Hub And Spoke Cancer Care - Publications - Faculty & Research

August 2012 (Revised February 2021)
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Hub and Spoke, HealthCare Global and Additional Focused Factory Models for Cancer Care

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Amit Ghorawat, Meera Krishnan and Naiyya Saggi

This case compares and contrasts four different models for delivering cancer care in India and the US. Students are asked to select the best model in its alignment with the Six Forces in those two countries and Africa, to which one of the models is considering... View Details

Keywords: Cancer Care Services; Focused Factories For Cancer Care; Hub And Spoke Cancer Care; Cancer Care In The U.S.; Cancer Care In Africa; Cancer Care In India; Health Care and Treatment; Business Model; Six Sigma; Health Disorders; Health Industry; United States; India; Africa

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August 2012 (Revised August 2014)
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Cancer Treatment Centers of America® (A)

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Natalie Kindred

Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA), a U.S. network of four privately owned oncology focused factory hospitals, was weighing options for growth. CTCA was entirely cancer focused and specialized in treating patients with complex and advanced-stage cancers, who... View Details

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04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

that is they're very specialized. Rather than build a 1,000-bed hospital, they have hub-and-spoke systems. Hub is for trauma, and spoke are specialized hospitals that deal with... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

21 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

Natalie Kindred, 2012. Hub and Spoke, Health Care Global, and Additional Focused Factory Models for Cancer Care,... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Education

22 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

Can Amazon Remake Health Care?

at Harvard Kennedy School. Chandra spoke to the Gazette about Amazon’s latest gamble and what it may mean for consumers. Harvard Gazette: Given the size of its investment, what could Amazon’s recent... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Health

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Social Innovation

My intellectual agenda addresses this question: How to innovate to solve the world’s toughest challenges? Out of the earth’s population, about 2 billion can afford good products whereas the remaining 5 billion are poor and therefore are nonconsumers.... View Details

27 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 27

Factory Models for Cancer Care This case compares and contrasts four different models for delivering cancer care... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Apr 2024
Book

When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

their way into business school classrooms or the ranks of professional management. Most people I spoke with back then thought that ethics was a matter of individual character; that character was fixed and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-005.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAmerican Cancer Society: Access to Care Harvard Business School Case 109-015 CEO John Seffrin decides to radically change the strategy... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

of the merger's architects and visionary legacy CEO Daniel Vasella. He recognized that the global health care environment would create severe challenges for Novartis in the years ahead View Details