Affordable Care Act - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 2015
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Design and Implementation of a Privacy Preserving Electronic Health Record Linkage Tool in Chicago

By: Abel Kho, John Cashy, Kathryn Jackson, Adam Pah, Satyender Goel, Jorn Boehnke, John Eric Humphries, Scott Duke Kominers and et al.

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To design and implement a tool that creates a secure, privacy preserving linkage of electronic health record (EHR) data across multiple sites in a large metropolitan area in the United States (Chicago, IL), for use in clinical... View Details

Keywords: Information; Customers; Safety; Rights; Ethics; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Chicago

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29 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?

should be careful about the extent to which they engage in informal exchanges both within and outside their organizations. "Once you start engaging in these informal tit-for-tat exchanges, it may increase your susceptibility to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

09 Nov 2023
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From the Brink

could regroup in January. Yet Weiss never lost confidence, Chepenik says. “His view was that Congress would eventually have to act because there were three-and-a-half million Americans whose lives were at stake.” When negotiations... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

25 Aug 2014
HBS Case

Starbucks Reinvented

work to relax and enjoy the small, affordable luxury of a special coffee beverage seemed to resonate with the social and economic moment, she recalls. Six months later she met Howard Schultz, an entrepreneur who acquired the company in... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

18 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?

deemed socially acceptable (or not) for others to purchase. As they find, lower-income people are afforded a much narrower range of "permissibility." “We seem to believe the poor have more basic basic needs." Such a notion... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

19 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't

excuses not to always say “yes,” but rather to say “no” sometimes. Zlatev: Researchers at Yale have coined phrases that I find helpful in making a distinction between giving and giving in. Giving is about your own internal motivations behind View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin

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Community | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

the goal of developing a strong E&E community. Future of Work Club The club acts as a forum through which members can engage in topics related to the Future of Work, from exploring the substantial disruptions occurring in the workforce to... View Details

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 health care startup. The... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

Understanding the ‘Want’ vs. ’Should’ Decision

possess multiple selves with different, competing interests. We call 2 of these metaphorical selves the "want-self" and the "should-self." The want-self is myopic and desires instant gratification. If left to its own devices, the want-self would... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Retail; Entertainment & Recreation

13 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

criminal justice reform, other issues like that, health care reform, but the nexus between corporate America and what Black America needs and the most, in my opinion, is employment. And so if we can do something about the 5.5 million... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

24 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day

The research provides food for thought as policymakers debate the efficacy and fairness of education initiatives like No Child Left Behind, the 2001 United States Act of Congress requiring federally funded public schools to administer... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

along lines of race, class, and geography.”[2] Policy Summary The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022Contains about $40 billion in benefits for environmental justice.[3] Three main areas of effect (identified by Senate Democrats) [4]Reduce... View Details

21 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

people could act as its own worst enemy was something the Office of Strategic Services, the predecessor of the CIA, was keenly aware of when drafting the 32-page field manual in January 1944. Indeed, the manual, which was declassified in... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

30 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 30

chlorine tablets to purify their drinking water? Behavioral economics has shown us that we don't always act in our own best interests. This is as true of health decisions as it is of economic ones. An array of biases, limits on cognition,... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

09 Nov 2022
In Practice

COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?

The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost

12 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

lawyer and to be able to engage with their lawyers in deciding how to proceed. Q: Just as managers have to become more learned about the law, you say that lawyers must become more business savvy. What is the lawyer's role in all this? A: Lawyers advising firms or View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Senan Ebrahim, HMS Erik Grueter Zara Allkhateeb Social Enterprise Track Winner Creates customized data management systems for healthcare providers caring for refugee patients. Gramhal Vikas Birhma, HKS Pankaj Mahalle Social Enterprise... View Details

29 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

David Grabowski, and David Cutler Abstract— Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) has been credited with lowering risk-adjusted readmission rates for targeted conditions at general acute care hospitals. However, these... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Emily Schlichting

"I started assessing what my life would be like as a sick person. And I realized that if I didn't maintain health insurance now, I never would – I wouldn't be able to get it in the future. Fortunately, the Affordable View Details

Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

17 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women

higher education His stand on workplace deregulation raises concerns about continued protection of women’s (and men’s) human and civil rights A reshaped Supreme Court could roll back protections to the rights of women, including the right to choose Changes to the View Details

Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely

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