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Motivated Inferences of Price and Quality in Healthcare Decisions

By: Emily Prinsloo, Kate Barasz and Peter A. Ubel

Policy makers have increasingly advocated for healthcare price transparency, whereby prices are made salient before services are rendered. While such policies may empower consumers, they also bring price to the forefront of healthcare choices as never before, with yet... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare; Price Transparency; Health Care and Treatment; Price; Quality; Perception; Consumer Behavior; Decisions; Insurance

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13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007

medical knowledge changes constantly, and hospital care units must learn if they are to provide high quality care. To develop a model of how improvement project teams promote essential organizational learning in View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

relaxing the ownership role of physicians in such sites. Some health insurers added technology as a major asset, and VCs and PEs invested heavily in these innovative businesses. Many of these innovations spread to other continents, such... View Details

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Fouladgar-Mercer AirPR MBA 2008 Renee Fry Making Care Easier MBA 1999 Luis Garza Sada Kinedu MBA 2010 Michael Genstil VisualizeROI MBA 2002 Anthemos Georgiades Zumper MBA 2012 Paul Gibbs Folsom Labs MBA 2011 Eric Giler Scratch Wireless... View Details

11 Dec 2023
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Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits

challenges journalists have faced amid the turmoil in the field—and the way they have tried to stay true to the field’s core values—offers potential lessons to other professionals, such as teachers or health View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

06 Dec 2016
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December 6, 2016

By: Kaplan, Robert S., Derek A. Haas, and Jonathan Warsh Abstract—The prevailing fee-for-service payment model has led health care administrators and physician practices to impose severe constraints on the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Feb 2018
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When a Competitor Abandons the Market, Should You Advance or Retreat?

15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008

original operating model developed by Dr. Wheelis was one in which TBC was staffed by a large number of part-time clinicians, the "affiliate model." However, changes in the health care environment,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

‘forward guidance’ – when the central bank guides market expectations – is normally used in reference to central bank policy on short rates. However, quantitative easing (or QE) – the other primary monetary policy tool being used since... View Details

September 2017 (Revised July 2023)
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Adaptive Platform Trials: The Clinical Trial of the Future?

By: Ariel D. Stern and Sarah Mehta

In July 2017, Dr. Brian M. Alexander, president and CEO of the AGILE Research Foundation, was preparing to launch a new type of clinical trial—an adaptive platform trial—to study potential therapies for glioblastoma (GBM), an aggressive form of brain cancer.... View Details

Keywords: Clinical Trials; Cancer; Adaptive Platform Trials; Platform Trials; Adaptive Trials; Glioblastoma; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Business Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Health Industry; United States

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Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights guide leaders worldwide through teaching, writing, and direct... View Details

09 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 9, 2015

allowed by health authorities. Yet caries remained a significant threat to public health in many countries, both developing and developed. As Suzan Harrison, Colgate's president of Oral Care, prepared to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

promulgated by academic economists in the 1970s, is behind the idea that corporate managers should make shareholder value their primary concern and that boards should ensure they do. The theory regards shareholders as owners of the... View Details

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01 Nov 2020
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Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

cares about their well-being. Many realize that this needs to change. Practicing active, habitual kindness can transform the remote workplace and it can start today. A little reassurance, compassionate listening, a conscious effort to... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

lower-to-middle-income countries? Keywords: Entrepreneurship ; AI and Machine Learning ; Technology Adoption ; Health Care and Treatment ; Technology Industry ; Health Industry... View Details

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Employment Data Trends

Employment Data Trends Employment Data Trends Trends Career Data Internship Data Trends by Industry 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Consulting 24% 23% 26% 25% 18% Consumer Products 3% 3% 3% 4% 3% Entertainment / Media 2% 3% 3% 1% 3% Health View Details

14 Feb 2023
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Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis

Sweden has long seemed like a social-welfare capitalist dream come true, where companies and labor unions collaborate in harmony with government support. Swedish citizens are among the wealthiest in the world, and they enjoy publicly provided View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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health care providers think value-based reimbursement will become their primary revenue model, NEJM Catalyst survey finds 42% of US health View Details

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U.S. Cluster Mapping Project - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Affiliated Organizations... Affiliated Organizations & Institutions ICHOM VBHCD... View Details

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technology especially as it relates to neurodevelopment and disability. I'd like to eventually leverage my clinical and technical experience to explore roles in healthcare management, biotech startups, and healthtech venture capital to optimize the role technology can... View Details

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