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- 07 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Effective Leaders Share the Spotlight with Their Teams
firms appoint a CEO who shares their success with others, the researchers found, inclusiveness of the entire executive team increases the following year. “In the long run, trying to think about what kind of...
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by Pamela Reynolds
- 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...
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by Carla Tishler
- 07 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.
spreadsheet,” says Kaplan. Related Reading: Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records Research Paper: Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their...
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- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance
percentage points higher in patient satisfaction surveys than specialists with whom the primary care doctor didn’t train, finds new research published in JAMA Internal Medicine. PCPs and specialists who spent their early years together tended to show improved outcomes...
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- March 2013 (Revised May 2013)
- Case
Omar Ishrak: Building Medtronic Globally
By: Bill George and Natalie Kindred
Omar Ishrak, Medtronic's first non-American CEO, aims to reinvigorate the medical device maker's growth by focusing on emerging markets, therapy innovation, and creative business models. In 2012, budget constraints in mature economies, the lack of new medical therapies...
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Healthcare;
Medical Devices;
Medtronic;
Globalization;
Innovation;
Reverse Innovation;
Leadership;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Management Teams;
Business Model;
Emerging Markets;
Global Strategy;
Health Care and Treatment;
Acquisition;
Innovation and Invention;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
China
George, Bill, and Natalie Kindred. "Omar Ishrak: Building Medtronic Globally." Harvard Business School Case 413-065, March 2013. (Revised May 2013.)
- October 2016 (Revised November 2016)
- Case
Innovating Beyond Ochsner
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Olivia Hull
The Ochsner Health System has developed a proprietary software tool designed to treat hypertension. Built into the system’s electronic medical records, the Hypertension Digital Medicine program allows patients to record their blood pressure at home and share readings...
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Electronic Medical Records;
Telemedicine;
Hypertension;
High Blood Pressure;
Chronic Disease;
Entrepreneurship;
Health Disorders;
Business Model;
Business Startups;
Innovation and Invention;
Growth Management;
Marketing Strategy;
Product Launch;
Product Positioning;
Science-Based Business;
Business Strategy;
Health Industry;
Technology Industry;
New Orleans;
Louisiana
Hamermesh, Richard G., and Olivia Hull. "Innovating Beyond Ochsner." Harvard Business School Case 817-028, October 2016. (Revised November 2016.)
- Research Summary
Overview
Professor Myers studies the ways people learn from their own—and others’—experiences at work, with a particular emphasis on learning in health care organizations and emergency medical contexts. Though his interest is in individual-level learning, he focuses in...
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Learning And Development;
Learning Organizations;
Learning By Doing;
Health Care Industry;
Innovation;
Identity Construction;
Medical Error;
Knowledge Development;
Knowledge Sharing;
Knowledge Work;
Learning;
Leadership Development;
Knowledge Management;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Health Industry;
United States;
Singapore;
Asia
- September 2022
- Article
Giving a Buck or Making a Buck? Donations by Pharmaceutical Manufacturers to Independent Patient Assistance Charities
By: Leemore Dafny, Christopher Ody and Teresa Rokos
The federal Anti-Kickback Statute prohibits biopharmaceutical manufacturers from directly covering Medicare enrollees’ out-of-pocket spending for the drugs they manufacture, but manufacturers may donate to independent patient assistance charities and earmark donations...
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Cost Sharing;
Prescription Drugs;
Drug Spending;
Medicare;
Dual Eligibility;
Cost;
Health Care and Treatment;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Dafny, Leemore, Christopher Ody, and Teresa Rokos. "Giving a Buck or Making a Buck? Donations by Pharmaceutical Manufacturers to Independent Patient Assistance Charities." Health Affairs 41, no. 9 (September 2022).
- March 2018
- Supplement
Improving Access at VA
By: Ryan W. Buell and Robert S. Huckman
In 2015, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) ran the largest healthcare system in the United States, with over 1,700 sites of care that served nearly 9 million veterans. One year earlier, a scandal had erupted over a cover-up of the excessive wait times veterans...
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Service Operations;
Service Delivery;
Social Issues;
Health Care and Treatment;
Government Administration;
Performance Improvement;
Public Administration Industry;
Health Industry;
United States
Buell, Ryan W., and Robert S. Huckman. "Improving Access at VA." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 618-709, March 2018.
- November 2016 (Revised August 2020)
- Case
Improving Access at VA
By: Ryan W. Buell, Robert S. Huckman and Sam Travers
In 2015, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) ran the largest healthcare system in the United States, with over 1,700 sites of care that served nearly 9 million veterans. One year earlier, a scandal had erupted over a cover-up of the excessive wait times veterans...
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Service Operations;
Service Delivery;
Social Issues;
Health Care and Treatment;
Government Administration;
Performance Improvement;
Public Administration Industry;
Health Industry;
United States
Buell, Ryan W., Robert S. Huckman, and Sam Travers. "Improving Access at VA." Harvard Business School Case 617-012, November 2016. (Revised August 2020.)
- March 2018 (Revised February 2020)
- Teaching Note
Improving Access at VA
By: Ryan W. Buell and Robert S. Huckman
In 2015, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) ran the largest healthcare system in the United States, with over 1,700 sites of care that served nearly 9 million veterans. One year earlier, a scandal had erupted over a cover-up of the excessive wait times veterans...
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- Research Summary
Consumerism and the Distributed Delivery of Health Care
This stream of Professor Huckman's work examines the growing tendency for health care to be delivered in a more distributed manner. Examples of this phenomenon include health IT, teleradiology, medical travel, remote monitoring of chronic medical conditions, and retail...
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- March 2003 (Revised October 2003)
- Case
Campbell Soup Company: Transforming for the 21st Century
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Jamie Ladge
In July 2001, Campbell Soup's newly appointed CEO, Douglas R. Conant, addressed a group of Wall Street analysts and unveiled his plan to kick-start growth. His plan called for organizational renewal and revitalization, redesign of core customer-facing processes...
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Customer Focus and Relationships;
Entrepreneurship;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Marketing Strategy;
Product Marketing;
Industry Structures;
Production;
Supply Chain Management;
Competition;
Competitive Strategy;
Consumer Products Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United States
Applegate, Lynda M., and Jamie Ladge. "Campbell Soup Company: Transforming for the 21st Century." Harvard Business School Case 803-119, March 2003. (Revised October 2003.)
- March 2018
- Teaching Note
Augmedix
Teaching Note for HBS No. 817-048. Augmedix provides a service that live-streams video of patient appointments to a remote scribe, freeing up significant physician time from electronic medical record data-entry tasks. The venture is confronting decisions in areas such...
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- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
life or on very sick patients. So, improving the efficiency of primary care scheduling or vaccine appointments or something like that—that’s not going to be a very big market. Other companies, like Teladoc Health, have captured much more...
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- November 2016
- Case
QuintilesIMS: Biosimilar Marketing in England
By: John A. Quelch and Emily C. Boudreau
QuintilesIMS was a leading healthcare consulting firm best known for its data and information offerings as well as its market research and management consulting services for life science companies. By 2015, the company was expanding beyond the biopharmaceutical...
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Health;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Biotech;
Marketing;
Health Care and Treatment;
Biotechnology Industry;
England
Quelch, John A., and Emily C. Boudreau. "QuintilesIMS: Biosimilar Marketing in England." Harvard Business School Case 517-054, November 2016.
- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
transactions in the market for ideas. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45527 Equal Opportunity? Gender Gaps in CEO Appointments and Executive Pay By: Keloharju, Matti, Samuli Knüpfer, and Joacim Tåg...
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Sean Silverthorne
- April 2005 (Revised May 2005)
- Case
Executive Compensation at General Electric (A)
By: V.G. Narayanan and Michele Jurgens
Faced with falling share prices and the critical eye of the media focused on Jack Welch's retirement plan, newly appointed CEO Jeff Immelt had the challenge of reassessing GE as a leader of corporate integrity and good governance. Presents the changes Immelt initiated...
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Executive Compensation;
Employee Stock Ownership Plan;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Media;
Governance;
Corporate Accountability
Narayanan, V.G., and Michele Jurgens. "Executive Compensation at General Electric (A)." Harvard Business School Case 105-072, April 2005. (Revised May 2005.)
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
care providers who demonstrate "meaningful use" of digital records. The legislation came from the belief that EHRs used in certain ways—such as medication order entry that would alert a clinician about drug-to-drug interactions—could...
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- January 2018
- Case
Trian Partners' Proxy Contest at Procter & Gamble
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Quinn Pitcher
In July 2017, activist hedge fund Trian Partners announced that it was launching a proxy fight at U.S. consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble. P&G would be the largest company ever subjected to a proxy fight, as Trian sought to have its CEO, Nelson Peltz, elected to the...
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