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- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations
Prescription drug costs continue to climb in the United States, but tightening a loophole in a federal law may help curb rising expenses, according to research published this week in Health Affairs. Efforts to control US health care... View Details
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Patients - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
and health care Manage health through lifestyle choices, obtaining routine care and testing, complying with treatments, and active participation in disease management and View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
world in life expectancy, at 77.9 years. Half the U.S. population does not receive standard preventive care such as cancer screening, blood pressure checks, or vaccinations. A 2007 McKinsey study found that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Ticked Off
prevent the disease, been an information clearinghouse, and helped establish the country’s first endowed research dedicated to finding a cure for the disease. The HBS club provided pro bono consulting to help TFL identify ways to achieve... View Details
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Nabihah Sachedina
learning how to use health-care services as effectively as possible, we wanted to find ways to make prevention work and see how local government could support health." For the U.K., where health care is... View Details
- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
context of the health-care industry drew instant attention. Preventable medical errors resulting in injury cost the industry somewhere between $9 billion and $15 billion a year, the report stated. Even more shockingly, by some measures... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Class of 2004 Gives Fellowship
graduate of Princeton, Shariff is committed to international development. Prior to HBS, she worked with CARE International in Rwanda, primarily on HIV prevention and microfinance targeted at households run... View Details
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Encrypting Emails | Information Technology
Encrypting Emails Microsoft Purview Message Encryption When sending sensitive information to other people, you need to be extremely careful regarding what tools you use. Which is why we’re pleased that Microsoft is providing a solution... View Details
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Nabihah Sachedina
Although Dr. Nabihah Sachedina loved practicing pediatrics in the UK, she found herself increasingly frustrated with inefficiencies in the health-care system. “Because of conflicts over funding, it was sometimes difficult to discharge patients into community care,”... View Details
- 11 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
Meet the 2018-2019 Blavatnik Fellows in Life Science Entrepreneurship
care and is the CEO and co-founder of InfiniteMD, a telemedicine company connecting Chinese patients with US physicians for second opinions. She is a practicing Preventive Care... View Details
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Demo Day | New Venture Competition
their storefronts for AI shopping agents. Coord Health Christina Vosbikian (MBA 2025), Leora Sutton (MBA 2025) Coord Health provides critical at-home care for women's health. Through virtual preventative... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- Blog Post
“What does it take for us to support our beliefs?” – Johnny Bowman
it takes to get supporters to act on their beliefs. Just as important, I learned of the many significant barriers that prevent us from actively supporting the issues we care most about. As deep as our... View Details
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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
directly to NGOs that have been authorized to supply equipment and supplies to hospitals and COVID care centers in India. By May 12, GiveIndia’s web page was showing a tally of 1,550 donors from 30 different university groups, raising... View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Applying the MBA Skillset to Global Health Challenges: Summer Fellow Vasilis Theodorou (MBA 2022)
in the process, meet amazing and inspiring people who have devoted their careers to the elimination of preventable and treatable diseases. Lastly, I want to take advantage of the access I have to great CHAI resources (health experts,... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- Op-Ed
Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities
The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Books
ensure that alignment is sustained. Redefining Health Care by Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg (HBS Press) Professor Porter and his colleague argue that health plans, networks, and hospitals have competed to shift costs,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
prevent a new disease from becoming endemic to a region. It raised the profile of public health and brought the importance of international cooperation in health to new heights. SARS — severe acute respiratory syndrome — caused enormous... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
persons from 1999 to 2016. Beyond the devastating personal costs, there is an economic toll, too, caused by rising health care expenses for overdose prevention drugs and addiction treatment, criminal justice... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
during the 2011-2012 flu season, compared to 46 percent of all adults nationwide. “They were a great partner,” Beshears says of Express Scripts. “But even they, who are so attuned to the importance of these preventive measures, didn’t... View Details
- 10 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative
purpose of the collaboration and to each other.Cross-sector partnerships do not happen; they are built. To trigger the relationship there generally needs to be an emotional connection with the social purpose. The prospect of a program that View Details