Publications

25 Jan 2007
Other Presentation

Winning Competitive Strategies in Today's Shifting Global Marketplace

By: Michael E. Porter

The following portion of this presentation draws on Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg: Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Harvard Business School Press, May 2006. Earlier publications about health care include the... View Details

Keywords: Health; Netherlands

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Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies... View Details

Keywords: health care; health care; health care; health care; health care; health care; health care; health care; health care

Sep 28 2017
Testimonial

Finding New Ways to Solve Familiar Problems

29 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Research Symposium 2014

Speaking up at work; a manager's responsibility to capitalism; a strategy to fix the health care system. These were the presentation topics at the 2014 Faculty Research Symposium. At first blush, they may... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health; Health

Research Summary

Overview

Selected current projects: Shared Decision Making and Patient Engagement in Orthopaedic Surgery Identification of Risk Factors for Revision Surgery Following Primary THA and TKA Integrated Care Delivery and Episode of Care Payments in Hip and Knee Arthroplasty The... View Details

May 14 2014
Testimonial

Creating the Organization's Future—One Leader at a Time

09 Dec 2015
News

Towards interdisciplinary medical innovation

16 Feb 2018
Video

Sachin Jain: Pursuing Revolutionary Change

24 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Can Obamacare Be Saved?

company to pull out of the exchanges. The largest health insurer in the US, UnitedHealth Group, never really embraced the exchanges in the first place and has also suspended the sale of many of its plans on the exchanges for 2017.... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch and Emily Boudreau; Health; Health

July 2003 (Revised August 2003)
Case

Global Healthcare Exchange

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Jamie Ladge

Founded in March 2000 at the height of the dot-com bubble, Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) was one of 90 online marketplaces in the health care industry. The company's founders were among the largest suppliers in the industry, including Johnson & Johnson, GE Medical,... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Entrepreneurship; Price; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Supply and Industry; Organizational Design; Expansion; Internet and the Web; Valuation; Health Industry

October 1996 (Revised May 2001)
Case

Cantuga Farmworkers Clinic (A)

By: James E. Austin and Catherine Overholt

The board of directors of a rural health clinic fires its executive director. The case elaborates the evolution and progress of the clinic under this director during a period of growth and a changing health care environment. Factors contributing to and questioning the... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Resignation and Termination; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Evaluation; Problems and Challenges; Rank and Position; Social Enterprise; Health Industry

02 May 2018
News

Why Employers Drag Feet on Value-Based Insurance

02 Nov 2015
Video

Katy Lankester (MBA 2015)

January 1993 (Revised October 1993)
Case

Medtronic, Inc.

In 1991, Bill George, CEO of Medtronic, the world's largest manufacturer of pacemakers, was evaluating his strategic options in light of the changing economic environment. In the United States, Europe, and Japan, governments were considering regulatory changes to... View Details

Keywords: Diversification; Corporate Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Policy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry