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- 01 Mar 2007
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Daniel Vasella
inflation, so from that perspective, complaints are understandable. On the other side, there are benefits. Mortality for many diseases has dropped dramatically over the last forty years. Analysis shows that 40 percent of that decline was due to drug therapy. The big...
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- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
teamed up with Priyank Lathwal, a Ph.D. candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, to mobilize South Asian student organizations across Harvard and other universities to pool resources for Indian health and aid organizations. The...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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A New Approach to Contact Tracing
people don't want Big Brother. We’re just saying, there’s a cost to that,’” notes Weiss. The downside Bay points to is that if users don’t give the government access to their data, public health officials...
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- 01 Dec 2011
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At Your Service
Anne Morriss (MBA 2004) maintain that it is possible for organizations to reduce costs while dramatically enhancing customer service. That win-win approach involves “looking at your biggest buckets of cost...
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- 17 Jun 2020
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Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
Chairman and CEO, Integrated Micro-electronics Inc.: “Ayala-led Integrated Micro-Electronics Inc. (IMI) seeks to bring down the cost of nursing COVID-19–afflicted patients back to health by manufacturing...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2007
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Faculty Books
including start-up, funding, growth, alliances and collaboration, and performance measurement — to help readers gain an in-depth understanding of the distinctive characteristics of the social enterprise context and organizations. Who Killed View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
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Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19
Labs. “A crisis like this illuminates the importance of innovation.” One example is Umbulizer, which offers a reliable, portable ventilator at 10 percent of the cost of a $40,000 hospital-grade machine. The device recently gained...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Prognosis
cost of the health care that they’re paying for their subscribers has gone down by 50 percent in the last month or so. It seems irresponsible for the private insurance industry to realize a windfall at a...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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The Race Against Resistance
resistance, we will fall back to a time when simple infections killed people.” “We are approaching a cliff. If we don’t take steps to slow down or stop drug resistance, we will fall back to a time when simple infections killed people.” The World View Details
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Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 30 Aug 2021
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One and the Same
Taking notes is often seen as a gendered, secretarial role—something to be avoided at all costs if you were a young woman hoping to make an impact early in your career. But Mary Wooldridge (MBA 1994) saw it differently. “If you are...
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- 11 May 2017
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Going with the Flow
with a team on a new idea in the health IT space—one she believes has the potential to increase the quality of patient care, while lowering costs by giving control of health...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2010
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Chaotic Funding Derails Research
postdoctoral students who are pursuing careers in science. Labs have many different projects under investigation simultaneously. Most labs have annual budgets of $1 million to $5 million, with most of that money coming from grants from institutions like the National...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Faculty Books
Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care by Richard M.J. Bohmer (Harvard Business Press) In this book, Senior Lecturer Bohmer, a medical doctor, explains that health-care professionals provide two different types...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System
a survey of US health-care executives conducted for the forum, Huckman reported that 55 percent of respondents believed that, considering quality and cost in combination, America is losing ground relative to other nations. But problems...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
could be prescribed, assembled, and fitted in the field by trained microentrepreneurs rather than by optometrists or ophthalmologists. The next step was to form a "Low Cost Available Eyeglasses" (LCAE) team and enter the HBS Business Plan...
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- 29 May 2019
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HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni
Etienne Deffarges (MBA 1985), author of Untangling the USA: The Cost of Complexity and What Can Be Done About It. Deffarges, a health care entrepreneur and investor, talked about his book and the concept of...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2021
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Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges
challenges like climate change, health care, and wealth inequality.” To integrate and amplify HBS’s efforts, Dean Datar has appointed Debora Spar, the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration, to serve as Senior...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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The Changing Nature of Research
centers to lower the cost of health care delivery. The ability of faculty members to study business issues that are relevant and that resonate with their intellectual passions, unencumbered by the need to...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Case Study: Sweat the Technique
digital, including allowing users access to a stream of information that they can track and sync with other performance data. While the shift would add both cost and time—and potentially push Nix into a more saturated wearables market...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2013
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Your Own Medicine
level of creatine kinase—an enzyme indicative of muscle damage—in a normal person's blood is around 50 units per liter, maybe as high as 100 after a workout. Charley's was 20,000. It suggested muscular dystrophy. Related Links Curing View Details