Clay Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
| Q&A with: | Clayton M. Christensen |
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| Published: | April 8, 2009 |
| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
In The Innovator's Prescription, professor Clayton Christensen and his coauthors target disruptive innovations that will make health care both more affordable and more effective in the future. Q&A with Christensen. From the HBS Alumni Bulletin.
Published in 2007
The Rise of Medical Tourism
| Q&A with: | Tarun Khanna |
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| Published: | December 17, 2007 |
| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Medical tourism—traveling far and wide for health care that is often better and certainly cheaper than at home—appeals to patients with complaints ranging from heart ailments to knee pain. Why is India leading in the globalization of medical services? Q&A with Harvard Business School's Tarun Khanna.
Published in 2006
Deep Links: Business School Students' Perceptions of the Role of Law and Ethics in Business
| Authors: | Constance E. Bagley, Gavin Clarkson, and Rachel Power |
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| Published: | July 5, 2006 |
| Paper Release Date: | April 2006 |
| Feature: | Working Papers |
The researchers spent more than a year eliciting twelve MBA students' thoughts and feelings about the role of law in starting and running a U.S. business. This research offers new insights into the ongoing debate about how best to educate the business leaders of tomorrow. More than a standalone course in business law or ethics, it would be wise for educators to use an approach that treats the role of law and business in the broader context of societal needs and norms.
Published in 2005
From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology
| Q&A with: | Robert S. Huckman and Gary P. Pisano |
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| Published: | June 13, 2005 |
| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Turf wars and learning curves influence how new technology is adopted in hospitals. HBS professors Gary Pisano and Robert Huckman discuss the implications of their research for your organization.
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
| Published: | January 24, 2005 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
A "Robin Hood" cardiac hospital in India—which charges wealthy patients, yet equally welcomes the destitute—is an exciting example of entrepreneurship in the subcontinent, says HBS professor Tarun Khanna.
Learning Tradeoffs in Organizations: Measuring Multiple Dimensions of Improvement to Investigate Learning-Curve Heterogeneity
| Authors: | Francesca Gino, Richard M.J. Bohmer, Amy C. Edmondson, Gary P. Pisano, and Ann B. Winslow |
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| Published: | July 5, 2006 |
| Paper Release Date: | January 2005, revised May 2006 |
| Feature: | Working Papers |
How and why experience leads to performance improvement has made the learning curve an important management topic for sites ranging from nuclear power plants to cardiac surgical units. This new research looks deeper at learning curves by focusing on learning rates in technology adoption in similar organizations along multiple, potentially competing dimensions. Using longitudinal data from sixteen hospitals that are adopting a new technology for cardiac surgery, it specifically studies two dimensions: efficiency and application innovation and the potential tradeoff between efficiency and application innovation. It also asks how such tradeoffs are influenced.
Published in 2003
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
| Published: | November 17, 2003 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Diabetes is a tough disease to tackle. A case-study discussion led by HBS professor Nancy Beaulieu asked why it is so complex for business and society, and what might be done to curb its incidence.
Published in 2001
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
| Published: | May 29, 2001 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
From countries to companies, HBS Professor Clayton Christensen sees disruptive technologies upsetting applecarts all over the globe. In his talk at the HBS Global Alumni Conference 2001, Christensen discussed how disruptive technologies could change forever the health field, Microsoft, and even the Harvard Business School.
Published in 2000
Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies
| Published: | August 21, 2000 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
A hospital operating room may seem an unlikely place to attract the attention of a group of management professors. But for HBS faculty members Amy Edmondson, Richard Bohmer and Gary Pisano it's a setting that offers great insights into work teams and the ways they adapt and learn.
