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Designating Certain Post-Acute Care Facilities As COVID-19 Skilled Care Centers Can Increase Hospital Capacity And Keep Nursing Home Patients Safer
As the number of COVID-19 cases nationwide continues to grow, a number of hospitals will need to convert acute care beds into intensive care beds, and discharge stable patients to post-acute care settings such as nursing homes. In addition, nursing homes unable...
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- July 2000 (Revised August 2005)
- Case
Deaconess-Glover Hospital (A)
Chronicles the initial efforts to teach a health care organization to manage itself according to the principles of the Toyota Production System (TPS). Describes the decision and dilemmas that arose from the implementation experiment. Builds on Bowen and Spear's earlier...
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Spear, Steven J., and John Kenagy. "Deaconess-Glover Hospital (A)." Harvard Business School Case 601-022, July 2000. (Revised August 2005.)
- 2016
- Working Paper
Cohort Turnover and Operational Performance: The July Phenomenon in Teaching Hospitals
By: Hummy Song, Robert S. Huckman and Jason R. Barro
We consider the impact of cohort turnover—the planned simultaneous exit of a large number of experienced employees and a similarly sized entry of new workers—on operational performance in the context of teaching hospitals. Specifically, we examine the impact of the...
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Keywords:
Health Care;
Health Care Operations;
Hospitals;
Productivity;
Empirical Operations;
Service Delivery;
Training;
Performance Productivity;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry;
United States
Song, Hummy, Robert S. Huckman, and Jason R. Barro. "Cohort Turnover and Operational Performance: The July Phenomenon in Teaching Hospitals." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-039, September 2015. (Revised September 2016. Finalist, 2015 POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management Best Paper Competition.)
- April 2017
- Case
China Hospitals Inc.: The Growth of Private Hospitals in China
By: Kevin Schulman, Xiao Yu and Ariel Hwang
This case examines the privatization of hospitals in China. China Hospitals, Inc. has become the largest for-profit hospital company in China, purchasing government owned hospitals in Tier 2 cities. The case profiles CEO Frank Hu. To build his company, he has to...
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- 23 Aug 2022
From Travel & Hospitality to HBS
Please join us for a virtual panel discussion highlighting Harvard Business School (HBS) students formerly working in the Travel & Hospitality Industry. Hear what a day in the life of an HBS student is like and how they plan View Details
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Are All Certified EHRs Created Equal? Assessing the Relationship between EHR Vendor and Hospital Meaningful Use Performance
By: A Jay Holmgren, Julia Adler-Milstein and Jeffrey McCullough
Objective
The federal electronic health record (EHR) certification process was intended to ensure a baseline level of system quality and the ability to support meaningful use criteria. We sought to assess whether there was variation across EHR vendors in the... View Details
The federal electronic health record (EHR) certification process was intended to ensure a baseline level of system quality and the ability to support meaningful use criteria. We sought to assess whether there was variation across EHR vendors in the... View Details
Keywords:
Hospitals;
Electronic Health Records;
Digital Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Information Technology;
Service Delivery;
Performance Evaluation
Holmgren, A Jay, Julia Adler-Milstein, and Jeffrey McCullough. "Are All Certified EHRs Created Equal? Assessing the Relationship between EHR Vendor and Hospital Meaningful Use Performance." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 25, no. 6 (June 2018): 654–660. (Editor's Choice.)
- 06 Jan 2020
- News
Home Grown
Granite Equity, a nontraditional private investment and holding company in St. Cloud, Minnesota, aims to find and support local, family businesses and grow them right where they are. The firm looks for companies that value employee...
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Keywords:
Finance
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
cofounded InMobi, a mobile-first advertising platform that achieved unicorn status in 2011—the first consumer technology company fully conceived and executed in India to do so. In this episode of Skydeck, Associate Editor Julia Hanna...
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- 23 Jun 2021
From Travel & Hospitality to HBS
Please join us for a virtual panel discussion highlighting Harvard Business School (HBS) students formerly working in the Travel & Hospitality Industry. Hear what a day in the life of an HBS student is like and how they plan View Details
- September 2020
- Case
Drinkworks: Home Bar by Keurig
By: Sunil Gupta, Jonathan Levav and Julia Kelley
In the summer of 2018, Drinkworks CEO Nathaniel Davis needed to make a number of go-to-market decisions ahead of his company’s upcoming product launch. Formed through a joint venture between Keurig Dr. Pepper and Anheuser-Busch InBev, Drinkworks had developed an...
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Keywords:
Marketing;
Marketing Strategy;
Product Marketing;
Product Launch;
Product Positioning;
Markets;
Bids and Bidding;
Demand and Consumers;
Consumer Behavior;
Market Design;
Distribution;
Distribution Channels;
Product;
Product Design;
Product Development;
Business Model;
Customers;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Decision Making;
Decisions;
Goods and Commodities;
Innovation and Invention;
Technological Innovation;
Business or Company Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Research;
Research and Development;
Strategy;
Adoption;
Competitive Advantage;
Segmentation;
Information Technology;
Information Infrastructure;
Value;
Value Creation;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
North and Central America;
United States
Gupta, Sunil, Jonathan Levav, and Julia Kelley. "Drinkworks: Home Bar by Keurig." Harvard Business School Case 521-010, September 2020.
- March 1983 (Revised January 1989)
- Case
American Home Products Corp.
American Home Products is a company with virtually no debt. Students are asked to analyze the company's debt policy and make a recommendation to the CEO. It is likely that adding debt to the capital structure would create some value for shareholders; the CEO is firmly...
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Mullins, David W., Jr. "American Home Products Corp." Harvard Business School Case 283-065, March 1983. (Revised January 1989.)
- 21 Oct 2011
- News
Homes sales trending up
- April 1991 (Revised April 1992)
- Case
Hospital Sector in 1992
Examines the major issues facing the hospital sector in 1992. The environment surrounding the industry is one of great uncertainty and rapid change, and involves significant public policy questions. Describes recent trends, issues and new types of competitors that...
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Keywords:
Risk and Uncertainty;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Competition;
Health Care and Treatment;
Policy;
Change;
Health Industry;
United States
Teisberg, Elizabeth O. "Hospital Sector in 1992." Harvard Business School Case 391-167, April 1991. (Revised April 1992.)
- January 16, 2014
- Article
Hospital Industry Consolidation—Still More to Come?
By: Leemore S. Dafny
Dafny, Leemore S. "Hospital Industry Consolidation—Still More to Come?" New England Journal of Medicine 370, no. 3 (January 16, 2014): 198–199.
- 23 Jun 2021
- Video
From Travel and Hospitality to HBS
- September 2001 (Revised August 2005)
- Case
Deaconess-Glover Hospital (C)
For nearly three months, John Carter, a vascular surgeon by training, had been studying a variety of clinical processes at Deaconess-Glover Hospital in Needham, Mass. Carter was looking for an opportunity to test the applicability of Toyota Production System...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Health Care and Treatment;
Business Processes;
Health Industry
Spear, Steven J. "Deaconess-Glover Hospital (C)." Harvard Business School Case 602-028, September 2001. (Revised August 2005.)
- August 2015 (Revised January 2016)
- Teaching Note
To Buy or What to Buy: Your First Home
By: Charles F. Wu and Daniel Woodbury
This is the teaching note to the case "To Buy or What to Buy: Your First Home."
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- 2023
- Working Paper
Are Hospital Quality Indicators Causal?
By: Amitabh Chandra, Maurice Dalton and Douglas O. Staiger
Hospitals play a key role in patient outcomes and spending, but efforts to improve their quality are hindered because we do not know whether hospital quality indicators are causal or biased. We evaluate the validity of commonly used quality indicators, such as...
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Keywords:
Quality;
Health Care and Treatment;
Measurement and Metrics;
Outcome or Result;
Health Industry
Chandra, Amitabh, Maurice Dalton, and Douglas O. Staiger. "Are Hospital Quality Indicators Causal?" NBER Working Paper Series, No. 31789, October 2023.
- December 2017 (Revised January 2020)
- Case
The Campbell Home (A)
By: Leslie K. John and Matthew G. Preble
Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.
Campbell siblings Thomas and Sally are faced with selling their childhood home. They need to make several difficult consequential decisions, all the while navigating their... View Details
Campbell siblings Thomas and Sally are faced with selling their childhood home. They need to make several difficult consequential decisions, all the while navigating their... View Details
Keywords:
Agents;
Bidding Process;
Negotiation;
Negotiation Process;
Negotiation Preparation;
Negotiation Participants;
Valuation;
Real Estate Industry;
United States
John, Leslie K., and Matthew G. Preble. "The Campbell Home (A)." Harvard Business School Case 918-017, December 2017. (Revised January 2020.) (Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.)