Access To Care - Publications - Faculty & Research

June 2010 (Revised August 2010)
Case

Dr. Cameron Powell and AirStrip Technologies: After the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference

Dr. Cameron Powell and his partner, Trey Moore, co-founders of the innovative company, AirStrip Technologies, have developed a series of apps for the iPhone and other smartphones that can help doctors monitor the vital signs of their patients anytime, anywhere. They... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Health Care and Treatment; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Product Development; Information Technology Industry; Health Industry; United States

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01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for James Austin

access to new networks. Of course, there are associative risks for both partners in a deep and highly visible alliance. If one partner encounters difficulties that generate negative press, the other runs the... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

17 Nov 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design

enables lower-level managers to make more decisions without consulting their superiors. By the same token, Computer-Assisted Design and Computer-Assisted Manufacturing software creates a situation in which the plant worker needs less... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Trouble Behind Livedoor

receive the new share for several months, at which point he can sell it. This system is the result of ownership being tracked on paper rather than electronically—it takes time to print out new share certificates. Because investors do not... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Technology

2010
Working Paper

Evaluating the Effects of Large-Scale Health Interventions in Developing Countries: The Zambian Malaria Initiative

By: Nava Ashraf, Gunther Fink and David N. Weil

Since 2003, Zambia has been engaged in a large-scale, centrally coordinated national anti-malaria campaign which has become a model in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper aims at quantifying the individual and macro level benefits of this campaign, which involved mass... View Details

Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Developing Countries and Economies; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Performance Evaluation; Programs; Health Industry; Zambia

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Read Now

07 Jan 2009
What Do You Think?

Is the World Really Flat?

this month's column. Bruce Bockmann stated the case for the "flat-worlders" in reminding us that "it is the responsibility of government to support technology in its own country. If government does that, the capital and... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

02 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Spending on Happiness

additional income to suddenly make this person fulfilled, without a care in the world? (You can also think about whether such changes in your own income really make you happier with your life on a day-to-day... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

18 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing

customers weren't so different from the seventy million who enter its stores each week; slightly tech savvier, perhaps, and looking for higher-end goods "at Wal-Mart prices." She said the company was careful View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Consumer Products; Retail

04 Dec 2000
What Do You Think?

Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?

the California power industry, for example, she questioned the deregulation of wholesale markets first. Second, in response to consumer confusion, an anonymous respondent suggested that government could play a role in insuring that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout

accounting that includes health care costs puts the savings figure closer to $1.3 trillion. And capacity to produce an additional 1 billion vaccine courses could similarly be... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

05 Dec 2017
Research & Ideas

What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

exploring how to automate access to some of the video interviews. It’s trickier than we thought but we’re making progress. So far, it still seems simpler View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance

Whereas the for-profit capital markets provide transparent objective criteria for making early- and later-stage investment decisions, balance risks with return, and create a "performance-driving cycle" by rewarding improvements in the top and bottom lines with View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

29 Jan 2015
Op-Ed

The Fall of Greece

allocated in competitive markets) is far superior to a centrally planned economy where the means of production are controlled by the political process. And the superiority does not come only in terms of economic growth, but also... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

A Fast Start on Your New Job

even if they think they have been brought in specifically to change them. Leaders going into realignment and sustaining-success situations have to be particularly careful View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?

unfairness in terms of compensation, you are likely to move on. It’s an important element that could trump the continuity of the firm.” It’s interesting, she continues, because you might think that founders would View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services

31 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss

balances laid off more workers, regardless of their levels of sales tax reliance, the researchers found, but in cases of high sales-tax dependence, having more cash on hand weakened the effect on job losses. Federal aid to states that... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

The World in Your Palm?

People will count on their cell phone as the "hub" of their digital life, using it to access and collect information, entertainment, and other forms of data, which can then be spread View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Feb 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?

discussion on health care management, experts looked to the retail industry as a possible model for delivering medical services more effectively. What's your take on Amazon? Share your thoughts in the reader... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding

making money and investing, but it's also about entrepreneurship. And entrepreneurship in this country right now is, I think, our great hope and has been the great hope of the last two decades. Having half of our society somewhat inhibited in their View Details