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- September 2023
- Supplement
Fighting the Battle of the Bulge—Evaluating Do Good/Do Well Innovations in Morbid Obesity Treatment
This PowerPoint accompanies Regina E. Herzlinger's "Fighting the Battle of the Bulge – Evaluating Do Good/Do Well Innovations in Morbid Obesity Treatment" teaching note (HBS Case No.324-013) and is designed for instructors to use in the classroom when teaching this...
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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.)
- April 1978 (Revised May 1993)
- Teaching Note
Child Care Task Force, Teaching Note
- 2014
- Working Paper
Non-Adherence in Health Care: A Positive and Normative Analysis
By: Mark Egan and Tomas J. Philipson
Non-adherence in health care results when a patient does not initiate or continue care that a provider has recommended. Previous research identifies non-adherence as a major source of waste in US health care, totaling approximately 2.3% of GDP, and have proposed a...
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Egan, Mark, and Tomas J. Philipson. "Non-Adherence in Health Care: A Positive and Normative Analysis." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 20330, July 2014. (Previously titled, "Health Care Adherence and Personalized Medicine.")
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Have a Better Idea To Improve 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
- 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).
- 20 Feb 2018
- News
Electronic Health Records Don’t Reduce Administrative Costs
- Other Article
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).
- 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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- 22 Jun 2020
- News
On Track: Health Care, Patient Data, and Provider Performance
- 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
- June 2014 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
Kathy Giusti and the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation
By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Joshua D. Margolis and Matthew G. Preble
What do you do when your rising professional career is cut short by an unexpected cancer diagnosis? Kathy Giusti shifted careers, built a new organization that transformed how cancer research is done, and now faces the challenge of sustaining the organization and its...
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Keywords:
Philanthropy;
Philanthropy Funding;
Entrepreneurship;
Health Care;
Management Styles;
Personalized Medicine;
Health Care Outcomes;
Cancer;
Cancer Care In The U.S.;
Personal Care;
Leadership;
Leading Change;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Health Care and Treatment;
Leadership Style;
Management Style;
Management Skills;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Health;
Health Industry;
United States;
Canada;
Spain
Hamermesh, Richard G., Joshua D. Margolis, and Matthew G. Preble. "Kathy Giusti and the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation." Harvard Business School Case 814-026, June 2014. (Revised February 2017.)
- 20 May 2016
- News
World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics
- 31 Jan 2018
- News
Can Amazon and Friends Handle Health Care? There’s Reason for Doubt
- 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).
- 01 Jan 2020
- News
Changes in Quality of Care after Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions
- 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.)