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  • 21 Aug 2015
  • Blog Post

My Fear of Student Debt: Funding the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

How do you decide whether taking on student debt outweighs the professional and personal benefits of graduate school? This decision was hard for me. I spent four years after my undergraduate studies working... View Details
  • 09 Jun 2016
  • Blog Post

Pursuing an Interest in Nonprofits at HBS

  This past fall I participated in a nonprofit IP with another student.  We worked at Hebrew Senior Life (HSL), a large nonprofit committed to improving the lives of older adults through their senior living communities, health View Details
  • 19 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 19

surrounding growth of a nonprofit institution and the United Kingdom's socialized health care system. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Brian L. Trelstad

     

    Brian Trelstad is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School in the General Management Unit and the Faculty Chair of the Advanced Leadership Initiative. He teaches elective courses on Social Entrepreneurship and Systems... View Details

    Keywords: health care; health care; health care; health care; health care; health care
    • 26 Mar 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity

    Digital Doctor In recent years, many physicians have put away pen-and-paper and taken up the keyboard or tablet to maintain patient health records. One motivation was the 2009 View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health
    • 10 Mar 2020
    • News

    Sorry, but Working From Home Is Overrated

    • 21 Jan 2021
    • Blog Post

    How I Used the HBS Community to Hone My Professional Goals

    development rotational program. My time at Cardinal Health exposed me to the health care world and gave me the chance to work functionally in... View Details
    • Career Coach

    Doug Lester

    expertise in helping the people he coaches craft a work-life narrative that is relevant and compelling to networks, future colleagues and key decision-makers. He coaches students View Details
    Keywords: Health Care; Health Care; Health Care; Health Care; Health Care; Health Care; Health Care; Health Care; Health Care; Health Care; Health Care; Health Care; Health Care; Health Care; Health Care
    • Article

    The Economic Consequences of Hospital Admissions

    By: Carlos Dobkin, Amy Finkelstein, Raymond Kluender and Matthew Notowidigdo
    We use an event study approach to examine the economic consequences of hospital admissions for adults in two datasets: survey data from the Health and Retirement Study, and hospitalization data linked to credit reports. For non-elderly adults with health insurance,... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Insurance; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Health Care and Treatment
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    • January 2014 (Revised December 2014)
    • Case

    GenapSys: Business Models for the Genome

    By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Joseph B. Fuller and Matthew Preble

    GenapSys, a California-based startup, was soon to release a new DNA sequencer that the company's founder, Hesaam Esfandyarpour, believed was truly revolutionary. The sequencer would be substantially less expensive—potentially costing just a few thousand dollars—and... View Details

    Keywords: DNA Sequencing; Life Sciences; Business Model; Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Genetics; Business Strategy; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States
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      Paul A. Gompers

      Paul Gompers, Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high growth, and newly public companies. Professor Gompers has an appointment in both the View Details
      Keywords: health care; health care; health care; health care; health care; health care; health care; health care
      • Career Coach

      Betsy Edwards

      Betsy (HGSE, '12) is a Corporate Relations Director in HBS Career & Professional Development with over ten years of coaching experience.  Her focus is on supporting students and alumni seeking an impact-oriented career primarily in... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care; Health Care; Health Care; Health Care; Health Care; Health Care; Health Care; Health Care
      • 27 Jul 2011
      • Research & Ideas

      Customer Loyalty Programs That Work

      ExtraCare, and pay-for-membership cards for stores including Costco. In a very basic form loyalty schemes have been around for as long as people have been exchanging goods—consider the farmer who threw in an... View Details
      Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Retail
      • Program

      Program for Leadership Development

      the careful selection of living group members and new HBS case studies to professional executive coaching for individuals and teams, every aspect is designed to foster... View Details
      • 02 Jul 2013
      • First Look

      First Look: July 2

      political system, our review of the literature finds no academic consensus on the consequences of inequality for the health of the economy or the democracy, or for nearly any other macro-level outcome. With the academic community reaching... View Details
      Keywords: Anna Secino
      • 25 Jun 2013
      • First Look

      First Look: June 25

        Publications 2006 pub Leviathan Evolving: New Varieties of State Capitalism in Brazil and Beyond By: Musacchio, Aldo, and Sergio G. Lazzarini Abstract—In this book we describe the transformation of state... View Details
      Keywords: Anna Secino
      • 02 Sep 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: September 2

      legacy labor and health care costs-is seriously incomplete and that GM's share collapsed for many of the same reasons that many of the other... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • September 2013
      • Article

      Testimonials Do Not Convert Patients from Brand to Generic Medication

      By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian and Gwendolyn Reynolds

      Objectives: To assess whether the addition of a peer testimonial to an informational mailing increases conversion rates from brand name prescription medications to lower-cost therapeutic equivalents, and whether the testimonial's efficacy increases when... View Details

      Keywords: Testimonial; Peer Information; Social Proximity; Communication; Generic Medication; Familiarity; Marketing Communications; Decision Choices and Conditions; Identity; Health Care and Treatment; Marketing Reference Programs; Power and Influence; Brands and Branding; Health Industry
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      • July 2014
      • Case

      BMVSS: Changing Lives through Innovation One Jaipur Limb at a Time (Abridged)

      By: Srikant Datar, Saloni Chaturvedi and Caitlin Bowler
      Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS) is an Indian not-for-profit organization engaged in assisting differently-abled persons by providing them with the legendary low-cost prosthesis, the Jaipur Foot, and other mobility-assisting devices, free of cost. Known... View Details
      Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Financial Condition; Health Care and Treatment; Diversity; Growth and Development Strategy; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; India
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      • 28 Feb 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research, February 28

      case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/116058-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-048 Augmedix In April 2015, Ian Shakil and Pelu Tran, cofounders of Augmedix, are discussing how to grow their emerging View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne