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  • January 2008
  • Article

How to Change the World

By: Howard H. Stevenson
Alan Wilson has a decision to make. The CEO of his company, Grepter, wants him to relocate to Zurich, where he can gain valuable experience for a rise to the top. Karl, his best friend, hopes to lure him to a hedge fund that promises big money fast. Shiori, an enticing... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Values and Beliefs; Compensation and Benefits; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence
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  • 21 Apr 2017
  • News

Good Riddance to Big Insurance Mergers

    William A. Sahlman

    William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

    Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business... View Details

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    • 03 Sep 2013
    • News

    With Change Coming, Aetna Targets Employers

    • January 2001 (Revised May 2003)
    • Case

    Novartis Pharma: The Business Unit Model

    By: Srikant M. Datar, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis
    In June 2000, Novartis reorganized its pharmaceutical business to form global business units in oncology, transplantation, ophthalmology, and mature products. The remaining primary care products continued to be managed within global functions (e.g., R&D and marketing).... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Recruitment; Product Marketing; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Health Industry; Health Industry
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    • February 2024
    • Article

    Representation and Extrapolation: Evidence from Clinical Trials

    By: Marcella Alsan, Maya Durvasula, Harsh Gupta, Joshua Schwartzstein and Heidi L. Williams
    This article examines the consequences and causes of low enrollment of Black patients in clinical trials. We develop a simple model of similarity-based extrapolation that predicts that evidence is more relevant for decision-making by physicians and patients when it... View Details
    Keywords: Representation; Racial Disparity; Health Testing and Trials; Race; Equality and Inequality; Innovation and Invention; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • December 12, 2023
    • Article

    Prices for Common Services at Quaternary vs Nonquaternary Hospitals

    By: Brandon W. Yan, Maximilian J. Pany and Leemore S. Dafny
    Using commercial health insurance claims data from 2017-2019, we assessed whether quaternary hospitals charged higher prices for common, unspecialized services also offered by nonquaternary hospitals. We found quaternary-hospital price premiums of 8.2 percent, on... View Details
    Keywords: Price; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Markets; Health Industry
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    • Research Summary

    AIDS in Africa: Life, Death and Property Rights

    By: Debora L. Spar
    In the final years of the twentieth century, the world was hit by a plague of epidemic proportions--the plague of AIDS, a life-threatening disease that remained stubbornly immune to any cure or vaccine. In the developed nations of the West, AIDS was slowly brought... View Details
    • November 2016 (Revised August 2020)
    • Case

    Improving Access at VA

    By: Ryan W. Buell, Robert S. Huckman and Sam Travers
    In 2015, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) ran the largest healthcare system in the United States, with over 1,700 sites of care that served nearly 9 million veterans. One year earlier, a scandal had erupted over a cover-up of the excessive wait times veterans... View Details
    Keywords: Service Operations; Service Delivery; Social Issues; Health Care and Treatment; Government Administration; Performance Improvement; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States
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    • October 2023 (Revised March 2024)
    • Case

    KOKO Networks: Bridging Energy Transition and Affordability with Carbon Financing

    By: George Serafeim, Siko Sikochi and Namrata Arora
    The problem was massive: two million hectares of African forests were lost annually to charcoal production for cooking, an area equivalent to 13 times Greater London, resulting in one billion tons of carbon emissions yearly. At the same time, an estimated 700,000... View Details
    Keywords: Clean Tech; Digital; Carbon Credits; Carbon Offsetting; Africa; Emerging Markets; Energy; Climate Change; Entrepreneurship; Energy Sources; Environmental Sustainability; Health; Market Design; Business Startups; Transition; Environmental Regulation; Policy; Energy Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Africa; Kenya; Rwanda
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      Michael Lingzhi Li

      Keywords: health care; health care
      • 08 Aug 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

      evolved from a prepayment or capitation model that focuses the organization around the efficiency of care and the health of the population it... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 09 Aug 2016
      • First Look

      August 9, 2016

      portfolio of high quality properties in Germany by acquiring one or more non-performing loans from Deutschland Bank. While he considers the many aspects of the deal that is... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • August 2006 (Revised September 2007)
      • Supplement

      Istituto Clinico Humanitas (C): Pronto Soccorso

      By: Richard M.J. Bohmer
      Follows on from the cases Istituto Clinico Humanitas (A) and (B). Describes the design and running of the new Humanitas Emergency Department. Istituto Clinico Humanitas has developed a very efficient operating system for dealing with elective (largely surgical)... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Customer Focus and Relationships; Health Industry; Italy
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      • 30 Mar 2020
      • News

      How to Get America Working Again

      • 24 Jan 2017
      • Blog Post

      A Journey From HBS to Human Resources

      Susan Levine MBA ‘98 shares her career journey from HBS to her multi-faceted role at Bain Capital. Susan had the opportunity to work in different industries during her time at Bain Capital, including financial services, health care,... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care; Health Care; Health Care
      • March 2018
      • Supplement

      Improving Access at VA

      By: Ryan W. Buell and Robert S. Huckman
      In 2015, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) ran the largest healthcare system in the United States, with over 1,700 sites of care that served nearly 9 million veterans. One year earlier, a scandal had erupted over a cover-up of the excessive wait times veterans... View Details
      Keywords: Service Operations; Service Delivery; Social Issues; Health Care and Treatment; Government Administration; Performance Improvement; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States
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      • 24 Jul 2018
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

      to change your life. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54720 in press Health Care Management Review Innovation Contest: Effect of Perceived... View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
      • 15 Jun 2021
      • News

      Podcast: How Biosimilars Are Affecting the Drug Markets

      • 24 May 2021
      • News

      A Shared Platform for Communicating Bioethics Concepts