Primary Care Providers - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2005
News

When No News Isn’t Good News

comes to finding out how others view their work. “Your employer is your primary customer. You need to make sure they are satisfied,” says McKay, president of Massachusetts-based McKay Partners, Inc. “When you wait until performance review... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; career consulting; career advice

01 Sep 2004
News

Mickey Herbert (MBA 1969)

were providing better health-care coverage for Americans. By the early 1990s, the industry had undergone an almost complete transformation to for-profit health care. I took my own HMO public in 1993. But by the mid-1990s, health plans... View Details

Keywords: Lewis Rice; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

Henry Taub

services was widely recognized, and over the years, ADP has become a primary supplier of outsourced processing for much more than payroll. It provides services for claims processing, brokerage fees, and... View Details

Keywords: Services

14 Jul 2021
Blog Post

From Colombia to the District of Columbia: Making an Impact with Paulina Llano (MBA 2022)

difficult, but when feedback is provided it can be viewed as a learning opportunity. Llano said, “Feedback adds to our two-year experience as students and helps us understand where we didn’t meet expectations as candidates and improve for... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

29 Aug 2024
News

A Kick Start for Latin American Startups

When Monica Saggioro Leal (MBA 2018) and her business partner, Lara Lemann, started MAYA Capital, a tech-focused, Brazilian VC firm launched in 2018, they wanted to take a hands-on approach with their startup investments in their first 12 months. They wanted to support... View Details

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02 Aug 2016
First Look

August 2, 2016

Healthcare Partners Inc. (DaVita), in August 2013. The two would discuss whether Golomb should lead a new DaVita venture, Paladina Health (Paladina), which operated a network of primary care clinics. DaVita... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Aug 2017
News

Into the Light

of Energicity. “Modern life as we know it is impossible.” Poindexter has seen the struggles firsthand in rural Ghana, where her startup is working to bring solar power to communities where highly flammable kerosene and expensive flashlight batteries are currently the... View Details

Keywords: April White; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

10 Mar 2021
News

Chasing the Silver Tsunami

provide the tools and services that will help older adults live longer, healthier lives. Investing in Experience Abby Miller Levy was motivated to start a venture fund in the older-adult sector after discovering a dearth of options for... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; illustration by Dan Page; Nursing and Residential Care Facilities; Nursing and Residential Care Facilities

03 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 3

Abstract—Improving the way we pay for health care must be a central component in health care reform. Payment reform must link provider reimbursement and accountability to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 2

PublicationsManaging the New Primary Care: The New Skills That Will Be Needed Author:Richard Bohmer Publication:Health Affairs 29, no. 5 (May 2010) Abstract Developing new models of primary View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Mar 2017
News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

only one to ask that question. At the time, Sean Hogan (MBA 1993), a VP in IBM’s health care unit, was tasked with finding the major trends in the health and life sciences sectors that could lead to billion-dollar businesses. “We saw an... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

01 Mar 2013
News

Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System

Experience," HBS professor Clay Christensen analogized that just as the computer industry evolved from massive mainframes to customer-friendly personal devices, "We need to bring technology to outpatient clinics and patients' homes so they can View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2020
News

Prognosis

Care Initiative. He teaches the second-year course Transforming Health Care Delivery, as well as executive education programs for a number of hospitals. He serves on the advisory board for RubiconMD, which... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Education: Investing in the Next Generation of Workers

Business needs to care about the performance of students in the public education system, from preschool through college. It is the primary source of future employees for every business. It’s also where the... View Details

Keywords: Amy McIntosh (MBA 1984) , associate vice chancellor for academic strategy, The City University of New York

29 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas

primary or generative appropriability. By contrast, years later, Apple broke new ground in the creation of the iPod, a simple portable device that allowed users to play music through a digital library. But it didn't stop there. Realizing... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

whereas South Korea has 216 cases per million. "South Korea created a vast number of testing sites, which included not only big hospitals but local clinics and public health care facilities." What South Korea teaches us is that proactive... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

01 Dec 2013
News

Innovation as Antidote

leaders and academics, the forum identified a number of important challenges, and offered five "key imperatives" for progress—from making value the central objective to decentralizing care delivery. Several HBS alumni and faculty members... View Details