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Matthew C. Weinzierl

Matt Weinzierl is Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the MBA Program at Harvard Business School, where he is the Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit, and a Research... View Details

Keywords: aerospace

14 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors

the site launched. Research Matters According to Toffel, 2 research projects are associated with the map: looking at what facilities do, and what the public at large is concerned about. For the first... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing; Chemical

16 Jul 2021
News

What Ever Happened to IBM’s Watson?

Article

A Blueprint for Pharmacy Benefits Managers to Increase Value

By: William Shrank, Michael E. Porter, Sachin H. Jain and Niteesh K. Choudhary

Pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs) have a unique opportunity to promote public health and generate value in the healthcare system. However, PBMs are largely evaluated on their ability to control costs rather than improve health. PBMs should be evaluated along three... View Details

Keywords: Opportunities; Health; System; Cost Management; Partners and Partnerships; Motivation and Incentives; Value; Innovation and Invention; Performance Effectiveness; Health Industry; Health Industry

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Find at Harvard

2015
Other Teaching and Training Material

Innovating in Healthcare

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Margo I. Seltzer and Kevin Schulman

With over 71,000 past enrollees, Innovating in Healthcare investigates the issues of health care spending, quality, and access that continue to plague America and global nations alike. With U.S. health care costs trending toward $4 trillion in 2020, the need to... View Details

Keywords: edX; Healthcare; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Business Model

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Three irreversible trends -- realization of the deep downside of bad public health and bad buildings; the access to and democratization of air quality data; and the relaxation of the need to be present in-person, face-to-face, day-to-day -- will forever change... View Details

24 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

Yoshimi Anzai, Marta E. Heilbrun, Derek Haas, Luca Boi, Kirk Moshre, Satoshi Minoshima, and Vivian S. Lee Abstract—The lack of understanding the true costs (not charges) of delivering health care services poses tremendous challenges in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

July 1998
Supplement

Bell Atlantic in Union City

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

In this pioneering project to wire a school for the Internet and put computers in students' homes, Bell Atlantic combined its need for a beta site for a technology trial with the school reform efforts of the Union City, New Jersey public schools, under the leadership... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Social Enterprise; Internet and the Web; Education; Business and Community Relations; Education Industry; New Jersey

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05 Oct 2017
News

This is how gerrymandering affects US competitiveness

10 Oct 2009
News

Making the 'public option' a simple one

01 Dec 2011
News

Jobs wanted

08 Jun 2020
News

Tenants and Investors Will Be Looking for Healthy Buildings

10 Jan 2018
News

Publicly engaged PhDs shift the notion of the ivory tower

2024
Working Paper

HIV Tests and AIDS Treatments—Containing a Fearsome Pandemic: Case Histories of Transformational Advances

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

This case history describes how a diverse cast of characters, including public health organizations, research laboratories, for-profit healthcare companies, activists, and regulators, rolled back the outbreak of HIV/AIDS in just fifteen years. Moreover, as the case... 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

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19 Jan 2012
News

Enlightened eating

15 Mar 2007
Working Paper Summaries

Initiating Divergent Organizational Change: The Enabling Role of Actors’ Social Position

Keywords: by Julie Battilana

31 Mar 2020
News

Cambridge announces COVID-19 Expert Advisory Panel

09 Apr 2014
News

A Playbook For Small-Business Job Creation

24 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti

the cost of care for the same 10 types of visits—including acute care, women’s health care, family planning, HIV, and malaria—at five rural clinics in the central highlands of Haiti. In the course of the study, the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

April 1995 (Revised December 2006)
Case

Identify the Nonprofit

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ramona Hilgenkamp

This case presents financial statements and selected ratios for seven unidentified nonprofit organizations and asks that each set of financial information be matched with one of the following nonprofit entities: a public television station, a suburban hospital, a... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Financial Statements

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