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- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
candidates. We find that increasing the political representation of Muslims improves health and education outcomes in the district from which the legislator is elected. We find no evidence of religious favoritism: Muslim children do not...
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- 11 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices
on performance, a step toward what health economists call “value-based pricing.” “The implication for German health insurers—and indirectly, consumers—has been millions of euros in savings on drug spending,...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
Kaplan, who has been working on a multiyear project with HBS Professor Michael E. Porter on improving value in health care, has found that often the most effective medical procedure is one that costs the least: talking. In a recent...
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- 28 Jul 2016
- Op-Ed
Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?
review sites for family doctors, pediatricians, heart surgeons, psychiatrists and others involved in health care delivery? There are seven key barriers. Some can be overcome by a cleverly designed website, others are more structural and...
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- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
Last month HBS Working Knowledge offered an excerpt from Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, by Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg. The U.S. healthcare...
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- 24 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works
their companies. If ever there was a time for leaders to be authentic, this is it. They need to be humble, open, and realistic about the health care and logistical challenges they are facing while using the best scientific and technical...
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- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
With a yearly price tag of roughly $87 billion in lost productivity and adverse health consequences, the flu is nothing to sneeze at. It’s no surprise that workplace flu vaccination clinics have gained popularity as employers try to keep...
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- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations
Prescription drug costs continue to climb in the United States, but tightening a loophole in a federal law may help curb rising expenses, according to research published this week in Health Affairs. Efforts to control US View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
analyze the complexities of disease management and check all avenues for potential business opportunities. The participants, almost all of them health professionals, sorted through the risks and benefits of disease management for...
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- 23 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier
people with health insurance often are saddled with medical debt. Policymakers have taken notice, and in an election year amid an uncertain economy, health care, debt, and economic mobility are all hot...
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Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
whereas South Korea has 216 cases per million. "South Korea created a vast number of testing sites, which included not only big hospitals but local clinics and public health care facilities." What South Korea teaches us is that proactive...
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- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
couldn't still succeed, says John Quelch, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a professor of health policy and management at Harvard School of Public Health. The sheer scope of the...
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- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
reports. The paper, authored by Julia Adler-Milstein, an HBS doctoral candidate in the Health Policy Management program; Sara J. Singer, assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard...
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- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
Conference, led by the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association, presented two days of provocative lectures, panel discussions, and case studies surrounding questions like: What's next for healthcare? And how should smart businesses...
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- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
Ashraf, an associate professor in the Negotiations, Organizations, and Markets unit at Harvard Business School. “Asking them to apply something that's been generated somewhere else isn't involving them in the process” But there's a dearth of co-production in the public...
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- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
Health. "In the healthcare space, a lot of the interesting work is among the private entrepreneurs. Health problems in India are severe; they are mind-blowing," said Khanna. In addition to heart disease and other ailments shared...
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- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
as supermarkets and health clubs, could offer products alongside the more established sources like HMOs and pharmacies. Genzyme: Mara Aspinall (photo: courtesy Genzyme) A Healthy Controversy All this "cross-pollination"—whether...
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- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
trying to secure specimens. Alongside primary medical education providers, a large number and wide range of other users are also trying to secure cadavers for their own needs. The continuing training of medical doctors, for instance, relies on cadavers. In addition,...
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