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- September 2022
- Article
Giving a Buck or Making a Buck? Donations by Pharmaceutical Manufacturers to Independent Patient Assistance Charities
By: Leemore Dafny, Christopher Ody and Teresa Rokos
The federal Anti-Kickback Statute prohibits biopharmaceutical manufacturers from directly covering Medicare enrollees’ out-of-pocket spending for the drugs they manufacture, but manufacturers may donate to independent patient assistance charities and earmark donations...
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Cost Sharing;
Prescription Drugs;
Drug Spending;
Medicare;
Dual Eligibility;
Cost;
Health Care and Treatment;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Dafny, Leemore, Christopher Ody, and Teresa Rokos. "Giving a Buck or Making a Buck? Donations by Pharmaceutical Manufacturers to Independent Patient Assistance Charities." Health Affairs 41, no. 9 (September 2022).
- 29 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?
effect that job-hopping had on salaries, Healy and colleagues studied data based on 2,000 senior-level job switches from executive placement firms, LinkedIn career information, and interviewing search professionals. Overall, the research...
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by Kristen Senz
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
particularly within a tenth of a mile, of a house lowers the price at which it is sold. Our preferred estimate of this effect is that a foreclosure at a distance of 0.05 miles lowers the price of a house by about 1%. Download the paper...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
levels of related expertise; (ii) subsidiaries exhibit significant heterogeneity in this expertise; and (iii) the subsidiaries are more diversified and less concentrated. We examine the efforts to diffuse pollution prevent practices...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
based on the costs of using efficient processes and contingent on achieving superior outcomes. The end result will be a more effective and more productive health care sector. The paper concludes with suggestions for accounting research...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
evangelists," as well as appealing and effective products that inspired consumer loyalty—held sway over the popularization of beauty products that were just emerging for all women, black as well as white. All told, her central...
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- May 2015 (Revised May 2017)
- Case
Colgate-Palmolive Company: Marketing Anti-Cavity Toothpaste
By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez
In October 2013, Colgate-Palmolive Company, the world's leading oral care company, was about to launch its new Colgate® Maximum Cavity Protection™ plus Sugar Acid Neutralizer™ toothpaste in Brazil. Oral care category accounted for 46 percent of Colgate's $17.4 billion...
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Keywords:
New Product Management;
Consumer Segmentation;
Global Marketing;
Corporate Social Responsibility;
Healthcare;
Sustainability;
Health Care and Treatment;
Environmental Sustainability;
Marketing;
Segmentation;
Product Development;
Product Launch;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Product Positioning;
Consumer Products Industry;
Brazil;
United States
Quelch, John A., and Margaret L. Rodriguez. "Colgate-Palmolive Company: Marketing Anti-Cavity Toothpaste." Harvard Business School Case 515-050, May 2015. (Revised May 2017.)
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
of subduing individuality and ensuring conformity. Culture offers an inexpensive and informal way of regulating behavior that is all the more effective because it occurs inside the minds of employees and relies on peer pressure as a...
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by Ranjay Gulati
- 22 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Side Effects: The Case of Propecia
name of the drug and the problem it could correct, but would also have to include a list of major side effects. Trying to put side effects into context in a 30-second TV spot was next to impossible. "Reminder" ads could mention...
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- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
Working Papers Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting Authors: Lisa D. Ordonez, Maurice E. Schweitzer, Adam D. Galinsky, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract Goal setting is one of the most replicated and...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
of general innovations to the development of R&D innovations. This results in an increase in R&D, an increase in firm-level volatility, and a decline in aggregate volatility. The effect on productivity growth is ambiguous. On the...
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Martha Lagace
- November 2013
- Article
Learning from My Successes and from Others' Failures: Evidence from Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
By: D. KC, B. Staats and F. Gino
Learning from past experience is central to an organization's adaptation and survival. A key dimension of prior experience is whether an outcome was successful or unsuccessful. While empirical studies have investigated the effects of success and failure in...
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Keywords:
Healthcare;
Health Care;
Knowledge Work;
Attribution Theory;
Quality;
Success;
Medical Specialties;
Health Care and Treatment;
Failure;
Learning;
Health Industry
KC, D., B. Staats, and F. Gino. "Learning from My Successes and from Others' Failures: Evidence from Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery." Management Science 59, no. 11 (November 2013): 2435–2449.
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
from other firms, rather than developing new projects internally. Examining the channels behind this increase in R&D in-licensing, we explore heterogeneity in treatment View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- March 2014
- Teaching Note
Oral Rehydration Therapy
By: Nava Ashraf and Natalie Kindred
This Teaching Note accompanies the case "Oral Rehydration Therapy" (911-035). The case highlights the puzzlingly high rate of diarrhea-related child mortality in developing countries despite the existence of a simple, effective treatment: oral rehydration therapy...
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- June 2010 (Revised September 2010)
- Case
athenahealth: Innovating in Response to a Crisis in Healthcare
When Jonathan Bush and his partner, Todd Park, realized that their revolutionary approach to delivering clinical care was being stymied by the inefficiencies in the healthcare system and insurance red tape, they turned their proprietary technology, athenaNet, to a new...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Health Care and Treatment;
Information Management;
Innovation and Invention;
Brands and Branding;
Product Development;
Health Industry;
United States
Chakravorti, Bhaskar, Laura Winig, and Naeem Husain Arastu. "athenahealth: Innovating in Response to a Crisis in Healthcare." Harvard Business School Case 810-079, June 2010. (Revised September 2010.)
- 12 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
The Many Languages of Medicine to Impact Care Delivery
in biotechnology. On my psychiatric rotation, I witnessed patients of similar ages as me in a state of mental turmoil without effective treatment options to mitigate their suicidal tendencies. The impact of...
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- 2023
- Working Paper
Are Hospital Quality Indicators Causal?
By: Amitabh Chandra, Maurice Dalton and Douglas O. Staiger
Hospitals play a key role in patient outcomes and spending, but efforts to improve their quality are hindered because we do not know whether hospital quality indicators are causal or biased. We evaluate the validity of commonly used quality indicators, such as...
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Quality;
Health Care and Treatment;
Measurement and Metrics;
Outcome or Result;
Health Industry
Chandra, Amitabh, Maurice Dalton, and Douglas O. Staiger. "Are Hospital Quality Indicators Causal?" NBER Working Paper Series, No. 31789, October 2023.
- 07 May 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Broadening Focus: Spillovers and the Benefits of Specialization in the Hospital Industry
- 17 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)
first-hand what it’s like to work on a startup, which should help them assess career fit. How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life This SIP focuses on a pervasive, unavoidable, and profoundly important part of the human experience: conversation. Humans have to...
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- July 2007 (Revised January 2008)
- Case
Turnaround at the Veterans Health Administration (A)
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Brian R. Golden and Gary J. Young
Investigates the challenges that Dr. Kenneth W. Kizer confronted in seeking to create organizational change at the largest integrated health care system in North America, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Kizer was appointed as the Under Secretary of Health, to...
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Keywords:
Problems and Challenges;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Transformation;
Leadership;
Consolidation;
Health Care and Treatment;
Service Delivery;
Health Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
North and Central America
Edmondson, Amy C., Brian R. Golden, and Gary J. Young. "Turnaround at the Veterans Health Administration (A)." Harvard Business School Case 608-061, July 2007. (Revised January 2008.)