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  • Summer 2019
  • Article

The Price Effects of Cross-Market Mergers: Theory and Evidence from the Hospital Industry

By: Leemore S. Dafny, Katherine Ho and Robin S. Lee
We consider the effect of mergers between firms whose products are not viewed as direct substitutes for the same good or service but are bundled by a common intermediary. Focusing on hospital mergers across distinct geographic markets, we show that such combinations... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Markets; Geographic Scope; Price; Outcome or Result; Insurance; Health Industry
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  • October 1990 (Revised April 1991)
  • Case

RU 486 (A)

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.
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
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  • Profile

Vivian Scalfi

market research stint and five years with General Electric, where she progressed through the commercial leadership rotational program in health care, oil and gas, and power, Vivian shifted into consumer goods with a role at Diageo... View Details
Keywords: CPG
  • 08 Nov 2024
  • Op-Ed

How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

has quantified the reduction in health care costs from bad outcomes related to automobile pollution. And they have also quantified the time benefit, finding that the BRT so far has reduced a 90-minute trip... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy
  • 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
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 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
  • 04 May 2020
  • Blog Post

Crisis Leadership with Nikhil Patel: The Critical Importance of Trust

says Patel. At the same time, he crafted models “for addressing mental health issues and comorbidities” while negotiating services and soliciting potential funders for money. Finally, Patel coordinated Detroit’s Rapid Abbott COVID-19... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

RX for Change

table, a tray of sandwiches nearby. Two more join via videoconference. The pesky buzz of BlackBerries punctuates the lengthy and sometimes contentious discussion. It’s a familiar scene in the modern business world, but not one normally associated with a hospital. The... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance
  • April 2021 (Revised April 2021)
  • Case

Project Restart: Deciding the Future of English Football

By: Nour Kteily and Deepak Malhotra
In March 2020, the English Premier League football (soccer) season was suspended partway through due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Two months later the season remained in limbo, with a looming deadline to decide whether to attempt to complete the season or curtail it—and... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Sports; Health Pandemics; Decision Making; Fairness; Values and Beliefs; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Motivation and Incentives; Outcome or Result; Perception; Negotiation; Sports Industry; United Kingdom
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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
  • 05 Mar 2025
  • News

Uncertain Terms

calculate possible outcomes for the latter, but not the former—never rose to prominence, but Bhidé was hooked. To his frustration, today’s economics centers on modeling and measuring numerical risks overlooks uncertainty, which defies... View Details
  • 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
  • 22 Mar 2017
  • Research & Ideas

What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?

higher-profit sales, then giving them a less-frequent quota—consistent with the length of the sales process—would make sense. The important thing is to consider what kind of outcome you want." Readers: Have you found that quotas... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Feb 2017
  • First Look

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
  • Web

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
  • 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
  • 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
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  • 25 Oct 2024
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

launched and scaled digital health products and founded the digital health team’s first diversity, equity, and inclusion program. This initiative was instrumental in lifting up underrepresented voices,... View Details
  • 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
  • 13 May 2020
  • Blog Post

Crisis Leadership with Nikhil Patel: The Critical Importance of Trust

says Patel. At the same time, he crafted models “for addressing mental health issues and comorbidities” while negotiating services and soliciting potential funders for money. Finally, Patel coordinated Detroit’s Rapid Abbott COVID-19... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Social Enterprise