Health Care Spending - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5

equitable opportunity in employment, education, and health care are construed as threats to society, inevitably leading to stiffening of white resistance and reaffirmation of the status quo? The practical... View Details

25 Feb 2020
News

Turning Point: Network Effects

nonprofit that develops national networks of volunteer mental health professionals who can provide free, confidential care to individuals experiencing an acute or chronic need for help. Our initial focus was... View Details

Keywords: Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997)

29 Mar 2016
First Look

March 29, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50648 2016 New York: Oxford University Press Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health: A Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Business By: Quelch, John A. Abstract—The public health footprint... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2022
News

A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs

who opened my mind to different ways of thinking about things. The School has been transformational, and clearly when you start a business with your HBS classmate, that says it all,” Perez explains. After years at Palladium, he and Zaldivar began to reimagine how they... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

11 May 2020
News

Better Than Cash

in sanitation or health or education, it starts with a payment system everyone can use.” Goodwin-Groen offers the example of a mother who has to pay for her children’s schooling once each semester. She needs to save money for several... View Details

April 2012
Case

Bella Healthcare India

By: Dorothy Leonard and Sunru Yong

Bella Healthcare India was originally established in Bangalore as a low-cost manufacturing facility for a U.S.-based cardiology equipment developer. Under country manager Joseph Cherian it evolved considerably, developing its own research and development capabilities.... View Details

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27 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Learning the Language of Product at Duolingo

her back in Germany. My efforts paid off - she and I were married this past June in the Bavarian alps. When Duolingo visited campus last October, I figured this could be a good opportunity to get Product Manager (PM) experience (which I was interested in exploring)... View Details

Keywords: Technology

18 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

R&D-intensive firms react to negative shocks to their existing products? We explore this question using detailed project-level data from drug development firms. Using FDA Public Health Advisories as an exogenous and idiosyncratic... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

25 Feb 2016
Blog Post

Dealing with FOMO at HBS

student, has gained perspective on balancing-it-all during the last 18 months. Britt grew up in the mountains of Sun Valley, Idaho and went to Georgetown University to study International Health and Development. Before HBS she spent three... View Details

01 Feb 2001
News

The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts

professor Regina E. Herzlinger contended at a fall reunion presentation titled "The Four by Four Report: Effective Oversight of Nonprofit Organizations." An expert in health care and nonprofit management... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2002
News

GE's Jeff Immelt

times like these,” he quipped. “Don't even try to look for clues. For the next two or three years, what you're going to see is more of the same — dramatically slow economic growth.” Health care is one bright... View Details

18 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 18

their propensity to make things themselves (Experiments 3A and 3B). Paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/mochon norton ariely 2012.pdf Measuring Teamwork in Health Care Settings: A Review of Survey... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2012
News

The Power of Philanthropy

When their son Joey died of cystic fibrosis in 1986 at age 12, Kathy and Joe O’Donnell (MBA 1971) vowed to fight the disease. O’Donnell, at the time the president of the Boston Concessions Group, joined with Vertex Pharmaceuticals and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

29 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to ’Simplifiers’

that is so assured that it no longer requires conspicuous display. They lease their cars, rent other people's holiday homes, and would happily outsource other aspects of their lifestyles. They reject the marketer's continual pressure to View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

07 Jan 2009
What Do You Think?

Is the World Really Flat?

"With the virtual mobility of global labor insured, only those companies and nations will grow ... that make the best use of entrepreneurial qualities...." How governments should spend money in support of innovation clearly... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

16 Feb 2016
First Look

February 16, 2016

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516027-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-060 athenahealth's More Disruption Please Program No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/816060-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2010
News

How to Survive Past Start-up

Art by Craig Frazier Related Links Alumni New Venture Contest Opens Webinar series (ongoing) Entrepreneurship at HBS (video) Harvard Launches Innovation Incubator Why is it that even when smart, educated, well-networked people launch new companies, a few strike gold,... View Details

Keywords: Bill Murphy Jr.; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores

11 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

Secrets of the Successful Businesswoman

had seized business opportunities despite formidable odds. They included the first African-American millionaire, Celeste Walker, a child of slaves who founded a hair care empire that targeted other African-American women; Coco Chanel, who... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

2024
Working Paper

Ultrasound Imaging--Cheap, Versatile, and Safe: Case Histories of Transformational Advances

By: Amar Bhidé, Srikant M. Datar and Katherine Stebbins

This case history describes how efforts on multiple fronts, including advocacy, training, and technological development, made ultrasound the second most commonly used diagnostic imaging technology (after X-rays). Specifically, we chronicle 1) ultrasound’s development... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Technology Adoption; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms