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- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
emergency medical workers, and medical researchers all demand cadavers or cadaver parts. As an illustration, orthopedic surgeons use human joints to fine-tune their skills to learn new procedures. Similarly, some researchers studying Alzheimer's View Details
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
planned to pursue an aggressive schedule, moving the firm's Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease imaging compounds through clinical trials and into the market. This involved expanding the firm's facilities and headcount, and he planned to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
the parts of Africa that have a heavy disease incidence. MTV has developed a DNA of public service announcements that it claims are of central relevance to its high-risk customer base. How core is this to the strategy of a for-profit firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
have assumed greater roles in defining disease categories than in the past and now influence clinical trials and participate in regulatory decision making. Yet these developments are far from universal and are taking very different forms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
First of all, many more Americans will die of heart attacks than will ever die of Ebola. This is not like smallpox, whose spread can only be controlled with great difficulty. The nature of the disease is that, because it can only pass... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?
predict a new world where drug treatments are customized to an individual's genetic makeup, and gene-based therapy can root out cancer and other diseases before they take hold in the body. The new science will "revolutionize the way... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative
donation." In "Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative," Barrett, Austin and McCarthy examine one such collaboration, a joint effort of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation and Pfizer, Inc. to combat the devastating... View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
Genomic Research. Even the impetus for common diseases such as diabetes and hypertension continues to elude scientists, he said. Eric S. Lander But that will change. The major achievement that underlies biology and medicine today is that... View Details
- 08 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Death of the Global Manager
and its efforts to establish Humanitarian Assistance for Neglected Diseases (HAND), a corporate social responsibility program focused on treatments for diseases that typically affect too small a population... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?
illneses take a financial and emotional toll on businesses operating in Africa. "This is not just a disease we're talking about. This is a disease that has the power to destroy economies," said... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
School Case 813-169 Excel Entertainment No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/813169-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-507 Texas Children's Hospital: Congenital Heart Disease Care In... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
and nutrition and readiness to learn in schools is also well established. Forthcoming revisions to the Millennium Development Goals are expected to again highlight the importance of disease prevention and health care to the global... View Details
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
Implications for Non-communicable Disease Control Strategies By: Balsari, S., P. Vemulapalli, M. Gofine, K. Oswal, R. Merchant, S. Saunik, G. Greenough, and T. Khanna Abstract—Cardiovascular disease is the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
keep close watch over them. In 2015, Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, highlighted the problem. “A local food safety problem can rapidly become an international emergency,” she wrote in a statement. “Investigation of an outbreak of... View Details
- 13 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Women Heart Patients Have Better Survival Odds with Women Doctors
for Disease Control. In the emergency room as a business, the customer lives or dies. "Here we find that who you are and who is advocating for you, who is treating you, is making a difference" “This is really like a glass... View Details
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
the standards that people use in making judgments. The authors employed a novel method to test for, and rule out, such scale recalibration in self-reports of well-being. Design: The authors asked patients with chronic illness (either lung View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
experiments are underway with professionals trying different ways of configuring and managing services. On that list I include experiments with disease management programs, substituting nurse practitioners for physicians in certain... View Details
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
right kind of competition working. The health care system can achieve stunning gains in quality and efficiency. And employers, the major purchasers of health care services, could lead the transformation. [ ] Positive-sum Competition In a healthy system, competition at... View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
understand why there are so many diarrhea-related fatalities in developing countries. (Diarrheal diseases account for one in nine child deaths worldwide, according to the Center for Disease Control.) This,... View Details
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
by specialty and discrete interventions. Third, prevention and screening can dramatically improve value, as does ongoing disease management to prevent recurrences and setbacks. Fourth, the only way truly to drive value is to measure... View Details