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- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
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The VideaHealth AI Factory: CEO Florian Hillen on Speed, Scale, and Innovation | Information Technology
dental diagnostics. The Founder and CEO, Florian Hillen, was convinced that their AI could vastly improve the health outcomes of patients across the globe, setting the goal to reach one billion patients.... View Details
- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
development banks, and UN agencies. Overall, the researchers say, the World Bank is quite well run—the issue is one of misgovernance, not malfeasance. "Ashwin and I highlight a setting in which fair institutions can generate unfair View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409003 In-Vitro Fertilization: Outcomes Measurement Harvard Business School Case 709-403 As of 2007, there were very few examples of widespread measurement and reporting of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2017
- News
Making Rapid Progress in the Fight Against Cancer
outcomes in the coming years. “I lead an organization called Cancer Research UK, which is, outside the US government, the largest cancer research organization in the world. And what that requires us to do is to think about every aspect of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
lowest-income countries," he explains, "76 percent of health spending is private, and 70 percent is out of pocket." Furthermore, the health services and products that poor people pay for are all too often... View Details
- August 2021
- Teaching Note
IBM Watson at MD Anderson Cancer Center
By: Shane Greenstein and Mel Martin
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 621-022. View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Operations; Failure; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Health Care and Treatment; Product Development; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States; Houston; Texas
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
Instead, to evaluate possible strategies and tactics, negotiation analysts generally focus on changes in perceptions of the "zone of possible agreement" and the (subjective) distribution of possible negotiated outcomes... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Demo Day | New Venture Competition
services that are slow, expensive, and unreliable - yet language barriers still cause medical errors, costly liability, and worse health outcomes for 30 million Limited English Proficiency patients in the... View Details
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
June 2012 working paper, Key Drivers of Successful Implementation of an Employee Suggestion-Driven Improvement Program. Tucker is an associate professor in the Technology and Operations Management unit, and the Marvin Bower Fellow at HBS. Singer is an assistant... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
involved in numerous regional and national health policy initiatives, including the American Joint Replacement Registry, where he serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors; the Yale Center for Outcomes... View Details
- April 1990 (Revised January 1993)
- Case
Ad Council's AIDS Campaign (A): Advertising Strategy
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Janet Montgomery
Ad Council wished to run an educational campaign aimed at preventing the spread of AIDS. They were challenged to find acceptable ways to address this very sensitive subject matter--ways that the media and the public would approve. One of the big challenges was to make... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Goals and Objectives; Social Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Success; Problems and Challenges; Social Issues; Health Industry
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Janet Montgomery. "Ad Council's AIDS Campaign (A): Advertising Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 590-105, April 1990. (Revised January 1993.)
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
Abstract—Improving the way we pay for health care must be a central component in health care reform. Payment reform must link provider reimbursement and accountability to improving patient value: better... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Students Reflect on COP28
the climate cause.” Alisha Shaparia at COP28 Hugh Shirley, Harvard Medical School “While COP28 was successful for a number of reasons, I wouldn’t list the inclusion of health as a thematic day amongst them. What we want is for human View Details
- 24 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost
exhaust gases. The further hope is that regular traffic will move faster, also reducing tangible air pollution. These benefits matter to the people and to the government of Senegal. They have quantified the reduction in health care costs... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Crucible: Give It Up
perspective on life that I didn’t have before this all happened. My wife and I are both in good health now, but the takeaways from that time are still very fresh. A couple of years ago, I chose to work at a smaller venture and to focus on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Innovation in Health Care: How to Make Value-Based Delivery Work by Vijay Govindarajan (DBA 1978) and Ravi Ramamurti (DBA 1982) HBR Press Though still a pipe dream in the US, value-based competition (value as measured by patient View Details
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
outcome can be replicated by a licensing scheme in which innovators sell complete patent rights, and (2) they are dynamically unstable. We find that none of the above regimes can reach first or second best. Finally, we consider patents of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- October 1990 (Revised April 1991)
- Case
RU 486 (A)
Describes the factors faced by Roussel UCLAF, a French drug company, in deciding whether and how to market a controversial new drug, RU 486, which is often called "the French abortion pill." Roussel's decision involved its relations with the French government, its... View Details
Keywords: Judgments; Ethics; Product Launch; Negotiation; Outcome or Result; Performance; Business and Government Relations; Health Industry; Health Industry; France; Germany; United States
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr. "RU 486 (A)." Harvard Business School Case 391-050, October 1990. (Revised April 1991.)
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
two years ago, the Social Enterprise Initiative’s Alumni for Imp... The Power of Relationships: Leveraging Mentoring for Greater Educational Outcomes Max Polaner 09 Mar 2018 Mentoring is one of oldest ways that people have found to... View Details