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- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details
- 11 Jun 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Paying It Backward and Forward: Expanding Access to Convalescent Plasma Therapy Through Market Design
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Research Brief: The Best Medicine
only about 5 percent of participants in clinical drug trials. In the working paper, “Representation and Extrapolation: Evidence from Clinical Trials,” coauthors Marcella Alsan, Maya Durvasula, Harsh Gupta, Heidi Williams, and... View Details
- September 2011
- Supplement
Narayana Hrudayalaya Heart Hospital
By: Tarun Khanna and Tanya Bijlani
Narayana Hrudayalaya (NH) is one of the world's busiest heart hospitals, where surgeons perform 30-35 complex cardiac surgeries daily. With an average cost of $1,800 per surgery, the hospital treats patients at affordable prices, and does not turn away even the poorest... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Experience and Expertise; Cost Management; Insurance; Health Care and Treatment; Resource Allocation; Time Management; Emerging Markets; Infrastructure; Cooperative Ownership; Quality; Social Enterprise; Health Industry; Karnataka
Khanna, Tarun, and Tanya Bijlani. "Narayana Hrudayalaya Heart Hospital." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 712-802, September 2011.
- 11 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
Care for the Elderly: Process is More Important Than the Destination
current market. I have felt that my biggest achievement while working on this project, has been pulling together seven very diversified team members from the Harvard Public Health School, Harvard Graduate School View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
easier," he says. Though the product is still four or five years of regulatory hurdles away from market by Schrader's estimate, Vaxess has started working with various global health organizations to figure... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
needs of aging baby boomers and the time being right for consumer-driven health care? Yes. These are people who were in college in the 1960s and 1970s and were very successful in bringing about View Details
- February 1999 (Revised March 2000)
- Background Note
Changing Physician Behavior
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer
A review of strategies to change physician behavior including feedback, profiling, consensus-based guidelines, care paths, and computer systems. Discusses the strengths and weaknesses of each observation. View Details
Bohmer, Richard M.J. "Changing Physician Behavior." Harvard Business School Background Note 699-124, February 1999. (Revised March 2000.)
- June 2008 (Revised July 2008)
- Case
The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
By: Robert Steven Kaplan, Christopher Marquis and Brent Kazan
Marc Buoniconti is the co-founder of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, a nonprofit medical research organization. The project was founded in 1985 by Marc and his father Nick, a former Hall of Fame football player, when Marc suffered a spinal cord injury. In 2007,... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Health Testing and Trials; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Research and Development; Nonprofit Organizations; Health Industry; Miami
Kaplan, Robert Steven, Christopher Marquis, and Brent Kazan. "The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis." Harvard Business School Case 408-003, June 2008. (Revised July 2008.)
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
Matrix allows users—health officials, for example—to assign weights to traditional measures that define the scale of health problems, the impact of diseases on household... View Details
- 28 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation
Defensive medicine spurs innovation They found, ultimately—and perhaps counterintuitively—that far from being an inhibitor to innovation, the practice of defensive medicine might have actually encouraged it. Legal liability pressure in... View Details
- July 2002 (Revised August 2002)
- Case
Washington Hospital Center (C): Progress and Prospects, 1995-2001
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Michelle Heskett
Dr. Craig Feied and Dr. Mark Smith have already transformed a "worst-in-area" emergency medicine department into the best in the area. Industry-wide and hospital system-specific challenges remain, including their newest project of national importance--creating an... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Raymond Hwang (MBA 2010)
were exposed to at HBS can be applied to problems in health care and medicine. As an industry, we face the same fundamental challenges, just with the addition of some special regulatory and market... View Details
- 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
- Profile
Kwame Owusu-Kesse
professors. These HBS experiences solidified my ultimate career vision, which was to be at the forefront of an innovative social enterprise focused on education and poverty alleviation. What are you most... View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
Making Lives Better
Autism Science Foundation, which she founded in 2009, was a result of Tepper Singer's passion to fuel scientific research. To that end, ASF, which is based in New York City, funds pre- and post-doctorate fellowships for young scientists... View Details
- January 2002
- Case
Global Business Council on HIV/AIDS on World AIDS Day 2001, The
Explores the motivation for businesses to be concerned with the global AIDS epidemic. The formation of the council serves as an example of how business leaders are building a network of companies to develop an effective business response to AIDS-both through workforce... View Details
Keywords: Health; Social Issues; Global Strategy; Business and Community Relations; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Health Industry
Barrett, Diana, and Daniella Ballou. "Global Business Council on HIV/AIDS on World AIDS Day 2001, The." Harvard Business School Case 302-086, January 2002.
- 25 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows
address social determinants of health. As a consultant at Bain & Company, Isaac launched a racial equity challenge to foster an inclusive corporate culture. While in... View Details
- January 1991 (Revised March 1991)
- Case
Prepare/21 at Beth Israel Hospital (A)
In response to escalating cost pressures throughout the hospital industry, the management of Beth Israel Hospital (BI) decided to implement a productivity plan to cut their operating costs. They chose the Scanlon Plan, an employee participation and incentive program... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Cost Management; Employees; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
Friedman, Raymond A. "Prepare/21 at Beth Israel Hospital (A)." Harvard Business School Case 491-045, January 1991. (Revised March 1991.)
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Forecasting ’15
Health Care: Data-Driven Diagnosis Robert Wah (AMP 175, 2008) President, American Medical Association; Global Chief Medical Officer, Computer Sciences Corporation “We’re entering the third phase of View Details