Primary Care Providers - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2007
News

Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?

medical technology and health-insurance sectors, when it comes to health services, the 800-pound gorilla of our system, entrepreneurs are nowhere to be found. And their absence has enabled the status quo providers to get fat and sloppy.... View Details

Keywords: Regina E. Herzlinger; Health, Social Assistance; Management

04 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 4

E-See You Now Elie Ofek and Ron LauferHarvard Business School Case 510-061 What is next for healthcare IT provider American Well, whose innovative Online Care technology allows physicians to deliver 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 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

Max (Francis) Factor, Jr.

Taking over the family company after the death of his father in 1938, Factor is regarded as a pioneer in the cosmetics and makeup business. He transformed the company from a Hollywood makeup studio into a worldwide provider of name brand... View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

01 Dec 2003
News

HIV/AIDS and Business

she continues — even a small bicycle shop in China could rent or loan bicycles to deliver medication. “My sense is that people are innately sympathetic. If you provide specific tools, it makes it easier for them to act in a responsible... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

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Residents & Fellows Course - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Redefining Health Care , by Michael Porter and Elizabeth Teisberg, value for patients can be measured by the health outcomes achieved per dollar spent. Value-based health care delivery concepts start with... View Details

24 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

Millions of Americans, from hourly retail staffers to corporate vice presidents, wrestle with the demands of work while parenting young children, caring for a sick spouse or aging parent—or both. That juggling act is made even tougher by... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

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Driving Profitable Growth - Course Catalog

enterprise growth is quite poorly understood. Careful empirical studies show that very few enterprises grow profitably over sustained periods of time. Indeed, many organizations’ pursuit of growth is the very cause of their demise. When... View Details

21 Nov 2019
Blog Post

Finding My North Star at the Crossroads of Profit and Purpose

and career choices. Graduating from IIT Kharagpur, I decided to join Schlumberger – the world’s largest oilfield services company. Schlumberger, founded in 1926, in many ways reminded me of Tata Steel, a company that cares for its people... View Details

15 Apr 2021
News

Bringing Light to the Fight

work with the foundation. It wasn’t just her diagnosis, though; it also was her parents’ commitment to giving back. Throughout Smyth’s childhood, Anne had volunteered with Plunket, an organization that provides health View Details

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

03 Jun 2024
Blog Post

Five Ways to Rethink Your Job Description

beginning easy to scan so candidates quickly know if the job is a good match. Consider writing a few attention-grabbing introductory sentences before more specific headlines and bullets. Be careful with bullet length; you do not want them... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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 Jun 2005
News

Full Circle

My classmates were totally supportive of the process of moving toward a more centered, authentic path for me.” Because all of the cases are referred to the STVS by a primary care veterinarian, each poses its... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; veterinary; MBA applicable; Health, Social Assistance

28 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation

Defensive medicine spurs innovation They found, ultimately—and perhaps counterintuitively—that far from being an inhibitor to innovation, the practice of defensive medicine might have actually encouraged it. Legal liability pressure in health View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Medical Devices & Supplies

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

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

provide a track for professionally trained VCs; the Kauffman Fellows program brought top flight MBAs, both men and women, together with sponsoring VC firms. Its primary goal was to View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

01 Feb 2022
What Do You Think?

Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?

(iStockphoto/Mladen Zivkovic) Several years ago, my spouse and I turned to concierge medicine. We no longer wanted to deal with a US health care system that often provides basically anonymous, production... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 2010
News

Alumni Eager to Help Shape School’s Future

have been as diverse as the School’s more than 70,000 alumni. Yet there has been one clear and consistent area of agreement: Alumni care passionately about the future of HBS, and we welcome the opportunity to support HBS and the new Dean... View Details

Keywords: Ann Kelly

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