Center for Social Innovation

Research: Medicare Saves Lives

Stanford Social Innovation Review: Fall 2009

Does Medicare make a difference?

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article

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The Answer is on the Ground

Stanford Social Innovation Review: Fall 2009

How the Positive Deviance Initiative helps communities solve their own problems

Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment, Healthcare

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article

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In Africa and at Home, Supply Chains Are Getting Kinder and Greener

Solutions to supply chain problems from motorcycle parts in Africa to grocery delivery and solar power in the US were shared at the Advancing Socially and Environmentally Responsible Supply Chains Conference presented by the Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum and the Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Resource: News Article

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What's Next: Mobilizing Against Fake Drugs

Stanford Social Innovation Review: Summer 2009

Texting emerges as a source of confirmation for drug legitimacy.

Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment, Healthcare

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article

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In Africa and at Home, Supply Chains Are Getting Kinder and Greener

Solutions to supply chain problems from motorcycle parts in Africa to grocery delivery and solar power in the US were shared at the Advancing Socially and Environmentally Responsible Supply Chains Conference presented by the Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum and the Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Resource: News Article

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Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment, Healthcare

Criticism May Produce Innovation, Wal-Mart CEO Scott Says

Wal-Mart’s innovative approach to environmental sustainability and its addition of health care services to stores were partly triggered by critics of the company in other areas. CEO Lee Scott spoke with Sloan Fellows.

Resource: News Article

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Economic Development, Healthcare, Social Entrepreneurship

Trip Studies India's Rural Health Issues

MBA students reflect on their service learning trip to India, where they met an extraordinary group of rural women who have changed the face of their village. These women helped to eradicate preventable disease while empowering themselves as major stakeholders in a community-driven revolution that has become more pervasive throughout the subcontinent.

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Keynote Address: Dr. Debrework Zewdie (transcript)

Dr. Debrework Zewdie, director of the Global HIV/AIDS Program of the World Bank, speaks about mistakes in the fight against HIV/AIDS, highlighting an unfair distribution of medical treatments, a lack of prevention education, and the prominence of other, treatable diseases as reasons for the consistent difficulty fighting the epidemic.

Resource: News Article

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Reinventing Health Care, Drug Development, and the FDA

America's health care system is broken, drug development takes too long and costs too much, and the FDA needs major reform, speakers told the annual Health Care and Biotech Symposium "5 by 20: Five Ideas That Will Revolutionize Health Care by 2020."

Resource: News Article

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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Health Partnerships

Stanford Social Innovation Review: Spring 2007

Step aside, Stephen Covey. Kent Buse and Andrew M. Harmer have discovered seven new highly effective habits. And theirs may help rid the world of its more deadly diseases, rather than just upping people’s productivity.

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article

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Your Brain on Drug Addicts

Stanford Social Innovation Review: Spring 2007

Recent neuroscience research confirms that people view drug addicts as not quite human.

Healthcare, Nonprofit Management, Philanthropy, Responsible Investing

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article

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Review: Pink Ribbons, Inc.

Stanford Social Innovation Review: Spring 2007

Samantha King argues that the rise of philanthropy targeted at breast cancer has helped turn the disease from a political issue to a mainstream marketing gold mine. Review by Fran Visco

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15 Minutes with Victoria Hale

Stanford Social Innovation Review: Winter 2007

The MacArthur “genius” prize winner creates drugs for the developing world.

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article

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Healthcare, Nonprofit Management, Social Entrepreneurship

The Perils of Getting Big

Stanford Social Innovation Review: Fall 2006

Larger social service organizations may result in less innovation.

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Clout-Sourcing

Social media is helping people self-assemble for social action.

Resource: Blog Post

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Community Advisory Committees in Health Foundations

A look at how community advisory committees are faring in the health field.

Resource: Blog Post

Video/Audio : All | Audio | Video

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Aravind: A Model for Sustainability

How did a free eye clinic that started in a house in south India in 1976 grow to become Asia's first international training facility for blindness prevention workers? In this audio interview, host Sheela Sethuraman speaks with Thulasiraj Ravilla from the Aravind Eye Care System. Ravilla concentrates on the innovative approaches that Aravind has developed to become a model for high-quality, low-cost health care.

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Breaking the Cycle of Poverty-Related Illness

When Dr. Vera Cordeiro Rio worked at Hospital da Lagoa in Rio de Janeiro, she witnessed a constant admission/re-admission cycle in childcare treatment. To break that cycle, she gathered medical community volunteers to form Renascer, addressing root causes that prevent families from receiving adequate care. In this audio interview, join host Sheela Sethuraman as she learns how Cordeiro Rio translated her passion into a methodology that is quickly sweeping through Brazil and the world.

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Arts, Culture, and Religion, Healthcare

Making Good Eating Choices

The question of what to eat to be healthy has spawned a rash of often contradictory advice by "experts." In this audio lecture, sponsored by the Stanford Ethics and Society Program, NYU professor and author Marion Nestle offers simple advice that cuts through the confusion. She highlights the difference between "nutrients" and "food," and suggests how to bring "nutrition" back into the food realm. Her discussion forays into how agriculture and business interact to produce the foodstuffs on our shelves.

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Economic Development, Healthcare, Human Rights

Scaling Up Health Care in Rwanda

AIDS, malaria, and maternal mortality are some of the chronic public health issues that plague Africa. Invited to Stanford, Paul Farmer talks about how his Boston-based organization, Partners In Health, is spending donor dollars to bring the lessons garnered from its work in Haiti to scale up health care services in war-torn Rwanda. As dicussed in this audio lecture, his organization seeks to fill the gap that exists between medical R&D and health care delivery so preventions and cures can be brought to more of the people who need them.

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Education, Healthcare

Self-Sufficiency Through Education

AIDS in South Africa has left millions of children without parents or any resources to help themselves. In this audio interview with Design for Change host Sheela Sethuraman, Kim Feinberg describes how her organization, the Tomorrow Trust, uses education to help these children grow into self sufficient, economically productive, and socially included adults.

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Education, Healthcare, Social Entrepreneurship

New Biodesign Book Tackles Innovation: Prof. Stefanos Zenios

Q&A with Stefano Zenios on his new book, Biodesign: The Process of Innovating Medical Technologies.

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Using Social Media to Save Lives, Part 2 of 3

A leukemia diagnosis for Sameer Bhatia is the start of a nation-wide project to create a bone marrow registry in India. Robert Chatwani describes one family's innovative effort to create social change and, in the process, find a perfect match for Sameer.

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Using Social Media to Save Lives, Part 1 of 3

A leukemia diagnosis for Sameer Bhatia is the start of a nation-wide project to create a bone marrow registry in India. Robert Chatwani describes one family's innovative effort to create social change and, in the process, find a perfect match for Sameer.

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Using Social Media to Save Lives, Part 3 of 3

A leukemia diagnosis for Sameer Bhatia is the start of a nation-wide project to create a bone marrow registry in India. Robert Chatwani describes one family's innovative effort to create social change and, in the process, find a perfect match for Sameer.

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From Demoralization to Living Community

In the year 2000 DaVita, the largest independent provider of dialysis services in the United States, was being investigated by the SEC and sued by shareholders. Kent Thiry explains how building community bumped DaVita's market capitalization to $3 billion and turned it into a leader in its field.

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Medical Device Innovation

Problem: the only remedy for morbid obesity is invasive surgery. Innovation: an oral device that reduces obesity without an incision.

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Service Innovation Panel

"Innovation isn't about a point in time, it's about creating sustainable change over time," says Paul Wallace.

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Government, Healthcare

DC2VC Panel Discussion

Government representatives and venture capitalists came together to hear Stanford student teams speak about the barriers that routinely prevent healthcare innovations from getting to market.

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Reducing Inefficiencies in Hospitals: Jay Deady

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What Healthcare Needs is Systems Engineering: Dr. John D. Evans

"No one has ever really designed the Intensive Care Unit," argues Dr. John D. Evans. Efficient technologies within the ICU are only half of the puzzle.

Resource: Video

Case Studies : All | Academic Cases

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Canary Fund and the San Jose Grand Prix (B): Results of the First Race

The Canary Fund supports the development of methods for early cancer detection. This second case presents the results of the sponsorship created to raise funding and awareness.

Resource: Academic Case

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Healthcare, Philanthropy, Responsible Investing

The Kinetics and Michael J. Fox Foundations (B): New Directions

The Kinetics and Michael J. Fox Foundations both support research on Parkinson’s disease. This second case explores how these two organizations collaborate toward a common mission.

Resource: Academic Case

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VaxGen Inc., Fighting the AIDS Epidemic

VaxGen is working to obtain approvals for phase III clinical trials in Thailand for an experimental vaccine against HIV. The company must cope with a host of ethical questions.

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Exubera and NICE

This case details the 2006 decision by the United Kingdom to deny coverage for a new form of inhaled insulin. In doing so, it highlights the challenges to innovators in managing conflicts over the costs, benefits, and risks of new technology.

Resource: Academic Case

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Institute for Healthcare Improvement: The Campaign to Save 100,000 Lives

In December 2004, the president of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement challenged U.S. hospitals to reduce unnecessary deaths by 100,000 in the next 18 months. The case describes a campaign that incorporated lessons from politics and social activism.

Resource: Academic Case

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Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic Development, Healthcare

Gilead Sciences (A): The Gilead Access Program for HIV Drugs

Gilead Sciences designs a strategy for delivering an AIDS drug to developing nations in Africa. This first part of the case describes the organization's initial considerations.

Resource: Academic Case

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Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic Development, Healthcare

Gilead Sciences (B): Implementing the Gilead Access Program for HIV Drugs

Gilead Sciences designs a strategy for delivering an AIDS drug to developing nations in Africa. This second part of the case explores the company’s experience with a distribution program.

Resource: Academic Case

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Environment, Healthcare, Social Entrepreneurship

IDEAAS and PSA: Replication in the Amazon

Two social ventures collaborated with each other to help expand one’s solar energy services from southern Brazil into the Amazon region. The case highlights the core factors that led to the project’s ultimate outcome.

Resource: Academic Case

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Economic Development, Healthcare, Nonprofit Management

Riders for Health: Health Care Distribution Solutions in Sub-Saharan Africa

Riders for Health is a U.K.-based nonprofit dedicated to the improvement of transportation systems for health workers in Africa. In 2007, after 11 years in existence, the organization was at a critical point and had to decide what strategies were necessary to expand.

Resource: Academic Case

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Healthcare, Philanthropy, Responsible Investing

The Kinetics and Michael J. Fox Foundations (A): Partnering with a Purpose

The Kinetics and Michael J. Fox Foundations both support research on Parkinson’s disease. This first case describes the creation, mission, and strategy of the two organizations.

Resource: Academic Case

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Genzyme and the Research Ethics Questions Associated with Its NeuroCell-PD Trials

Genzyme Tissue Repair had just received favorable phase I clinical trial results. Should the company go ahead with studies that would involve subjects in the placebo group having to undergo surgery but not receive the experimental transplants?

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Geron Corporation and the Role of Ethics Advice

In 1999, Geron Corporation was at the center of the debate about human embryo research. The case details the controversy surrounding Geron’s stem cell research and the role the Ethics Advisory Board played in shaping the company's response.

Resource: Academic Case

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Zeneca's Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Nolvadex

Zeneca launched an ad campaign to promote a drug for use in reducing the risk of breast cancer. The case details the company’s development of the drug and its marketing efforts.

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Myriad and OncorMed and the Marketing of the First Genetic Test for Breast Cancer Susceptibility

Two companies are competing to develop a genetic test for breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility. They must grapple with concerns about the ethics involved.

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Note on Employer-Provided Health Insurance

This note provides an overview of the role of employers, carriers, and consumers in the U.S. private health insurance market. It covers the history of employer-based coverage, employer decisions on health insurance, insurance pricing, and other topics.

Resource: Academic Case

Research Papers : All

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Cross-Boundary Disruptors: Powerful Inter-Industry Entrepreneurial Change Agents

Based on comparative case studies of Apple Computer’s strategic actions in the music and cellular telephone industries, this paper develops the concept of a “cross-boundary disruptor” as a new type of entrepreneurial actor in inter-industry strategic dynamics. It examines what kind of company could become a cross-boundary disruptor in the U.S. health care industry to help it overcome its long-standing stasis.

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Tradeoffs from Integrating Diagnosis and Treatment in Markets for Health Care

To identify the important tradeoffs in consulting a single expert for both diagnosis and treatment, the authors examine the costs and health outcomes of elderly Medicare beneficiaries with coronary artery disease.

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Government, Healthcare

Evaluating Effects of Tax Preferences on Health Care Spending and Federal Revenues

In this paper, the authors calculate the consequences for health spending and the federal budget of an above-the-line deduction for out-of-pocket health spending. These estimates are compared to those of past researchers. Implications on tax policy are discussed.

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Redefining Health Care: Medical Homes or Archipelagos to Navigate?

This paper provides an analysis of the structure of the health care delivery system, emphasizing physician group practices. The authors argue for comprehensive integrated delivery systems (IDSs).

Resource: Research Paper

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Getting Emotional About Health

How can health officials, both in the public and private sector, ensure that their messages of prevention get heard? The studies conducted by Jennifer L. Aaker, the General Atlantic Professor of Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business; Nidhi Agrawal of Northwestern University; and Geeta Menon of New York University suggest that an individual’s emotional state of mind affects how they cope with messages containing bad news about health risks. This suggests that individuals are more apt to accept negative health messages while watching humorous or “happy” programs.

Resource: Research Paper

Courses : All

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Biodesign Innovation: OIT 581/3

The two-quarter Elective Course series provides lectures from a diverse group of faculty that expose students to the practical aspects of technology invention and development. The class features a presentation or discussion from one of the guest speakers or faculty. Students work in small project teams in the Biodesign prototyping lab or bench space, collaborating with the fellows of the program.

Resource: MBA Course

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Government, Healthcare

Political Economy of Health Care in the U.S.: MGTECON 331

The purpose of this class is to provide students with the economic tools and the institutional and legal background to understand how markets for health care products and services work. The class utilizes case studies, lectures, and visits from individuals in the industry.

Resource: MBA Course

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Health Care Technology: From Innovators to Providers to Patients: GSBGEN 351

This course examines health care businesses and how they use technology (primarily biotechnology, medical technology, and information technology) to improve patient outcomes and manage costs. Through case studies, students gain an in-depth understanding of how new technologies get developed and commercialized in health care, and of how the whole health care value chain adapts to new technologies.

Resource: MBA Course

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Analysis of Costs, Risks & Benefits of Health Care: MGTECON 332

This course examines the application of cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis, along with other evaluation techniques, to products and services such as medical care, whose "output" is difficult to measure. It critically reviews studies that apply cost analysis techniques to specific clinical problems.

Resource: MBA Course

Innovators : All

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Economic Development, Healthcare

Cross-Sector Effort Helps People See Better

Vision care is something that is practically taken for granted in the United States, but that’s not the case throughout much of the world. Some 300 million around the globe suffer from correctable vision loss, leading, as Ashanthi Mathai, MBA '04, says, “to people accepting their vision impairment and adjusting their lives around it.” The result? A lower quality of life, restricted job options, and even further economic distress.

Resource: Alumni

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Jane Chen (MBA '08)

Jane Chen's passion for helping others has taken her on an incredible journey from doing social work in China to founding Embrace, a company that sells premature infant incubators.

Resource: Alumni

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An interview with Patty Einarson (MBA '86, MD '01)

Karen Routt (MBA '83)

Caring for aging parents is a challenge many face, yet there is no clear path or pattern for how to manage this stage of life. Karen Routt shares her expertise at the nexus between technology and caring for the elderly.

Resource: Alumni

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Board Governance, Health Care, Education, Healthcare

With a high-tech background, an MBA, and an M.D., Dr. Patty Einarson has a unique perspective on the intersection of technology, business and medicine. She leverages this knowledge by contributing to math/science education in the public schools, encouraging the kids of today to become future innovators.

Resource: Alumni

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Economic Development, Education, Government, Healthcare, Philanthropy, Responsible Investing, Social Entrepreneurship

An interview with Mark Cafferty (EPNL '07)

Mark Cafferty is passionate about empowering individuals to be all they can be. He channels funds to employment and youth service programs.

Resource: CSI Affiliates

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Stanford study suggests girls can 'rewire' brains to ward off depression

[photo - Beating depression with brain control]

Using brain imaging and a video game, researchers teach girls at risk of depression how to train their brains away from negative situations.

Resource: News Article

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Jane Chen (MBA '08)

Jane Chen's passion for helping others has taken her on an incredible journey from doing social work in China to founding Embrace, a company that sells premature infant incubators.

Resource: Innovators

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Karen Routt (MBA '83)

Caring for aging parents is a challenge many face, yet there is no clear path or pattern for how to manage this stage of life. Karen Routt shares her expertise at the nexus between technology and caring for the elderly.

Resource: Innovators

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Conversations in Global Health with Chid Liberty

Liberty and Justice, a for-profit, socially minded company, is creating jobs and improving health care for Liberian women

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