Publications

May 2021
Article

Making Doctors Effective Managers and Leaders: A Matter of Health and Well-Being

By: Lisa Rotenstein, Robert S. Huckman and Christine K. Cassel

The COVID-19 crisis has forced physicians to make daily decisions that require knowledge and skills they did not acquire as part of their biomedical training. Physicians are being called upon to be both managers—able to set processes and structures—and leaders—capable... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Management; Leadership; Health Pandemics; Health Industry

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August 1997
Article

Preventable Adverse Drug Events in Hospitalized Patients: A Comparative Study of Intensive Care and General Care Units

By: D. J. Cullen, J. Sweitzer, D. W. Bates, E. Burdick, A. Edmondson and L. L. Leape

Keywords: Health; Information

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05 May 2016
News

The Real Cost of Ignoring Mental Health in the Workplace

2023
Article

Comparison of COVID-19 Hospitalization Costs across Care Pathways: A Patient-level Time-driven Activity-based Costing Analysis in a Brazilian Hospital

By: Ricardo Bertoglio Cardoso, Miriam Allein Zago Marcolino, Milena Soriano Marcolino, Camila Felix Fortis, Leila Beltrami Moreira, Ana Paula Coutinho, Nadine Oliveira Clausell, Junaid Nabi, Robert S. Kaplan, Ana Paula Beck da Silva Etges and Carisi Anne Polanczyk

The COVID-19 pandemic raised awareness of the need to better understand where and how patient-level costs are incurred in health care organizations. This study used time-driven activity-based costing to estimate COVID-19 patient-level hospital costs in a Brazilian... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Health Industry; Brazil

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16 May 2014
News

Health cuts ‘wrong way’ to reform system, Harvard expert says

May 2008 (Revised April 2018)
Case

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center: Interdisciplinary Cancer Care

By: Michael E. Porter and Sachin H. Jain

In 2006, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center was an internationally leading institution for cancer care, education, and research. Since 1996, it had successfully reorganized itself from a cancer hospital that was physically organized around clinical... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Health Disorders; Organizational Structure; Medical Specialties; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Value Creation; Service Delivery; Research; Health Care and Treatment; Education Industry; Education Industry; Texas

Fast Answer

Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry

financial fundamentals for valuation; equity research and investment firm data; For a multimedia learning module on LSEG Workspace check out our Learn with Baker Library LSEG Workspace Introduction. Industry and... View Details

07 Dec 2015
Video

Mark Bertolini, CEO of Aetna, talks about inefficiency in care delivery

14 Nov 2024
News

How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

mitigation to adaptation, how the insurance industry can be proactive about that adaptation, and what it will take to make a real difference. READ MORE Dan Morrell: I think there's this lay understanding that insurance their job is to... View Details

2016
Blog

Building A Culture of Health - John A. Quelch: The Marketing of Prevention

By: John A. Quelch

The US will devote 17.5% of GDP to health care this year, around $3 trillion. Yet only 3 percent of that will be spent on prevention, including both primary prevention (preventing illness in the first place) and secondary prevention (preventing sick people getting... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare; Healthcare Marketing; Prevention; Wellbeing; Health; Marketing; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry; Europe; North and Central America

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May 2016
Case

AbbVie

By: Kevin Schulman, Laura Little, Samyukta Mullangi and Stephen Schleicher

This case focuses on the impact of a novel regulatory pathway, the biosimilars pathway, on the strategy of a major pharmaceutical firm that finds its largest product (60% of revenue) at risk. The case reviews the rationale for the pathway, the emerging biosimilars... View Details

Keywords: Pharmaceutical Company; M＆A Valuation; AbbVie; Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States

November 2013
Article

Learning from My Successes and from Others' Failures: Evidence from Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery

By: D. KC, B. Staats and F. Gino

Learning from past experience is central to an organization's adaptation and survival. A key dimension of prior experience is whether an outcome was successful or unsuccessful. While empirical studies have investigated the effects of success and failure in... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare; Health Care; Knowledge Work; Attribution Theory; Quality; Success; Medical Specialties; Health Care and Treatment; Failure; Learning; Health Industry

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01 Feb 1997
News

Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution

use expensive technology, which many people cite as the reason for high U.S. health-care costs? Actually,the opposite is true: advances in medical technology have made health care cheaper and better - and... View Details

02 Mar 2007
What Do You Think?

What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?

government's role in U.S. healthcare? What do you think? To Read More: Robert H. Frank, "A Health Care Plan So Simple, Even Stephen Colbert Couldn't Simplify It," The New York Times, February 18, 2007, p.... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

May 1992 (Revised June 1992)
Teaching Note

Health Stop: Production Process, Teaching Note

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Production; Health Industry

01 Sep 2011
News

Student Trio Advance Health Payment Reform

Related Links Read about other efforts in healthcare delivery Three HBS students spent much of the last academic year helping a leading Boston hospital answer one of the most important questions in health-care management: how to create a new payment system that saves... View Details

Keywords: bundling; Health, Social Assistance

Web

Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library

Investing in Emerging Industries The third generation of Lehman Brothers partners included the sons of Sigmund M. Lehman: Allan S. Lehman who joined the firm in 1908 and Harold M. Lehman who joined in 1914. Robert Lehman, the son of... View Details

October 2022 (Revised August 2024)
Case

Cigna-Express Scripts: Can a Vertical Merger Rescue an Industry Under Attack?

By: Leemore Dafny

In Fall 2019, Cigna Corporation – a global health services company with a significant presence in the U.S. employer-sponsored health insurance market - was digesting its $54 billion acquisition of Express Scripts, Inc. (ESI), a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM)... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Model; Vertical Integration; Insurance Industry