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- 2009
- Working Paper
Broadening Focus: Spillovers, Complementarities and Specialization in the Hospital Industry
By: Jonathan R. Clark and Robert S. Huckman
The long-standing argument that focused operations outperform others stands in contrast to claims about the benefits of broader operational scope. The performance benefits of focus are typically attributed to reduced complexity, lower uncertainty, and the development...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Medical Specialties;
Performance Capacity;
Diversification;
Health Industry
Clark, Jonathan R., and Robert S. Huckman. "Broadening Focus: Spillovers, Complementarities and Specialization in the Hospital Industry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-120, April 2009. (Revised April 2011.)
- December 2013 (Revised February 2014)
- Supplement
Reinventing Brainlab (B)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Karol Misztal
The management of Germany's Brainlab AG, a leading provider of software-driven oncology and surgery solutions, needs to evaluate strategic options for proceeding without an exclusive hardware partner in its most profitable business segment.
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Keywords:
Strategy;
Information Infrastructure;
Applications and Software;
Medical Specialties;
Information Technology Industry;
Health Industry;
Germany
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Karol Misztal. "Reinventing Brainlab (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 314-054, December 2013. (Revised February 2014.)
- June 2012 (Revised January 2013)
- Case
Great Western Hospital: High-risk Pregnancy Care
By: Michael E. Porter, Emma Stanton and Samuel Takvorian
Great Western Hospital (GWH) is a community hospital in Wiltshire, South West England and one of England's largest maternity providers; responsible for delivering over 9,000 babies per year. The case discusses the efforts of Dr. Harini Narayan, consultant obstetrician...
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Keywords:
Health Care;
Health Care and Treatment;
Medical Specialties;
Service Delivery;
Risk Management
Porter, Michael E., Emma Stanton, and Samuel Takvorian. "Great Western Hospital: High-risk Pregnancy Care ." Harvard Business School Case 712-495, June 2012. (Revised January 2013.)
- December 2007 (Revised July 2009)
- Case
Given Imaging Ltd. - First We Take Manhattan, Then We Take Berlin?
GI has developed a revolutionary video pill for imaging the small bowel in the gastro-intestinal tract. The development has required the integration of wide variety of technologies. GI founder and CEO Gabriel Meron must determine GI's marketing strategy and prioritize...
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Keywords:
Medical Specialties;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Decisions;
Technological Innovation;
Marketing Strategy;
Market Entry and Exit;
Entrepreneurship;
Health Care and Treatment;
Corporate Finance;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Japan;
United States;
Europe
Isenberg, Daniel J. "Given Imaging Ltd. - First We Take Manhattan, Then We Take Berlin?" Harvard Business School Case 808-033, December 2007. (Revised July 2009.)
- March 1979 (Revised November 1980)
- Case
Beth Israel Hospital, Boston
The hospital is reviewing its obstetrical services and trying to decide on future strategy relative to communications, pricing and service characteristics. Important environmental trends include increasing government health regulation, a declining birth rate, more...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Marketing Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Medical Specialties;
Health Industry;
Boston
Lovelock, Christopher H. "Beth Israel Hospital, Boston." Harvard Business School Case 579-180, March 1979. (Revised November 1980.)
- September 2010 (Revised February 2014)
- Case
The Global Sight Initiative
How to replicate a 'one of' social entrepreneurship effort: To cure blindness, Seva took the Aravind Eye Hospital & scaled it up to 100 hospitals globally.
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Keywords:
Social Entrepreneurship;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Medical Specialties;
Health Care and Treatment;
Globalization;
Health Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E. "The Global Sight Initiative." Harvard Business School Case 311-034, September 2010. (Revised February 2014.)
- Forthcoming
- Article
Greater Covid-19 Vaccine Uptake among enrollees Offered Health and Social Needs Case Management: Results from a Randomized Trial
By: Margae Knox, Elizabeth A. Hernandez, Daniel M. Brown, Jennifer Ahern, Mark D. Fleming, Crystal Guo and Amanda L. Brewster
The CommunityConnect case management program for Medicaid beneficiaries is run by Contra Costa Health, a county safety net health system in California. Case management infrastructure modestly improved Covid-19 vaccine uptake in a population of Medicaid beneficiaries...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Pandemics;
Medical Specialties;
Programs;
Human Needs;
Welfare;
Health Industry;
California
Knox, Margae, Elizabeth A. Hernandez, Daniel M. Brown, Jennifer Ahern, Mark D. Fleming, Crystal Guo, and Amanda L. Brewster. "Greater Covid-19 Vaccine Uptake among enrollees Offered Health and Social Needs Case Management: Results from a Randomized Trial." Health Services Research (forthcoming). (Pre-published online September 29, 2023.)
- May 2007 (Revised September 2007)
- Case
Cleveland Clinic
By: Frances X. Frei, Amy C. Edmondson, Christine van Keuren and Eliot Sherman
Cleveland Clinic is consistently ranked among the nation's most eminent hospitals, and for decades has been a leader in pioneering cardiac care. This case evaluates the methods, processes, and personnel that the hospital has cultivated over the years in order to...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Medical Specialties;
Innovation and Invention;
Service Delivery;
Expansion;
Health Industry;
Cleveland
Frei, Frances X., Amy C. Edmondson, Christine van Keuren, and Eliot Sherman. "Cleveland Clinic." Harvard Business School Case 607-143, May 2007. (Revised September 2007.)
- September 2023
- Supplement
Fighting the Battle of the Bulge—Evaluating Do Good/Do Well Innovations in Morbid Obesity Treatment
This PowerPoint accompanies Regina E. Herzlinger's "Fighting the Battle of the Bulge – Evaluating Do Good/Do Well Innovations in Morbid Obesity Treatment" teaching note (HBS Case No.324-013) and is designed for instructors to use in the classroom when teaching this...
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- August 2022
- Supplement
NOW PT (B): Should We Invest?
By: George A. Riedel, Amy Klopfenstein and Mel Martin
This (B) case examines the results of the HBS Impact Investment Fund student team’s diligence on Neurologic Optimal Wellness Physical Therapy (NOW PT). After examining Springfield’s demographics, anticipated PT demand, local competition, and NOW PT’s financial...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Finance;
Investment;
Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Medical Specialties;
Buildings and Facilities;
Health Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
North and Central America;
United States;
Massachusetts
Riedel, George A., Amy Klopfenstein, and Mel Martin. "NOW PT (B): Should We Invest?" Harvard Business School Supplement 323-014, August 2022.
- September 2012 (Revised March 2014)
- Case
Reinventing Brainlab (A)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Vincent Dessain and Karol Misztal
The management of Germany's Brainlab AG, a leading provider of software-driven oncology and surgery solutions, needs to evaluate strategic options for proceeding without an exclusive hardware partner in its most profitable business segment.
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Keywords:
Strategy;
Information Infrastructure;
Applications and Software;
Medical Specialties;
Health Care and Treatment;
Information Technology Industry;
Health Industry;
Germany
Herzlinger, Regina E., Vincent Dessain, and Karol Misztal. "Reinventing Brainlab (A)." Harvard Business School Case 313-069, September 2012. (Revised March 2014.)
- October 2009
- Teaching Note
Global Health Partner: Obesity Care
By: Michael E. Porter, Zayed Muhammed Yasin and Jennifer F Baron
Teaching Note for [709494].
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- November 2013
- Article
Learning from My Successes and from Others' Failures: Evidence from Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
By: D. KC, B. Staats and F. Gino
Learning from past experience is central to an organization's adaptation and survival. A key dimension of prior experience is whether an outcome was successful or unsuccessful. While empirical studies have investigated the effects of success and failure in...
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Keywords:
Healthcare;
Health Care;
Knowledge Work;
Attribution Theory;
Quality;
Success;
Medical Specialties;
Health Care and Treatment;
Failure;
Learning;
Health Industry
KC, D., B. Staats, and F. Gino. "Learning from My Successes and from Others' Failures: Evidence from Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery." Management Science 59, no. 11 (November 2013): 2435–2449.
- August 2022 (Revised August 2023)
- Case
NOW PT (A): Should We Invest?
By: George A Riedel, Amy Klopfenstein and Mel Martin
In fall 2021, a team of students from the HBS Impact Investing Fund considered Neurologic Optimal Wellness Physical Therapy (NOW PT) for a potential investment. Dr. Banks, the founder of NOW PT, drove to visit patients. She sought an investment from the fund to open a...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Finance;
Investment;
Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Medical Specialties;
Buildings and Facilities;
Health Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
North and Central America;
United States;
Massachusetts
Riedel, George A., Amy Klopfenstein, and Mel Martin. "NOW PT (A): Should We Invest?" Harvard Business School Case 323-009, August 2022. (Revised August 2023.)
- 2012
- Working Paper
The Need for (long) Chains in Kidney Exchange
By: Itai Ashlagi, David Gamarnik, Michael A. Rees and Alvin E. Roth
It has been previously shown that for sufficiently large pools of patient-donor pairs, (almost) efficient kidney exchange can be achieved by using at most 3-way cycles, i.e., by using cycles among no more than 3 patient-donor pairs. However, as kidney exchange has...
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Keywords:
Networks;
Complexity;
Performance Efficiency;
Medical Specialties;
Health Care and Treatment;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
Ashlagi, Itai, David Gamarnik, Michael A. Rees, and Alvin E. Roth. "The Need for (long) Chains in Kidney Exchange." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 18202, July 2012.
- October 2009 (Revised January 2010)
- Case
The Joslin Diabetes Center
By: Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg and Scott Wallace
The Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, Massachusetts is a leading center for diabetes care, clinician training, and research. The incidence of diabetes is rising precipitously worldwide, challenging quality of life with its complications and rapidly accelerating health...
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Keywords:
Integration;
Service Delivery;
Medical Specialties;
Health Care and Treatment;
Outcome or Result;
Corporate Finance;
Health Industry;
Boston
Porter, Michael E., Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, and Scott Wallace. "The Joslin Diabetes Center." Harvard Business School Case 710-424, October 2009. (Revised January 2010.)
- February 2015
- Supplement
MedCath Corporation (C)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Kevin Schulman and F. Fallon Upke
MedCath is a horizontally integrated chain of heart hospitals that partners with local cardiologists. It claims that its focus leads to better and cheaper results than those of an everything-for-everybody general hospital. Community hospitals generally vehemently...
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Keywords:
Medical Specialties;
Market Entry and Exit;
Service Delivery;
Conflict and Resolution;
Horizontal Integration;
Health Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., Kevin Schulman, and F. Fallon Upke. "MedCath Corporation (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 315-018, February 2015.
- September 2002 (Revised January 2013)
- Case
MedCath Corporation (A)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Pete Stavros
MedCath is a horizontally integrated chain of heart hospitals that partners with local cardiologists. It claims that its focus leads to better and cheaper results than those of an everything-for-everybody general hospital. Community hospitals generally vehemently...
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Keywords:
Medical Specialties;
Market Entry and Exit;
Service Delivery;
Conflict and Resolution;
Horizontal Integration;
Health Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Pete Stavros. "MedCath Corporation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 303-041, September 2002. (Revised January 2013.)
- October 2003 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
Salick Cardiovascular Centers: Business Plan
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Kaushik Sen, Alex Tkachenko and Carolyn Wolff
A seasoned health services entrepreneur develops a business plan for a cardiovascular-focused factory. Will it work?
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Keywords:
Factories, Labs, and Plants;
Business Plan;
Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Medical Specialties;
Health Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., Kaushik Sen, Alex Tkachenko, and Carolyn Wolff. "Salick Cardiovascular Centers: Business Plan." Harvard Business School Case 304-007, October 2003. (Revised March 2008.)
- December 2009 (Revised May 2012)
- Case
Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center: Breast Cancer Care in Taiwan
By: Michael E. Porter, Jennifer F Baron and C. Jason Wang
Taiwan's Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center has developed an integrated, team-based care delivery model for breast cancer care that is being expanded to other cancer types in 2009. A decade earlier, President and CEO Dr. Andrew Huang and the Center had worked...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Medical Specialties;
Service Delivery;
Outcome or Result;
Performance Effectiveness;
Quality;
Integration;
Health Industry;
Insurance Industry;
Taiwan
Porter, Michael E., Jennifer F Baron, and C. Jason Wang. "Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center: Breast Cancer Care in Taiwan." Harvard Business School Case 710-425, December 2009. (Revised May 2012.)