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- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
for six years in a row; but leadership saw CHOP as more than the large main campus in western Philadelphia. Beginning in the 1990s, CHOP had created a large network of Primary Care Providers, Specialty View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2015
- Op-Ed
The Fall of Greece
tricks." Individuals raised in an environment of favoritism, nepotism, and cronyism are unlikely to let old habits go. I am afraid, though, that the new government will cause damage for one primary reason: it seeks to suppress any... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
opened to cover the secondary health-care needs of the health department's inhabitants. In 2003, the model was extended to also cover primary care. The health department received a capitation fee for each registered inhabitant of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
which, as the former parent of Delphi, has agreed to fund a portion of the massive pension and retiree health care liabilities that Delphi incurred when it separated from GM in a prior spin-off. The company has also had to seek... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2018
- Op-Ed
'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year
vibrant and politically involved University. We employed a wonderful Kikuyu lady from Nyeri to help take care of our four young children; she told us, totally without rancor, about how she had been detained in one of the 'concentration... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
MaterialsAncora: A Private University in the Health Care of the Poor 306-088 Project Ancora signals the entry of the private sector into primary healthcare for Chile's poor. On a commercial basis, it seeks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
June 2016 Medical Care Vaccination Rates Are Associated with Functional Proximity but Not Base Proximity of Vaccination Clinics By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Gwendolyn I. Reynolds... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
acceptance and a widespread consensus among both internal and external stakeholders. The outcome of this type of professional competition is not determined by claims about representing the underlying economic reality, but by claims about representing those who View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
is likely to have a meaningful effect on health care spending patterns. In addition, precision medicines can change the expected profitability of therapies both by allowing more sophisticated pricing systems and potentially decreasing the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
alter significantly how people think about the company, its products, and the brand. US consumers have not had a high-quality perception of GM brands over the past few decades. Although driven in part by the company's missteps, the View Details
- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
ablokhin Free shipping is an increasingly important tool in the online retailer's marketing arsenal, but few sellers understand the intricacies of the strategy and are leaving significant profits on the table, new research suggests. "Retailers need to be View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
November 2015 Quarterly Journal of Economics Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance By: Baicker, Katherine, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Joshua Schwartzstein Abstract—A fundamental implication of standard moral hazard models is overuse of low-value medical View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
opacity and agility. Clients find it very difficult to judge a firm's performance in advance, because they are usually hiring it for specialized knowledge and capability that they themselves lack. Price becomes a proxy for quality. And the top consulting (or law) firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
city employees are legally protected by many state constitutions. The key constraint in changing health care obligations, however, is usually political, especially pressure from public employee unions. If healthcare benefits can be... View Details
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
training, accounting and information systems, design and engineering, and so on. Business history has widened its scope enormously in the last two decades. A striking feature of the research reviewed in the Handbook is that so much of it concerns the period since 1950.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
quite limited. The best path forward involves extensive experimentation and careful evaluation. Publisher's link: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/I/bo18508109.html August 2013 Advances in Strategic Management The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
Walter A. Friedman and Geoffrey Jones. For example, on the subject of environmental sustainability, the authors observed: "It is odd that business historians have not devoted more attention to sustainability, given that, arguably, the actions of companies have... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
Herzlinger Publication:McGraw-Hill, 2007 Abstract In the battle for U.S. health care, patients and doctors are losing. Who Killed Health Care? shows how to win the war. One of the nation's most respected health care analysts, Regina... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54331 forthcoming American Economic Journal: Economic Policy Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending By: Cutler, David, Jonathan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
trying to secure specimens. Alongside primary medical education providers, a large number and wide range of other users are also trying to secure cadavers for their own needs. The continuing training of medical doctors, for instance,... View Details