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The Cure for the Not-for-Profit Crisis

Harvard Business Review

There is a crisis in the not-for-profit sector. In short, this is a crisis of coherence. Worse still, more investment in time and cost goes toward these supposedly revenue-generating programs, thus actually hurting the bottom line and breeding more fundraising pressure and more incoherence.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

We have closely studied three of these models: The Helix Center at Imperial College London, the Center for Innovation at the Mayo Clinic, and the Consortium for Medical Technologies at Massachusetts General Hospital. In 2016, another event focused on the opioid-use crisis in Massachusetts and resulted in 18 innovation proposals.

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The Decline of the Rural American Hospital and How to Reverse It

Harvard Business Review

These communities are facing a health-care crisis because economic and regulatory pressures are pushing providers to cluster in urban centers. Consequently, Adam became one of the thousands of rural patients who have given up on the health-care system. There are, however, isolated pockets of extreme need in rural U.S.