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April 1985 (Revised May 1993)
Case

Center for Nutritional Research

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Nutrition; Research; Health Industry

30 May 2024
News

Women’s Association Goes Nationwide; Connecticut Club Hosts Beshears

which are monthly group discussions dedicated to a specific industry or life stage. In addition to its longstanding roundtable for independent consultants, the club now hosts roundtables on the future of food, working mothers, women in... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

August 2017
Article

Effective Leadership of Surgical Teams: A Mixed Methods Study of Surgeon Behaviors and Functions

By: J. Stone, E. Aveling, M. Frean, M. Shields, C. Wright, F. Gino, T. Sundt and S.J. Singer

The importance of effective team leadership for achieving surgical excellence is widely accepted, but we understand less about the behaviors that achieve this goal. We studied cardiac surgical teams to identify leadership behaviors that best support surgical teamwork.... View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Leadership; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

February 1998 (Revised April 1999)
Case

Medical Consultants Network, Inc.

By: Paul W. Marshall and Jefferson C. Grahling

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry

May 2008 (Revised July 2012)
Teaching Note

PSI India -- Will Balbir Pasha Help Fight AIDS? (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Elie Ofek

Teaching Note for [507032] and [507058]. View Details

Keywords: Health Disorders; Health Industry; India

June 1992
Teaching Note

New England Critical Care, Inc., Teaching Note

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; New England

July 2005
Teaching Note

CareGroup (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Robert D. Austin

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

September 1992 (Revised October 1992)
Case

Massachusetts General Hospital: Cancer Research Center

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Eve Stacey

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Boston

March 1976
Teaching Note

King Community Hospital, Teaching Note

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

August 2003
Supplement

Children's Hospital and Clinics

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Michael Roberto

Keywords: Age; Medical Specialties; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

Article

Ein Booster für die Pharmabranche [A Booster for the Pharmaceutical Industry]

By: Ariel Dora Stern, Timo Minssen, W. Nicholson Price, II and Christoph Grimpe

mRNA technology has just helped to develop vaccines against COVID-19. Now, like Apple's iOS, it could provide the basis for new innovation platforms. View Details

Keywords: mRNA; COVID-19; Vaccines; Health Care and Treatment; Health Pandemics; Innovation and Invention; Health Industry

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11 Sep 2018
Blog Post

Care for the Elderly: Process is More Important Than the Destination

current market. I have felt that my biggest achievement while working on this project, has been pulling together seven very diversified team members from the Harvard Public Health School, Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

01 Sep 2008
News

Mara Aspinall

carried out, not for time they spent gathering information and thinking about patient diagnosis. Diagnostic tests account for only 3 percent of health-care spending, but drive 70 percent of all medical costs. The diagnostics industry has... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

July 1999 (Revised July 1999)
Teaching Note

Guidant: Cardiac Rhythm Management Business (A) and (B) TN

By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Edward T Smith

Teaching Note for (9-698-021) and (9-698-024). View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Product Marketing; Health Industry

April 2012 (Revised February 2013)
Case

Learning About Reducing Hospital Mortality at Kaiser Permanente

By: Anita Tucker

In 2011, Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) region's efforts to reduce mortality in their 21 hospitals is showing promise. They developed and launched a region-wide initiative to improve the treatment of sepsis, a serious and often deadly medical condition.... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Improvement; Health Industry; California