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Career Timeline - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

research and frameworks 2012 – Publishes The German Healthcare System: A Value-Based Competition Perspective , with Dr. Clemens Guth 2012 – Co-founds International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement... View Details

26 May 2022
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Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories

sleep are all important. We are humans, not machines. We realized it must be a holistic approach.” Today, Noom is one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing, consumer-first digital health platforms, empowering users to achieve... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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When Should Public Programs Be Privately Administered? Theory and Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program

By: Alexander W. Bartik, Zoë Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca, Christopher Stanton and Adi Sunderam

What happens when public resources are allocated by private companies whose objectives may be imperfectly aligned with policy goals? We study this question in the context of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which relied on private banks to disburse aid to small... View Details

Keywords: Paycheck Protection Program; Targeting; Impact; Entrepreneurship; Health Pandemics; Small Business; Financing and Loans; Outcome or Result; United States

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IFC: Italy; Tradition and Innovation - Course Catalog

three most visited countries in Europe year in year out, with tourism making up 13% of GDP. Amid such rich cultural heritage lay the foundations of the birth and development of modern capitalism to which Italy has made unique... View Details

23 Sep 2009
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Operational Failures and Problem Solving: An Empirical Study of Incident Reporting

Keywords: by Julia Adler-Milstein, Sara J. Singer & Michael W. Toffel; Health

07 May 2020
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Ensuring Student Equity

learning programs, food and other basic resources, and health services for more than 1,200 children each week in this underserved community. “We had to rethink the operation of our food pantry. We had to develop learning materials that... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka

itself. Already the country registers 400,000 more deaths than births every year. Most of those deaths—about 80 percent, according to data from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare—take place in hospitals, exerting tremendous... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

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Negotiating the Impossible: Break Deadlocks and Resolve Conflicts (without Money or Muscle)

Some negotiations are easy. Others are more difficult. And then there are situations that seem completely hopeless. Conflict is escalating, people are getting aggressive, and no one is willing to back down. To top it off, you have little power or other resources with... View Details

14 Jan 2022
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Embracing Activism for Social Change

Partnership, a pilot program implemented with the county’s mental health authority, Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network (DWIHN), designed to create better outcomes in... View Details

08 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Fix a Broken Marketplace

An economic handyman of sorts, Alvin E. Roth fixes broken markets. As a Nobel Prize-winning pioneer in the field of market design, the Harvard Business School professor cofounded a kidney donation matching system for New England, corrected public school choice programs... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

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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

Summer 2021
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Predictable Country-level Bias in the Reporting of COVID-19 Deaths

By: Botir Kobilov, Ethan Rouen and George Serafeim

We examine whether a country’s management of the COVID-19 pandemic relate to the downward biasing of the number of reported deaths from COVID-19. Using deviations from historical averages of the total number of monthly deaths within a country, we find that the... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Deaths; Reporting; Incentives; Government Policy; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Country; Crisis Management; Outcome or Result; Reports; Policy

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29 Mar 2016
First Look

March 29, 2016

healthcare—i.e., patient-centered outcomes achieved per healthcare dollar spent—can define quality and unify performance improvement goals with health outcomes of importance to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet

efficiently; and Watson was to translate all that into outcomes that reduced morbidity. The reality is that subtle biases or a lack of full information lead doctors to the wrong decision, which in turn leads to bad View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

13 Feb 2024
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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

Winter 2022
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Vaccines and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from Failure and Success

By: Scott Duke Kominers and Alex Tabarrok

The losses from the global COVID-19 pandemic have been staggering—trillions in economic costs, on top of significant losses of life, health, and well-being. The world made significant and successful investments in vaccines to mitigate the pandemic, yet there were... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Vaccination; Market Design; Health Pandemics; Loss; Outcome or Result; Opportunities; Crisis Management

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01 Mar 2018
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3-Minute Briefing: Lisandra Rickards (MBA 2010)

States. I didn’t want to just take a job. I wanted to have tangible outcomes to my endeavors. Jamaica is the largest English-speaking country in the Caribbean, with a relatively high number of universities. Recently, we’ve seen government... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

2021
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Who Closed the Schools?

By: Joshua D. Coval

This paper examines the differences in characteristics between U.S. public schools that opted for virtual instruction because of COVID-19, and schools that did not. Much of the variation can be explained by measures of the degree to which districts favored teachers... View Details

Keywords: Public Education; COVID-19; Virtual Learning; Education; Health Pandemics; Teaching; Internet and the Web; Policy; Outcome or Result; United States

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07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7

Organization Science Innovation Outcomes in a Distributed Organization: Intra-Firm Mobility and Access to Resources By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj Abstract—Prior research has established a relation between intra-firm mobility and innovation... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne