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- 28 Mar 2014
- News
Start-Up Aims to Reinvent Health Insurance
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
misconduct, or recidivism. We extend our analysis to explore the differential treatment of ethnic minorities and find similar patterns of "in-group" tolerance. Our... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
Indian pharmaceutical company, Cipla, to bring down the annual per-patient cost of an ARV triple cocktail from $12,000 to under $250; using ARV development as a key component of its prevention and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
forthcoming Journal of International Economics Corporate Debt, Firm Size and Financial Fragility in Emerging Markets By: Alfaro, Laura, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari, and Ugo Panizza Abstract— The post-Global Financial Crisis period shows a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- August 2021
- Case
Livongo: Scaling a Purpose-Driven Organization in Healthcare
By: Ranjay Gulati, Aseem Shukla and Reva Nohria
When seasoned entrepreneur Glen Tullman founded the chronic health care startup Livongo in 2014, it was personal. His son lived with diabetes, and Tullman knew firsthand how taxing it could be to manage such an unrelenting disease. Livongo set out to empower people... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare Industry; Scaling; Telehealth; Health Care and Treatment; Small Business; Internet and the Web; Customer Focus and Relationships; Growth and Development Strategy; Opportunities; Mergers and Acquisitions; Health Industry
Gulati, Ranjay, Aseem Shukla, and Reva Nohria. "Livongo: Scaling a Purpose-Driven Organization in Healthcare." Harvard Business School Case 422-017, August 2021.
William Steere, Jr.
Steere was strongly devoted to making Pfizer the number one pharmaceutical company in the United States. His first task at the pharmaceutical company was to cut the 40% of its business that was unrelated to what was considered its core... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- 28 Jul 2016
- Op-Ed
Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?
combine to determine overall consumer satisfaction. Hotels can perhaps be evaluated more dispassionately. In addition, rating doctors may require reviewers to recall details of their own conditions and/or View Details
- Article
The Inpatient Discharge Lounge as a Potential Mechanism to Mitigate Emergency Department Boarding and Crowding
By: Brian Franklin, Sharif Vakili, Robert S. Huckman, Sarah Hosein, Nicholas Falk, Katherine Cheng, Maria Murray, Sheila Harris, Charles A. Morris and Eric Goralnick
Delayed access to inpatient beds for admitted patients contributes significantly to emergency department (ED) boarding and crowding, which have been associated with deleterious patient safety effects. To expedite inpatient bed availability, some hospitals have... View Details
Keywords: Health Care Delivery; Emergency Room; Operations Improvement; Operations Management; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Operations; Management; Performance Improvement; Service Operations
Franklin, Brian, Sharif Vakili, Robert S. Huckman, Sarah Hosein, Nicholas Falk, Katherine Cheng, Maria Murray, Sheila Harris, Charles A. Morris, and Eric Goralnick. "The Inpatient Discharge Lounge as a Potential Mechanism to Mitigate Emergency Department Boarding and Crowding." Annals of Emergency Medicine 75, no. 6 (June 2020): 704–714.
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Advocating for all children with autism
Alison Tepper Singer (MBA 1993) was pursuing a successful career in broadcast journalism when her daughter Jodie was diagnosed with autism. Singer decided to do more than advocate for her own child. In 2005, she became CEO of Autism... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Health-Care Initiative to Leverage Ongoing Efforts
Dean Kim B. Clark has announced the formation of a faculty initiative in health care, with HBS professor of management practice Richard G. Hamermesh serving as chair. Technology strategy, the design View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
payments—single payments that cover all the care for a patient’s medical condition or treatment over a specified timeframe—are increasingly being deployed to motivate the delivery of better patient outcomes... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- August 2001 (Revised August 2012)
- Case
BestDoctors, Inc.
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Seth Bokser
Upon learning the news of a critical illness, patients and their families are shocked, saddened, fearful, and angry all at once. And just as soon as they catch their collective breath, they all ask the same question—a question that has the potential to infuse hope into... View Details
- March 2016
- Case
Tenet Healthcare and Conifer Health Solutions
By: Robert F. Higgins and Jeet Guram
This case explores the relationship between Tenet Healthcare, the third largest for-profit hospital chain, and its subsidiary Conifer Health Solutions, a health services company. Conifer's IT programs help healthcare providers with revenue cycle management and... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Health Solutions; Business Subsidiaries; Growth Management; Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology Industry; Health Industry; Texas
Higgins, Robert F., and Jeet Guram. "Tenet Healthcare and Conifer Health Solutions." Harvard Business School Case 816-075, March 2016.
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
reasons why corporate strategies can fail. In its treatment and coverage of these issues, the note emphasizes similarities between the core principles of business unit strategy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
opportunities to address systems of care issues so critical to the treatment of patients with chronic conditions." If curricula are a significant problem, they often reflect... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
pharmaceutical division and a diagnostic division. The company's antiviral drug Tamiflu dominates the market for prevention and treatment of seasonal influenza (flu). Tamiflu, however, could also play an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- August 2001
- Case
Scios, Inc.
Scios, filled with distinguished scientists and experienced managers, nevertheless fails to clear the FDA Phase III process for an important biotechnology drug. This case asks the students to analyze the social costs and benefits of the regulatory process. View Details
Robert P. Luciano
Luciano generated top-level financial performance while streamlining Schering’s business operations. He divested Schering’s non-healthcare related business lines and was one of the first pharmaceutical executives to recognize the... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
that he was only the second member of the public she had ever seen concerned about the agency’s proceedings on grid security; the first had been a federal prisoner and therefore unable to attend meetings in... View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
changes in stockouts or rebalances. We observe no evidence of learning or fatigue. Agent-level heterogeneity in the treatment effects shows that the agents who handle substantially more customer deposits... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman