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- April 2014
- Article
Who Donates Their Bodies to Science? The Combined Role of Gender and Migration Status Among California Whole-body Donors
By: Asad L. Asad, Michel Anteby and Filiz Garip
The number of human cadavers available for medical research and training, as well as organ transplantation, is limited. Researchers disagree about how to increase the number of whole-body bequeathals, citing a shortage of donations from the one group perceived as most...
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Asad, Asad L., Michel Anteby, and Filiz Garip. "Who Donates Their Bodies to Science? The Combined Role of Gender and Migration Status Among California Whole-body Donors." Social Science & Medicine 106 (April 2014): 53–58.
- October 2022 (Revised May 2023)
- Case
Podimetrics: Next Steps for Diabetes Cases
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ben Creo
Podimetrics, a virtual care management company treating adults with acute diabetes, sat at the intersection of medical device technology, digital health, and health services. Its SmartMat had demonstrated that it could help prevent amputations and that people with...
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Keywords:
Health Care;
Health Care Delivery;
Health Care Entrepreneurship;
Health Care Outcomes;
Diabetes;
Chronic Disease;
Chronic Illness;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Disorders;
Medical Specialties;
Technological Innovation;
Innovation Strategy;
Product Development;
Business Model;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
- Web
VBHCD Intensive Seminars - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
industry. Past participants have a background in one or several of the following health care specialty areas: clinical medicine (practitioners and trainees), executive administration/ management, academics/research, government/regulatory,...
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- June 2008
- Article
Current State of Fellowship Hiring: Is a Universal Match Necessary? Is It Possible?
By: Christopher D. Harner, Anil S. Ranawat, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth, Peter J. Stern, Shepard R. Hurwitz, William Levine, G. Paul DeRosa and Serena S. Hu
Currently, approximately ninety percent of the six hundred twenty graduating orthopaedic residents are planning on entering a post-graduate fellowship. Since January of 2005, two of the largest fellowship match programs, Sports Medicine and Spine Surgery, were...
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Keywords:
Medical Specialties;
Recruitment;
Selection and Staffing;
Employment;
Market Timing;
Marketplace Matching;
Health Industry
Harner, Christopher D., Anil S. Ranawat, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth, Peter J. Stern, Shepard R. Hurwitz, William Levine, G. Paul DeRosa, and Serena S. Hu. "Current State of Fellowship Hiring: Is a Universal Match Necessary? Is It Possible?" Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery: American Volume 90 (June 2008): 1375–1384.
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Systems Integration - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
improve volume, better utilize resources, and deepen teams Offer specific services at the appropriate facility based on medical condition, acuity level, resource intensity, cost level, need for convenience Clinically integrate care across...
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Strategy for Health Care Delivery—Virtual
improve care for complicated patient populations Structure your organization according to patient needs rather than medical specialties Optimize costs through accurate measurement and reporting Apply the...
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- 27 Apr 2023
- News
Life Preserver
Summit in 2016 Subzero human liver biostasis experiment at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital as part of a Sylvatica-funded project. (Photo: Jeffrey Andree, Reinier de Vries and Korkut Uygun.) Giwa speaking at the White...
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April White
- 27 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care
for a period as medical residents turn over in teaching hospitals. Who Drives Digital Innovation? Evidence from the US Medical Device IndustryDoes large-scale technological change characteristic of an...
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- 05 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Raise Their Prices: Because They Can
category, including private-label products. The data included unit sales and revenue by universal product code, or UPC, for each week and physical store. Products included everything from cereal, bottled water, paper towels, and over-the-counter cold View Details
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by Rachel Layne
- Web
Aligning Reimbursement with Value - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Value-Based Health Care Value-Based Health Care Cases & Teaching Notes Key Concepts Key Stakeholders Publications Team Work With Us Presentations Key Concepts Key Concepts Organize...
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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Ikenna Okezie
and the Harvard Medical School. He plans to combine his two loves - medicine and entrepreneurship - in a way that will improve health care for all. Born in Nigeria, Okezie came to the United States at the age of two and was raised in...
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Judith A. Ross
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Geography of Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
full-service hospitals. Traditional geographic expansion has been focused on acquiring health care facilities that merely reproduce the same services in the different areas without regard to value. In these expansions, care remained organized around traditional View Details
- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance
formed a relationship. The authors chose to focus on patient ratings of specialists instead of specific medical outcomes because they assess an “important dimension of quality” that transcends the clinical boundaries of View Details
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
Marketplace Matching (5) Markets (296) Mathematical Methods (10) Measurement and Metrics (16) Media (13) Medical Specialties (5) Mergers and Acquisitions (13) Microeconomics (2) Microfinance (4) Middle...
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Winners & Runners-up - New Venture Competition
Business Track Coprata Chase Moyle (MBA 2022), Sonia Grego, Brian Stoner Business Track Winner Reimagining how individuals can think about human waste to improve health and wellness. ClearCut Surgical Alex Yang (MBA 2023), Heung Kim Business Track Runner-Up & Crowd...
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- June 2023
- Case
Verve Therapeutics: Taking DNA Editing to Heart
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
Verve Therapeutics, a public biotech company based in Boston, created a novel approach to addressing cardiovascular disease (CVD) - a leading cause of deaths globally. The company's approach was a single shot treatment to permanently lower cholesterol, thus reducing...
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Keywords:
AI;
Genetic Engineering;
Medicine;
Health Care and Treatment;
Genetics;
Innovation Strategy;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Medical Specialties;
Innovation and Invention;
Entrepreneurship;
Biotechnology Industry
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Shweta Bagai. "Verve Therapeutics: Taking DNA Editing to Heart." Harvard Business School Case 823-113, June 2023.
- January 2022
- Case
Somatus: Value-Based Kidney Care (A)
By: Ariel D. Stern, Robert S. Huckman and Sarah Mehta
When Dr. Ikenna Okezie founded Somatus, a value-based kidney care provider, his goal had been nothing short of transforming kidney care delivery in the United States. Rather than relying on dialysis, a costly and intensive treatment for late-stage kidney disease, the...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Disruption;
Entrepreneurship;
Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Disorders;
Medical Specialties;
Innovation and Invention;
Disruptive Innovation;
Management;
Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Value;
Value Creation;
Health Industry;
United States;
Virginia
Stern, Ariel D., Robert S. Huckman, and Sarah Mehta. "Somatus: Value-Based Kidney Care (A)." Harvard Business School Case 622-009, January 2022.
- 14 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need
practice. All of these abrupt changes called for medical professionals to have a certain level of management prowess, says Robert Huckman, Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “Outside...
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Strategy for Health Care Delivery - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
rather than medical specialties Optimize costs through accurate measurement and reporting Apply the concept of Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) to measure health care costs and outcomes Design and...
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The Disruptive Voice - Forum for Growth & Innovation
and health system visits, impacting nearly every specialty in medicine. However, the incumbent radiology IT system infrastructure places the promise and power of AI out of reach for practitioners. Though radiology has historically been on...
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