Medicine - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Jul 2020
Op-Ed

It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees

the Harvard Business School. Richard J. Boxer, MD, is a Clinical Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. [Image: iStock Photo] Have an idea about this proposal? Share it below. View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer; Health; Insurance

01 Dec 2009
News

Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award

access to consumer goods, jobs, and global markets. Dividing his time among corporate boards, family, and educational causes, Lemann heads a family foundation that supports education, health, the environment, and medicine in Brazil. What... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; awards; fishing; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

17 Mar 2015
News

The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)

to code help make a difference—in education and also more broadly on a society level? “We often think about technology in the context of the ‘tech’ industry. The reality, though, is that software has transformed every industry out there. Everything we do today, from... View Details

Keywords: Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services

15 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

Publication:Academic Medicine 84, no. 12 (December 2009): 1663-1671 Abstract Recent focus on the need to improve the quality and safety of health care has created new challenges for academic health centers (AHCs). Whereas previously... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 3

PublicationsAddressing the Leadership Gap in Medicine: Residents' Need for Systematic Leadership Development Training Authors:Daniel Mark Blumenthal, Kenneth Richard Lee Bernard, Jordan David Bohnen, and Richard Bohmer Publication:Academic View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

of the study, Alvin Silk, Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus, and Joel Weissman, associate professor, department of Medicine and Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School. The Physicians Report ran in the April issue of the... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

01 Jun 2001
News

"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work

business, women as professionals, and women’s personal lives. Included are materials as diverse as the diaries of whaling captains’ wives, wills that show how 18th-century property laws affected women, advertisements for “female complaint” View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Professor Elton Mayo; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

09 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

higher on average and variable profits increased by 9.6 percent, according to the study. The model also predicted that algorithmic competition resulted in a modest decline of .9 percent in quantity purchased over the study period. Extrapolating the results of their... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

07 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

entire cycle of acute pain medicine delivery for these patients. TDABC was used to identify possible improvements in personnel allocation, workflow changes, and epidural placement location and to model the cost savings of those... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

network, the contacts, the knowledge of tropical medicines and the knowledge of many countries where this disease was." Terrorism And Crime Professor Rafael Di Tella teaches the Business, Government and the International Economy... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

This focus, I argue, limits the practical utility of the discipline because universal propositions form only a part of new policy recipes.” Remote Patient Monitoring—Overdue or Overused? New England Journal of Medicine Keizra Mecklai,... View Details

29 Jun 2022
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows

patented a lead drug candidate that increases lifespan in a mouse model of a non-small cell lung cancer model by 50 percent. This lead drug is the first in Lime's planned pipeline of medicines that will be working their way towards human... View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

Disrupting India’s Dental Market

opening a hospital. “I didn’t want to get into real estate,” he says. “I wanted to get into a service business.” Perhaps even more appealingly, dentistry did not depend on referrals from other doctors, which turned Indian medicine into “a... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

18 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 18

considering whether or how to deepen the company's investment in Arogya Parivar, its profitable program that sold Novartis medicines in rural India while expanding access to medicine and health information... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Aug 2015
What Do You Think?

What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?

use of new information technologies in medicine is a favorite piece of evidence cited in support of this argument. Brynjolfsson and McAfee cite the importance of changes in the workforce alongside the introduction of new technologies if... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

28 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time

you are saving lives. So it has to have a humanitarian angle to it." (Cipla manufactures generic versions of a number of commonly prescribed medicines and is the world's largest manufacturer of the antiretroviral drugs that fight HIV and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

10 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

and licensed to practice radiology in the United States. The data set included 2.7 million scans read by the radiologists for 1,431 customers over a 30-month period. Nearly 85 percent of the scans were CT; roughly 10 percent were ultrasound; and X-ray, MRI, and nuclear... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health

12 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

help a lot through modifying and extending key policies, particularly in the area of results information and removing restrictive and unnecessary impediments to competition. The corporate practice of medicine law is a perfect example. The... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

25 Oct 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

Camden as a science teacher with Teach for America, earning the Sue Lehmann Award for Excellence in Teaching. Witnessing the stark health disparities faced by his students and their families, Haan was driven to pursue medicine at Harvard... View Details

07 Jul 2022
Blog Post

Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience

entrepreneurial interests as two separate threads that came together in 2020.When I was at UCLA, I studied molecular biology. After deciding to not pursue medicine and feeling paralyzed by my career outlook, my dad recommended I take a... View Details

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