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- August 2003 (Revised August 2024)
- Case
Fighting the Battle of the Bulge—Evaluating Do Good/Do Well Innovations in Morbid Obesity Treatment
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and John McDonough
Many health care innovations appear successful; but fail. This is the first case in the Innovating Health Care course that investigates how to create successful health care innovations. It is part of the first module in the course. This module focuses on how to... View Details
Keywords: Three Pillars; Industry Analysis; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Medical Specialties; Health Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., and John McDonough. "Fighting the Battle of the Bulge—Evaluating Do Good/Do Well Innovations in Morbid Obesity Treatment." Harvard Business School Case 304-009, August 2003. (Revised August 2024.)
- 09 Feb 2024
- HBS Case
Slim Chance: Drugs Will Reshape the Weight Loss Industry, But Habit Change Might Be Elusive
Watchers, Jenny Craig, the Atkins Diet, and Noom. “The weight loss industry was not a terribly significant part of the health care system until we got two technological innovations: Bariatric surgery to the gastrointestinal system became... View Details
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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Services (CMS) recently announced that it will be removing more than 250 musculoskeletal surgeries from its “inpatient-only list” in January 2022. An additional 1,500 surgeries will be eliminated in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Joint Venture
The human knee is a marvel. It’s the hinge at the center of our gait, the evolutionary adaptation that makes humans the only fully bipedal mammals on the planet. But the knee also is a complicated and vulnerable knot of bone, muscle, and sinew. Nearly everyone knows... View Details
Keywords: Shoshi Parks
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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
care for specific events.... June 2021 The CMS New Rule on Ambulatory Surgical Centers Earns Only Partial Credit by Junaid Nabi and Robert S. Kaplan The Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that it will be removing more than 250... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies
Why did a group of Harvard Business School professors become interested in an innovative new heart surgery technique? It turns out that a hospital's operating room provides an excellent controlled arena from which to explore the role that... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 29 Mar 2022
- Book
5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries
Shetty, a cardiac surgeon and founder of Narayana Health, built a financially viable enterprise at scale by pioneering low-cost heart surgery for tens of thousands of low-income patients. Shetty was motivated by the widespread... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
such as retail pharmacies, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care centers, telemedicine, and wireless sensors. Public policy enabled these changes in many ways: allowing access to telemedicine and pharmaceuticals by mail; redefining... View Details
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Systems Integration - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
significantly reduce cost to selected low risk patients operated on in an ambulatory surgery facility and avoiding the academic medical center downtown. When the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center expanded regionally, they... View Details
- 04 Apr 2024
- News
The Making of a Medical Milestone
day help alleviate critical shortages of human donor organs. The surgery was also a major step forward for David-Alexandre Gros, M.D. (MBA 2002) and his company, Eledon Pharmaceuticals, whose investigational immunosuppressant drug,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1996, she was overwhelmed. It was the pre-Internet era, with limited available information, but... View Details
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Presentations - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
bypass graft (CABG) surgery at two U.S. hospitals, Intermountain and Baylor Heart, and Narayana Health (NH), in India. All three hospitals use modern... January 2020 Value-Based Health Care Delivery: Systems Integration and Growth by... View Details
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Team - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Professor of Surgery Andrea Pusic M.D., M.H.S., Joseph E. Murray Professor of Surgery in the Field of Plastic Surgery Edward M. Hundert M.D., Dean for Medical Education and the... View Details
- 30 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators
believe that surgery is the proper course of action, but her perception is biased: She has an incentive and makes money off the decision to operate. Another surgeon might just as easily come to the conclusion that if it’s not bothering... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Profile
Cait Haught
With a mother who taught 8th-grade math and a father who practiced orthopedic surgery in a county hospital, Cait Haught grew up with a commitment to service. "Since I was small, my parents instilled in me that whatever I do should... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- Portrait Project
Aman Kumar
altogether. I don't have the answers. I cannot tell you why I survived and millions of other babies didn't, why speech therapy helped me more than it did others, why the eye surgeries held and left so many others blind. The joy and wonder... View Details
- 06 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge
Sometimes a little push like that is all employees need to get out of a rut. About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in Boston. [Image: Mark Kostich] Related Reading Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Recruiting Partners - Health Care
University Health Services (HUHS) HCC Corporation HealthDrive Corporation Health Management Associates Henry Schein Inc. Hologic Hospira Inc. Hospital for Special Surgery Huron Consulting Group I IMS Consulting Group Innovations in... View Details
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Partners & Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Scouts of the USA Grameen America Grassroots Business Fund Habitat for Humanity International Harbor Bank of Maryland Community Development Corp Harlem Children's Zone Health Leads Hebrew SeniorLife Hospital for Special Surgery Initiative... View Details
- 24 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class
different angles, and felt a deep sense of responsibility. Everyone has gone on to do amazing things and many of us continue to help each other a decade after graduation.” Jennifer Rentas Current role: Chief of Staff, Hospital for Special View Details