Health Care Costs - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

firms do not have a succession plan. Maintaining best practices around physical and mental health is not a luxury or a frill, but an essential aspect of risk management. CEOs and top management need to prioritize taking View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

communities, combatting climate change and preparing for its effects “across rural, urban, and Tribal areas.”[8] Constellation Energy discusses their EJ policy in the same way, with strong focus on improving equity, reducing impacts on vulnerable populations, and... View Details

23 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf

cardboard shortage. We had to wait eight weeks for cardboard boxes that normally get here in two weeks’ time. The cost of plastic has also gone up about 30 percent year over year, largely because of the freight surcharges. That plastic... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Music

11 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

moving target, potential customers are wary of costs and implementation complexities, and use cases, while powerful, are still lacking in many areas. Take advantage of uncertainty All this uncertainty is a fertile breeding ground for... View Details

Keywords: by Rocio Wu

01 Mar 2024
News

Case Study: Testing the Waters

company offers a line of eight powdered drink mixes that are formulated according to the World Health Organization’s oral rehydration solution—a specific ratio of glucose, sodium, and potassium that can replenish the body more efficiently... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2019
News

Bridging the Gap

County Schools (FRI). An initiative now in its second year, FRIs offer high school students the opportunity to complete standard high school curricular requirements while gaining access to hands-on experience and accreditation opportunities in fields that include... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

28 Mar 2016
Blog Post

Why I Chose to Pursue an MD/MBA at Harvard

post-baccaluareate program before starting at Harvard Medical School. The first year of medical school we took a health care policy class - we are one of the few medical schools to have a formal policy... View Details

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Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni

stability. Funding How much do you need – and what will it cost you? Like the legal structure of your enterprise, your choice (or choices) of funding options has an enduring impact on both your business and your role within it. In the... View Details

08 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

the topic based on his own experience as an outdoor wilderness instructor, an area in which the cost of failure is too high for people to learn only from their own experience. “Trial and error is not the way you want to learn rock... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

15 Dec 2023
News

Like-Minded

Yumiko Murakami (MBA 1994), Miwa Seki (MBA 1993), and Kathy Matsui share the same month and year of birth, so the friends started an annual birthday get-together to reflect on the year ahead. Work was always a hot topic of discussion. Each woman had built a strong... View Details

June 2017 (Revised October 2017)
Case

Becton Dickinson: Innovation and Growth (A)

By: Raffaella Sadun, Michael Beer and James Weber

In late 2015, CEO Vince Forlenza was reviewing Becton Dickinson’s transformation efforts designed to enable the company to innovate and grow in a changing environment. Becton Dickinson had been a successful medical device company for over 100 years. In recent years,... View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Change Management; Innovation Leadership; Mergers and Acquisitions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States

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Purchase

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem

Fundamentally, they aim to improve the overall health of their ecosystems by providing a stable and predictable set of common assets—think of Wal-Mart's procurement system and Microsoft's Windows operating system and tools—that other... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

11 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

volatility, the length of time investors held a firm's stock, and the cost of capital. The results showed that short-term companies attracted short-term investors (bringing with them a whole new set of performance pressures on executives)... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

21 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 21

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44800 Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Banking Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly By: Baker, Malcolm, and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract—Minimum capital requirements are a central... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

investments in the technology, consumer, and business and health care services industries, and a portfolio manager at SIAR Capital, where she invested in small capitalization public companies and private... View Details

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Emily Schlichting

At age 19, in the spring of 2009, Emily Schlichting was diagnosed with Behcet's, a rare autoimmune disease that introduced her "to the realities of U.S. health care firsthand." Although the disease... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

November 2018
Case

David Hysong and SHEPHERD Therapeutics

By: Ananth Raman, John Masko and Aldo Sesia

In 2016, David Hysong, at age 27, found out he had a rare, incurable cancer. Rather than wait around to die, Hysong, a recent graduate of Harvard Divinity School, decided to launch a biotechnology company called Shepherd Therapeutics to development treatments for his... View Details

Keywords: Cancer; Therapeutics; Drugs; Health Care and Treatment; Business Startups; Product Development; Financing and Loans; Growth and Development Strategy; Problems and Challenges