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- 08 Feb 2021
- News
How Managers Can Support Employees with Chronic Illnesses
- October 2022 (Revised September 2024)
- Case
Podimetrics: Next Steps for Diabetes Cases
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ben Creo
Podimetrics, a virtual care management company treating adults with acute diabetes, sat at the intersection of medical device technology, digital health, and health services. Its SmartMat had demonstrated that it could help prevent amputations and that people with... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Delivery; Health Care Entrepreneurship; Health Care Outcomes; Diabetes; Chronic Disease; Chronic Illness; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Medical Specialties; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Product Development; Business Model; Customer Focus and Relationships; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Health Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Ben Creo. "Podimetrics: Next Steps for Diabetes Cases." Harvard Business School Case 323-015, October 2022. (Revised September 2024.)
- 31 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
times more likely to experience work-related problems than employees with chronic physical illnesses like diabetes or heart disease. So why do many companies fail to help their workers battle mental health... View Details
- Winter 2019
- Article
Value-based Health Care: Lessons for the Anesthesiologist
By: J.A. Martin, B.L. Potter, T.F. Flanagan and T.W. Feeley
At one point or another in our life, we all become consumers of the health care industry. Indeed, health care affects everyone and encompasses a diverse set of services from childbirth, to illness prevention, to the management of chronic disease and end-of-life care.... View Details
Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Anesthesiologists; Health Care and Treatment; Value; Cost Management; Problems and Challenges; Health Industry; United States
Martin, J.A., B.L. Potter, T.F. Flanagan, and T.W. Feeley. "Value-based Health Care: Lessons for the Anesthesiologist." International Anesthesiology Clinics 57, no. 1 (Winter 2019): 63–80.
- Web
Managing the Future of Work
Colleges, Employers, & America's Chronic Skills Gap By: Joseph B. Fuller & Manjari Raman DEC 2022 To close America’s chronic middle skills gap, U.S. employers have to partner much more actively than in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details
- Web
Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
Building a zero-fee money transfer platform for African migrants. Feather Health Kirsten Soong (MBA 2022) Daniel Navarro Mariya Rivkin (MBA 2022) Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up An AI driven digital platform to help people with chronic... View Details
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally
risk of mental illness involving psychosis. Other studies suggest the cannabis compounds can treat a variety of health conditions, including seizures, inflammation, and chronic pain. However, because... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Support for the Healers
As COO of the UK-based Point of Care Foundation, Deborah Sandford (MBA 1990) runs an organization that addresses the needs of health care professionals who spend their careers answering the needs of others. “Hospital staff members exist on a daily diet of trauma,... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Improving Wellness Through Better Nutrition
diseases—heart disease, renal disease, celiac, diabetes, cancer—are influenced by the food we eat,” Burrough notes. By providing freshly made meals with ingredients customized to meet specific nutritional needs, Mom’s Meals helps seniors to stay healthy or manage View Details
- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
chronic work stress, while only 36 percent reported their employers provided adequate support to manage it. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, some 6.7 percent of American adults experience "major depressive disorder;... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Turning Point: Network Effects
nonprofit that develops national networks of volunteer mental health professionals who can provide free, confidential care to individuals experiencing an acute or chronic need for help. Our initial focus was veterans and their families,... View Details
Keywords: Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997)
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
efficiency and effectiveness lie. The 20 percent have chronic diseases or disabilities, such as bad backs, heart disease, AIDS, diabetes, or asthma. These patients need the care of many different specialists: A diabetic, for instance,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
health-care innovations that offer good value for the money. It was in Africa that we first saw sensible, low-cost health-insurance plans that protect people against financially catastrophic expenses and offer policies that reward the View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
then the vendor is placed financially at risk for the costs of patient medical care and is responsible for coordinating all aspects of care for those patients. The vendor is often also involved with other chronically View Details
- 14 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Embracing Activism for Social Change
In 2020, the city of Detroit logged some 7,000 calls involving mental health emergencies—a critical issue, notes Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who says, “When the mentally ill turn to the police for a response, the system is broken.” To fix... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting those with debilitating chronic illnesses and the dependent elderly.” —Professor Lynda Applegate, on Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End,... View Details
- 07 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat
one of four topics: different models of consumer-driven health care; the role of consumer-driven health care in supporting innovative solutions to chronic problems in the industry; the new breed of consumer information and support... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
hemophiliac, I knew I was different, but that was just normal life for me,” Massie recalls. “My family led a very romantic existence; we had a great time.” Yet as a child with a chronic illness (“the... View Details