Markets In Health Care - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point

capital and an end to predatory lending practices? Organizations lament sky-rocketing health care costs, but why is there such a limited effort to organize preventative care? Cutting Medicare will not stop... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard & Lynn S. Paine

08 Sep 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing

corrupt company. Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SECThe United States needs a health care equivalent of the Securities and Exchange... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

January 2022 (Revised August 2022)
Case

Hello Heart: The Next Generation of Chronic Disease Management Apps

By: Ariel D. Stern and Danielle Golan

Hello Heart, a hypertension management app debated whether to go deep and cover other heart conditions, or to expand its solution to other chronic conditions. View Details

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10 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

you're taking to business value creation, then asking for your customers' opinions and desires is not the way to go. In another case, David Lewis, the chief designer of Bang & Olufsen, said in an... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

19 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail

told the story of patient advocate Jackie Gruzenski, who faced an all-too-common experience when her husband was hospitalized for a cerebral bleed in 2009. Gruzenski was only allowed to see her husband during very strict visiting hours... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

17 Jul 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

sustainability. Health care executives are voicing vigorous public opposition to the Republican health care bill pending View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

08 May 2020
In Practice

Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On

your non-tangible assets to show appreciation, which might be as mundane as providing staff with recreational opportunities to relieve stress. Showing that you care can sometimes make a critical difference View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

16 Oct 2013
Op-Ed

Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

deaths due to severe smog (estimated between 3,000 to more recently 10,000 in London between December 1952 and March 1953) now officially acknowledged and seemingly routine in China today as well as coal... View Details

Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

27 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015

professors weigh in with their views on leadership in action. Clay Christensen’s Milkshake Marketing (20,015) About 95 percent of new products fail. The problem often is that... View Details

26 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire

brain-tracking tools to determine why we prefer some products over others. "People are fairly good at expressing what they want, what they like, or even how much they will pay for an item," says Uma R. Karmarkar, an assistant professor at Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

20 May 2013
Op-Ed

Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again

Critics have denounced this proposal as yet another government intrusion into the market and a futile attempt to "pick winners." What these critics ignore is that the US government has a long history of investing View Details

Keywords: by Gary Pisano; Manufacturing

09 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

Customer Management Strategy in Business Markets Harvard Business School Note 503-060 Describes in detail customer management strategies in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them

respond because they're not set up to differentiate on service. "Commerce Bank basically figured out how to get customers to pay for the service in a rather clever way: It turns out that a lot of people don't View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

Examples include the computer and telecommunication ecosystem, the health care ecosystem, and the global financial ecosystem. In the last ten years, ecosystems have emerged as... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/217007-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-066 Mohamed Azab and Seha Capital In January 2011, Mohamed Azab, founder and CEO of health View Details

05 Aug 2015
What Do You Think?

What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?

W. Norton & Company, 2014). Martin Ford, Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future (New York: Basic Books, 2015). James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser, Jr., and Leonard A. Schlesinger, What Great Service Leaders Know and Do: Creating... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

04 Nov 2002
What Do You Think?

What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?

are the long-term memory of the corporate brain." Most respondents, in one way or another and without mentioning it explicitly, suggested strong linkages between the health of the corporate brain and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

19 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature

serious commitments to staffing and enforcing environmental oversight and regulation, and compensation and promotion structures for local and state officials that prioritize environmental improvement. In taking View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Manufacturing

13 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought

of respondents reported optimism about their chances of surviving the crisis. However, only 70 percent of them expressed interest in pursuing such government subsidies. Cullen, an assistant professor at HBS who researches labor View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

05 Oct 2016
What Do You Think?

Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?

very proficient in mobilizing capital to stoke innovation and create new industries for sustained growth. It should focus on immense global market opportunities ” Tip Parker suggested what those new global... View Details