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01 Jan 2004
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June 2024
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Enhancing Value and Well-Being: The Basket of Motivators Framework for Aligning Neurology Clinical Practices with Performance Outcomes

By: Peter N. Hadar, Susanna Gallani and Lidia Moura

Physician burnout, which is prevalent in neurology, has accelerated in recent years. While multifactorial, a major contributing factor to burnout is a payment model that rewards volume over quality, leaving physicians overburdened and unfulfilled. The aim of this... View Details

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Personal Development and Career; Well-being; Motivation and Incentives

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27 Sep 2011
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the salience of information is a central determinant of a firm's demand function, even for purchases as large as college attendance. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-014.pdf Measuring Teamwork in View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jan 2016
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Harvard Business School Launches Precision Trials Challenge

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2018 - present Harvard Business School, Transforming Health Care Delivery (MBA elective curriculum) 2014 - 2017 Harvard Business Schoool, Technology and Operations Management (first-year required MBA curriculum) Summer 2012 Harvard Kennedy School of Government,... View Details

06 Jan 2015
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Elaine Goodman - Making A Difference

August 2010 (Revised March 2012)
Case

The UCLA Medical Center: Kidney Transplantation

By: Michael E. Porter, Jennifer F Baron, Jacob Mathew Chacko and Robin Jian Tang

In 2010, organ transplantation remained among the few sets of medical conditions in the U.S. for which bundled payments were a dominant reimbursement model, and for which patient health outcomes were universally measured and reported. In 1986, UCLA Medical Center was... View Details

Keywords: Insurance; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Measurement and Metrics; Outcome or Result; Competitive Strategy; Integration; Health Industry; California

March 1994 (Revised December 2014)
Case

Humana, Inc.: Managing in a Changing Industry

By: Stuart Gilson

Intensifying competition and change in the U.S. health care industry force a large integrated health-care provider to reassess its strategy of operating both hospitals and health insurance plans (HMOs). In an attempt to increase its stock price and operating... View Details

Keywords: Business Strategy; Restructuring; Change Management; Financial Management; Health Industry

08 Sep 2015
News

What Are a Hospital’s Costs? Utah System Is Trying to Learn

26 Mar 2014
News

How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity

April 2020
Supplement

Luvo (B)

By: José B. Alvarez and Natalie Kindred

This case, a follow on to HBS No. 517-049 "Luvo," provides a brief look at changes that have occurred at Luvo, now called Performance Kitchen, since the timing of the first case (mid-2016). Set in January 2020, “Luvo (B)” touches on developments such as the company's... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Nutrition; Food; Strategy; Product Positioning; Product Marketing; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Retail Industry; United States; Canada

23 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?

$10 behind health care, there's a problem." Dr. Pride Chigwedere, an Oak Foundation Research Fellow at the Harvard AIDS Institute who worked as a physician in Zimbabwe, said the policy issues begin with difficulties designing... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

24 Aug 2016
News

Can Obamacare Be Saved?

08 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Career Choices for the Class of 2018

The Class of 2018 has continued the trend of finding opportunities in diverse sectors across the landscape of MBA hiring, including positions in hospitality, real estate and health care delivery in addition... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

23 Sep 2014
News

What Role Do Corporations Have in Society?

August 2024
Case

Scaling Seven Starling

By: Ryan W. Buell and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Seven Starling, a maternal mental health startup, is scaling its digital clinic model. Seven Starling addresses perinatal mental health challenges by providing licensed therapists, peer support, and medication to mothers across five states, with a hybrid care model... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Health Care and Treatment; Growth and Development Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Health Industry

12 Oct 2016
News

Undermining Value-Based Purchasing — Lessons from the Pharmaceutical Industry

07 Jun 2014
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Kyle Schultz - Making A Difference

May 2010
Article

Managing the New Primary Care: The New Skills That Will Be Needed

By: Richard Bohmer

Developing new models of primary care will demand a level of managerial expertise that few of today's primary care physicians possess. Yet medical schools continue to focus on the basic sciences, to the exclusion of such managerial topics as running effective teams.... View Details

Keywords: Higher Education; Health Care and Treatment; Management Skills; Managerial Roles; Service Delivery; Practice; Health Industry