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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

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24 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

products. Markets are excellent at promoting innovation and driving toward efficiency, but they don't function without governments. As we've been discussing, the FDA protects the public while industry seeks out consumers of health-care... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Health; Health; Health

November 2016 (Revised August 2020)
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Improving Access at VA

By: Ryan W. Buell, Robert S. Huckman and Sam Travers

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

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April 2011 (Revised March 2012)
Supplement

U.S. Healthcare Reform: Reaction to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich

Supplement to "U.S. Healthcare Reform: International Perspectives" updating key events and disputes concerning the reform law, including the 2010 Congressional elections, legislative proposals, legal challenges, and responses by employers. View Details

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; Political Elections; Health Care and Treatment; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business and Government Relations; Public Opinion; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States

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13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Market for Babies

the industry as a whole flown under the radar for so long? Do you think companies are taking advantage of the fact that the public is uncomfortable (or unwilling) to confront this industry? A: I think that's exactly right. People who... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Health; Health; Health

November 1999
Supplement

"ACT UP": Peter Staley, An Interview with Professor Willis Emmons, November 17, 1995

By: Willis M. Emmons III

Provides excerpts from an interview with Peter Staley of Act Up reflecting on the Wall Street protest against Burroughs Wellcome in the fall of 1989 and on the role and impact of AIDS advocacy and activism in general. View Details

Keywords: Health Pandemics; Social Issues; Public Opinion; Pharmaceutical Industry

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13 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Making Biotech Work as a Business

and the organizational structures which have emerged." His suggestion for companies going forward: Think twice about the strategies and assumptions that are driving your industry. Universities, venture capitalists, public investors... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Health; Health

01 May 2020
In Practice

COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

can deliver the safest perceived service environment, in the face of ongoing public health threats from COVID-19 and from the next pandemic. Sustaining their business viability post-COVID will demand more... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

05 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change

Green initiatives are ubiquitous these days, implemented with zeal at companies like Dupont, IBM, Walmart, and Walt Disney. The programs being rolled out—lighting retrofits, zero-waste factories, and carpool incentives—save money and provide a green glow. Most large... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler

28 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation

bottom line of medical device companies—it’s good for patients as well. Related Reading: New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly Public R&D Investments and Private-sector Patenting: Evidence from NIH Funding Rules Five... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Medical Devices & Supplies

2020
Working Paper

Spreading the Health: Americans' Estimated and Ideal Distributions of Death and Health(care)

By: Sorapop Kiatpongsan and Michael I. Norton

The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act intensified debates over the role of government in the distribution of healthcare. A nationally-representative sample of Americans reported their estimated and ideal distributions of healthcare (unmet need for... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare; Mortality; Inequality; Justice; Equity; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Equality and Inequality; Fairness; Public Opinion; United States

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March 2018
Supplement

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

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14 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout

months of the pandemic writing about marketplace design tactics that could provide support—for example, by leveraging delivery marketplaces to bring food to the elderly or by distributing hand sanitizer more equitably. Kominers joined Accelerating View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

22 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems

Motions: An Empirical Test of Management Involvement in Process Improvement," HBS professor Anita L. Tucker and Harvard School of Public Health professor Sara J. Singer show that communicating with... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

October 2004 (Revised July 2005)
Case

Kinetic Concepts, Inc.

By: Jay W. Lorsch, Dwight B. Crane and Ashley Robertson

Raises issues about how the nature and function of a board changes as a company moves from ownership by its employees, including the founder, to ownership by a private equity firm, Fremont Partners, culminating in a highly successful IPO. Gives students the opportunity... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Governing and Advisory Boards; Initial Public Offering; Behavior; Organizations; Employee Ownership; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States

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May 2021
Case

The SMA Foundation: Steering Therapeutic Research and Development in a Rare Disease

By: Amitabh Chandra, Spencer Lee-Rey and Caroline Marra

This case explores incentives for rare disease drug development by chronicling the role of the Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Foundation in forming strategic partnerships with the scientific research community and pharmaceutical developers to transform the trajectory... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Strategy; Business or Company Management; Society; Health; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States

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11 Aug 2014
HBS Case

The Business of Behavioral Economics

economics and pop culture, particularly since the recent publication of popular books such as Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein's Nudge, Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational, and Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow. Even so,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Health

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding

What do a health food manufacturer, an infectious-diseases specialist and a content-management expert have in common? Answer: All are women, all are entrepreneurs. And by virtue of being women and entrepreneurs they share one... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace