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  • 11 Dec 2014
  • News

Revolutionizing digital medical records

coordinated, and lower-cost care. Bushkin expects MedKaz to revolutionize health care, bringing about changes in care quality and facilitating changes in the way care is delivered. With it, doctors can avoid medical mistakes and... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

Opening the Door

1981. The School's Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, Herzlinger is the author of seven best-selling books, including her landmark volume Market-Driven Health Care (1997), which analyzed the revolutionary impact of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management
  • February 2008 (Revised August 2012)
  • Background Note

Note on Medical Travel

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Sara Green
Background notes for MedVal and Fortis case studies. View Details
Keywords: Cost; Health Care and Treatment; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Health Industry; Health Industry; India
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  • 01 Jun 2020
  • News

Inside Out

Spaces Drive Performance and Creativity, coauthored with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Assistant Professor Joe Allen. “Public health is obviously directly connected to society’s success in... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management
  • February 2008 (Revised August 2014)
  • Case

MedVal Ventures

By: Regina E. Herzlinger
Is medical travel a viable business opportunity? A group of MBA students consider the pros and cons of starting a business that would send people from the U.S. to India for elective non-emergency surgeries. View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Cost Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Health Industry; India; United States
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  • July 2001 (Revised May 2002)
  • Case

Making a Doctor

Three doctors were interviewed to learn how they were trained to be a physicians. One was a family practice senior resident, one was a critical care pediatric chief resident, and one was an orthopedic staff surgeon 18 months out of residency. All three were interviewed... View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Health Care and Treatment; Business Processes; Health Industry
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  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Model Patient

health-care system is in critical condition: The cost of U.S. health care not only hampers its citizens’ well-being and the country’s ability to compete globally, but it also draws funding away from other... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance
  • Student-Profile

Olivia Zhao

mined from a day on the diamond. “I’ve loved baseball since I was a very small child,” she says. “I also have played softball all my life—currently I’m on the Harvard health policy team. Whether watching or playing, sports are a social... View Details
  • 22 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment

other schools competing for the best students. Hayes drew a line between personal investing—he himself is a socially responsible investor, he said—and other types of investment vehicles. Several audience members questioned Hayes on that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • June 2016
  • Article

When Doctors Go to Business School: Career Choices of Physician-MBAs

By: Damir Ljuboja, Brian W. Powers, Benjamin Robbins, Robert S. Huckman, Krishna Yeshwant and Sachin Jain
There has been substantial growth in the number of physicians pursuing Master of Business Administration (MBA) degrees over the past decade, but there is continuing debate over the utility of these programs and the career outcomes of their graduates. The authors... View Details
Keywords: Medical Education; MD; MBA; Physicians; Executive Education; Training; Personal Development and Career; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
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  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

Elevator Pitch: Good Vibrations

fractures and subsequent complications kill 20 percent of their victims, and debilitating spine fractures represent a health care cost of $19 billion annually. “There are a number of medications to treat... View Details
Keywords: medical device; healthcare; entrepreneurship; Alumni New Venture Competition
  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

A Market-Based Prescription

factories. Why are you such a strong advocate of a factory-like approach to health care? What I call health-care-focused factories are a response to the reality that today 80 percent of health-care costs are... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 24 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

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

to remain working left because they could not reconcile the obligations of the career path they were on with caring for kids. Caregiving, along with higher education and healthcare delivery, has among the highest real-dollar increase in View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
  • 16 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?

across their entire platform. For those who already own an iPhone or iPad, the Apple Watch is an exciting new product that can track biometric and personal data. Also think about how the Apple Watch can facilitate partnerships with the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ryan L. Raffaelli; Health; Health; Health
  • Student-Profile

Hummy Song

across several Harvard graduate schools — including the Medical School, the Public Health School, and the Kennedy School. This means that each student can craft a unique and personalized path that best... View Details
  • 29 May 2019
  • News

HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni

Etienne Deffarges (MBA 1985), author of Untangling the USA: The Cost of Complexity and What Can Be Done About It. Deffarges, a health care entrepreneur and investor, talked about his book and the concept of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

The Doctor Is In

finance, it seems, are never far from the minds of anyone in health care these days, even at fiscally sound MGH, the Harvard-affiliated teaching hospital that is recognized as an industry model. Indeed, with its conflicting mix of human... View Details
Keywords: healthcare; Health, Social Assistance
  • 16 Dec 2016
  • News

Search for a Youth Medicine Never Grows Old

Keywords: Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • News

Off Script

(Thinkstock) Prescription drug spending increased by more than 13 percent in the United States in 2014, raising health insurance premiums and the ire of consumers and politicians. The reasons behind the rise are many, including the high... View Details
Keywords: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance
  • 17 Jun 2020
  • News

Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines

intermittent fasting—but for your brain.” Citing a recent study linking the COVID-19 crisis to exacerbated mental health issues in Canada, Boris Tsimerinov (PLDA16, 2017), says “cultivating calm is important at a View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley