Publications

07 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

Crisis in Health Care Authors:Robert S. Kaplan and Michael E. Porter Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 9 (September 2011) Abstract Existing health View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

to social problems through market solutions, the rate of return on these deals should be at least as high as traditional early stage investments. The big winners were in the technology and health care... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

April 1989
Supplement

Novel Combination of Two Drugs (C)

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

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

April 1989
Supplement

Novel Combination of Two Drugs (B)

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

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

November 2014
Teaching Note

Claritas Genomics

By: Robert F. Higgins and Matthew G. Preble

Dr. Patrice Milos is the first CEO of Claritas Genomics (Claritas) and she faces a number of challenges in scaling the young company. Claritas was formed around a lab spun out from Boston Children's Hospital (BCH) which had performed genomic tests for the hospital. Now... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare; Healthcare Startups; Genetic Testing; Genetics Diagnostics; Spinning Out Hospital Services; Spin-out; Health Care and Treatment; Genetics; Entrepreneurship; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States

June 1992
Teaching Note

Hospital Replacement Decision, Hospital Corp. of America: Financial Analysis, and Humana, Inc., Teaching Note

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Decision Making; Finance; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States

September 2022
Article

How Emerging Telehealth Models Challenge Policymaking

By: Mitchell Tang, Michael E Chernew and Ateev Mehrotra

Policy Points

Current telehealth policy discussions are focused on synchronous video and audio telehealth visits delivered by traditional providers and have neglected the growing number of alternative telehealth offerings.

These alternative... View Details

Keywords: Telehealth; Health Care and Treatment; Technology Adoption; Policy; Health Industry

September 2016 (Revised October 2018)
Case

Springfield Hospital

By: Susanna Gallani and Robert Kaplan

One of the key roles of costing systems is to support the evaluation of performance and facilitate appropriate resource allocations. Through participation in a comparative cost study, management at Springfield Hospital, known for its heavy focus on operational... View Details

Keywords: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Variance Analysis; Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

Educators

14 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout

accounting that includes health care costs puts the savings figure closer to $1.3 trillion. And capacity to produce an additional 1 billion vaccine courses could similarly be worth on the order of $1... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

September 1995
Case

Apollo Hospitals of India (B)

The Indian Hospitals Corp. (IHC), a branch of Apollo Hospitals Group, is considering building a hospital and primary-care medical center in Colombo, the capital of Sri-Lanka, a small island off the southern coast of India. This case describes economic, social, and... View Details

Keywords: Expansion; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; India

Educators

17 Nov 2020
In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

online will likely worry about receiving gifts on time. Training staff to enforce rapidly changing health guidelines and diffuse tension with customers who don’t comply mask-wearing regulations will also be... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail

2022
Article

Improving Efficiency and Reducing Costs of MRI-Guided Prostate Brachytherapy Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing

By: Nikhil G. Thaker, Rajat J. Kudchadker, James R. Incalcaterra, Tharakeswara K. Bathala, Robert S. Kaplan, Ankit Agarwal, Deborah A. Kuban, Benjamin D. Frank, Prajnan Das, Thomas W. Feeley and Steven J. Frank

Integrated quality improvement (QI) and cost reduction strategies can help increase value in cancer care. We applied standard QI and TDABC methods to improve workflow efficiency and reduce costs for MRI-guided prostate brachytherapy. We constructed process maps,... View Details

Keywords: Brachytherapy; Quality Improvement; Prostate; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Cost Accounting; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Efficiency; Health Industry

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Article

Team Scaffolds: How Mesolevel Team Structures Enable Role-based Coordination in Temporary Groups

By: Melissa A. Valentine and Amy C. Edmondson

This paper shows how mesolevel structures support effective coordination in temporary groups. Prior research on coordination in temporary groups describes how roles encode individual responsibilities so that coordination between relative strangers is possible. We... View Details

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

January 2013
Supplement

The Great East Japan Earthquake (C): Ishinomaki Kouwan Hospital's Response

By: Hirotaka Takeuchi, Yukiko Sakai, Rebecca Agonafir, Peter Cholewinski, Allison Kean and Emily Kloeblen

On the evening of March 11, 2011, Mayama Fumihiro, the Managing Director of Ishinomaki Kouwan Hospital knew that it would be a long, cold night. The 103 staff members and 162 patients and families were huddled on the top two floors of the four-story hospital, where... View Details

Keywords: East Japan; Earthquake; Ishinomaki Kouwan Hospital; Natural Disasters; Crisis Management; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Japan

01 Jan 1987
Conference Presentation

Executive Support Systems for Hospital Strategic Planning

By: L. M. Applegate and R. O. Mason

Keywords: Management Systems; Strategic Planning; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry