Publications

15 Oct 2020
News

Pandemic Caused 'A Lot of Consumer-Driven Innovation': Harvard's Herzlinger

13 Aug 2024
News

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

03 Jun 2020
News

Who Guarantees Your Workplace is Safe for Return?

Research Summary

Overview

Professor Goh’s primary research interest is applying mathematical models to real-world problems in health care in order to inform, improve, and enhance medical decision making and health policy. His recent work in this domain focuses on developing new methods for... View Details

Keywords: Uncertainty; Optimization; Inventory Management; Health; Decision Making; Supply Chain

01 Nov 2019
Video

Devi Shetty

Devi Shetty, founder of Narayana Health, a major chain of hospitals and health care centers in India headquartered in Bangalore, explains his reasons for deciding to seek equity funding for the company, some of... View Details

22 May 2015
News

Children's Hospital set to expand

November 2023
Case

Swanson Health: Becoming a Super Seller

By: William R. Kerr, Daniel O'Connor and Paige Boehmcke

Founded in 1969, Swanson Health sold vitamins, supplements, natural health products, and organic foods. Over the years, the company had successfully navigated multiple industry transitions as it expanded from a print catalog to sell products on its own... View Details

Keywords: Sales; Transition; Growth Management; Distribution Channels; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States

Hassina is trained as physician and psychologist in Amsterdam and completed a postdoctoral appointment at Stanford University before coming to Harvard to further pursue a scholarly career in healthcare management. At Stanford, Hassina studied social and functional... View Details

December 2017
Case

Charity or Bribery?

By: Eugene Soltes and Brian Tilley

Filip Kowalski, a senior manager at the pharmaceutical company Healthgen, leads sales for the firm’s Polish division. While pitching Healthgen’s products, he develops a relationship with a director of a regional health fund who also runs a private foundation. After a... View Details

Keywords: Bribery; Crime and Corruption; Law; Ethics; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; United States; Europe

The Covid-19 epidemic response has shown that the U.S. is blessed with heroic physicians and other health care providers, researchers, and facilities. But it has also revealed a health care system that was woefully unprepared for the surge of pandemic patients. In the... View Details

29 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Research Symposium 2014

Speaking up at work; a manager's responsibility to capitalism; a strategy to fix the health care system. These were the presentation topics at the 2014 Faculty Research Symposium. At first blush, they may sound a bit disjointed. But a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health; Health

October 2003 (Revised February 2010)
Case

The Duke Heart Failure Program

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Laura Feldman

Duke University Health System has for the past five years operated a specialized clinic for the management of congestive heart failure, a very common and costly condition in the surrounding community. Nurse practitioners, whose work is guided by highly specified... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Medical Specialties; Time Management; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Outcome or Result; Health Industry