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- 24 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Climate Change
On Sunday, 300,000 activists took to the streets of New York for the People's Climate March, the biggest climate protest in history, and the United Nations on Tuesday held the Climate Summit. In the spirit of Climate Week, we present insights from members of the...
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- 2018
- Working Paper
Two Hundred Years of Health and Medical Care: The Importance of Medical Care for Life Expectancy Gains
By: Maryaline Catillon, David Cutler and Thomas Getzen
Using two hundred years of national and Massachusetts data on medical care and health, we examine how central medical care is to life expectancy gains. While common theories about medical care cost growth stress growing demand, our analysis highlights the importance of...
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Mortality;
Life Expectancy;
Medical Care;
Productivity;
Public Health;
Healthcare Spending;
Spending Per Year Of Life Gained;
Personal Medicine;
Technophysio Evolution;
Health;
Economics;
Health Care and Treatment;
Spending;
Data and Data Sets;
Health Industry
Catillon, Maryaline, David Cutler, and Thomas Getzen. "Two Hundred Years of Health and Medical Care: The Importance of Medical Care for Life Expectancy Gains." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 25330, December 2018.
- 02 May 2022
- What Do You Think?
Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?
method fosters a process of self-discovery not common to a student sitting in a lecture hall. The case method requires that instructors often pass control of the learning...
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- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I...
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by Kathryn Haviland
- Article
Heuristics Guide the Implementation of Social Preferences in One-Shot Prisoner's Dilemma Experiments
By: Jillian J. Jordan, Valerio Capraro and David G. Rand
Cooperation in one-shot anonymous interactions is a widely documented aspect of human behavior. Here we shed light on the motivations behind this behavior by experimentally exploring cooperation in a one-shot continuous-strategy Prisoner’s Dilemma (i.e. one-shot...
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Jordan, Jillian J., Valerio Capraro, and David G. Rand. "Heuristics Guide the Implementation of Social Preferences in One-Shot Prisoner's Dilemma Experiments." Art. 6790. Scientific Reports 4 (2014).
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
interests have spanned a number of industries but Fisher says a common emotional thread runs through them all. “I am passionately engaged in mission-driven enterprises that make a significant difference in people’s lives,” she says....
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
uncertainty over time. HBS professor Gary P. Pisano, a longtime observer of the industry, points to two key elements common to successful biotech firms: development capabilities and strong senior management....
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Julia Hanna
- 06 Jul 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?
Should We Encourage the Redistribution of Benefits of Globalization? If So, How? The benefits of globalization outweigh the costs. But the costs...
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- March 2017
- Article
Artful Paltering: The Risks and Rewards of Using Truthful Statements to Mislead Others
By: Todd Rogers, Richard Zeckhauser, F. Gino, Michael I. Norton and Maurice E. Schweitzer
Paltering is the active use of truthful statements to convey a misleading impression. Across two pilot studies and six experiments, we identify paltering as a distinct form of deception. Paltering differs from lying by omission (the passive omission of relevant...
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Rogers, Todd, Richard Zeckhauser, F. Gino, Michael I. Norton, and Maurice E. Schweitzer. "Artful Paltering: The Risks and Rewards of Using Truthful Statements to Mislead Others." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 112, no. 3 (March 2017): 456–473.
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
job." Jon and George Pellegrin were grappling with issues common to any company: managerial differences, power clashes, succession questions. But ratcheting up the intensity of their struggle was View Details
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 14 Aug 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Improving Patient Outcomes: The Effects of Staff Participation and Collaboration in Healthcare Delivery
- November 2020
- Article
Barriers to Hospital Electronic Public Health Reporting and Implications for the COVID-19 Pandemic
By: A Jay Holmgren, Nate Apathy and Julia Adler-Milstein
We sought to identify barriers to hospital reporting of electronic surveillance data to local, state, and federal public health agencies and the impact on areas projected to be overwhelmed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Using 2018 American Hospital Association data, we...
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Electronic Health Records;
Public Health;
Syndromic Surveillance;
Pandemic;
COVID-19;
Health Pandemics
Holmgren, A Jay, Nate Apathy, and Julia Adler-Milstein. "Barriers to Hospital Electronic Public Health Reporting and Implications for the COVID-19 Pandemic." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 27, no. 11 (November 2020).
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
fighter-pilot tests. But if finding the right stuff is a good way to identify top talent, why is it so common to see executives with a successful track record in one company coming into another company with...
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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
global business executive's most common ailment-jet lag-she was determined to glean as much as possible from this high-powered gathering of management experts and peer leaders. At 4 p.m. sharp on Sunday, November 9, Bourneuf, Busch,...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success
"may be the Dragon, a common icon in Asia that combines the disparate and frequently beneficent attributes of lesser beings into one of extraordinary capability and power. In...
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Peter K. Jacobs
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Understanding the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard
impact of its research labs is broad, the Institute has built four common platforms for external engagement that will enable rapid innovation and continual refinements as information flows between View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
catalyst for growth in the neighboring countries, in much the same role as Japan played in Asia. Such collaborative activity across borders is common in other regions, but...
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- 06 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Art of American Advertising
compared with modern marketing techniques, the Reconstruction Era actually shared some advertising commonalities with the dot-com boom. "The rise of View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
industrial and energy services—and was close to defaulting on its financial obligations. Some managers felt the company was also bankrupt in terms of ideas. There was insufficient communication across the...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 17 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both?
Former Theranos employees began testifying this week against Elizabeth Holmes, the once-celebrated biotech’s founder and CEO, in a criminal trial that has Silicon Valley worried. In opening statements last week, federal prosecutors...
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