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- 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-005.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAmerican Cancer Society: Access to Care Harvard Business School Case 109-015 CEO John Seffrin decides to radically change the strategy of the American View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
years before The Wealth of Nations. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51625 forthcoming Journal of Oncology Practice Communicating Value in Healthcare Using Radar Charts: A Case Study of Prostate Cancer By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
Cancer research, it has been said, is not unlike a group of blind men studying an elephant. One man feels the elephant's tail and says it is a rope. Another blind man handles its tusk and calls it a spear, and yet another declares its... View Details
- 14 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Does December's Drug-Approval Dash Mean for COVID-19 Vaccines?
But consumers can make that choice more thoughtfully understanding the risk and benefit. Number two, keep in mind that other drugs approved around this time likely got less mindshare from the FDA—the cancer drugs and drugs for other types... View Details
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
various directions within different departments. For example, human resources might initiate a United Way gift program that involves a company match; operations might work on waste reduction; and marketing might collect an extra dime from employees' paychecks for... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
Factory Models for Cancer Care This case compares and contrasts four different models for delivering cancer care in India and the United States. Students are asked to select the best model in its alignment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
the acquisition of U.S. Oncology, an integrated cancer care company, whose expertise it could leverage in offerings catered to other physician specialties. With a vast portfolio of products and services serving a wide spectrum of health... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
Health in Mirebelais, Haiti. A project team mapped the clinical processes for use in estimating the direct costs of personnel, equipment, and facilities for obstetric and breast cancer care. The accurate cost information revealed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
media to engage others and build campaigns for change in the company. This case follows her career at the company and describes the challenges she faced as a change agent, working to promote gender equality within the company and a new drug developed to fight View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
protagonist on the precipice of a great crisis: Shackleton marooned on an Antarctic ice floe; Lincoln on the verge of seeing the Union collapse; escaped slave Douglass facing possible capture; Bonhoeffer agonizing over how to counter absolute evil with faith; Carson... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Research Summary
Mastering Strategy Execution
By: Robert Simons
Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details
- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
example that could inform change is in the successful representation of minorities in tests for novel HIV/AIDS drugs. Black patients make up roughly 30 percent of the patients taking part in clinical trials for these medicines, compared to just 5 percent in trials of... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?
predict a new world where drug treatments are customized to an individual's genetic makeup, and gene-based therapy can root out cancer and other diseases before they take hold in the body. The new science will "revolutionize the way... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
this proposal, and what other options may be available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/school-specialty-inc/an/214084-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-003 Cancer Treatment Centers of America (B) This case provides... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
the site had no strategy for monetizing the traffic. The case allows students to examine potential monetization strategies for Twitter. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710455-PDF-ENG Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2018
- Op-Ed
4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World
agency, if allowed to fester, is the cancer of leadership, bringing with it a cynicism about others’ efforts to do well and do good that in turn reinforces a sense of impotence in improving the world around us. In the face of today’s many... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
hypertension. The medical condition is not orthopedic care, but several conditions, including spine disorders, hip disorders, and so forth. Cancer care also involves many distinct medical conditions. Aligning an organization's view of... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
Harvard Business School Case 714-471 Martini Klinik: Prostate Cancer Care Since its establishment in 2005, Hamburg's Martini Klinik had single mindedly focused on prostate cancer care with a commitment to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
Foundation, was preparing to launch a new type of clinical trial—an adaptive platform trial—to study potential therapies for glioblastoma (GBM), an aggressive form of brain cancer. Alexander believed that the standard way in which new View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
of its inadequate payments. In the end, the Democrats' health care reform will require drastic rationing of health care for the sick to control its costs. The government-controlled UK health care system points the way because it features, for example, the lowest uptake... View Details