Professor Suraj Srinivasan, and doctoral... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consumer Products; Real Estate; Financial Services; Retail
    • February 2011 (Revised November 2012)
    • Case

    PatientsLikeMe: An Online Community of Patients

    By: Sunil Gupta and Jason Riis
    PatientsLikeMe (PLM) is an online community where patients share their personal experiences with a disease, find other patients like them, and learn from each other. The company was founded by Jamie and Ben Heywood when their 29-year-old brother was diagnosed with ALS... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Health Disorders; Knowledge Sharing; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Launch; Digital Platforms; Social and Collaborative Networks; Health Industry
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    • 15 Jun 2012
    • News

    Stop Working All Those Hours

    • TeachingInterests

    Digital Innovation and Transformation – MBA Elective Curriculum

    By: Feng Zhu
     

    Digital Innovation and Transformation is designed to equip students to confidently help conceive, lead and execute digital innovation initiatives and develop new business models for existing and insurgent organizations. The basic premise of the course... View Details

    • November 2022
    • Case

    The Battle Among Channels for Marketing Pharmaceuticals: UpScript, Pharmacy Benefit Managers, and Direct-to-Consumer Sales

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Tiffany Farrell
    Can an online, direct-to-consumer pharmacy both improve the quality and speed of care for patients who need branded drugs and stabilize profits for pharmaceutical manufacturers? UpScript, after years spent achieving legal and regulatory compliance and simultaneous... View Details
    Keywords: DTC; Internet and the Web; Marketing Channels; Customer Value and Value Chain; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competitive Strategy; Service Delivery; Growth and Development Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry; Retail Industry
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    • June 2001
    • Teaching Note

    Teaching IT Executive Education Courses TN

    By: Richard L. Nolan
    In the information age, it is important that IT be addressed in an effective way accessible to practicing executives. Teaching IT to executives continues to change in concepts and content as IT penetrates deeply into every area of business. Driven by Moore's Law, the... View Details
    Keywords: Transformation; Developing Countries and Economies; Business Education; Managerial Roles; Organizational Structure; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Improvement; Information Technology
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    • 01 Nov 1999
    • Research & Ideas

    John H. Patterson and the Sales Strategy of the National Cash Register Company, 1884 to 1922

    rules of salesmanship at N.C.R. was the ability to demonstrate "sympathy [toward] ... the business and interests of the P.P. [or "Probable Purchaser"] and sincerity in presenting [the] machines to the P.P " These were... View Details
    Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
    • 09 Apr 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: April 9

      Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 612-016 Lowell General Physician Hospital Organization This case focuses on the Alternative Quality Contract (AQC), a novel payment program... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2010
    • Article

    We Cannot Go On: Disruptive Innovation and the First World War Royal Navy

    By: Gautam Mukunda
    Insights from Disruptive Innovation theory (DI) are often used in the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of national security policy. DI explains why successful companies are sometimes defeated by new competitors with relatively unsophisticated products.... View Details
    Keywords: Technology; History; National Security; Framework; Adaptation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Technological Innovation; Machinery and Machining; Disruptive Innovation; Theory; Developing Countries and Economies; Technology Industry
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    • 20 Nov 2019
    • News

    HBS Examines Alumni Social Impact in the World

    • 31 Aug 2016
    • News

    Obama to guest-edit Wired magazine's November issue

    • Video

    How to Read and Understand a Balance Sheet

    • June 1999
    • Supplement

    Conversation with Donna Dubinsky, A (Video)

    Donna Dubinsky, president and CEO of Handspring, Inc. and former president of Palm Computing, speaks about her career. Topics include: early mentors, strategies for building and maintaining business and personal relationships, developing her personal style and... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Development and Career
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    • September 2023
    • Technical Note

    Note on Family Constitutions

    By: Christina R. Wing
    Less than half of family businesses will survive generational transfer. While sometimes this is due to operating company issues, in many cases it is because of conflict within the family. Many families create and adopt a family constitution to proactively mitigate... View Details
    Keywords: Family Business; Policy; Organizational Structure; Family Ownership; Conflict Management; Agreements and Arrangements
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    • Article

    The Messy but Essential Pursuit of Purpose

    By: Ranjay Gulati
    Most forward-thinking executives have embraced the notion that purpose-driven companies can solve social and environmental problems while also generating wealth, creating win-win outcomes that benefit everyone. But ideal solutions are rare. Many purpose-driven... View Details
    Keywords: Purpose; Sustainability; Mission and Purpose; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Profit; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Decision Making
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