Health Care Policy - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Oct 2020
Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

money-driven society to a time-smart one—would be higher productivity and lower health care spending. Shifting the rhetoric could be contagious in a way that social scientists are discovering is quite... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

10 Feb 2023
News

COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

Communications, Inc. where he led a successful effort to acquire the second cellular license in Italy. He has also served as Chief Financial Officer of a start-up chain of quick service Italian restaurants, and as Vice President of Business Development for a company in... View Details

23 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 23

company, faces many strategic issues. CEO Per Lofberg is in the midst of negotiating a partnership with a major pharmacy benefit management company. As part of these negotiations, Lofberg must decide whether the time is right for such a strategic partner when... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Joey Ryu

Joey (Won Jung) Ryu is a doctoral student in the Strategy unit at Harvard Business School. Her primary interests are strategic management, economics of innovation and entrepreneurship. Prior to joining HBS, Joey received her master's degree from Cornell University... View Details

Keywords: health care; health care; health care; health care; health care

18 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?

machines, mobile phones, and laundry services. Here, 19 of the 20 items were seen as significantly less permissible for the lower-income person, with only personal care products, like shampoo or toothpaste, being the exception. What... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

19 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

the consumer products giant Unilever, published some years ago. This company had a long-established business in soap and other toiletries, but spent decades after World War II striving without great success to expand its business into other categories of the beauty... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics

03 Dec 2021
Blog Post

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 Business School along with a PhD in computer science (clinical AI)... View Details

Profile

Ted Obi

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? I halted my medical school journey because I was curious about the business of medicine and passionate about making a broader impact in the health care and... View Details

19 Jul 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior

nudges can in some cases be more than 40 times more effective than the next most effective method, a dramatic result for governments dealing with scarce resources. “If you take a particular policy objective as a given, nudges give you a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Emily Schlichting

the private sector that to effectively implement policy reform, I needed to understand how business works, particularly in health care." To pursue her ultimate objective, "a View Details

Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

01 Jun 2024
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2024

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July 2004 (Revised January 2005)
Case

Shouldice Hospital Limited (Abridged)

By: James L. Heskett and Roger H. Hallowell

A hospital specializing in hernia operations is considering whether and how to expand the reach of its services. View Details

Keywords: Expansion; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Health Care and Treatment; Business Strategy; Health Industry

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Educators

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24 Jan 2018
News

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

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Partners - Case Method Project

Phillips Academy Andover, MA Subjects: College Prep/Honors U.S. History MA 2 of 159 Cate Arnold Boston Latin School Boston, MA Subjects: Grade 8 U.S. History I (Colonial to Civil War) MA 3 of 159 Ilana Ascher Chelsea High School (MA) Chelsea, MA MA 4 of 159 Damian... View Details

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

that credit growth dynamics and bank lending channels vary across these loan types using credit-registry data for Spain and Peru. The effects of monetary policy propagating through banks’ balance sheets are primarily driven by cash flow... View Details

29 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

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 health outcomes.” Help... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka

12 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 12

choice, and consumers fight back by rooting out and disseminating pricing policies that seem unfair. The problem is that companies generally think of value as a pie that is rightfully theirs. But value is not fixed, and it neither... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

December 2023
Teaching Note

Buurtzorg

By: Ethan Bernstein and Tatiana Sandino

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 122-101. 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... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Employee Relationship Management; Knowledge Dissemination; Knowledge Management; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams; Learning; Health Industry; Netherlands

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March 2022 (Revised July 2022)
Case

Nexleaf Analytics: Saving the World Using the Internet of Things

By: Frank Nagle

In 2019, a decade after co-founding Nexleaf Analytics, CEO Nithya Ramanathan faced an important decision that would impact the ability of the small, but growing, not-for-profit organization to thrive for another decade. Their sensor technologies and big data analytics... View Details