Publications

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Organize Care Around Medical Conditions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care View Details

January 2014 (Revised March 2014)
Teaching Note

Cancer Screening in Japan: Market Research and Segmentation

By: John A. Quelch

Keywords: Market Research; Market Segmentation; Health Care Industry; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Marketing Strategy; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry; Japan

September 2013
Supplement

John G. Meara, Boston Children's Hospital, Measuring Costs, TDABC

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Health Care; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Costing; Hospitals; Activity Based Costing and Management

November 2012 (Revised June 2014)
Case

Boston Children's Hospital: Measuring Patient Costs (V)

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Mary L. Witkowski and Jessica A. Hohman

Keywords: Health Care; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Costing; Hospitals; Activity Based Costing and Management

February 1999 (Revised March 2000)
Case

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: Coordinating Patient Care

External cost pressures are motivating the adoption of case management (CM) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), but several of the organization's key professional groups are working against it. President and CEO David Dolins must decide whether CM is... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Service Operations; Organizational Culture; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Boston

29 Aug 2016
News

Health Insurers’ Pullback Threatens to Create Monopolies

01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived

help achieve better access to care and a lower cost of care. And employers are embracing telemedicine as a way to provide employees convenient health View Details

Keywords: Halle Tecco (MBA 2011), founder emeritus, Rock Health; angel investor; adjunct professor, Columbia Business School

01 May 2008
News

Interview: Does Our Health System Deliver Value?

01 Jan 2008
News

Value-based Health Care: The MD Anderson Experience

October–December 2005
Article

Medicine's Service Challenge: Blending Custom and Standard Care

By: Richard Bohmer

Keywords: Health; Problems and Challenges; Health Industry

March 2014
Editorial

Limits on Use of Health Economic Assessments for Rare Diseases

By: Hanna I. Hyry, Ariel Dora Stern, Jonathan CP Roos and Timothy M. Cox

Funding of expensive treatments for rare ('orphan') diseases is contentious. These agents fare poorly on 'efficiency' or health economic measures, such as the QALY, because of high cost and frequently poor gains in quality of life and survival. We show that... View Details

Keywords: Cost; Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; Pharmaceutical Industry

01 Dec 2007
News

Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?

medical technology and health-insurance sectors, when it comes to health services, the 800-pound gorilla of our system, entrepreneurs are nowhere to be found. And their absence has enabled the status quo View Details

Keywords: Regina E. Herzlinger; Health, Social Assistance; Management

November 2016 (Revised February 2017)
Case

BrightStar Care: The Evolution of a Leadership Team

By: Boris Groysberg, Colleen Ammerman and John D. Vaughan

BrightStar Care was a rapidly growing franchise of home health care agencies. Founded by husband and wife team JD and Shelly Sun as a single agency near Chicago in 2002, BrightStar had opened nearly 300 franchises across the United States by 2016, generating over $300... View Details

Keywords: Health Care Services; Entrepreneurs; Board Of Directors; Boards Of Directors; Health Care Industry; Growth Strategy; Organizational Change; Brand Positioning; Entrepreneurial Organizations; Entrepreneurial Management; Franchising; Family-owned Business; Home Health Care; Managing Growth; Management Styles; Organizational Development; Talent Management; Women Executives; Women And Leadership; Business Startups; Family Business; Small Business; Talent and Talent Management; Governing and Advisory Boards; Health Care and Treatment; Human Capital; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Skills; Management Style; Management Succession; Management Systems; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Strategy

01 Oct 2024
Cold Call Podcast

Choosing Passion: A Founder’s Mission to Meet a Need for Obesity Care

Keywords: Re: Jon M. Jachimowicz; Health

Article

The Aravind Eye Care System: Making Sight Affordable

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and R. D. Thulasiraj

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment

April 2013
Article

Rx: Human Nature: How Behavioral Economics Is Promoting Better Health Around the World

By: Nava Ashraf

Why doesn't a woman who continues to have unwanted pregnancies avail herself of the free contraception at a nearby clinic? What keeps people from using free chlorine tablets to purify their drinking water? Behavioral economics has shown us that we don't always act in... View Details

Keywords: Behavior; Economics; Motivation and Incentives; Zambia

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February 1996 (Revised April 2004)
Case

Eli Lilly and Company: Innovation in Diabetes Care

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Summarizes Eli Lilly's history of innovation in its business, describing how the dimensions along which innovations have been made in the industry have changed. Lilly's innovation strategy has been to pursue ever higher performance products, while others in the... View Details

Keywords: Change; Product; Service Delivery; Product Development; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Pharmaceutical Industry