Health Care Education - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment

provided a good return for a pension fund holder at some point, but that investor and society pay more in the end through increased health care costs. Hayes said that Domini's picture of a system run amok,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 May 2022
News

Like-Minded

and beyond, that focus on what the team calls “tech-enabled sustainable living.” That could mean ESG in its traditional forms, such as climate change, health care technology, or environmental tech. But... View Details

10 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

of perhaps $90 trillion. One side argues that we can't raise revenues, while the other asserts we can't cut entitlements. Both sides are wrong. Entitlement costs, especially health care, will eat us alive. Without real reform of... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Disruption: The Art of Framing

potential shared resources. Johnson & Johnson has done this effectively with many of its health care companies—acquiring separate platforms of growth and leaving them largely independent. Knight Ridder... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower

01 Mar 2006
News

Drive-In Nation

employers to provide essential benefits, including health care after retirement. That meant we didn’t have to face much public responsibility to do that. The American Dream may have to be reinvented, perhaps... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

01 Apr 1999
News

Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong

technologies include: Automobiles (electric vehicles) Bookstores (Internet sales) Department stores (discounters) Doctors (nurse-practitioners) Health insurance (HMOs) Mainframe computers (desktops) Motorcycles (dirt bikes) Network... View Details

01 Jan 2005
News

Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964

Chairman & Managing Director, Bajaj Auto Ltd. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION St. Stephen's College (Delhi), 1958 B.A., Economics The Government Law College (Bombay), 1960 LL.B. LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS... View Details

01 Jun 2019
News

City on a Hill

and with Marietta’s support, recently completed her undergrad degree. Pine Mountain’s approach is holistic: In addition to offering more than a dozen environmental education courses for schoolchildren that integrate science, ecology, and... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

20 Nov 2019
News

Lifting Fallen Families

forward to becoming a dad to a baby girl that March. “That was a tough one for all of us, just thinking about what was going to happen to that little girl and who was going to take care of her,” says David Kim (MBA 1994), a graduate of... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

24 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 24

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-031.pdf Measuring Teamwork in Health Care Settings: A Review of Survey Instruments Authors:Melissa A. Valentine, Ingrid M. Nembhard, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Tap into Top Talent with the HBS Leadership Fellows Program

said “I didn’t do anything that was international development-related after those two years; I went into education and then hunger relief. So, it was more than an industry specific set of skills I drew on. The Leadership Fellows Program... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise

01 Mar 2012
News

Alumni Book Briefs

Greatest Competitor as Our Greatest Teacher by Ann Lee (MBA 1995) (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Fully aware of China’s shortcomings, particularly in human rights, Lee details the policies and practices—in areas ranging from education and... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

January 2021 (Revised June 2021)
Case

Hester Pharmaceuticals (A): A Pricing Dilemma

By: Dante Roscini and John Masko

In August 2019, the leadership of Hester Pharmaceuticals (Hester) had a problem. Italy promised to be a key market for their new breakthrough oncology drug Akrozumab, but for almost two years, its single-payer healthcare system had been unable to agree with Hester on a... View Details

Keywords: Macroeconomics; Trade; Price; Global Range; Global Strategy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Health Care and Treatment; Patents; Monopoly; Negotiation; Business and Government Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Human Needs; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Pharmaceutical Industry; Italy

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01 Dec 2001
News

September 11: A Community Reflects

Patrick Doyle (HBS '03), a former rector and adjunct professor of business ethics at Notre Dame. With heightened campus security in place, MBA and Executive Education classes resumed on September 12, but in the days that followed, the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

24 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 24

theoretical framework contribute to our understanding of the nature of expert influence and how and why functional groups, such as risk managers, can become influential. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-068.pdf Measuring Teamwork in View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

03 Apr 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

of spending on traditional aid programs in areas such as health care and food access in developing countries, GiveDirectly transfers cash directly to the poor. As experiments have shown this approach to be... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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A Message from Dean Srikant Datar | About

Black youth over the next ten years. We are learning so much about different ways in which we can think about this problem and make progress on this topic. I think this initiative, diversity across all forms, is absolutely essential if we are to View Details

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

21 Nov 2019
Blog Post

Finding My North Star at the Crossroads of Profit and Purpose

hardships of working in a manufacturing factory. I was heavily influenced by my father’s eagerness to relate my school textbook science lessons to examples from his factory. An impact of this practical approach to learning was my later interest in applied sciences,... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

Hong Kong Club Thrives, Plans Next Global Alumni Conference

Kong or China to an HBS Executive Education program. With membership at two hundred, the HBSA-HK is thriving, thanks in part to a mentoring system that links active board members with young alumni. The board members “take View Details

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