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26 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

cost.” During the two vulnerable weeks before government relief kicked in, Lawson delivered 200,000 prepared meals to victims, including onigiri rice balls, bread, and cups of noodles. The company also took View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

July 31, 2017
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A Commitment Contract to Achieve Virologic Suppression in Poorly Adherent Patients with HIV/AIDS

By: Marcella Alsan, John Beshears, Wendy S. Armstrong, James J. Choi, Brigitte C. Madrian, Minh Ly T. Nguyen, Carlos Del Rio, David Laibson and Vincent C. Marconi

Objective: Assess whether a commitment contract informed by behavioral economics leads to persistent virologic suppression among HIV-positive patients with poor antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence. Design: Single-center pilot randomized clinical trial and a... View Details

Keywords: Adherence; Antiretroviral Therapy; Behavioral Economics; Commitment Contract; Financial Incentives; HIV-1 Virologic Suppression; Health Disorders; Motivation and Incentives

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03 Dec 2021
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Physicians Off the Beaten Path

Youssef is a medical doctor and the first Syrian Rhodes Scholar. He has an MD from Syria, an MSc in International Health at Oxford and is currently doing an MBA at Harvard... View Details

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Hidden Workers, Untapped Talent - Managing the Future of Work

Francis Hintermann 03 OCT 2024 Companies have long ignored the caregiving responsibilities of employees, compromising both performance and access to talent. With the rising burden of childcare and eldercare,... View Details

29 Nov 2021
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How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family

you are not working is a moment that's wasted,” says Whillans. “The negative effects of constantly choosing work over personal relationships appear to accumulate over time and in turn contribute to negative mental View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka

25 Aug 2014
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Starbucks Reinvented

clear, unwavering message that Starbucks' transformation would represent a return to its roots and an uncompromising commitment to core values, such as health care benefits for... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

24 Jan 2018
News

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

Alvin E. Roth

Al Roth is the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, and in the Harvard Business School. His research, teaching, and consulting interests are in game theory, experimental economics, and... View Details

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06 Oct 2008
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Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan

which has a negative effect on all ventures, sensible and nonsensical. I would also reinforce the idea that entrepreneurship is critical around the world. We are confronted with many crises from health View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Jul 2023
News

The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)

work in watches. Next, Discovery, a South African health care company, incentivizes healthy behavioral change that leads to fewer claims and lower premiums for customers as the... View Details

Keywords: Robert Bochnak

27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009

PublicationsDesigning Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care Author:Richard Bohmer Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2009 Abstract Today's health-care... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Keywords: digital health; digital health; digital health

28 Jan 2020
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Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

innovative new products and services, new commercial ventures, or new approaches that create social impact. These are also the kinds of problems rising leaders care about: climate change, race View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

June 2022 (Revised January 2023)
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Buurtzorg

By: Ethan Bernstein, Tatiana Sandino, Joost Minnaar and Annelena Lobb

As co-founders of home nursing company Buurtzorg, Jos de Blok and Gonnie Kronenberg prized both self-management and organizational learning. Buurtzorg’s 10,000 nurses across 950 neighborhood nursing teams in the Netherlands were empowered to manage themselves, both in... View Details

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04 Apr 2024
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The Making of a Medical Milestone

trial in ALS as well. We recently spoke with Dr. Gros, Eledon’s founder and CEO, about tegoprubart’s potential to revolutionize transplant medicine, why he left medicine to become a serial health View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2023
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Hands-on Learning About Global Markets

A certificate of appreciation was presented to Ellie Care representatives Francisco Garcia Zavaleta (COO) and Gervasio Videla Dorna (cofounder and CEO), at left, and to Patricio Alba (cofounder and CIO), far right, by HBS students Maxwell Nii Laryea, third from left,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Lidia M. V. R. Moura and Katie Sonnefeldt Despite decades of initiatives to address healthcare inequities in the U.S., disparities across race, gender, geography, and income remain stubbornly persistent.... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead

As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients

down on recovery costs and avoid costly complications later on. View VideoProfessor Emeritus Robert Kaplan explains his research to lower health care costs View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

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