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- April 2010
- Teaching Note
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center: Spine Care (TN)
By: Robert S. Huckman and Michael E. Porter
Teaching Note for [609016].
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- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
supermarket, stopping to linger as long as they wanted or moving as quickly as they wished. A one-size-fits-all approach to health care doesn’t work. ©iStock/AndreyPopov “There is more choice available to...
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- February 1985 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
Health Stop (A): What Type of Innovation Is It? And Six Factors Alignment
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Joyce Lallman, Nancy Kane, Jefferson C. Grahling and James Wallace
How can we evaluate if innovative health care ventures can do good—benefit society—and do well—become financially viable? This question is the topic of the first module in the Innovating In Health Care course book.
This note and case series enables readers to conduct...
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Keywords:
For-Profit Firms;
Business Model;
Entrepreneurship;
Health Care and Treatment;
Strategy;
Valuation;
Health Industry;
Health Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., Joyce Lallman, Nancy Kane, Jefferson C. Grahling, and James Wallace. "Health Stop (A): What Type of Innovation Is It? And Six Factors Alignment." Harvard Business School Case 185-084, February 1985. (Revised January 2024.)
- September 2002 (Revised August 2014)
- Case
Cardinal Health (A): The Medicine Shoppe Acquisition
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Miguel Abecasis and Brenda Cheng
Robert Walter, the founder and CEO of Cardinal Health, a pharmaceutical distributor, is contemplating the purchase of Medicine Shoppe, a chain of apothecaries. The purchase might be construed as competition against his own drugstore customers. But one of its many...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Distribution Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Retail Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., Miguel Abecasis, and Brenda Cheng. "Cardinal Health (A): The Medicine Shoppe Acquisition." Harvard Business School Case 303-043, September 2002. (Revised August 2014.)
- 2017
- Article
Organizational Support for Learning and Contribution to Improvement by Frontline Staff
By: Olivia Jung, Andrea Blasco and Karim R. Lakhani
Jung, Olivia, Andrea Blasco, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Organizational Support for Learning and Contribution to Improvement by Frontline Staff." Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (2017).
- January 2, 2020
- Article
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace
The United States has serious health care problems: More than 27 million uninsured people, costs that are growing faster than income, and a staggering $37 trillion of unfunded liabilities in the Medicare program. Perhaps most alarming: The US ranks lowest among...
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Keywords:
Healthcare;
Public Option;
Medicare;
Health Care and Treatment;
Insurance;
Cost Management;
Problems and Challenges;
United States
Herzlinger, Regina E., and James Wallace. "Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?" Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (January 2, 2020).
- 01 May 2010
- News
A Remedy for Health Care—Innovation
- September 2013
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: General Gale Pollock and Services for the Vision Impaired
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins
In July 2012, retired United States Army Major General Gale Pollock created Elevivo, a venture that worked on developing a comprehensive disease management software system to support the growing number of visually impaired individuals by providing them with tailored...
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Keywords:
United States;
Health Care;
Health Care Education;
Insurance Companies;
Disease Management;
Technology;
Military;
Leadership Skills;
Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Education;
Insurance;
Information Technology;
Entrepreneurship;
Leadership;
Health Industry;
Health Industry;
United States
- 08 Apr 2011
- News
Management Matters In Health Care, Too
The road to higher-quality, lower-cost health care leads straight to better management. That was the central message a panel of experts convened by the HBS Health View Details
- April 1978 (Revised May 1993)
- Teaching Note
Child Care Task Force, Teaching Note
- May 2021
- Article
Making Doctors Effective Managers and Leaders: A Matter of Health and Well-Being
By: Lisa Rotenstein, Robert S. Huckman and Christine K. Cassel
The COVID-19 crisis has forced physicians to make daily decisions that require knowledge and skills they did not acquire as part of their biomedical training. Physicians are being called upon to be both managers—able to set processes and structures—and leaders—capable...
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Rotenstein, Lisa, Robert S. Huckman, and Christine K. Cassel. "Making Doctors Effective Managers and Leaders: A Matter of Health and Well-Being." Academic Medicine 96, no. 5 (May 2021).
- January 2001
- Case
Merck Global Health Initiatives (A)
By: James E. Austin, Diana Barrett and James Weber
The case series focuses on Merck's drug donation program and then raises new issues facing management about what to do about HIV/AIDS in Africa given the company's development of a new therapy. Describes collaboration among many parties including the Gates Foundation,...
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Keywords:
Programs;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Health Disorders;
Health Care and Treatment;
Private Sector;
Public Sector;
Alliances;
Problems and Challenges;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Botswana
Austin, James E., Diana Barrett, and James Weber. "Merck Global Health Initiatives (A)." Harvard Business School Case 301-088, January 2001.
- October 2017
- Case
Pricing PatientPing
By: Frank V. Cespedes, Julia Kelley and Amram Migdal
In 2017, Jay Desai, the CEO of Boston-based health care technology company PatientPing, had to consider a number of interrelated pricing challenges. Founded in late 2013, PatientPing sold a software platform that allowed health care providers to receive real-time...
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Keywords:
Pricing;
Health Tech;
Health Technology;
Marketing;
Sales Process;
Sales Strategy;
Price;
Sales;
Marketing Strategy;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry;
Health Industry;
Boston;
North America;
Massachusetts;
United States
Cespedes, Frank V., Julia Kelley, and Amram Migdal. "Pricing PatientPing." Harvard Business School Case 818-017, October 2017.
- March 2018
- Case
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center: Managing Capacity in Neurology
By: Joel Goh, Robert S. Huckman and Nikhil Sahni
In December 2014, Dr. Anthony Furlan, chair of the Department of Neurology at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UH), faced a mandate from the hospital’s executive leadership team. Specifically, all UH departments were directed to take steps within six...
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Keywords:
Health Care;
Hospitals;
Capacity Planning;
Scheduling;
Health Care and Treatment;
Service Operations;
Performance Capacity;
Health Industry;
North America;
United States;
Ohio;
Cleveland
Goh, Joel, Robert S. Huckman, and Nikhil Sahni. "University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center: Managing Capacity in Neurology." Harvard Business School Case 618-062, March 2018.
- March 2015
- Case
The I-PASS Patient Handoff Program
By: Robert S. Huckman and Michael Norris
In 2015, the I-PASS Patient Handoff Program Team, led by six pediatricians around the U.S., had to determine the best way to disseminate their program that had been proven to reduce communication errors in patient handoffs in hospital settings. Should they turn it into...
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Keywords:
Health Care;
Hospitals;
Operations Improvement;
Entrepreneurship;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry;
United States
Huckman, Robert S., and Michael Norris. "The I-PASS Patient Handoff Program." Harvard Business School Case 615-069, March 2015.
- 12 Nov 2015
- News
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
- 27 Nov 2023
- News
The Key Hurdle: Paying For Value-Based Care
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Health Industry Alumni Convene for Conference
Current issues in health care; ranging from finance and patients' rights to genomics and personalized medicine; were among the subjects discussed last November at the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association's...
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- September 2007
- Case
Reading Rehabilitation Hospital: Implementing Patient-Focused Care (B)
By: Roy D. Shapiro
Shapiro, Roy D. "Reading Rehabilitation Hospital: Implementing Patient-Focused Care (B)." Harvard Business School Case 608-071, September 2007.