Treatment Assignment Policy - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Oct 2011
Working Paper Summaries

US Healthcare Reform and the Pharmaceutical Industry

Keywords: by Arthur Daemmrich; Pharmaceutical; Health

03 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 3

Publications August 2013 University of Chicago Press Innovation Policy and the Economy By: Lerner, Josh, and Scott Stern Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

June 2011
Teaching Note

Novasys Medical (TN)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh

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Keywords: Product Development; Health Care and Treatment; Policy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

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05 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?

Economics; Brigitte C. Madrian, Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management at the Harvard Kennedy School; and Gwendolyn I. Reynolds, with the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA. The team has completed... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

18 Jun 2007
Op-Ed

Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field

nature, and extent of the resulting book-tax difference; and the policy reasons for continuing or ending the stock option book-tax difference. Here is Desai's summary statement to the subcommittee with a link to his full testimony.... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai

12 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

self-quarantine in sometimes unsafe home environments, anxiety about the virus and re-openings, and disconnection from treatment all are triggers and will contribute to substantial increases in substance use disorder (SUD) cases,... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

Your Mind? A Countrywide Experiment on Voter Choice in France By: Pons, Vincent Abstract—Existing evidence on the impact of door-to-door canvassing comes from small-scale experiments that assign treatment at... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?

$10 behind health care, there's a problem." Dr. Pride Chigwedere, an Oak Foundation Research Fellow at the Harvard AIDS Institute who worked as a physician in Zimbabwe, said the policy issues begin with difficulties designing... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

08 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

The Death of the Global Manager

division.' " And in the 1960s and '70s, a foreign assignment could be far from a promotion: "It was sometimes the failed domestic managers who were sent abroad." “Companies can no longer assume that all the smart people in... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

06 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations

Prescription drug costs continue to climb in the United States, but tightening a loophole in a federal law may help curb rising expenses, according to research published this week in Health Affairs. Efforts to control US health care spending commonly target growing... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Insurance; Health; Pharmaceutical

25 Feb 2020
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For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity

Affect Job Performance, which was published in January. The costs of homesickness To better understand how moving away from home affects work, Choudhury and co-author HBS doctoral student Ochan Kwon first interviewed 30 employees of an Indian technology firm that... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

27 May 2020
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What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

of the virus while keeping our economies running. In the absence of a treatment or a vaccine, COVID-19 is likely here to stay. As other countries begin to open up, the policies of South Korea can provide us... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

January 1993 (Revised October 1993)
Case

Medtronic, Inc.

In 1991, Bill George, CEO of Medtronic, the world's largest manufacturer of pacemakers, was evaluating his strategic options in light of the changing economic environment. In the United States, Europe, and Japan, governments were considering regulatory changes to... View Details

Keywords: Diversification; Corporate Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Policy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

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06 Apr 2015
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After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health

people? One possible answer came this past week when the airline revealed that the pilot, Andreas Lubitz, had previously suffered from deep depression. Debates began about how Lubitz's mental health played into the tragedy, what treatment... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Air Transportation

07 Oct 2015
What Do You Think?

What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?

column. Anne, for example, pointed out that the German system assigns a certain number of immigrant families to specific villages, has them take German lessons, and gives job assignments with benefits... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Mar 2014
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evolution of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in host countries over time. We argue that a change in the policy environment in a host country presents an MNE with two sets of interrelated decisions. First, the MNE has to decide whether to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?

presentation given at the fifth U.S.-China Health Summit at Harvard Medical School in September by John A. Quelch, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Professor in Health Policy... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

31 Oct 2004
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Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

David Blumenthal, professor at Harvard Medical School and a member of the Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital; Michael Newman, a senior research manager at Harris Interactive; Kinga Zapert, vice president for... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls