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- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Clubs Convene to Focus on Health Care
public health care, skyrocketing costs of prescription medications, and how AI-assisted personal medicine is coming in the future.” Ahmed says the Cleveland Clinic Canada (CCC) represents one of the growing... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Stephen Covey's Successful Habits
Habit 5, which is "Seek first to understand, then to be understood." Most people listen with the intent to reply, not to understand. Once people think they know and stop listening, they're no longer dealing with reality and so their View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
$1 and $2 billion drugs will give way to $200 to $300 million drugs. That will be a very different world for big drug companies, with different cost structures and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
care, plus some drug coverage — was rejected. It smacked of a “two-tiered” system, he says, and was unacceptable for political reasons. Costs have thus been significantly higher than expected because the... View Details
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
focuses almost entirely on disease care to keep people alive, but does very little to enable Americans to live healthy lives. The longer people live in their disease-prone years, the more they cost Medicare. AHCA doesn't really address... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
high costs understandable. What Wennberg and others did was to show that U.S. health care also has severe quality problems. Indeed, there is every possible quality problem you can imagine: incorrect diagnoses, View Details
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows
medicines. Hunter plans to use the Blavatnik Fellowship year to refine strategy and business development for the company’s novel drug delivery platform with his co-founders, Harvard Medical School Professor Dr. Wayne Lencer and Justin... View Details
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Market Perspectives (previously Finance and Capitalism) - Course Catalog
analysis to contemporary issues. The cases explore concrete situations that highlight the challenges and tradeoffs of decision-makers. Issues explored include: education, urban development, illegal drugs, rent control, housing, drug... View Details
- 17 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Through The Eyes of The Patient: A Recap of The 13th Annual Health Care Conference
David Torchiana, President and CEO of Partners HealthCare in Boston delivered the morning keynote address, and spoke about improvements in the quality of care over time, then looked forward in discussing what impact further improvement in outcomes may or may not have... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Sorry, We’re All Out of Chilean Sea Bass
places our food comes from and us the consumers. And that’s part of the problem. Do you think it was worth spending millions of taxpayer dollars and endangering lives to pursue the fishing vessel? The economic incentives for this kind of fishing begin to resemble the... View Details
- 11 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes
Hisano cites companies such as Wells, Richardson & Co. and Heller & Merz Company, which introduced dedicated dyes for butter coloring in the late 1870s. Synthetic dyes decreased the cost of coloring butter significantly. H.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
so the plants have quickly returned to their original CO2 emissions. Other dual-fuel power plants will do the same flip quickly unless there is a carbon cost in place or a high capital cost associated with... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
biotech companies—as a function of cost, time, and failure modes—tend to risk pivot on one program, one clinical trial, one outcome,” he observes. “Our company is the leader in mining muscle biology for drug discoveries that translate... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- Web
1.18 Field Global Capstone | MBA
choice of location(s) for coursework participation, whichever is the least-restrictive reasonable alternative. Drug & Alcohol Policy The HBS Drug & Alcohol Policy states expectations for responsible alcohol... View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
The United States has serious health care problems: More than 27 million uninsured people, costs that are growing faster than income, and a staggering $37 trillion of unfunded liabilities in the Medicare program. Perhaps most alarming:... View Details
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Potential Downside of Win-Win
consideration for all managers. Value Creation—and Collusion Suppose that pharmaceutical firm A manufactures a new, beneficial drug and begins selling 100 million pills per year at $3.05 per pill. Each pill View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
around seventy months in 2002. The length of time it takes to develop a drug is obviously a major driver of the cost of developing the drug, Pisano said. "The productivity of R&D biotech is... View Details
- 10 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!
by focusing on bigger films that require a bigger commitment." Jeff Robinov believes in blockbusters and his strategy is to create more of them. The pharmaceutical and entertainment industries are similar. R&D costs in both are... View Details
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1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) | MBA
residing in the immersion location may not participate in course activities (e.g., group sessions, field work, cultural excursions, group meals, etc.) nor may they stay in GEO-provided accommodations whether a student has been assigned a single room or has requested a... View Details
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
insulate consumers from cost sharing, thereby undermining insurers’ ability to influence drug utilization. We study the impact of copay coupons on branded drugs first facing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne