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- 01 Jan 2020
- News
Changes in Quality of Care after Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
- 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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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
- April 1978 (Revised May 1993)
- Teaching Note
Child Care Task Force, Teaching Note
- 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.
- 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.)
- December 9, 2020
- Article
Give Employees Cash to Purchase Their Own Insurance
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Barak D. Richman
Employers’ and employees’ health care costs continue to skyrocket. A solution is to allow employers to give employees pre-tax cash to purchase their own health insurance. This move, enabled by a newly enacted federal rule, would put competitive pressure on insurers,...
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Herzlinger, Regina E., and Barak D. Richman. "Give Employees Cash to Purchase Their Own Insurance." Harvard Business Review (website) (December 9, 2020).
- 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.
- March 2012 (Revised January 2013)
- Case
Boston Children's Hospital: Measuring Patient Costs
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Mary L. Witkowski and Jessica A. Hohman
The case describes two pilot projects on applying activity-based costing to measuring the cost of treating patients. It presents process maps and financial data relating to the processes used during (1) an office visit to a plastic surgeon for three different diagnoses...
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Keywords:
Health Care;
Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing;
Costing;
Hospitals;
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Mathematical Methods;
Health Industry
Kaplan, Robert S., Mary L. Witkowski, and Jessica A. Hohman. "Boston Children's Hospital: Measuring Patient Costs." Harvard Business School Case 112-086, March 2012. (Revised January 2013.)
- 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.
- July 1996 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
THG Management Services
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and D. Scott Lurding
THG Management is in the second module of the Innovating in Health Care course that discusses how to start an innovative health care firm, in this case, a firm that deals with health insurance. THG Management, now bankrupt, examines the risks of lack of diversification...
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Keywords:
Managed Care;
Capitation;
Entrepreneurship;
Insurance;
Health Care and Treatment;
Risk Management;
Motivation and Incentives;
Expansion;
Health Industry;
Health Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., and D. Scott Lurding. "THG Management Services." Harvard Business School Case 197-011, July 1996. (Revised January 2024.)
- 26 Dec 2014
- News
Delivering Higher Value Care Means Spending More Time with Patients
- 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
- May 1999 (Revised July 2000)
- Teaching Note
Reading Rehabilitation Hospital: Implementing Patient-Focused Care TN
By: Jody H. Gittell and Sandra J. Sucher
Teaching Note for (9-898-172). A rewritten version of an earlier teaching note.
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- December 2007
- Article
Regional Health Information Organizations: Current Activities and Financing
Electronic clinical data exchange promises substantial financial and societal benefits, but it is unclear whether and when it will become widespread. In early 2007 we surveyed 145 regional health information organizations (RHIOs), the U.S. entities working to establish...
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Keywords:
Information Technology;
Financing and Loans;
Health Care and Treatment;
Information Management;
Health Industry;
United States
Adler-Milstein, Julia Rose, Andrew McAfee, David Bates, and Ashish Jha. "Regional Health Information Organizations: Current Activities and Financing." Web Exclusive Health Affairs (December 2007): w60–w69.
- 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).
- Web
Geography of Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient Aligning Reimbursement with Value Systems Integration Geography of Care Information Technology Geography of Care Geography of View Details
- 27 Nov 2023
- News