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- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
precision diagnostics. It is a travesty that we don’t have simple tests that can distinguish between the common cold, seasonal allergies, and various strains of the flu, let alone the sophisticated diagnostics needed to guide the View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
quickly than inflation; restriction of access and services; standards of care that lag behind accepted benchmarks; frequent treatment errors; wide variations in practice... View Details
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
Consumers today have more control than ever over the way they choose goods and services—from browsing freely at grocery stores to managing their own financial assets. Perhaps consumers should also have a greater sense of empowerment when... View Details
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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Intermountain Healthcare Joslin Diabetes Center Kaiser Permanente Maine Medical Center Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Mayo Clinic MD Anderson View Details
- 13 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Women Heart Patients Have Better Survival Odds with Women Doctors
prospects of lower pay or fewer chances at promotion than men. In the medical world, recent studies show doctors are less alert to symptoms in older adults when a patient is female. Heart attacks are the leading cause View Details
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
"sticky" and, consequently, the implications of strategic interaction for strategic choice. And yet, while the organization and strategy literatures broadly recognize the importance of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
program started by teaching sailing skills to children with spinal cord injuries, it now serves children and adults with a variety of physical and emotional challenges as well as cancer patients and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
June, HBS hosted over sixty representatives from business, government, and NGOs in September. A final workshop was held in Beijing in November. Barrett cochaired the series with John Ruggie, director of the KSG’s View Details
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
kidney transplant (11th), women's health (16th), heart (25th), and cancer (29th) as among the best in the nation. Its $292 million in National Institutes of Health research grants ranked ninth in the nation.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Class Day/Commencement 2013
moments? Being part of the HBS Show production team, drinking Coke Zero, and writing the script in the i-lab. What's next? Back to Oklahoma! I'll be working in marketing at the Stephenson Cancer View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
approached a private, for-profit chain of addiction treatment centers about offering the app to its clients as a support tool for the recovery process once they completed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
MBA 101: HBS Commencements Pass the Century Mark
sometimes glacial pace and antiquated norms of cancer research; doubled patients’ lifespans; and raised in excess of $165 million for research. Giusti urged graduates to set... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/118017-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 818-068 Impact Investing for Cancer It is early 2018, and Emily Park, managing director of impact for the Abreu Family... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
conclusion by manually going through the data,” the lead doctor told the Japan Times, “but Watson’s speed is crucial in the treatment of leukemia, which progresses rapidly and can cause complications.” This... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
for its commitment to improving health care outcomes and lowering costs by reducing treatment variation, made the surprising decision to invest significant resources in an innovative precision medicine unit, which would provide... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
being afterwards,” he says. This exploration of indigenous traditions led Sprinkles to apprentice and undergo initiation in the way of the ancient Huichol and Nahua traditions in 2000 and 2006, respectively.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
then have to think about the prospects for commercialization. They have to communicate back and forth extensively. What were some of the projects? As an example, one of last year’s teams was looking at an... View Details
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Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
W. Feeley, Mary L. Witkowski, and Heidi W. Albright This paper provides further details on our work to help MD Anderson’s Center for Cancer Care Innovation identify and act on several process improvement... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dean’s Award
Douglas K. Schillinger (fifth from left), for his diligence, determination, humility, and strength while undergoing treatment for melanoma Father Thomas Patrick Doyle, C.S.C., for being a strong and generous source View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Venture: Time Heals All
Assembling a nursing schedule for a hospital ward can be surprisingly difficult—a little like playing three-dimensional Tetris, says Ilana Springer Borkenstein (MBA 2022). “It is a really challenging, tedious task.” Nurse managers must take into consideration a host of... View Details