Health Care Costs - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 1997
News

Blockbuster Deals

industries - aerospace, banking, communications, entertainment, manufacturing, railroads, retailing, and health care - opting to join forces with their former competitors? Is this a repeat of the Eighties or... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry

01 Mar 2005
News

Venture Capital’s Comeback

venture-backed start-ups. (See sidebar, page 28.) Their concern extends beyond clients to the overall health of the U.S. economy. While the venture-capital community itself is small, numbering several thousand professionals... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

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From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024

noteworthy considering the challenges that confronted HBS and other academic institutions this year, from an economic landscape marked by higher operating costs to an increasingly complex global political climate that created pressure on... View Details

30 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

On August 31, 2016, many investors celebrated the 40th birthday of one of the world’s most successful financial instruments: the mutual index fund, created by Vanguard founder John C. Bogle. Index funds, which automatically track an index of stocks such as the S&P... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

05 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

treating platform systems and step processes as mutually exclusive architectures sets up a false dichotomy. Creating any good requires carrying out a technical recipe, i.e., performing a series of steps. Step processes in turn can be modularized (at the View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

Career Coach

Annette Rodriguez-Ferrer

Annette Rodriguez brings over 20 years of seasoned expertise in private equity, across business services, consumer services, and healthcare. She has dedicated her career to building teams and investing in and developing best-in-class businesses and management, across a... View Details

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01 Nov 2012
News

First and Goal

beaten play for the championship. In effect, an adults-only paperwork controversy cost the kids a championship of their own. Fortunately, Swearengin noted, “The team all told me they felt like champions, which, for a coach, is a great... View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

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IFC: Japan; Exploring Japan's Innovation Ecosystem - Course Catalog

portion of these costs. Students are responsible for booking and paying for their own round-trip air travel and any costs associated with required visa documentation and immunizations. Students should ensure adequate processing time for... View Details

Career Coach

Jill Huggett

Jill Huggett (Carroll '00), Principal, Bridgepath Career Advisors, is a certified professional career coach and certified professional resume writer. Jill combines professional coaching theory with her previous experience as a financial services management executive... View Details

24 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Do We Tax?

this policy be designed not just to meet Utilitarian goals but also to align with the principle of Equal Sacrifice. The principle of Equal Sacrifice declares that the goal of tax policy is to share the costs of funding public goods evenly... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Legal Services

01 Feb 2017
What Do You Think?

Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?

won’t be lost such as highly personalized services such as child care until I considered that my 2 year-old grandson can operate iPhones, computers, and other electronic devices which means he’ll soon have access to HBX and electronic... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

10 Dec 2020
Blog Post

A New Case at Harvard Business School Highlights the Real-World Issues for Latinx Considering an MBA

virtual platform, says Brook Dennard Rosser, assistant director of diversity recruitment, eliminated some of the barriers associated with taking time off, as well as travel and other costs associated with attending a conference in person.... View Details

02 Oct 2015
News

The ‘F’ Word

information junkie, but I did generally know every answer to every nit-picking question that the higher-ups threw at me (e.g., the cost of capital at Playboy was 10 percent). I even developed a working knowledge of things as abstruse as... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

19 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

challenging. We link rich administrative micro-data on socioeconomic measures of individuals with the universe of criminal arrests in Medellin over a decade. We test whether increasing the relative costs to formal-sector employment led to... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Oct 1999
News

The View from the Pit

Harvard's School of Public Health since 1976 and has spent much of her professional career applying corporate and industrial models to the health-care field. Her research activity at HBS focuses on the current trend of hospital mergers... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

20 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54267 February 6, 2018 Harvard Business Review What Could Amazon's Approach to Health Care Look Like? By: Huckman, Robert S. Abstract—No abstract... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

Alejandro Ruzzier Abstract It is often argued that competition forces managers to make better choices, thus favoring managerial autonomy in decision making. I formalize and challenge this idea. Suppose that managers care about keeping... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Jul 2021
Blog Post

Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Co-Founders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke

elevates that perspective to the next level,” she shared. Schoonbeek was also eager to gain more experience as an operator at a startup company to supplement her experience as a consultant working with large businesses. Specifically, she was drawn to healthcare which... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology

16 Dec 2016
News

An Environmental Epiphany

we don't take care of this planet, the planet can't take care of us. I think there are two lessons from that. The first one is, take time for reflection. As leaders, we are so busy and we have so many... View Details

09 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

cost increases to consumers. This was no longer possible after deregulation. Most of the legacy carriers had a considerable amount of difficulty adjusting to the new environment, and many of the airlines went through several failed... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation

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