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  • 03 Mar 2017
  • News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

conclusion by manually going through the data,” the lead doctor told the Japan Times, “but Watson’s speed is crucial in the treatment of leukemia, which progresses rapidly and can cause complications.” This is the beauty of Watson, which... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

New Program Helps Restless Alums Answer the Question, ‘What’s Next?’

he recalls. Within months, Wyman exited the firm, but several years passed before he found his new calling, what he regards as the transformational outcome of his HBS experience. Building on their previous experiences in Rwanda, the... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • Summer 2021
  • Article

Predictable Country-level Bias in the Reporting of COVID-19 Deaths

By: Botir Kobilov, Ethan Rouen and George Serafeim
We examine whether a country’s management of the COVID-19 pandemic relate to the downward biasing of the number of reported deaths from COVID-19. Using deviations from historical averages of the total number of monthly deaths within a country, we find that the... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Deaths; Reporting; Incentives; Government Policy; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Country; Crisis Management; Outcome or Result; Reports; Policy
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  • 12 Nov 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?

empowerment would lead to better outcomes and lower costs. “In the world of health care, maybe the curve goes in the other direction, as I suggested in the 23andMe example,” he said. “If you empower consumers, they start asking a lot of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Model Patient

would receive comprehensive treatment from a team designed to deliver it. Insurers would require that hospitals set fixed and transparent prices covering various ailments and their treatment. This approach, Herzlinger says, would produce... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance
  • 26 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 26

differences in strategic orientation choices and their performance outcomes for American and Japanese entrepreneurial firms, focusing on founders' achievement motivation as a key personal disposition. Design/methodology/approach: A survey... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jun 2010
  • HBS Case

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

considered itself to be among the best hospitals in the country, even though it had scant evidence to benchmark its performance against others. But data co-collected by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation instead showed that the outcome for... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
  • Web

Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

using brachytherapy. Our next step will be to compare outcomes across these two centers, giving us both outcome and cost data for these different treatment paradigms... View Details
  • 09 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

observational study included all patients undergoing a head CT between July 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014 at a large, urban academic ED with over 100,000 visits per year. The primary study outcome was total cycle time, defined as the elapsed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Profile

Paris Wallace

maternal health and create an ability to predict significant outcomes such as birth defects and autism. In an interview with HIStalk.com, Wallace said, “Research shows that 40 percent of fertility treatments... View Details
  • Student-Faculty-Profile

Michelle Shell & Ryan Buell

Ryan: What’s fascinating to me about this particular issue is its ubiquity in the world. Our interactions in service contexts are rife with anxiety. Which investment should I make? Which school should I choose? Which course of treatment... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Curing Health Care

value for patients, where value is the health outcomes achieved relative to the money spent. While his initial work focused on reorganizing care and measuring outcomes, he began to understand that appropriate cost information was missing.... View Details
Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 13 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 13

compliance. We first create an income and taxation environment in a laboratory setting to test for compliance with a "lab tax." Allowing a treatment group to express non-binding preferences over tax spending priorities leads to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2017 (Revised July 2019)
  • Supplement

"Doctor My Eyes"--The Acquisition of Bausch & Lomb by Warburg Pincus (B)

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Ricardo Andrade
The B Case of "Dr. My Eyes" provides the answer as to what happened after the ending fact pattern in Case A and the imminent choices faced by the protagonist in the primary case. At the end of the Case A, Bess Weatherman of Warburg Pincus, must chose one option of two... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Health Care and Treatment; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Decision Choices and Conditions; Outcome or Result; Health Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 04 May 2007
  • What Do You Think?

How Do Managers Think?

metric for measuring the doctor's work is a near perfect solution while the manager has to deliver the most effective outcome vis-à-vis original plans." One interesting comment about what managers can learn was offered by Darryl... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Healthcare Provider Bankruptcies

By: Samuel Antill, Ashvin Gandhi, Jessica Bai and Adrienne Sabety
Healthcare firms are filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy at record rates. We find that bankruptcies increase healthcare staff turnover, worsen care, and harm patients. Using a difference-in-differences design, we estimate that a bankruptcy filing immediately increases... View Details
Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Retention; Health Industry
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  • 14 May 2014
  • News

(Re)moving the Needle

outcome for the child. "SynapDx is doing very well and completing a large clinical study thanks to a $15 million investment from Google Ventures," says Anquetil, who retains an ownership stake in the company but is no longer involved in... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; medical technology; Scientific Research and Development Services
  • 26 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 26

  PublicationsPolicy Bundling to Overcome Loss Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Mary Carol Mazza, Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay, and Max H. Bazerman Publication:Organizational Behavior and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 13, 2007

Describes the challenges of using the Balanced Scorecard to implement a triple-bottom-line strategy for delivering excellent economic, environmental, and social performance. The owners and senior executive team of Amanco, a producer of plastic pipe and complete water... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Looking Behind Bad Decisions

African government take a stand against an effective AIDS treatment drug? The inability of government to make wise tradeoffs—give up small losses for much larger gain—has been investigated by HBS professor Max Bazerman and his research... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls