Health Care Costs - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Jun 2021
News

“Where the Dead Lie Thicker”

13 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Making Biotech Work as a Business

around seventy months in 2002. The length of time it takes to develop a drug is obviously a major driver of the cost of developing the drug, Pisano said. "The productivity of R&D biotech is certainly not increasing," he... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Health; Health

02 Apr 2020
News

Patriots Plane Delivers a Million Masks from China

Courtesy New England Patriots In his daily press conferences in March, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker had been growing increasingly frustrated by the state’s shortage of N95 respiratory masks that help protect health View Details

18 Feb 2019
News

Tracing Ridhi Tariyal's Startup Journey

Keywords: Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores

24 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

they hear the words "national health insurance," but it is disturbing that we fail to provide health care to so many of our citizens. At the same time, firms in the United... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Health; Health; Health

25 Feb 2021
News

Building Hope

advocate for alternative mental health therapies, including the use of psychedelics. In recent years, that has included exploring the use of ketamine as a treatment for depression, through the creation of the Ketamine Fund with his... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Morrell

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Raymond Hwang

can be applied to problems in health care and medicine. As an industry, we face the same fundamental challenges, just with the addition of some special regulatory and market characteristics.” How do you use... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care; Health Care

01 Mar 2013
News

Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System

a survey of US health-care executives conducted for the forum, Huckman reported that 55 percent of respondents believed that, considering quality and cost in combination, America is losing ground relative to other nations. But problems... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

18 Nov 2014
News

Touching the lives of patients and their loved ones

Ebru Dorman (MBA 1999) is deputy CEO of the largest private health care provider in Turkey, focused on improving the patient experience. She is also working to introduce the “softer skills” into the primary... View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

Wyss Celebrated for Career, Conservation

Hansjörg Wyss (MBA 1965) has been unusually public of late, celebrated for his visionary accomplishments in health care and conservation. Wyss, 75, founded Synthes USA, a Swiss-American firm, in 1974 and led... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

01 Jun 2020
News

The Network Effect

participate in clinical trials. On March 29, Kapoor and his wife devised a solution: WorldWithoutCOVID.org, a nonprofit public health initiative that connects medical researchers with willing volunteers. A longtime student of network... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; COVID-19; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

02 Sep 2022
News

Strength in Numbers

attracting 25 people from their network, who each bring in another 25 people from their networks, and so on. At that scale, they say, annual funding could be, ultimately, in the billions. “The Goodness Web will put that money in the place where it can have exponential... View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

Off Script

(Thinkstock) Prescription drug spending increased by more than 13 percent in the United States in 2014, raising health insurance premiums and the ire of consumers and politicians. The reasons behind the rise are many, including the high... View Details

Keywords: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

18 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows

Traverso’s lab at MIT and interventional radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital. Steve is an internal medicine clinician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, an engineer with expertise in immune modulation and biomaterials, and an entrepreneur passionate about... View Details

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Research in Action - Alumni

the origins of his research interests and taxation in a global context. Action Research to Put Health Care Ideas into Practice Professor Emeritus Robert Kaplan explains his action research, which aims to... View Details

Paris Wallace

School. In 2021 Paris sold Ovia Health to Labcorp (LH). Paris was the CEO and founder of Ovia Health, the leading women’s health and technology company. Ovia Health's fertility, pregnancy, and parenting... View Details

Keywords: Biotech & Life Sciences;#19;#Digital Health;#43;#Healthcare;#56;#Personal Health & Wellness;#64;#Software/App

30 May 2024
News

Women’s Association Goes Nationwide; Connecticut Club Hosts Beshears

Alumnae to Celebrate Official Launch of HBS Women’s Association The Harvard Business School Women’s Association (HBSWA) will host a Virtual Launch Celebration on Wednesday, June 12, to mark its official expansion as a nationwide HBS alumnae Shared Interest Group (SIG).... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley