Primary Care Providers - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 1997
News

Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution

integration doesn't guarantee that you can do everything well simultaneously. Focus, we've discovered, is critical. What does "focus" mean in terms of the health-care industry? It means more integrated facilities that center on providing... View Details

01 Dec 2020
News

Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers

Regina Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, has been studying the health care sector for nearly half a century. In that time, she has seen significant innovation in the field—and she has also seen the... View Details

Keywords: April White

21 Nov 2024
News

Mother Nurture

Julia Cole, Tina Keshani, and Sophia Richter (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Tina Keshani (MBA 2020), Julia Cole (MBA 2020), and Sophia Richter (MBA 2020) met at Startup Boot Camp in their first year at HBS, they quickly discovered they shared a vision to create a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

Profile

Naiyya Saggi

Organizations gave me exposure to lively debates around the best models for creating wide-scale societal impact and the role of business in doing so today. It would be an understatement to say that HBS has shaped merely my career path. HBS has View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care

12 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them

then could be tested experimentally. Studying doctors and patients The research team devised two experiments, one involving primary care doctors, the other, patients. In the first experiment, the researchers... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Pharmaceutical; Health

02 Jan 2020
Op-Ed

Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?

The United States has serious health care problems: More than 27 million uninsured people, costs that are growing faster than income, and a staggering $37 trillion of unfunded liabilities in the Medicare program. Perhaps most alarming:... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace; Health; Public Administration

01 Mar 2015
News

Clubs Hopping

small, in California, Florida, and Texas, where most HBS Latino alumni live. Dallas was the proving ground for this strategy. “We want to collect and build our networks more regionally,” says Calderon, who sits on the club’s board. “There’s a demand and an appetite for... View Details

Keywords: April White; Health, Social Assistance

23 Oct 2020
News

Educating the Whole Student

over?” The answer: The Primary School, an ambitious experiment in reinventing education to better serve lower-income students, students of color, and their families. The school, which opened its doors in East Palo Alto, California, in... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

Career Coach

Phil Wong

Phil (Caltech ‘05, HBS ‘10) is currently the CFO and co-founder of Sevi Health, a healthcare startup on a mission to simplify primary care in the US. His role at Sevi focuses on acquiring clinics,... View Details

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01 Dec 2020
News

Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match

Kyruus’s search engine enables consumers to find the best providers for their health care needs. Since he was eight years old, Graham Gardner, MD (MBA 2007) knew he wanted to be a doctor. Once he completed... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

12 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?

supermarket, stopping to linger as long as they wanted or moving as quickly as they wished. A one-size-fits-all approach to health care doesn’t work. ©iStock/AndreyPopov “There is more choice available to the consumer than ever before,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

01 Sep 2004
News

A Market-Based Prescription

physicians’ services? Health-care providers are as constrained by managed care as consumers. Other industries enjoy much greater freedom. Grocery retailers, for example, serve a variety of customers in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2009
News

A New Approach to Health-Care Reform

is almost 100 percent effective in protecting children’s teeth against decay, only about one-third of kids get it. By contrast, in the minority of dental plans that provide comprehensive care for a yearly... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2022
News

Elevator Pitch: Common Knowledge

health care information digitally, provided they have access to the right technology and tools. Heard: “My brother has a chronic neurological condition and has spent decades navigating the complexity and... View Details

Keywords: entrepreneurship; healthcare; data; technology; Blavatnik Fellowship

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FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Involved Videos Books FAQs FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQS) Benefits of TDABC for Health Care Q: How is Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) useful in health care? A: TDABC provides accurate and... View Details

01 Jun 2013
News

Revitalizing America

"near-peers," helping kids to stay in school and on track. City Year was founded by Harvard Law School graduates Alan Khazei and Michael Brown with Jennifer Eplett Reilly (MBA 1990). Similarly, health care could use paraprofessionals to... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

02 Dec 2015
Blog Post

Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Laura Mackay...

models and aspirations to transform the industry. One company in particular grabbed my attention: Fibroblast, a referral management platform. The business is focused at the heart of the one for the most challenging issues for patient safety and View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care; Health Care

Profile

Laura Mackay

ambitions, and providing thoughtful advice along the way. What are you most looking forward to in your career? I am very eager to apply all of my learnings from my time here at HBS to make a difference on a variety of levels. I hope to... View Details