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50 Years of Women in MBA

two-year MBA Program at Harvard. Read More HBS Working Knowledge: Gender FEATURED STORIES mar 2013 hbs bulletin Opening the Door Regina Herzlinger charted the course for HBS's tenured female faculty. Read... View Details

July 2013 (Revised July 2015)
Background Note

Innovating in Health Care—Framework

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Contains the framework for the second-year Innovating in Health Care course. Delineates the role of six exogenous forces on new ventures: structure, financing, regulations, consumers, accountability, technology, and public policy and presents the essential elements of... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Management; Health Industry

Forthcoming
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Innovating in Healthcare: Creating Breakthrough Tech, Services, Drugs, Products, and Business Models

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Innovating in Healthcare offers effective approaches for designing, reworking, and implementing innovative healthcare services, products, and business models. It will help anyone working in healthcare service or product development, from hospitals to startups,... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Product Development; Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Health Industry

24 Apr 2014
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Addressing roadblocks to innovation in health care

Innovation in health care is a national and international priority driven by demand for quality and universal access, yet it has proved very difficult to achieve. Regina E. Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson... View Details

10 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

Manage Time By: Porter, Michael E., and Nitin Nohria Abstract—In 2006 Harvard Business School’s Michael E. Porter and Nitin Nohria launched a study tracking how large companies’ CEOs spent their time, 24/7, for 13 weeks: where they were,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Entrepreneurial Management) Rohit Deshpande Henry McGee Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: Advanced Business Plans for Innovating in Health Care (also listed under Technology & Operations Management) Regina View Details

01 Feb 2001
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The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts

professor Regina E. Herzlinger contended at a fall reunion presentation titled "The Four by Four Report: Effective Oversight of Nonprofit Organizations." An expert in health... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

defense while also playing offense. Deep Purpose Podcast Innovation Opportunities Created by COVID: And How to Make Them Happen Professor Regina Herzlinger (DBA 1971) + More Info – Less Info The crush of... View Details

October 2022 (Revised September 2024)
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mPharma: Scaling Access to Affordable Primary Care in Africa

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ben Creo

mPharma hopes to scale up to create the largest pan-African healthcare company ever to provide much-needed primary care in retail pharmacies; a reliable, fairly priced supply of drugs; and micro-insurance for drugs. They must prioritize launching a telemedicine... View Details

December 2022 (Revised September 2024)
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Sword Health

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Annelena Lobb and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Virgilio “V” Bento, CEO of Sword Health—a startup that provided virtual physical therapy to patients in self-insured firms via AI and sensor technology with supervision by a physical therapist with a doctorate—considered how to increase its U.S. market share. To do so,... View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Competitive Strategy; Health Industry; Technology Industry