Publications

16 May 2016
HBS Case

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

Business School and Professor in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Even though Chipotle’s supply chain is shorter, with fewer... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

11 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure

Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation

August 2001 (Revised April 2003)
Case

International Trachoma Initiative

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

In an effort to combat trachoma, a major eye disease, the Clark Foundation entered into a partnership with Pfizer Pharmaceuticals. After a successful pilot project, a joint initiative was established (the Trachoma initiative) that has as its goal to eradicate the... View Details

Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Joint Ventures; Globalization; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Alliances; Partners and Partnerships; Non-Governmental Organizations; Health Industry

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Facing the New World Order

where we have both a global slowdown and the remarkable economic uncertainty following the terrorist attacks in the United States, we need to pay attention, I think without question, to the short term as View Details

Keywords: by Staff

2000
Other Unpublished Work

Cutting Red Tape: Lessons from a Case-based Approach to Improving the Investment Climate in Mozambique

By: L. T. Wells Jr. and Timothy S. Buehrer

Keywords: Investment; Economic Growth; Financial Strategy; Cases; Mozambique

May 1991
Teaching Note

American Red Cross Blood Services: Northeast Region, Teaching Note

By: Robert L. Simons

Teaching Note for (9-190-078). View Details

Keywords: Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; North and Central America

September–October 1973
Article

Determinants of Physician Office Location

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Sam Leinhardt

Keywords: Health; Geographic Location

19 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 19

development, wealth, and job creation in the inner city. The advisory component of its mission seemed well underway, but raising a fund to directly finance client companies had proved challenging. As Next... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Negotiation is Like Jazz

your negotiations. But learning how to think about and structure the whole as well as its parts is an important step in mastering the art of negotiation. In any negotiation, successful improvisation rests on... View Details

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn

June 2011
Teaching Note

PatientsLikeMe: An Online Community of Patients (TN)

By: Sunil Gupta and Jason Riis

Teaching Note for 511093. View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Social and Collaborative Networks; Health Disorders; Growth and Development; Product Launch; Web Services Industry

April 2000
Teaching Note

Patient Care Delivery Model at the Massachusetts General Hospital, The TN

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Richard M.J. Bohmer and Emily Heaphy

Teaching Note for (9-699-154). View Details

Keywords: Health Industry; Health Industry; Massachusetts

November 1978 (Revised October 1989)
Case

Amicon Corp. (A)

Amicon holds a patent on a new process for the separation of blood plasma from whole blood. It has to decide whether to pursue a direct entry, joint venture, or licensing strategy. If it chooses licensing, there are many sub-issues to consider. View Details

Keywords: Technology; Patents; Commercialization; Health Care and Treatment; Biotechnology Industry

Educators

07 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?

efforts in Germany and France), consumers favor products that evolved slowly and are well engineered, while the French prefer style and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

January 2007
Article

Impact of Cardiac Intraoperative Precursor Events on Adverse Outcomes

By: Daniel R. Wong, David F. Torchiana, Thomas J. Vander Salm, Arvind K. Agnihotri, Richard Bohmer and Imtiaz S. Ali

Keywords: Health; Outcome or Result

June 2005
Article

The Collapse of a Medical Labor Clearinghouse (and why such failures are rare)

By: C. Nicholas McKinney, Muriel Niederle and Alvin E. Roth

Keywords: Health; Labor; Failure