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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Improving patient care through better communication
Harvard Business School Professor Amy C. Edmondson explores how open communication in hospitals leads to improved patient care. (Published April 2014)
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Want to See the Future of Digital Health Tools? Look to Germany
By: Ariel Dora Stern, Henrik Matthies, Julia Hagen, Jan B. Brönneke and Jörg F. Debatin
A new law will make it easier to introduce and determine the benefits of new tools. Perhaps its most important provisions are its formalization of “prescribable applications,” which include standard software, SaaS, and mobile as well as browser-based apps, and the...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Transformation;
Internet and the Web;
Technological Innovation;
Germany
Stern, Ariel Dora, Henrik Matthies, Julia Hagen, Jan B. Brönneke, and Jörg F. Debatin. "Want to See the Future of Digital Health Tools? Look to Germany." Harvard Business Review (website) (December 2, 2020).
- 04 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: CVS Health
organization.Jeff Lackey, VP Talent Acquisition, CVS Health Describe your organization in three to five sentences.CVS Health is at the forefront of a changing health View Details
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Health Care
- 11 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
Care for the Elderly: Process is More Important Than the Destination
With the support of the HBS Summer Fellows Program, I had the opportunity to follow my passion and work on my project to support senior care in China. As China is entering into an ageing society sooner than everyone might have imagined...
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Health Care
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
- Article
Trends and Predictors of Biomedical Research Quality, 1990–2015: A Meta-Research Study
By: Maryaline Catillon
Keywords:
Biomedical Research;
R&D;
Innovation;
Technology;
Drug Trials;
RCT;
Health;
Healthcare;
Health Care And Treatment;
Health Care Policy;
Innovation and Invention;
Innovation Strategy;
Research and Development;
Technological Innovation;
Health Industry;
Health Industry
Catillon, Maryaline. "Trends and Predictors of Biomedical Research Quality, 1990–2015: A Meta-Research Study." BMJ Open 9, no. 9 (September 2019).
- 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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- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?
fret about the quality of the care they receive, the burden of out-of-pocket expenses, and gaps in coverage for long-term care, prescriptions, and catastrophic illnesses. For business, health View Details
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by Regina E. Herzlinger
- March 2023 (Revised April 2023)
- Case
Shelly Sun at BrightStar Care: The Evolution of a Leader
By: Boris Groysberg, Colleen Ammerman and Sarah L. Abbott
Shelly Sun had founded BrightStar Care, a home health care and medical staffing agency, 20 years earlier and had grown the business to over 300 franchised locations and $654 million in annual system-wide sales. Sun had spent years working to get “the right people in...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneur;
Family Business;
Franchising;
Health Care;
Women-owned Businesses;
Growth And Scaling;
Organization;
Franchise Ownership;
Entrepreneurship;
Work-Life Balance;
Growth and Development;
Health Industry;
United States
Groysberg, Boris, Colleen Ammerman, and Sarah L. Abbott. "Shelly Sun at BrightStar Care: The Evolution of a Leader." Harvard Business School Case 423-067, March 2023. (Revised April 2023.)
- 01 May 2010
- News
A Remedy for Health Care—Innovation
- 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).
- 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).
- March 2011
- Teaching Note
PrimedicProviding Primary Care in Mexico (TN)
Teaching Note for 811040.
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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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- 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.)
- 01 Jan 2020
- News
Changes in Quality of Care after Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions
- 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.)
- 2017
- Casebook
Public Health Preparedness: Case Studies in Policy and Management
By: Arnold M. Howitt, Dutch Leonard and David W. Giles
This book provides detailed accounts of a range of public health emergencies. Topics range from natural disasters, to infectious diseases, to pandemics, and more. With chapters on Superstorm Sandy, H1N1, the Ebola virus, and bioterrorism, these cases cover major areas...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Pandemics;
Natural Disasters;
Safety;
Public Sector;
Policy;
Management
Howitt, Arnold M., Dutch Leonard and David W. Giles, eds. Public Health Preparedness: Case Studies in Policy and Management. Washington, DC: American Public Health Association, 2017.
- June 2022
- Article
A New Initiative to Track HIV Resource Allocation and Costs
By: Ryan McBain, AK Nandakumar, Michael Ruffner, Carlyn Mann, Mai Hijazi, Susanna Baker, Linden Morrison, Kalipso Chalkidou, Shufang Zhang, Iris Semini, Fern Terris-Prestholt, Steven Forsythe, Sarah Byakika, Joshua Musinguzi and Robert S. Kaplan
In early 2020, several global health institutions – including the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS); United States Agency for International Development; and Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator at...
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Keywords:
Activity Based Costing;
HIV;
Cost;
Health Care;
Healthcare;
Health Care and Treatment;
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Resource Allocation;
Health Industry;
Africa
McBain, Ryan, AK Nandakumar, Michael Ruffner, Carlyn Mann, Mai Hijazi, Susanna Baker, Linden Morrison, Kalipso Chalkidou, Shufang Zhang, Iris Semini, Fern Terris-Prestholt, Steven Forsythe, Sarah Byakika, Joshua Musinguzi, and Robert S. Kaplan. "A New Initiative to Track HIV Resource Allocation and Costs." Bulletin of the World Health Organization 100, no. 6 (June 2022): 358–358A.
- April 2009 (Revised January 2015)
- Case
Dr. Benjamin Hooks and Children's Health Forum
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Charles J. Ogletree Jr, Howard Koh, Abbye Atkinson, Carmel Salhi and Aldo Sesia
"Dr. Benjamin Hooks and Children's Health Forum" charts the many different career paths of Hooks, a civil rights activist and pioneer. Hooks' positions ranged from lawyer, judge, preacher, entrepreneur to the first African American commissioner of the Federal...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Health Care and Treatment;
Leadership;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Personal Development and Career;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Social Issues
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, Charles J. Ogletree Jr, Howard Koh, Abbye Atkinson, Carmel Salhi, and Aldo Sesia. "Dr. Benjamin Hooks and Children's Health Forum." Harvard Business School Case 309-111, April 2009. (Revised January 2015.)