What can we learn by looking at enterprises that seek to address health delivery challenges?
MIT students share their observations of front-line organizations
Modern medicine could reduce disease greatly, yet fails to reach millions in Africa and elsewhere. Innovations in technology, process, and finance may help address the delivery challenges. At MIT Sloan’s Business Models for Scale and Sustainability in Global Health class, we analyze business models and performance of organizations that aim to provide healthcare to the poor amid challenging constraints to understand what may differentiate successful enterprises from those that fall short.
In our first offering of the class in late 2010, we explored novel solutions and new business models for delivering health care in resource limited settings, pairing case studies of what works with an exploration of bottlenecks in care delivery. The class aim was to examine what we learn from applying a business and management lens to what global health experts call the implementation gap.
With this aim in mind, we asked student teams to choose and analyze an organization that [click to continue…]
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