Stefan Scholtes
Dennis Gillings Professor of Health Management Director of the Centre for Health Leadership & Enterprise (CCHLE) at Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education
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Biography
Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education
Dennis Gillings Professor of Health Management
Director of the Centre for Health Leadership & Enterprise (CCHLE)
Diploma, PhD, Habilitation (Karlsruhe University)
Research interests
The challenges of organising high-quality and affordable healthcare services, with specific interests in (i) integration challenges in regional health economies, (ii) organisational design and management of hospitals and hospital systems, and (iii) predictive analytics for performance evaluation and comparison, based on routinely collected large datasets.
Stefan''s research is strongly practice-based and builds on long-term relationships with organisations in the local health economy, in particular with Cambridge University Hospitals and Papworth Hospital (the UK''s largest cardiothoracic hospital), where he holds honorary appointments.
Subject group: Operations & Technology Management
Professional experience
Stefan is an associate editor of the Journal of Operations Management, and was previously associate editor of Operations Research, Mathematics of Operations Research, SIAM Journal on Optimization and IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis.
Previous appointments
Stefan has taught Operations Research at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany and at the University of Cambridge''s Engineering Department, where he retains a courtesy faculty position. Prior to his appointment as Dennis Gillings Professor of Health Management, he was Professor of Management Science and Head of the Management Science Group at Cambridge Judge Business School. He has held visiting positions at Stanford, MIT and London Business School.
Selected publications
Freeman, M., Savva, N. and Scholtes, S. (2017) "Gatekeepers at work: an empirical analysis of a maternity unit." Management Science (DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2016.2512) (published online Sep 2016; forthcoming in print)
Kuntz, L., Mennicken, R. and Scholtes, S. (2015) "Stress on the ward: evidence of safety tipping points in hospitals." Management Science, 61(4): 754-771 (DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2014.1917)
Lee, Y.S. and Scholtes, S. (2014) "Empirical prediction intervals revisited." International Journal of Forecasting, 30(2): 217-234 (DOI: 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2013.07.018)
Savva, N. and Scholtes, S. (2014) "Opt-out options in new product co-development partnerships." Production and Operations Management, 23(8): 1370-1386 (DOI: 10.1111/poms.12059)
Scholtes, S. (2012) Introduction to piecewise differentiable equations. New York: Springer.
de Neufville R. and Scholtes, S. (2011) Flexibility in engineering design. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
View Professor Scholtes'' publications list on his Engineering Department profile.
Case studies
Scholtes, S. (2015) "Reorganising care at Cambridge University Hospitals." Cambridge Judge Business School Case Study.
Separating routine and complex healthcare
Simplifying general hospital services to make them more manageable is a route to solving the current healthcare crisis, say two healthcare experts …
Workload and patient treatment
Workload affects both treatment and referral decisions by “gatekeepers” to specialist services such as primary care physicians and emergency doctors, says a …
Split up ‘general’ hospitals
The financial straits of Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the NHS more broadly underline the need to split up “general” hospitals, Professor Stefan Scholtes …
Why big data comes with big headaches for the healthcare sector
“Big Data” is a phrase that seems to get many people excited these days. The potential is clearly so enormous that society …
Researchers identify the safety ‘tipping point’ at which hospitals fail
Researchers have identified the point at which hospitals begin to fail, resulting in deaths of critically ill patients The safety tipping point …
When slacker is safer
Professor Stefan Scholtes warns that exceeding the ‘tipping point’ can have serious consequences They turn up late. They seem immune to deadlines. …
PhD student selected for Academy of Management Best Paper Award
Stefano Tasselli, a PhD candidate in Management Studies at Cambridge Judge Business School, has been awarded with the Academy of Management Best …
Management training vital to the success of the healthcare and pharmaceutical sector
Cambridge Judge Business School’s Executive MBA aims to furnish senior executives with the knowledge and skills they need to take up a leading role …
Recognising excellence
Cambridge Judge Business School announces Teaching Award winners and faculty promotions Cambridge Judge Business School is delighted to announce the winners of …
Clinical leadership
The recent Darzi report recommends an increase in clinical leadership in the NHS. Whilst Professor Stefan Scholtes, Dennis Gillings Professor of Health …
The art of asking the right question, not the science of giving the right answer
Has risk modelling and risk management lost its way? Professor Stefan Scholtes, Dennis Gillings Professor of Health Management at Cambridge Judge Business …
Cambridge Independent: Seven ways to cure the ills of the NHS
Stefan Scholtes, Dennis Gillings Professor of Health Management at Cambridge Judge, delivers his prescription for Britain’s National Health Service – from simplifying …
Cambridge Business Magazine: Split Addenbrooke’s in two
The financial straits of Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the NHS more broadly underline the need to split up “general” hospitals in the UK, …
Phys.org: Flexible engineering design for infrastructure projects
Stefan Scholtes, Dennis Gillings Professor of Health Management at Cambridge Judge Business School, co-authors a book on flexibility in engineering design. The …
Cambridge News: Circle pull-out at Hinchingbrooke Hospital could spell end for private companies running NHS trusts
Last week, Circle decided to pull out of its contract for running Hinchingbrooke Hospital. Cambridge News investigates the impact this will have …
Singapore Business Times: Risk appetite should be aligned with corporate goals
A recent study of 82,000 patients in German hospitals by professors Ludwig Kuntz of University of Cologne, Roman Mennicken of Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut …
The Times: Patients are ‘shunted like parcels’ in the night
This Times cover story features Stefan Scholtes, Dennis Gillings Professor of Health Management at CJBS, and his research into the safety tipping …
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