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- 18 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Best Person to Lead Your Company Doesn't Work There—Yet
bigger and may have more internal talent. Board members may also lack enough skin in the game—such company stock ownership—to properly weigh risk, the authors theorize. “The private equity firm really just cares about improving that...
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- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
The Supreme Court has spoken, and its ruling last Friday has evoked myriad responses from across the United States—from the far right to the far left, from small businesses to giant corporations, from pundits to the person on the street....
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- 18 Nov 2015
- News
Kraft foundation gives $20 million to advance personalized medicine
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Racial Bias Pervades Health Care
cites a library full of studies (some his own) as well as his own personal experiences to document that minorities receive a lower standard of health care than do white men. For example, he writes, African...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
AI Enhances Diagnostic Care
2019) “AI has improved workflow through higher efficiency and has helped us deliver more personalized care, leading to an enhanced patient experience.” —DOHA TANTAWY (MBA 2019) Wilhelm Röntgen’s discovery of the X-ray in 1895 enabled...
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Jennifer Gillespie
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Health Care - Faculty & Research
Specialist (LCS)—a care coach offering an extra layer of support to patients and hospital staff by providing education, mental wellness support, and personalized alternative pain management strategies to...
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- 07 Apr 2020
- News
What Will U.S. Health Care Look Like After the Pandemic?
- April 2022
- Article
Consumers Value Effort over Ease When Caring for Close Others
By: Ximena Garcia-Rada, Mary Steffel, Elanor F. Williams and Michael I. Norton
Many products and services are designed to make caregiving easier, from premade meals for feeding families to robo-cribs that automatically rock babies to sleep. Yet, using these products may come with a cost: consumers may feel they have not exerted enough effort....
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Keywords:
Effor;
Caregiving;
Close Relationships;
Symbolic Meaning;
Signaling;
Relationships;
Consumer Behavior;
Perception
Garcia-Rada, Ximena, Mary Steffel, Elanor F. Williams, and Michael I. Norton. "Consumers Value Effort over Ease When Caring for Close Others." Journal of Consumer Research 48, no. 6 (April 2022): 970–990.
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
industries in different ways. Venture capital, for example, was once mostly reserved for institutional investors backed by endowments and pension funds. Today, it increasingly includes individual investors who are using technological tools and data to steer capital...
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- 08 Mar 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?
their patient populations need, and workers and families can have the freedom and flexibility to make their own health care choices." This statement speaks to a strong attachment to personal freedom and...
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- 26 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
(PPE)ople First: Bringing Critical Personal Protective Equipment to Boston Hospitals
for personal protective equipment (“PPE”) in the US, Sophie began exploring ways to bring these supplies to Boston. Jeff, spotting an opportunity to create a scaled initiative, jumped in and together the two of them began ordering bulk...
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- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional
panelists went on to describe could not claim that ideal framework, the projects they described did identify niches and illuminate business issues that are already reshaping the health care field. Daniel D. Moriarty, Assistant Provost and...
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- Web
Value-Based Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
outcomes to increase patient value. Patients Participate actively in managing personal health, and, when faced with care and treatment options, seek assistance in understanding the expected outcomes. Health...
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Research: People Use Less Energy When They Think Their Neighbors Care About the Environment
By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Oliver P. Hauser, Julie O'Brien, Erin Sherman and Adam D. Galinsky
A significant reduction in energy consumption is needed to help meet critical temperature thresholds. New research points to a way to help consumers work toward this goal – one that doesn’t rest on changing people’s personal beliefs about climate change. Rather, it...
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Jachimowicz, Jon M., Oliver P. Hauser, Julie O'Brien, Erin Sherman, and Adam D. Galinsky. "Research: People Use Less Energy When They Think Their Neighbors Care About the Environment." Harvard Business Review (website) (January 28, 2019).
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
Innovating in Health Care have shown that necessity was not only the mother of invention, but innovation as well. "If you live in India and you can spend $50 per person per year on health care—as opposed to...
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- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Clubs Convene to Focus on Health Care
public health care, skyrocketing costs of prescription medications, and how AI-assisted personal medicine is coming in the future.” Ahmed says the Cleveland Clinic Canada (CCC) represents one of the growing patient-centric models of View Details
- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
Summing Up Does U.S. health care need more pull or push? There are clear symptoms that something is wrong with U.S. health care. In Edward Hare's words, "It's making us uncompetitive and turning us against each other." In this...
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- November 2019 (Revised June 2020)
- Case
Shiseido Acquires Drunk Elephant
By: Jill Avery
On October 7, 2019, the Shiseido Group announced that it would acquire clean skincare brand Drunk Elephant for $845 million, a valuation of 8.5 times sales. Did Shiseido pay too much or too little for this brand asset? How much was the Drunk Elephant brand worth and...
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Keywords:
Personal Care;
Startup;
Brand Equity;
Brand Valuation;
Brand Value;
Brand Storytelling;
Brand Management;
Brands and Branding;
Valuation;
Marketing;
Marketing Strategy;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
United States;
Japan
Avery, Jill. "Shiseido Acquires Drunk Elephant." Harvard Business School Case 520-052, November 2019. (Revised June 2020.)