Filter Results
:
(575)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(575)
- People (1)
- News (117)
- Research (353)
- Events (4)
- Multimedia (8)
- Faculty Publications (232)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(575)
- People (1)
- News (117)
- Research (353)
- Events (4)
- Multimedia (8)
- Faculty Publications (232)
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
negotiation scholars—can be taught to physicians in a one-hour lecture. We found evidence that even this minimal intervention can decrease overtreatment of patients with low-risk prostate cancer. Our novel approach offers a framework to...
View Details
Keywords:
Carmen Nobel
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
achieving the best outcomes at the lowest cost. We must move away from a supply-driven health care system organized around what physicians do and toward a patient-centered system organized around what patients need. We must shift the...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- Web
“It’s like a pie-eating contest” | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
“It’s like a pie-eating contest” One night during his RC year at HBS, Josh Latson (MBA 2015) shadowed an emergency room physician through his rounds in a busy urban hospital. Josh was there as a member of the school’s Health Care Club,...
View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
Capital Partners, a firm he joined after what he calls his “two magical years” at HBS during which he transitioned from medical provider to physician leader. “My first year at HBS gave me the framework to think about different parts of a...
View Details
Keywords:
Susan Young
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
shows. We need to remember to set work aside and make time to connect in meaningful ways with family and friends, says Whillans, whose partner’s stressful work as an emergency room physician is a daily reminder to set her priorities...
View Details
Keywords:
by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
high-volume U.S. hospitals for delivering a primary total knee arthroplasty without major complicating conditions. Hospital and physician personnel costs were calculated using time-driven activity-based costing. Consumable supply costs,...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
best hospitals in Boston,” recalls McCance, chairman and president of the Boston-based venture-capital firm Greylock Partners. “It was nearly 100 years after the disease was first identified, and yet the best physicians in town could only...
View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
adequate because they possess the Invariant Proportion of Substitution (IPS) property, which imposes counter-intuitive restrictions on individual choice behavior. Indeed our empirical application to prescription writing choices of View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
innovators.” -Jordan Amadio (MD 2009, MBA 2010), cofounder and partner, NeuroLaunch; senior resident physician in neurosurgery, Emory University Revealing bad behavior—to a potential romantic partner or a potential employer—can be better...
View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
of integrity has to do it. In the same way that medical ethics do not compel a physician to do something that violates his or her own personal ethics, corporate law does not require directors to check their sense of right and wrong...
View Details
Keywords:
by Carla Tishler
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
SABO." Since leaving the company, Andresen and his wife, a physician from Yugoslavia, have enjoyed traveling, sailing, studying art history, and keeping in touch with Harvard friends. Reflecting on the professorship that bears his name,...
View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
Harvard's School of Public Health since 1976 and has spent much of her professional career applying corporate and industrial models to the health-care field. Her research activity at HBS focuses on the current trend of hospital mergers and how View Details
Keywords:
Judith A. Ross
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
order. This paper considers the operational implications of “discretionary task ordering,” defined as the task sequence resulting from an individual’s ability to select which task to complete next from a work queue. Using data from more than 2.4 million radiological...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
individuals bring well-articulated preexisting preferences to such decisions. Understanding beliefs and attitudes motivating these preferences can assist physicians in helping parents make informed decisions consistent with their values....
View Details
Keywords:
Carmen Nobel
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52341 February 20, 2018 JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association Administrative Costs Associated with Physician Billing and Insurance-Related Activities at an Academic Health...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
expertise and guidance on these questions and then also taking some of the time and administrative burden off of the family's plate by going ahead and getting things done for them.Fuller: So, it sounds like it's everything from dealing with insurers to coordinating...
View Details
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
news. It frees physicians and hospitals to focus their energies on what they do best-tackling complex medical problems and moving more and more problems along the spectrum from intuitive toward precision medicine. However, in the history...
View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
agents. Truncation Strategies in Matching Markets Author:Lars Ehlers Periodical:Mathematics of Operations Research (forthcoming) Abstract Roth and Rothblum showed that for matching markets using the deferred acceptance algorithm a View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
care. Indeed, the threat of malpractice creates incentives for physicians and hospitals to hide their mistakes rather than own up to and eliminate them. Standards for malpractice litigation need to change. Lawsuits are appropriate only in...
View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
test protocol (who gets tested, how often, etc.), to physician ordering/sample taking, to executing the COVID test, to support for contact tracing. They also have teams of scientists working on technologies that could reduce testing costs...
View Details