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    Amitabh Chandra

    Amitabh Chandra is the Henry and Allison McCance Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School where he is the Faculty Chair of the joint View Details

    • 24 Jul 2013
    • News

    Pro-Baby, but Stingy With Money to Support Them

    • 03 Nov 2015
    • First Look

    November 3, 2015

    November 2015 Quarterly Journal of Economics Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance By: Baicker, Katherine, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Joshua Schwartzstein Abstract—A fundamental implication of standard moral hazard models is overuse of low-value medical View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 20 Jul 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: July 20

    Online World David J. Collis, Peter W. Olson, and Mary FureyHarvard Business School Case 709-464 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/709464-PDF-ENG Pratham—Every Child in... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • March 2014
    • Teaching Note

    Oral Rehydration Therapy

    By: Nava Ashraf and Natalie Kindred
    This Teaching Note accompanies the case "Oral Rehydration Therapy" (911-035). The case highlights the puzzlingly high rate of diarrhea-related child mortality in developing countries despite the existence of a simple, effective treatment: oral rehydration therapy... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Developing Countries and Economies; Technological Innovation; Distribution Channels; Emerging Markets; Consumer Behavior; Performance Consistency; Performance Evaluation; Health Industry; Africa; Asia
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    • December 2010
    • Case

    Oral Rehydration Therapy

    By: Nava Ashraf and Claire Qureshi
    This case highlights the puzzlingly high rate of diarrhea-related child mortality in developing countries despite the existence of a simple, effective treatment: oral rehydration therapy (ORT). ORT treated extreme dehydration caused by diarrhea, which was a leading... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Developing Countries and Economies; Technological Innovation; Distribution Channels; Emerging Markets; Consumer Behavior; Performance Consistency; Performance Evaluation; Health Industry; Africa; Asia
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    • 20 Nov 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: November 20, 2007

    MaterialsColgate Max Fresh: Global Brand Roll-Out Harvard Business School Case 508-009 In February 2005, Nigel Burton, in his third year as president of global oral care at Colgate-Palmolive Company (CP), had every reason to feel... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
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    Sheila Marcelo

    As a child in the Philippines, Sheila Marcelo grew up watching her parents run a variety of entrepreneurial endeavors. At age seven, when she accompanied her mother and father to the rice mill they ran, she spent her time asking the... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology; Services
    • 25 May 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

    passionately interested. It has long been appreciated that the way that a society treats its youngest and oldest members says much about its moral maturity. Economic development specialists also attest to the importance of health care in... View Details
    Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health
    • July 2019 (Revised October 2022)
    • Case

    Jai Vakeel Foundation: Addressing Disability

    By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Kairavi Dey
    Jai Vakeel, a nonprofit organization in India, serves individuals with Intellectual Disability (ID), those with an IQ below 70. The organization was founded by the parents of a child with Down Syndrome, and they (and their next generation) steadily built the... View Details
    Keywords: Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Transition; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Family Business; Health Care and Treatment; India
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    • Summer 2008
    • Editorial

    Will the Stork Return to Europe and Japan? Understanding Fertility within Developed Nations

    By: James Feyrer, Bruce Sacerdote and Ariel Dora Stern

    Only a few rich nations are currently at replacement levels of fertility and many are considerably below. We believe that changes in the status of women are driving fertility change. At low levels of female status, women specialize in household production and... View Details

    Keywords: Income; Household; Gender; Japan; Italy; United States; Sweden; Spain
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    Curriculum - MBA

    bioethics addresses the complexities of a developing child and the role of the parent in health care decision-making for children. The course will examine bioethical considerations at different times (e.g.,... View Details
    • 23 Jan 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Keep Employees Productive: Support Caregivers

    understand why they’re not showing up?” says Fuller, who co-chairs the Project on the Workforce at Harvard. The good news: As more leaders move into the sandwich generation and care for aging parents while raising children, the more... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • 24 Oct 2023
    • HBS Case

    From P.T. Barnum to Mary Kay: Lessons From 5 Leaders Who Changed the World

    circus, was in fact the father of modern advertising, Simons’ case shows. As a child working in his father’s general store, Barnum learned to hustle, promote, and barter. He didn’t care if his tactics earned... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 09 Apr 2024
    • Book

    Why Work Rituals Bring Teams Together and Create More Meaning

    them to change our emotional states in many different ways.” With a 2023 Gallup survey showing that US employees are less satisfied with their jobs and less likely to feel that someone at work cares about them than four years ago, Norton... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 15 Aug 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Giving to Others Makes Us Happy

    windfall of money that they could use to purchase a goody-bag full of candy or other treats. Participants were randomly assigned to be given the choice to keep the bag of treats for themselves or to donate it to an anonymous sick child at... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 24 Jul 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Part-Time Employees Want More Hours. Can Companies Tap This ‘Hidden’ Talent Pool?

    leave it. You may decide, I don't want it anymore. And I may decide, I don't need you anymore, and that’s just the deal,” he says. This transactional pattern doesn’t account for the totality of human experience: caring for a special needs... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    Wide Horizon

    home in Dallas to his parents’ place in Ruston, Louisiana, the small town of about 22,000 where he grew up. While there, the kids, then two and three years old, started running a fever, which would eventually register around 104 degrees. After finding a quick View Details
    Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
    • 06 Jun 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business

    between Vietnamese women and US servicemen, writing that they were largely “jobless, homeless, uneducated, unwanted, barely able to speak English” when they arrived to America. Spurred in part by outrage sparked by a 1985 photo of polio-stricken Amerasian View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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    By: Reshmaan N. Hussam

    Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details