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Retailers and Health Systems Can Improve Care Together
Health and wellness Magazine ArticleThey should coordinate their complementary services to help consumers and better address the needs of employers and insurers. -
How to Measure the Value of Virtual Health Care
Sales & Marketing ResearchA framework to help policymakers, insurers, and providers consider how telehealth fits into their future. -
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. -
Value-Based Health Care Is Inevitable and That's Good
Global Business Digital ArticleHealth care providers are being paid less to produce better outcomes. -
Standardized APIs Could Finally Make It Easy to Exchange Health Records
Technology and analytics Digital ArticleA U.S. law requires that the process be simplified by the end of 2022. -
Negotiating Lower Hospital Prices as a Self-Insured Employer
Organizational Development ResearchNew U.S. disclosure rules will give employers greater visibility into rates negotiated by big insurance companies. -
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... -
For Patients to Trust Medical AI, They Need to Understand It
Sales & Marketing ResearchAI has huge potential to improve the quality and affordability of care - but only if providers explain how it works. -
A Simple Way to Identify Patients Who Need Tech Support for Telemedicine
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Transforming Health Care
Organizational Development Digital ArticleHalf of Americans get their health insurance through their employers, costing companies nearly $700 million a year. Yet the quality of care varies widely.... -
How to Get Surgeons to Make Cost-Effective Decisions Without Jeopardizing Care
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleLessons from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. -
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... -
23andMe's CEO on the Struggle to Get Over Regulatory Hurdles
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIn 2013 the genetic testing firm 23andMe received a cease-and-desist letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration forbidding it from selling its... -
Health Care Systems Need to Better Understand Patients as Consumers
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleThey must become more sophisticated in how they use data to gain visibility into patients' behaviors and decisions. -
The U.S. Needs to Reimagine Its Pharma Supply Chain
Business and society Digital ArticleOverreliance on foreign suppliers is leading to domestic drug shortages. -
Do Your Company's Abortion Benefits Cover Your Most Vulnerable Workers?
Organizational Development Digital ArticleContractors, who are more likely to be women of color, often aren't eligible for employer-sponsored coverage. -
How AI Could Help Doctors Reduce Maternal Mortality
Organizational Development ResearchSixty percent of maternal deaths in the United States are preventable. -
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... -
Customer Intimacy, Meet Operational Excellence
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThe art is in optimizing apparent opposites simultaneously. -
When Inflation Rises, Health Outcomes Fall
Organizational Development Digital ArticleEmployers need to help people afford and access the care they need.
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The DivaCup: Navigating Distribution and Growth
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details When the mother-daughter founders of DivaCup set out with a mission to disrupt the menstrual care industry with an innovative product form, they initially... -
Achieving Mental Health Parity
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In October 2008, President George W. Bush signed into law a requirement that certain private health insurance plans provide coverage for mental illness... -
AUB Medical Center: Achieving 2020 Vision (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details An academic and medical practitioner leaves Harvard Medical School to join the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC) as dean of the School... -
Maven Clinic: Women's Health in the Digital Age
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In late 2017, Kate Ryder, the founder and CEO of digital women's health telemedicine company Maven Clinic, faced an important decision. Maven offered... -
Bonitas
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Bonitas, a South African medical scheme (i.e., health insurer), must navigate highly restrictive regulations that make it difficult for Bonitas to innovate,... -
Mantra Ayurveda: Scaling Direct-To-Consumer Marketing
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Mantra Ayurveda (Mantra), established in India in 2020, manufactured and marketed luxury Ayurvedic skin care and hair care products. The brand's equity... -
AUB Medical Center: Achieving 2020 Vision (B)
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The Heartbreak of DRGs
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The chief of dermatology at a major medical center is attempting to convince senior management to develop an outpatient treatment center for psoriasis.... -
GlaxoSmithKline in Brazil: Public-Private Vaccine Partnerships
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Three years into a major public-private partnership between GlaxoSmithKline and Fiocuz, Brazil's principal health institute, the company assesses technology... -
Carolinas HealthCare System: Consumer Analytics
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In 2014, Dr. Michael Dulin, chief clinical officer for analytics and outcomes research and head of the Dickson Advanced Analytics (DA2) group at Carolinas... -
Infection Control at Massachusetts General Hospital
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details The case explores the challenges facing Massachusetts General Hospital concerning the adoption of a new infection control policy, which promises to improve... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads for Healthcare Leaders Collection (4 Books)
The landscape of today's healthcare industry is constantly changing, and it's your job to lead your team to success. This collection from Harvard Business... -
Twine Health
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details In late 2014, Dr. John Moore (CEO), Frank Moss (chairman), and Scott Gilroy (CTO) of Twine Health (Twine) had to resolve several challenges that threatened... -
Hardina Smythe and the Healthcare Investment Conundrum
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Hardina Smythe, a recent MBA graduate, has just joined a top-tier venture capital firm in the difficult environment of late 2010. Her first assignment... -
Novartis: Leading a Global Enterprise
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Novartis, the world's leading healthcare company, was formed in 1996 out of a merger of two very different, mid-tier Switzerland-based pharma companies.... -
Note on Mobile HealthCare
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Delivering health care to the global population was a challenge. Health care costs accounted for ten percent of world GDP by 2013. In the U.S., health... -
La Tour: Winning in the private hospital industry with value-based healthcare
Management Case Study11.95View Details This case describes the journey of a new CEO bringing an innovative vision and strategy to a for-profit hospital under new ownership. It shows the application... -
Metabical: Pricing, Packaging, and Demand Forecasting for a New Weight-Loss Drug
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Metabical is a new weight loss drug from Cambridge Sciences Pharmaceuticals intended for moderately overweight individuals. In anticipation of final FDA... -
Alameda Health System
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details "Alameda Health System" (AHS) describes a county-owned safety net health system adapting to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and an increasingly...
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The DivaCup: Navigating Distribution and Growth
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details When the mother-daughter founders of DivaCup set out with a mission to disrupt the menstrual care industry with an innovative product form, they initially... -
Achieving Mental Health Parity
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In October 2008, President George W. Bush signed into law a requirement that certain private health insurance plans provide coverage for mental illness... -
Retailers and Health Systems Can Improve Care Together
Health and wellness Magazine ArticleThey should coordinate their complementary services to help consumers and better address the needs of employers and insurers. -
AUB Medical Center: Achieving 2020 Vision (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details An academic and medical practitioner leaves Harvard Medical School to join the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC) as dean of the School... -
Maven Clinic: Women's Health in the Digital Age
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In late 2017, Kate Ryder, the founder and CEO of digital women's health telemedicine company Maven Clinic, faced an important decision. Maven offered... -
Siemens Healthineers: A Digital Journey, Teaching Note
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Innovation in Data-Driven Health Care
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The Case for Bundled Payments in Health Care
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleOn June 28, in a live, interactive Harvard Business Review video webinar, Porter and Kaplan will explain why bundled payments represent a real fix to... -
Bonitas
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Bonitas, a South African medical scheme (i.e., health insurer), must navigate highly restrictive regulations that make it difficult for Bonitas to innovate,... -
Mantra Ayurveda: Scaling Direct-To-Consumer Marketing
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Mantra Ayurveda (Mantra), established in India in 2020, manufactured and marketed luxury Ayurvedic skin care and hair care products. The brand's equity...