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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
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Babies
Chinese babies), and international restrictions and legislation concerning adoption. High-tech measures include IVF, artificial insemination, surrogacy, gamete interfallopian transfer (GIFT) in which the sperm is injected directly into... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
“Where can we find such a person?”
for managing a complex organization. Where can we find such a person?” It turns out that an HBS graduate filled the bill. Brock Reeve (MBA ’88), a nonscientist, was hired in 2006 as HSCI’s executive director in large measure because of... View Details
- March 2018 (Revised February 2020)
- Teaching Note
Improving Access at VA
By: Ryan W. Buell and Robert S. Huckman
In 2015, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) ran the largest healthcare system in the United States, with over 1,700 sites of care that served nearly 9 million veterans. One year earlier, a scandal had erupted over a cover-up of the excessive wait times veterans... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Wyss Celebrated for Career, Conservation
Hansjörg Wyss (MBA 1965) has been unusually public of late, celebrated for his visionary accomplishments in health care and conservation. Wyss, 75, founded Synthes USA, a Swiss-American firm, in 1974 and led... View Details
- July 2022
- Teaching Note
TraceTogether
By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah Mehta
This Note provides guidance for teaching "TraceTogether," HBS Case No. 820-111. View Details
- May 2021
- Case
The SMA Foundation: Steering Therapeutic Research and Development in a Rare Disease
By: Amitabh Chandra, Spencer Lee-Rey and Caroline Marra
This case explores incentives for rare disease drug development by chronicling the role of the Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Foundation in forming strategic partnerships with the scientific research community and pharmaceutical developers to transform the trajectory... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Strategy; Business or Company Management; Society; Health; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States
Chandra, Amitabh, Spencer Lee-Rey, and Caroline Marra. "The SMA Foundation: Steering Therapeutic Research and Development in a Rare Disease." Harvard Business School Case 621-112, May 2021.
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Sun Dress
Barrow: Offering a line of clothing that provides protection from the downside of solar energy. A native of sun-splashed Australia who now resides in Minneapolis, John Barrow (MBA 1989) has a fashion tip for Americans: cover up, mates. Seriously. Skin-cancer awareness... View Details
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Suppliers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Value-Based Health Care... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Faculty Books for December 2016
improved living conditions worldwide and provide guidelines for measuring a company’s population health footprint. Examples, statistics, and visuals showcase emerging corporate involvement in View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
alone do not account for these outcomes of the country’s public health system. There are also disparities in how effectively resources are allocated and managed, says Simon DeBere (MBA/MPA-ID 2022), a 2021... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 Jun 2010
- HBS Case
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
considered itself to be among the best hospitals in the country, even though it had scant evidence to benchmark its performance against others. But data co-collected by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation instead showed that the outcome for the clinic's juvenile patients... View Details
- June 2007
- Article
Efficient Kidney Exchange: Coincidence of Wants in a Structured Market
By: A. E. Roth, Tayfun Sonmez and M. Utku Unver
Patients needing kidney transplants may have donors who cannot donate to them because of blood or tissue incompatibility. Incompatible patient-donor pairs can exchange donor kidneys with other pairs only when there is a "double coincidence of wants." Developing... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Size; Emotions; Human Needs; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Infrastructure; Supply Chain Management; Fairness; Performance Improvement; Health Industry
Roth, A. E., Tayfun Sonmez, and M. Utku Unver. "Efficient Kidney Exchange: Coincidence of Wants in a Structured Market." American Economic Review 97, no. 3 (June 2007): 828–851.
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Healthy Profit
Illustration by Suharu Ogawa Illustration by Suharu Ogawa Luxury cruise company Royal Caribbean’s connection to public health might not be immediately apparent. “People don’t think of it as a View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
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Involved Videos Books Articles PUBLICATIONS: Articles HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW How to Solve the Cost Crisis in Health Care HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW (September 2011) Robert S. Kaplan and Michael E. Porter This pivotal article presents the... View Details
- February 2022
- Case
Leading The UK Vaccine Task Force
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Claudia Pienica
This case describes the first six months of the UK Vaccine Taskforce, under the leadership of Kate Bingham. With a career spent in the private sector as a biotech investor, Bingham’s appointment within the government was considered unusual. The overarching brief given... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Vaccine; Government; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Science; Innovation and Invention; Groups and Teams; Leadership; Decision Making; Government and Politics; Health; Innovation and Management; Governance; Change; Government Administration; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry; Europe; United Kingdom
Edmondson, Amy C., and Claudia Pienica. "Leading The UK Vaccine Task Force." Harvard Business School Case 622-079, February 2022.
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Katy Lankester
your career? Being part of high performing teams that are taking on big challenges, and doing my share to contribute to making that team excellent – and making it fun. How did HBS prepare you for your internship and your long term career? I came to HBS from the View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 2012
- Working Paper
Learning from Customers: Individual and Organizational Effects in Outsourced Radiological Services
By: Jonathan R. Clark, Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats
The ongoing fragmentation of work has resulted in a narrowing of tasks into smaller pieces that can be sent outside the organization and, in many instances, around the world. This trend is shifting the boundaries of organizations and leading to increased outsourcing.... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Learning; Health Care and Treatment; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Knowledge Acquisition; Volume; Performance Productivity; Health Industry
Clark, Jonathan R., Robert S. Huckman, and Bradley R. Staats. "Learning from Customers: Individual and Organizational Effects in Outsourced Radiological Services." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-057, December 2010. (Revised September 2011, January 2013. NBER Working Paper Series, No. w18723, January 2013)
- 27 Apr 2023
- News
Life Preserver
because they lack access to an organ transplant. Worldwide, the World Health Organization estimates only 10 percent of the need for organ transplantation is being met. And the gap between the demand and supply is even greater in some... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
examining several options for expansion and growth. International Hopital Universitaire de Mirebalais, Partners in Health in Haiti The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery Teaching Cases, Vol. 1 Robert S. Kaplan, Bipin Mistry and Karla Z.... View Details