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29 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

defining societal issue of the 21st century. The debate over “who gets what’ underlies policy debates ranging from taxation to health care to wages and permeates society at all levels, attracting increasing interest from policymakers,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 27

Publications August 2013 Princeton University Press A Social Strategy: How We Profit from Social Media By: Piskorski, Mikołaj Jan Abstract—Almost no one had heard of social media a decade ago, but today websites such as Facebook,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Dec 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

relative importance of public agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and different types of private firms in developing precision medicines. Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

CEO Dan Vasella made counterintuitive moves by expanding Novartis's generic drug, vaccines, and consumer health businesses in spending heavily on acquisitions to offer alternatives to patented drugs. Meanwhile, he focused Novartis's... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works

the challenges and inspire their organizations to help the world work its way through these difficult times. In a crisis like this, there is no place for leaders to be bragging or overpromising the capabilities of their company or using this crisis for competitive wins... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Health

06 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations

Prescription drug costs continue to climb in the United States, but tightening a loophole in a federal law may help curb rising expenses, according to research published this week in Health Affairs. Efforts to control US View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Health; Health; Health

28 Jul 2016
Op-Ed

Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?

important and complex decisions of their lives. Related Reading: How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model

humanitarian goodness of this, the public relations benefits are wonderful. The world should applaud this, because it's a tangible action that might be reducing tension on the border," suggested Khanna. India Likes Entrepreneurs The... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

that?' I have found that many people who come into this industry do so for a combination of professional and personal factors," Williams says, adding that he left his job at a technology consulting firm and joined a biotech start-up soon after that conversation.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Health; Health

16 Jul 2014
HBS Case

Marketing Obamacare

couldn't still succeed, says John Quelch, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a professor of health policy and management at Harvard School of Public... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

30 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers

reports. The paper, authored by Julia Adler-Milstein, an HBS doctoral candidate in the Health Policy Management program; Sara J. Singer, assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

13 Apr 2021
Book

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

others’ views and insights. Superficial recognition that doesn’t allow women to fully contribute won’t placate employees who feel their voices are unheard. Indeed, lip service can be all the more frustrating, as expressed by one woman working in the View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

06 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

Ashraf, an associate professor in the Negotiations, Organizations, and Markets unit at Harvard Business School. “Asking them to apply something that's been generated somewhere else isn't involving them in the process” But there's a dearth of co-production in the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health; Health

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management

diabetes is a public health crisis that needs urgent attention. However flawed, early programs that attempt to manage the disease may at least get more people thinking about serious solutions for their... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

14 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

What Does December's Drug-Approval Dash Mean for COVID-19 Vaccines?

shortened review processes. We did this in the interest of public health and because we think that's the best thing for the world. However, make no mistake, this is a different ‘product’ than the typical FDA... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health; Health

2002
Chapter

Cross Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative

By: Diana Barrett, James E. Austin and Sheila McCarthy

Keywords: Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; Public Sector; Private Sector; Business and Government Relations; International Relations; Health Industry

Citation

20 Apr 2020
Book

Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings

increase air flow and quality can have dramatic effects on workers. Click HereJohn Macomber and Joseph Allen at a recent Books@Baker event. But the economic benefits don’t stop there. Macomber expects that a growing public focus on View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Health; Health

March 2018 (Revised February 2020)
Teaching Note

Improving Access at VA

By: Ryan W. Buell and Robert S. Huckman

In 2015, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) ran the largest healthcare system in the United States, with over 1,700 sites of care that served nearly 9 million veterans. One year earlier, a scandal had erupted over a cover-up of the excessive wait times veterans... View Details

Keywords: Service Operations; Service Delivery; Social Issues; Health Care and Treatment; Government Administration; Performance Improvement; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States