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Research: How Successful Health Care Organizations Keep Worker Morale Up
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The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleIn health care, the days of business as usual are over. Around the world, every health care system is struggling with rising costs and uneven quality,... -
Better Ways to Support a Colleague with Breast Cancer
Illness Digital ArticleAdvice from women who have been through the diagnosis. -
Employers Can Do More to Advance Health Equity
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleCovid-19 exposed wide inequities in health in the United States and around the world. But health disparities persisted long before the pandemic. In this... -
Designing Breakthrough Products
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleThanks to the collaboration that the internet has made possible and the open innovation that it has spurred, we live in a world where ideas and solutions... -
Do Health Apps Really Make Us Healthier?
Health care and treatment ResearchResearch shows they do, but how health care providers should use them isn’t quite so clear. -
Customer Intimacy, Meet Operational Excellence
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThe art is in optimizing apparent opposites simultaneously. -
How to Solve the Cost Crisis in Health Care
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleU.S. health care costs currently exceed 17% of GDP and continue to rise. One fundamental reason that providers are unable to reverse the trend is that... -
Do Your Company’s Abortion Benefits Cover Your Most Vulnerable Workers?
Compensation and benefits Digital ArticleContractors, who are more likely to be women of color, often aren’t eligible for employer-sponsored coverage. -
Managing the Most Expensive Patients
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleDiscussions about reining in health care costs invariably turn to the sickest 5% of the population, who account for 50% of all health care spending. Most... -
How Medical Records Can Close the Information Gap in Patient Care
Innovation Digital ArticleNew services are using research data and anonymized medical records to identify ways to treat conditions that lack care guidelines. -
Health Care's Service Fanatics
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleThe Cleveland Clinic has long had a reputation for medical excellence. But in 2009 the CEO acknowledged that patients did not think much of their experience... -
Research: When Leaders Disclose a Chronic Illness at Work
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThe majority of leaders who were open about their condition didn't regret it. -
How One Health System Got Rid of Bureaucratic Busywork
Process management Digital ArticleA simple solution saved thousands of hours. -
The Telehealth Era Is Just Beginning
Health and wellness Magazine ArticleMore gains in quality, affordability, and accessibility are on the way. -
It’s Time to Cement Telehealth’s Place in U.S. Health Care
Government policy and regulation Digital ArticleFive priorities to ensure federal and state regulators build on the progress achieved during the pandemic. -
Roe v. Wade’s Demise Is a Turning Point for Corporate America
Business and society Digital ArticleAccess to reproductive health care isn’t just a political stance — it’s a critical workplace issue that companies need to address. -
When Inflation Rises, Health Outcomes Fall
Compensation and benefits Digital ArticleEmployers need to help people afford and access the care they need. -
Whiteboard Session: Bringing the Best Business Ideas to Healthcare
Strategy & Execution VideoThomas Lee, MD explains how ideas from Michael Porter and other business thinkers could fix healthcare. -
To Fix Health Care, Ask the Right Questions
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleIf people want to fix health care in the U.S., they need to set aside the prevailing myths that the system is broken or just needs to become more competitive...
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Novartis (B): Reimagining Medicine
Management Case Study5.00View Details This case unfolds around the first-ever approved personalized cancer treatment, how Novartis wrapped it into a new business model design, and how Novartis... -
OpenNotes
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details In 2017, executives at OpenNotes, a national movement to improve the relationship between doctors and patients by sharing doctors' visit notes about patients... -
The Zuellig Family Foundation: A Bridge to a Better Future
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In 2008, the chairman of the Zuellig Family Foundation and former Secretary of Foreign Affairs for the Philippines, asked the foundation's president to... -
Dementia Discovery Fund
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details After the British government searched for a venture capital organization to create a new dementia fund, it selected SV Health, a UK- and US-based healthcare... -
Note on Telemedicine
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This note provides background in all the modalities of telemedicine. It accompanies the cases "Medtronic: Patient Management Initiative" (A) and (B),... -
Aravind Eye Care System: Time to Shift Gears
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Aravind Eye Care System (AECS) had a dream run on the growth path, providing affordable, quality eye care to its patients by building on economies of... -
Livongo: Scaling a Purpose-Driven Organization in Healthcare
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details When seasoned entrepreneur Glen Tullman founded the chronic health care startup Livongo in 2014, it was personal. His son lived with diabetes, and Tullman... -
Project Last Mile in Tanzania: Learning from Coca-Cola's Supply Chain
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Discussion between Coca-Cola, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation focused on how Coca-Cola's... -
Clinica Ricardo Palma, Spanish Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The ClÃnica Ricardo Palma is looking for a strategic partner. It has contracted the services of a financial advisor (Apoyo ConsultorÃa) to help with the... -
MedCath Corporation (C)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details MedCath is a horizontally integrated chain of heart hospitals that partners with local cardiologists. It claims that its focus leads to better and cheaper... -
Hygeia Group: Delivering Quality Care in Nigeria
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study14.00View Details Fola Laoye is the Group Managing Director of Hygeia Group, a Nigerian healthcare insurer and provider, and she is deciding on the optimal strategy to... -
Building an Integrated Biopharma Company: Crucell (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details By 2009, Crucell had become the largest biopharma company in the Netherlands and a symbol of national pride. The case traces the evolution of the company... -
Roche: ESG and Access to Healthcare
Management Case Study8.95View Details In May 2022, Roche Group, one of the largest healthcare companies in the world, hosted its first ESG investor event focused exclusively on its efforts... -
Population Health Management - Techniques and Tools
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Companion note to "Amil and the Health Care System in Brazil," Harvard Business School Case No. 312-029, January 2014. -
Novasys Medical
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Novasys has developed a new medical device and procedure for the treatment of female stress urinary incontinence that is cheaper and can be performed... -
Tests and Triumphs in Telemedicine (B): Technology before Its Time or a Savior in a Crisis?
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details In the A case, Dr. Carol Evans is preparing for a December 2019 meeting with the leaders of Garfield Health Sciences (GHS) Center, about launching a full-fledged... -
Integrating Private Practice and Hospital-Based Breast Services at Baystate Health (Part A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Dr. Laurie Gianturco ("Dr. G."), Chief of Radiology at Baystate Health and President of the private imaging practice Radiology & Imaging, Inc. ("R&I"),... -
Rough Seas for ChenMed (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic is looming. Gordon Chen, MD, the chief medical officer of ChenMed, a family-owned company committed to delivering... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy for Healthcare (featuring "The Strategy That Will Fix Healthcare" by Michael E. Porter and Thomas H. Lee, MD)
Strategy & Execution Book24.95View Details Is your healthcare organization spending too much time on strategy--with too little to show for it? If you read nothing else on strategy, read these 10... -
Adeo Health Science: Turning a Product into a Brand
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details For decades, American parents were warned to avoid introducing potential allergens to their babies prior to their first birthday. But two influential...
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Research: How Successful Health Care Organizations Keep Worker Morale Up
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA workforce burnout and retention crisis has dominated the industry for the last three years, but data (finally) shows some encouraging trends. -
The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleIn health care, the days of business as usual are over. Around the world, every health care system is struggling with rising costs and uneven quality,... -
Obstetrics in Rural, Critical Access Hospitals: Is it Feasible?, Instructors Manual
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTeaching note for case NA0425. -
Novartis (B): Reimagining Medicine
Management Case Study5.00View Details This case unfolds around the first-ever approved personalized cancer treatment, how Novartis wrapped it into a new business model design, and how Novartis... -
OpenNotes
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details In 2017, executives at OpenNotes, a national movement to improve the relationship between doctors and patients by sharing doctors' visit notes about patients... -
The Zuellig Family Foundation: A Bridge to a Better Future
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In 2008, the chairman of the Zuellig Family Foundation and former Secretary of Foreign Affairs for the Philippines, asked the foundation's president to... -
Dementia Discovery Fund
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details After the British government searched for a venture capital organization to create a new dementia fund, it selected SV Health, a UK- and US-based healthcare... -
How Music Could Take the Place of Drugs
Global Business Audio20.18View Details Marko Ahtisaari, the CEO and cofounder of The Sync Project, presents ideas and projects born out of the vision that in the near future people will use... -
Note on Telemedicine
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This note provides background in all the modalities of telemedicine. It accompanies the cases "Medtronic: Patient Management Initiative" (A) and (B),... -
Five Keys to Prepare for the Business of Aging
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleEconomic and demographic forecasts reveal the unsustainability of health-care systems in industrialized countries. The rising proportion of elderly and...