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Health
Care Systems Lecture Series
The
Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive
Solution to the Healthcare Crisis
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By
Professor Clayton M. Christensen
Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of
Business Administration, Harvard Business
School
Abstract:
The process of making products and
services more affordable and accessible
begins when historically expensive
expertise is commoditized. This has
happened in every industry we have
studied, and healthcare is no different.
In
healthcare, this process is heavily
dependent upon the ability to make
a precise diagnosis, which is driven
by molecular and imaging diagnostics.
These technologies need to be coupled
with business model innovation, and
one reason why healthcare is so in
need of reform is because today's
hospitals and physician practices
are actually a conflated set of business
models.
About
the Speaker:
 Clayton
M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane
Cizik Professor of Business Administration
at the Harvard Business School, with
a joint appointment in the Technology
& Operations Management and General
Management faculty groups. His research
and teaching interests center on the
management issues related to the development
and commercialization of technological
and business model innovation. Specific
areas of focus include developing
organizational capabilities and finding
new markets for new technologies.
Professor
Christensen holds a B.A. with highest
honors in economics from Brigham Young
University (1975), and an M.Phil.
in applied econometrics and the economics
of less-developed countries from Oxford
University (1977), where he studied
as a Rhodes Scholar. He received an
MBA with High Distinction from the
Harvard Business School in 1979, graduating
as a George F. Baker Scholar. He was
awarded his DBA from the Harvard Business
School in 1992.
Professor
Christensen became a faculty member
at the Harvard Business School in
1992. He is author or co-author of
five books: The Innovator’s
Dilemma (1997), which received
the Global Business Book Award for
the best business book published in
1997; The Innovator's Solution
(2003), also a New York Times best
seller; and Seeing What’s
Next (2004). In addition, he
has edited two case books on innovation:
Innovation and the General Manager
(1999) and Strategic Management of
Technology and Innovation, 4th edition
(2004). He presently is completing
two books that examine the problems
of our healthcare and public education
systems through the lenses of his
theories. These also will show how
the problems in these industries can
be resolved.
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