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- 31 Mar 2015
- News
Reinventing the Way Medicaid Delivers Care
- 01 May 2020
- News
The Business of Medicine in the Era of COVID-19
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
also a great love of the country and understanding of the history.” She also developed a severe case of PTSD during her time living in the region. Working in such a high-profile role required her to navigate the country at a time of chaos. Ames, who later served as a... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
in hand in 1950, McDermott returned to West Point to teach economics. In an environment that valued conformity, he introduced assignments in his courses that appealed to each cadet's strengths and interests. In 1954 he began to apply this... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Addressing roadblocks to innovation in health care
convenes health care management educators to develop and implement new curricula for health care management education. She also recommends policy changes, such as standards for health care IT and transparency to consumers on the price and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System
Lawrence University Professor Michael Porter offered several ideas for coordinating and economizing, including assigning patient care to holistic, integrated practice units, instead of treatment by... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 16 Jul 2019
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The Making of a Movement
making decisions that could advance treatment options for patients with rare cancers. Neither of the Linns worked in science or medicine. A few years earlier, rare cancers had not even been on their radar. Now it was possible their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
pharmaceutical companies focused their R&D on treatments for common illnesses — such as diabetes and high cholesterol — an approach that resulted in the development of blockbuster drugs. We now recognize that diseases are far more complex... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- News
A Voice for Diversity and Impact at Scale
posting to Senegal. Hunt had hoped to work with entrepreneurs, but was instead assigned to a midwifery program. “It was overwhelming and humbling,” she says. “But it was also so rewarding to help people when their needs were most acute.”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
"Taxation, meet Representation." Following up on his pledge to provide greater support for manufacturing, President Obama has announced a proposal to cut the effective tax rate for manufacturers to 25 percent. A number of economists howled against this so-called... View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
Incubating Ideas for the ‘Water Economy’
technologies––things like data analysis, using the internet to carry signals of information, advanced treatment technologies––things like that, and how to build sustainable businesses that improve the way water and wastewater are managed.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
knowledge to other medical areas as well. As for public policy and business, the desire to reduce medical and health-care costs and the rewards to be reaped from the development of blockbuster therapies will further drive markets forward.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 04 Jan 2016
- News
Taking Time Out for a Challenge
master’s degree in public policy from the Kennedy School in 2005. At HBS, she is pursuing a PhD in organizational behavior and sociology. Manning decided to take a leave from her PhD path and step in as acting CEO of Welbodi, providing... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
HBS Duch worked on independent research with Professor Michael Porter, who had just published his landmark book, The Competitive Advantage of Nations. “It was a great opportunity,” Duch says. “Porter’s work on the capacity of government to create View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
an unsatisfactory outpatient experience at a government-run facility, she also received ineffective treatments from an untrained local practitioner. She is feeling increasing physical discomfort, general weakness, and growing alarm about... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
have control over that. When employees don’t have control over something that matters to them, this usually points toward potential policy interventions and also naturally occurring interventions that we can study cleanly. By comparison,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
treatments and toward value for patients; he defined “value” as “health outcomes per dollar spent.” Instead of the current system of disjointed, episodic medical interventions, Porter argued for an integrated model that addresses the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Bottom-Line Discrepancies
Desai, who is studying the gap between book income — what companies report to shareholders — and tax income — what companies report to the IRS. In a paper titled “The Divergence between Book and Tax Income” published in the forthcoming volume 17 of the National Bureau... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
years” in a Financial Times poll of 4,000 executives. He recently spoke about the public policy and business challenges ahead. U.S. consumers complain loudly that prescription drugs cost too much. What’s your response? We have a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Racial Bias Pervades Health Care
Health-care reform has a different meaning for Augustus White (AMP 94, 1984) than the definition you might get from a policy wonk: His reform would ensure equality of medical treatment, no matter the color of your skin, gender, or sexual... View Details