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- 15 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
One Month into the New MS/MBA Biotech
about the professional backgrounds of the students in the first cohort? Our initial cohort has a wide variety of professional backgrounds. In our first cohort, we have students who worked in such fields as strategic consulting, healthcare consulting, biotech, finance,... View Details
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
speak. The net result is that consumers are more likely to consume when a price is vivid and fresh than when it is obscured or distant. In the case of a health club, this means that members are more likely to go to the gym right after... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
affordable housing is the low-income housing tax credit, part of the Tax Reform Act of 1986," she says. "In essence, it provides a tax benefit to private investors — typically banks and insurance companies — in return for their... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
patients coming from all over Germany and from other countries. However, German private insurers were cutting reimbursement for prostate cancer by 15% and denying extra payment for some new procedures, while reimbursement by public View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
associated with billing and insurance activities at a large academic health care center that had a certified EHR system. The center enjoyed economies of scale by concentrating its bill paying functions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
structure, to do this yet. Pioneering this customized therapeutic is where we’re at now. But the vision is to have a system in place, a funding mechanism—either a venture funding mechanism or in the future, more ideally, a payer mechanism, an View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
PublicationsInnovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care Authors:Clayton M. Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman M.D., and Jason Hwang M.D. Publication:McGraw-Hill, 2009 Abstract A groundbreaking prescription for View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107055 Bancaja: Developing Customer Intelligence (B) Harvard Business School Case 107-066 Excellence in exploiting customer information and leveraging its affiliation to the GM group are among the strategic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money
2015, it actually made theoretical gains from avoiding payment of unemployment benefits and by collecting tax and social security payments from the workers who would otherwise have been unemployed. “To be fair, unemployment insurance is... View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
complaint data for insurance agents, we find that agents working exclusively for large branded firms are more likely to be the subject of justified sales complaints, relative to smaller independent experts, despite doing substantially... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
dollar lending more than euro lending in response to a shock to their credit quality. Because these banks rely on wholesale dollar funding, while raising more of their euro funding through insured retail deposits, the shock leads to a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Career Advancement Without Experience
careers," O'Mahony says. "In addition, they're moving in and out of contract work. There are a number of open research issues here, such as questions of health insurance and retirement. What we did... View Details
- 26 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore
Conference Looks at Future of Hong Kong as a Global Leader The HBS Association of Hong Kong (HBSAHK) celebrated the club’s 45thanniversary in February, with its 2025 Signature Conference at Cloud 39, a rooftop ballroom at The Henderson skyscraper in central Hong Kong.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Apr 2011
- What Do You Think?
When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?
them lack of public credit for prevention (as opposed to recovery), political opposition to preemptive actions, and the sheer cost of insuring against meltdowns (Phil Clark). David Physick responds with questions: "Is the question... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
diverse product lines in health care, computers, printers, and scientific instruments, he notes, because it has established autonomous divisions around the globe with clear performance targets and incentives to grow. Other innovative... View Details
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
When health insurer Cigna Corp. appeared in front of a judge for allegedly misleading shareholders on Medicare regulations this spring, plaintiffs thought they had a strong case. After all, Cigna had... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
Vaccinations Evive Health is a company that manages communication campaigns on behalf of health insurance plans and large employers. Using big data techniques and insights from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
remarkable transformation of both the economic performance and the social institution. Gooding oversaw a rise in revenues from £1 billion to more than £5 billion, and she and her team worked to reconfigure the business portfolio. When she arrived, BUPA was a provider... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
Bertini (DBA 2006) and Oded Koenigsberg The MIT Press Would you rather pay for health care or for better health? For school or education? For groceries or nutrition? A car or transportation? A theater performance or entertainment? In The... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
bridges, water, power and more? It’s not because they don’t aspire to. It’s because they lack the money and the expertise (in African cities) or because they can’t get to political consensus (in the United States)—or because there are other priorities for limited... View Details