Treatment Effects - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?

predict a new world where drug treatments are customized to an individual's genetic makeup, and gene-based therapy can root out cancer and other diseases before they take hold in the body. The new science will "revolutionize the way... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Women Heart Patients Have Better Survival Odds with Women Doctors

gut feelings when it comes to risk. “All of the effects that we're finding in other organizations should not be happening in this context, but yet we still see this glass ceiling.” Another finding: the more frequently male doctors treated... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

06 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health

people? One possible answer came this past week when the airline revealed that the pilot, Andreas Lubitz, had previously suffered from deep depression. Debates began about how Lubitz's mental health played into the tragedy, what treatment... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Air Transportation

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

right kind of competition working. The health care system can achieve stunning gains in quality and efficiency. And employers, the major purchasers of health care services, could lead the transformation. [ ] Positive-sum Competition In a healthy system, competition at... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

January 2000 (Revised October 2002)
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Cambridge Hospital Community Health Network - The Primary Care Unit

By: V.G. Narayanan, Lisa Brem and Ryan Moore

The Cambridge Hospital Community Health Network needed to gain a better understanding of its unit-of-service costs, which had been rising at a rate of 10% per year. The network's step-down costing system gave only aggregate costing information, and there was some... View Details

Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Accounting; Cost; Network Effects; Health Industry; Service Industry; Massachusetts

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04 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon

hospital bed for immobile patients and a rubber heel for walking casts.) But retail billionaires such as Walmart's Walton family generally make their money by figuring out the most effective ways to manage goods and services, even if the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

09 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

How to Revive Health-Care Innovation

effective solution. In the past, business model innovation was common in health care. When the technological enablers for the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases emerged, most patient care was... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman, M.D. M.D. & Jason Hwang; Health

01 Jun 2018
News

Floor It

The sci-fi future for cancer treatment has become a reality, with breakthrough therapies that can use a cancer patient’s genetic information to create personalized treatments or employ the body’s immune... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li

02 Aug 2018
News

Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?

advertising and marketing filled with stark depictions of the harsh realities of drug use. On this episode of Skydeck, Langford speaks with associate editor Julia Hanna about how they’ll craft these messages, how effective they can be—and... View Details

30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016

variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model sales force performance to identify the effectiveness of various forms of conditional and unconditional compensation. We account for salesperson heterogeneity by using a... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Mar 2016
News

Curing Parkinson’s Disease

properties of a virus known as M13—properties first recognized by Solomon’s mother, a leading Alzheimer’s researcher—and produce a medication to treat diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimers’s. As Solomon tells Palreman: “A single compound that View Details

28 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation

in passing tort reform laws to limit the amount of damages patients can receive. Less attention has been paid to the effect such reforms can have on medical device innovation. Under the chilling effect of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Medical Devices & Supplies

01 Feb 2000
News

Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care

that angioplasties and bypass surgeries are funded. Despite compelling statistics that show preventive measures are far more effective and would cost much less than the $2 billion Medicare spends on those surgical procedures each year,... View Details

03 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

suggest that the mere provision of information on peer health behaviors can have perverse effects on one's health behavior." To learn more, see Converging to the Lowest Common Denominator in Physical Health by Leslie John and Michael... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

13 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 13, 2007

Describes the challenges of using the Balanced Scorecard to implement a triple-bottom-line strategy for delivering excellent economic, environmental, and social performance. The owners and senior executive team of Amanco, a producer of plastic pipe and complete water... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 23, 2007

Abstract We study the interplay of inequality and trust in a dynamic game, where trust increases efficiency and thus allows higher growth of the experimental economy in the future. We find that trust is initially high in a treatment... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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1.11 Leaves of Absence | MBA

enrollment and/or residence is conditioned on the student’s agreement to meet the expectations set forth in an agreement to engage in treatment, such as following the recommendations of the student’s treatment team, and the student has... View Details

01 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients

Kaplan, who has been working on a multiyear project with HBS Professor Michael E. Porter on improving value in health care, has found that often the most effective medical procedure is one that costs the least: talking. In a recent... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

03 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 3

quite limited. The best path forward involves extensive experimentation and careful evaluation. Publisher's link: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/I/bo18508109.html August 2013 Advances in Strategic Management The View Details