Social Determinants Of Health - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 29

foreign direct investment (FDI) in determining micro economic performance. Using a new worldwide dataset that reports the activities of more than 12 million establishments before and after 2008, we... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Oct 2022
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On the Road to Recovery

learning curve. When Nightingale Nurses got its start, Moreno’s partners had staffing experience only in areas like IT and office personnel, and Moreno had led companies in sectors such as engineering and environmental testing. But none View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

January 2022
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Rational Habit Formation: Experimental Evidence from Handwashing in India

By: Reshmaan Hussam, Atonu Rabbani, Giovanni Reggiani and Natalia Rigol

We test the predictions of the rational addiction model, reconceptualized as rational habit formation, in the context of handwashing in rural India. To track handwashing, we design soap dispensers with timed sensors. We test for rational habit formation by informing... View Details

Keywords: Handwashing; Habit; Monitoring; Behavior; Health; Motivation and Incentives

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19 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 19

312-002 McKesson, a large, diversified drug distribution and health care IT company, is considering development of new business offerings to help private practice physicians remain independent. The company,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

cast may deviate dramatically from pure QV predictions because of the complex and refined nature of equilibrium play. Most plausibly, voting behavior and outcomes would be View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

February 1992 (Revised September 2003)
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Beech-Nut Nutrition Corporation (A-2)

By: Lynn S. Paine, Bronwyn Halliday and Michael Santoro

Beech-Nut's CEO must decide what to do. Asks students to consider how much evidence of impurity should be enough to trigger management's acknowledgment of a problem. What are the cognitive and attitudinal factors and pressures that lead people to persist in beliefs... View Details

Keywords: Safety; Risk Management; Attitudes; Nutrition; Cognition and Thinking; Food and Beverage Industry

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12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

and prosperous than others. And the third, which arose from the second, examines how you can take competitive thinking and apply it to social problems such as the environment, inner cities, and health care.... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

12 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

How can managers better identify, describe, and confront the issues of environmental and social sustainability that their companies increasingly encounter? One answer is One Report, a method View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2012
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In Brief

global strategy, a new position. More Social Enterprise Start-Ups Recognized for Bold Ideas Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and disability in the developing... View Details

Keywords: meta; contests; awards

16 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation

use. It may cut down on the volume of requests that local agencies need to field on a day-to-day basis. Participants also probed questions of concern: Political window dressing: Will Data.gov release... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

01 Mar 2008
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The Last Frontier

Booth Gardner (MBA ’63), the popular two-term governor of the state of Washington in the 1980s and ’90s, has embarked on his last campaign, “the biggest fight of my career,” he... View Details

Keywords: William Booth Gardner; MBA 1963; physician-assisted suicide; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

06 Jan 2012
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Where Are They Now?

the HBS Club of India—over the top. “We identified a significant global market and focused on an unmet but essential need, as health care is not optional,” says Mahesh, who got a very personal perspective on... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

Until the close of the last decade, health consumers received much of their knowledge and advice about prescription drugs from their physicians or other View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans

with Urban Water Partners RelayRides explanatory video FashionStake-Reuters story An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The “Skype”... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

were essential, and radical corporate social responsibility concepts were pursued by some firms. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53419 forthcoming Capitalism Beyond Mutuality New Prospects for... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

innovation and the opportunity to participate in the "white coat" economy and life sciences revolution of the 21st century. Writes a new social contract based on real family values, creating fair... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

June 2005 (Revised March 2007)
Case

ACHAP (African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships): the Merck/Gates Initiative in Botswana

By: V. Kasturi Rangan

By June 2004, ACHAP, a three-way partnership of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Merck, and the Botswana government, had committed nearly $60 million of the $100 million toward various AIDS education, prevention, and treatment programs. It was time to evaluate... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Social Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Evaluation; Business and Government Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Health Industry

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10 Oct 2007
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array of the impacts that they generate (or can influence), from environmental conditions to employee health and safety to social conditions like the quality View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016

unreliable, and crushingly expensive. There is no shortage of proposed solutions, but central to the best of them is the idea that health care needs more competition. In other... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

February 1994 (Revised May 1999)
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Manville Corp. Fiber Glass Group (C)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Sarah Gant

Manville Corp.'s senior managers are surprised when Japanese government officials advise them not to go forward with their plan to add a cancer warning label to diatomaceous earth (DE) products sold in Japan. The International Agency for Research on Cancer has ruled... View Details

Keywords: Management Teams; Ethics; Conflict of Interests; Health; Safety; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Policy; Japan

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