transparency - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door

consumer-driven system would require transparency in health-care quality and costs. Can you imagine shopping in a supermarket where you don't know products' prices or ingredients? In the 1930s, President Roosevelt created the SEC to... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management

01 Sep 2015
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The Business of Love

re-create the transparency and social accountability that would come if a couple met offline through a mutual friend. The app populates a user’s dating profile with information and current photos from Facebook; recently Hinge added... View Details

Keywords: April White

05 Sep 2017
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Living the Quantitative Life

goals. Morrell: So you get in there, you start tracking this data to improve your own wellness. How did the tracking impact your behavior? Grana: No surprise it initially just kind of helped to have some transparency there, to be able to... View Details

12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan

pressing need in today’s world to shore up waning public trust in government institutions through transparency and good financial stewardship. Christopher Smart worked alongside Cognetti in Treasury, serving as deputy assistant secretary... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams

happens in the coming years will be driven by private-sector foreign investment. “To the extent that government can create enough transparency in these transactions, I think we should be able to manage this activity to our benefit,”... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

01 Mar 2009
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Model Patient

would receive comprehensive treatment from a team designed to deliver it. Insurers would require that hospitals set fixed and transparent prices covering various ailments and their treatment. This approach, Herzlinger says, would produce... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2007
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Profiles from the class of 2007

also cofounded a health-care systems education site (www.improvehealthcare.org) at HMS and a discussion group composed of students at the Medical School. “We need to focus on wellness and not on unreasonably prolonging life,” Jain observes. “There also needs to be full... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

01 Mar 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

not photoshopped to perfection but are flawed, vulnerable, and in-your-face. This total transparency generates a level of authenticity and intimacy with audiences that traditional marketing tactics cannot match. He also discusses the... View Details

01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill

didn’t judge me.” “Why would I?” Marietta asks, sputtering with incredulity. “You could have been me.” That attitude, coupled with a penchant for transparency and consensus-building, helped Marietta earn much-needed goodwill as he set... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand

Kidwai (MBA 1982), country head, HSBC India, director, HSBC Asia-Pacific, New Delhi, India To be transparent or, to express rather than impress. We need to build sustainable businesses, and this can only happen by being a responsible... View Details

01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care

of environmental toxins are powerful, still somewhat mysterious influences on our health. Simple tests that make those tendencies more transparent will result in basic behavioral changes and healthier lives overall. "Things are about to... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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