Healthcare As An Investment - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2013
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Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960

Ocean Hall opens at National Museum of Natural History As a Mormon missionary in Wisconsin, Roger Sant enjoyed working with Native Americans. Innately curious, he liked spending time with the people, getting to know them, and helping them... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

24 Feb 2015
Blog Post

Finding Unity in our Diversity: The Second Annual LGBTQ Conference at Harvard

critical issues facing the LGBTQ community moving forward. As an interdisciplinary conference, topics of discussion ranged from inclusive healthcare for LGBTQ patients, the... View Details

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Research - Health Care

medications? We study the health consequences of drug interruptions caused by large, abrupt, and arbitrary changes in price. Medicare’s prescription drug benefit as-if-randomly assigns 65-year-olds a drug budget as a... October 16, 2024... View Details

11 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?

unverifiable. As an experiment for this article, he used several of those resources to find the true cost of a car at a dealership. The prices delivered by the consumer sites didn’t match. “I can’t trust the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Auto

06 Nov 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?

levels of management was a theme running through several comments. As Dennis Nelson put it, "When an organization knows on what investments its existence depends, and the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution

sell these products online, in the store, or both, and how? Take lighting as an example. Home Depot asked: How do we best help customers with their lighting needs? What knowledge, products, and services do... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

10 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 10

introduces methods for increasing the efficiency of retail store liquidation, which we define as the time-constrained divestment of retail outlets through an in-store sale of inventory. The retail industry... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books

over that time. Art as an Asset in the 21st Century By David Kusin (MBA 1979) Independently Published In this book, author David Kusin describes the bedrock institutions within the global art sector,... View Details

11 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

The New International Style of Management

At Dell Beijing, Andy Klump (HBS MBA '03) was excelling at his job—selling computer hardware and services solutions to multinationals—when the company's 360-degree performance-review process underwent a change. As part of the new... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

28 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note

that the added investment to train young people may not offer enough of a return. The report, however, offers a very different picture of apprenticeships that potentially alleviates concerns of both parents and employers, focusing on the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

young boy for dismantling a phonograph, from then on "nothing or nobody could stop me from carrying through the execution of an experiment." 6 As a child, he was drawn to the beauty and utility of chemistry... View Details

October 2016 (Revised January 2017)
Background Note

The U.S. Health Club Industry, 2005–2016

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

In 2015, the U.S. health-club industry generated revenues of $25.8 billion, up from $14.8 billion in 2004. Members of health clubs accounted for 17% of the population, up from 14%. The number of clubs had grown from 26,830 in 2004 to 36,180. In the process, the list of... View Details

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18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

the threshold for research and development (R&D) investment in an economically viable product. Further, the small size of patient populations for orphan drugs, together with the increasing prevalence of... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Esteves Hall | About

bachelor’s degree from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and went on to found BTG Pactual, the largest investment bank in Latin America. With roots in Brazil, BTG Pactual has had an impact not only... View Details

29 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums

cover, hypothesizing that analysts gain comparatively good information if they attended the same college as a firm's top executives or board members. In short, the researchers found that the analysts outperformed on their stock... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

23 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?

Some large consulting companies, such as Andersen Consuiting and Ernst & Young, have pursued a codification strategy. Over the last five years, they have developed elaborate ways to codify, store, and reuse knowledge. (See the exhibit... View Details

Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen, Nitin Nohria & Thomas Tierney; Consulting

22 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Side Effects: The Case of Propecia

after "trusted advisers," namely wives and hair stylists who can see problems early on, could be an option. "It's a waste of time to try and get men to go to their doctors," one female audience member said. Instead,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Pharmaceutical

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

counterproductive. Companies should save the benchmarking surveys for commoditized processes or services. Benchmarking became popular several decades ago as part of the total quality management movement. An... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service

02 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Uncovering the Virtual Advantage at Humana

afterwards with those unable to attend live. The Everchanging Environment of Healthcare and Recruiting Humana operates its’ business in an environment where the only constant is change. Advances in medicine,... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health-Related Services

21 May 2024
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A New Chapter

Joe Wolf (MBA 1999), cofounder and co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, wants to provide educational opportunity where it is needed most. “In the next 30 years, half of the world’s youth will be sub-Saharan African,” says Wolf. “Right now, the World Bank reports that only one... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; photo by Cayce Clifford

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