Harvard Business School faculty members have made notable contributions to the body of knowledge related to the business of healthcare, and their combined knowledge of the industry is unparalleled. Faculty research in healthcare is diverse and includes topics such as:
- applying management principles and best practices to healthcare delivery
- improving the process of innovation
- employing the principles of strategy and consumer choice in healthcare
- identifying regulatory mechanisms for emerging healthcare fields
- developing approaches to delivering high-impact healthcare in developing nations
Emerging trends are constantly examined. Consulting, service on boards, and industry ties of all kinds serve to keep faculty close to practice. HBS research is marked by the extraordinary access faculty gain to companies in the U.S. and abroad. Faculty conduct research directly onsite, allowing firsthand observation and direct contact with the leaders who have faced concrete challenges and made decisions. This work yields unprecedented insights that benefit students and the industry at large.
HBS research has resulted in hundreds of publications, cases, and articles that are related to innovation in healthcare.
2009
Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care
Health care is and always has been a problem-solving process. Today, with more knowledge and expertise, certain treatments become predictable while others remain uncertain. In the end, these two types of treatments need to be managed differently in order to be effective and reduce costs.
The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care
This groundbreaking prescription for health care reform—from a legendary leader in innovation—examines why our healthcare system is in critical condition.
2007
Who Killed HealthCare? America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem—and the Consumer-Driven Cure
In the battle for U.S. healthcare, patients and doctors are losing. Who Killed Health Care? shows how to win the war.
2006
The Science Business: The Promise, the Reality, and the Future of Biotech
Why has the biotechnology industry’s performance failed to meet the expectations despite all its promise? Science Business answers this question by providing an incisive critique of the industry.
Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results
The U.S. healthcare system is in crisis. At stake are the quality of care for millions of Americans and the financial well-being of individuals and employers squeezed by skyrocketing premiums—not to mention the stability of state and federal government budgets.
