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  • September 2013
  • Article

Converging to the Lowest Common Denominator in Physical Health

By: Leslie K. John and Michael I. Norton
Objective: This research examines how access to information on peer health behaviors affects one's own health behavior. Methods: We report the results of a randomized field experiment in a large corporation in which we introduced walkstations (treadmills... View Details
Keywords: Information; Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions; Health; Health Industry
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  • 10 Jan 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?

to the social security system can be deposited in private versus public accounts, the transition "cost" (really a fiscal budget deficit) will be up to $2 trillion. Theoretically, the impact of this on pensioners could be... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services
  • March 2025
  • Article

Does Communicating Measurable Diversity Goals Attract or Repel Historically Marginalized Job Applicants? Evidence from the Lab and Field

By: Erika L. Kirgios, Ike Silver and Edward H. Chang
Many organizations struggle to attract a demographically diverse workforce. How does adding a measurable goal to a public diversity commitment—for example, “We care about diversity” versus “We care about diversity and plan to hire at least one woman or racial minority... View Details
Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Recruitment; Diversity; Goals and Objectives; Communication Intention and Meaning; Behavior
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  • 22 May 2020
  • In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

intervention The COVID-19 crisis has exposed major shortcomings in the US public health infrastructure, and when we come out of the crisis, I think the US will be ready to invest much more in the systems... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • March 16, 2021
  • Article

From Driverless Dilemmas to More Practical Commonsense Tests for Automated Vehicles

By: Julian De Freitas, Andrea Censi, Bryant Walker Smith, Luigi Di Lillo, Sam E. Anthony and Emilio Frazzoli
For the first time in history, automated vehicles (AVs) are being deployed in populated environments. This unprecedented transformation of our everyday lives demands a significant undertaking: endowing complex autonomous systems with ethically acceptable behavior. We... View Details
Keywords: Automated Driving; Public Health; Artificial Intelligence; Transportation; Health; Ethics; Policy; AI and Machine Learning
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  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

brain science, personalized care and policy and prevention, provide expert training to health care professionals and scientists, develop health promotion and prevention programs, and advocate on View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health
  • 06 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health

on an X-ray," says Quelch, who holds a joint appointment as Professor in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. "Mental health... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Health
  • Web

Faculty & Research - Health Care

Research Professor Raffaella Sadun on Improving Care in Hospitals Professor John Beshears on how the nudge movement can improve healthy behavior John Beshears Research 3,851 Faculty publications on health... View Details
  • Web

Health Care - Faculty & Research

too often, when graduates of these programs enter the workforce, they find themselves unequipped to meet the challenges for innovation of 21st century health care. December 2014 Article No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on... View Details
  • September 2015 (Revised February 2023)
  • Case

Emdeon's Acquisition of Change Healthcare: Innovating Transparency Solutions for Health Care Consumers

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Jeet Guram and Aanchal Raj
Case describes acquisition of Change Healthcare, which provides health care cost and quality information, by Emdeon, a health information exchange, and discusses health care transparency. Emdeon is a billion-dollar company that has grown through acquisitions; at its... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Healthcare Industry; Healthcare Innovation; Health Care and Treatment; Acquisition; Integration; Analytics and Data Science; Mergers and Acquisitions; Competitive Strategy; Health Industry; United States
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  • Fast Answer

Government data and information sources for public entrepreneurship

Municipal, local and national level financial data, demographics and market information sources to inform and support public sector entrepreneurship  Where can I find government data (federal, municipal, city, etc.)? Lists... View Details
  • 1999
  • Other Unpublished Work

Executive Ownership and Control in Newly Public Firms: The Role of Venture Capitalists

By: Malcolm Baker and Paul Gompers
We study the implications of CEO equity ownership for incentives and control in a sample of 1,011 newly public firms. Before an initial public offering, equity investments by venture capitalists reduce CEO ownership by about half, from an average of 35 percent to 19... View Details
Keywords: Equity; Ownership; Motivation and Incentives; Initial Public Offering; Investment; Venture Capital; Managerial Roles; Cost Management; Governance Controls; Executive Compensation
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    Two Hundred Years of Health and Medical Care

    Using two hundred years of national and Massachusetts data on medical care and health, we examine how central medical care is to life expectancy gains. While common theories about medical care cost growth stress growing demand, our analysis highlights the importance of... View Details
    • October 5, 2017
    • Article

    Making Patients and Doctors Happier—The Potential of Patient-Reported Outcomes

    By: Lisa Rotenstein, Robert S. Huckman and Neil Wagle
    Keywords: Health Care; Outcomes Measurement; Outcomes Reporting; Quality; Health Industry
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    • June 2021
    • Teaching Note

    Michael Phelps: 'It's Okay to Not Be Okay'

    By: Boris Groysberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Michael Norris
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 421-044. In 2020, Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, with 28 medals in various swimming events, was now retired. As he looked back on his 20+ year athletic career, he considered what had gone into making him the... View Details
    Keywords: Mental Health; Talent and Talent Management; Training; Health; Success; Performance Improvement; Personal Development and Career; Family and Family Relationships; Sports; Competition; Sports Industry; United States; Baltimore; Arizona; Sydney; Athens; Beijing; London
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    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Hospital Allocation and Racial Disparities in Health Care

    By: Amitabh Chandra, Pragya Kakani and Adam Sacarny
    We develop a simple framework to measure the role of hospital allocation in racial disparities in health care and use it to study Black and white Medicare patients who are treated for heart attacks—a condition where virtually everyone receives care, hospital care is... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Equality and Inequality; Race; Analysis
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    • 27 Feb 2020
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care

    like? Doesn’t sound possible, but South African company Vitality is doing just that. How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural HaitiWhat happened when a pioneering cost accounting system examined wide variances in Haiti's View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Health
    • 06 Nov 2009
    • News

    Health Reform Paths Not Taken

    No issues in the ongoing Congressional health-care debate have generated more heat than the so-called public option and proposed taxes on “gold-plated” health insurance plans. Conservatives view a new... View Details
    Keywords: Roger Thompson; Health, Social Assistance
    • TeachingInterests

    Heath Economics, Course and Research Seminar

    Instructor, Pasteur Institute CNAM School of Public Health (Paris, France).
    Postgraduate Masters, Course EGS230.
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    • 01 Dec 2020
    • News

    Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers

    students, but also those from Harvard’s medical school, engineering school, and public policy and health school—understand how to disseminate their health care innovation... View Details
    Keywords: April White