In the following table are the required and optional readings, as well as cases, for each class session. Over January prior to the course's start, students are required to read one book from the list of selected books on global health, healthcare in low-resource settings, and related policy contexts (PDF).
| WEEK # | SES # | READINGS AND CASES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | S1 |
Required ReadingsKarnani, Aneel, Bernard Garrette, et al. "Better Vision for the Poor." Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2011, 66–71. Fred Hollows Foundation, IAPB, and Australian Government. |
| S2 |
Required ReadingsYadav, Prashant, Orla Stapleton, et al. "Learning from Coca-Cola." Stanford Social Innovation Review, Winter 2013, 51–5. Sinha, Sidhartha R, and Michele Barry. "Health Technologies and Innovation in the Global Health Arena." The New England Journal of Medicine 365 (2011): 779–82. Rhatigan, Joseph, Sachin Jain, et al. Applying the Care Delivery Value Chain: HIV/AIDS Care in Resource Poor Settings. Harvard Business School Case. Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 09-093, February 12, 2009. Porter, Michael E. "Value-Based Health Care Delivery." Annals of Surgery 248, no. 4 (2008): 503–9. Optional ReadingsMalkin, Robert A. "Design of Health Care Technologies for the Developing World." The Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering 9 (2007): 567–87. Blaya, Joaquin A., Hamish S. F. Fraser, et al. "E-Health Technologies Show Promise in Developing Countries." Health Affairs (2010): 244–51. Peterson, Kyle, Samuel Kim, et al. " | |
| 2 | S3 |
Required ReadingsBerwick, Donald M. "A User's Manual for the IOM's 'Quality Chasm' Report." Health Affairs 21, no. 3 (2002): 80–90. The IWG Taskforce on Sustainable Business Models. " Optional ReadingsWalraven, Gijs, Semira Manaseki-Holland, et al. "Improving Maternal and Child Health In Difficult Environments: The Case for 'Cross-Border' Health Care." PloS Medicine 6, no. 1 (2009): 17–21. International Initiative for Impact Evaluation. "Access to health: How to reduce child and maternal mortality?" Enduring Questions Brief 14 (2010). Nieburg, Phillip. "Improving Maternal Mortality and Other Aspects of Women's Health." Report of the Center for Strategic and International Studies Global Health Policy Center (2012). |
| S4 |
CaseRajaram, Kumar, Sonia Benavides, et al. "Nairobi District Hospital." UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Management Development Institute and the UCLA Anderson School of Management Case, 2010. Required ReadingsRamdas, Kamalini, Elizabeth Teisberg, et al. "Four Ways to Reinvent Service Delivery." Harvard Business Review, December 2012. Graban, Mark, Kai Nexus, et al. "Feel Human Again." Six Sigma Forum Magazine, November 2012, 16–20. Dasu, Sriram, and Richard B. Chase. "Designing the Soft Side of Customer Service." MIT Sloan Management Review, October 2010, 33–9. Optional ReadingsDuncan, Allan K., and Margaret A. Breslin. "Innovating health care delivery: The design of health services." Journal of Business Strategy 30, no. 2/3 (2009): 13–20. Gawande, Atul. "The Checklist." The New Yorker, December 2007. Rajaram, Kumar. "Fundamentals of Operations Management for HIV/AIDS Health Care Organizations." Decisions, Operations and Technology Management Area UCLA Anderson School of Management Working Paper, 2006. | |
| 3 | S5 |
CaseChandrasekhar, R., and Murray Bryant. "Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd.: Clinical Scorecard." Richard Ivey School of Business Case. Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9–W11–275, August 9, 2011. Optional ReadingsMaru, Duncan Smith-Rohrberg, Aditya Sharma, et al. "Global Health Delivery 2.0: Using open-access technologies for transparency and operations research." PLoS Medicine 6, no. 12 (2009): e100015. Brest, Paul. "Risky Business." Stanford Social Innovation Review, Summer 2012, 16–9. Agarwal, Ritu, and Peter Weill. "The Benefits of Combining Data with Empathy." MIT Sloan Management Review, September 2012, 35–41. |
| 4 | S6 |
CaseAshraf, Nava, and Natalie Kindred. "Community Health Workers in Zambia: Incentive Design and Management." Harvard Business School Case. Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9–910–030, March 2, 2010. Required ReadingThe Economist. "The Future of Medicine: Squeezing out the Doctor." The Economist, June 2, 2012. |
| S7 |
Required ReadingsFisman, Ray. "In Defense of Middle Management." Slate.com, October 13, 2010. Ruxin, Josh. "Doctors without Orders: To Improve Global Health, What we Need isn't just Bill Gates' Billions, but Microsoft's Managers." Democracy 9 (2008): 32–43. McLaughlin, Michael. "The Worst Thing About Best Practices." The Conference Board Review, July 2010, 53–4. Bloom, Nicholas, Rebecca Homkes, et al. "Why good practices really matter in healthcare." Vox, December 17, 2010. Optional ReadingsBloom, Nicholas, Benn Eifert, et al. "Does Management Matter? Evidence from India." NBER Working Paper no. 16658, 2012. Duflo, Annie, and Dean Karlan. "Can Management Consulting Help Small Firms Grow?" Stanford Social Innovation Review, Summer 2012, 7–8. Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, et al. "Does Management Really Work?" Harvard Business Review, November 2012, 3–7. Dwyer, Joseph, Sylvia Vriesendorp, et al. "An Urgent Call to Professionalize Leadership and Management in Health Care Worldwide." (PDF) Management Science for Health Occasional Paper, no. 4 (2006). | |
| 5 | S8 |
CaseIndu, P., and Vivek Gupta. "Living Goods: Developing a sustainable business model to provide healthcare services in Uganda." IBS Center for Management Research Case. Case: BECG104, 2009. Required ReadingBertini, Marco, and John T. Gourville. "Pricing to Create Shared Value." Harvard Business Review, June 2012, 2–10. Optional ReadingsLehr, David. "Microfranchising at the Base of the Pyramid." (PDF) Acumen Fund Working paper, 2008. Dawar, Niraj, and Amitava Chattopadhyay. "Rethinking Marketing Programs for Emerging Markets." Long Range Planning 35, no. 5 (2002): 457–74. |
| S9 |
CaseGulati, Shilpa, Gopal Pai, et al. "Catch a Falling Star: Sustainable Financing for a BoP Hospital." William Davidson Institute Case. GlobaLens, University of Michigan. Case: 1–429–173, May 2011. | |
| 6 | S10 |
CaseCassleman, Paul, Burt LaFountain, et al. " Optional readingRangan, V. Kasturi. "Lofty Missions, Down-to-Earth Plans." Harvard Business Review, March 2004. |
| S11 | No assigned readings | |
| 7 | No assigned readings; students are on-site in Africa or South Asia | |
| 8 | No assigned readings; students are on-site in Africa or South Asia | |
| 9 | S12 | No assigned readings |
| 10 | S13 |
Required ReadingsFarmer, Paul, and Jim Y. Kim. "Surgery and Global Health: A View from Beyond the OR." World Journal of Surgery 32, no. 4 (2008): 533–6. Bae, Jin Yung, Reinou S. Groen, et al. "Surgery as a public health intervention: common misconceptions versus the truth." (PDF) Bulletin of the World Health Organization 89, no. 395 (2011). Li, Shirley, Rachna Pande, et al. "SmileTrain: What's next when mission is accomplished?" Business models for global health: Smile Train Report (2010). ———. " Dubner, Stephen J, and Steven D Levitt. "Bottom-Line Philanthropy." New York Times, March 9, 2008. Optional Readings
asg. "Smile Pinki." August 18, 2009. Vimeo. http://vimeo.com/6172785. |
| 11 | S14 |
Required ReadingsCrutchfield, Leslie, and Heather McLeod-Grant. "Local Forces for Good." Stanford Social Innovation Review, Summer 2012, 36–41. Hartigan, Pamela, and Charmian Love. "The Power of Unreasonable Teams." Stanford Social Innovation Review, Winter 2013, 19–20. Seelos, Christian, and Johanna Mair. "Innovation is Not the Holy Grail." Stanford Social Innovation Review, Fall 2012, 45–9. Davenport, Thomas. "The Wisdom of Your In-House Crowd." Harvard Business Review, May 2012. Spreitzer, Gretchen, and Christine Porath. "Creating Sustainable Performance." Harvard Business Review, January-February 2012. Wales, Jane. "Framing the issue." Sponsored Supplement to Stanford Social Innovation Review Advancing Evaluation Practices in Philanthropy, Summer 2012. |
| 12 | S15 |
Required ReadingsOnie, Rebecca, Paul Farmer, et al. "Realigning health with care: Lessons in delivering more with less." Stanford Social Innovation Review, Summer 2012. "Health Policy Brief: Patient Engagement." Health Affairs, February 14, 2013. World Economic Forum, and McKinsey & Company. "Sustainable Health Systems: Visions, Strategies, Critical Uncertainties and Scenarios: A Report from the World Economic Forum." (PDF) January, 2013. |
| 13 | S16 |
Required ReadingsAcumen Fund. "Ten Things We Learned About Tackling Global Poverty." 2012. |
