Diseases - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

will be savings from providing preventive care and disease management. To get to universal insurance, however, the problem is not just the poor. In Massachusetts, state government discovered that a significant proportion of the uninsured... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

07 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity

deaths (and only those individuals who lived in the state of Maryland), while the other focused primarily on diseased individuals and their families (who were also able to authorize donations upon death) living both in and out of state.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

25 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Planning for Surprises

other diseases. In addition to disruptions with the flu supply in each of the past four years, the Times notes that there have been shortages in eight of the eleven vaccines for childhood diseases in the U.S. Why were we vulnerable to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Nov 2024
Op-Ed

How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

harder investment concept to explain and perhaps justify, but the return on investment is just as real. US analogies include adding seatbelts in cars to save lives, developing medicines for chronic diseases to avoid illnesses, and... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy

07 Dec 1999
Research & Ideas

Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century

science of nutrition began to develop in the 1890s; the presence of vitamins in food and the relationship between diet and disease are twentieth-century discoveries. But as he and his partner expanded their business in the early 1870s,... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn

10 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

telemedicine and specialized providers of niche services such as retail clinics, single-specialty hospitals, and disease management companies. The research, he says, reflects the traditional pendulum swing in health care between... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health

03 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

focuses almost entirely on disease care to keep people alive, but does very little to enable Americans to live healthy lives. The longer people live in their disease-prone years, the more they cost Medicare. AHCA doesn't really address... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health

05 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

Using Competition to Reform Healthcare

cycle of care. The business is congestive heart failure, for example, not heart surgery, cardiology, angiography, or anesthesiology. Traditional specialties are often too broad. The business is not nephrology, but chronic kidney disease, end stage renal View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

12 May 2016
Research & Ideas

When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions

considering that in 1996, the US government froze, in large part, federally-funded research on gun violence. That year, Congress pushed through a rider in an annual appropriations bill that prohibited the Center for Disease Control from... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

23 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains

due to the fact that US OSHA hasn’t developed standards to govern these issues. [US President Joseph] Biden has just tasked OSHA with doing just this, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is also now finally working on... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Apparel & Accessories

12 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers

level of coordination can nonetheless be achieved.” A fascinating set of cases that clearly reflects the properties of diffuse pragmatic interest representation involves specific disease populations. Individuals that either are suffering... View Details

Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull

16 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

all become consumers of the health care industry. Indeed, health care affects everyone and encompasses a diverse set of services from childbirth, to illness prevention, to the management of chronic disease and end-of-life care. Health... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

22 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 22

biotechnology company, launches a program to develop therapies for neglected diseases (e.g., malaria, TB), giving away the intellectual property. This case focuses on the decision of which diseases, which partnerships, and which markets... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Oct 2013
Op-Ed

Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

deaths due to severe smog (estimated between 3,000 to more recently 10,000 in London between December 1952 and March 1953) now officially acknowledged and seemingly routine in China today as well as coal burning's lingering cardiovascular and lung View Details

Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

25 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela

perfect places to transfer and share not only information, but disease as well. From Harvard Business School, I am here to discover what the Kumbh Mela can teach me about real estate, urbanization, sustainability, and infrastructure. We... View Details

Keywords: by John D. Macomber; Construction; Real Estate

31 Oct 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

information regarding diagnosis and prognosis, predict treatment efficacy or toxicity, serve as markers of disease progression, and serve as auxiliary endpoints for clinical trials. Some have multiple uses, while others have a specialized... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Apr 2020
Book

Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings

emphasis on indoor air quality and other healthy building measures will diffuse through the rest of the economy. As the country begins to return to work, concerns about the spread of infectious disease will “make it easier than ever to... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Real Estate; Health

18 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

describe the enormous changes in the markets for therapies for rare diseases that have emerged over recent decades. The most prominent example is the fact that the profit-maximizing price of new orphan drugs appears to be greater today... View Details