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Eric Boutin
at Redesign Health, a digital health venture studio, where he created and financed health tech startup companies. Before that, he was a Managing Director at dRx Capital,... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- October 2005 (Revised September 2006)
- Case
DentalCorp
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
DentalCorp is the fifth largest provider of dental insurance in Brazil and has tripled its sales in the past two years. Whether to expand to Chile or to continue expansion in Brazil is the major strategic choice facing the company at the end of 2004. View Details
Keywords: International Finance; Expansion; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Global Strategy; Health Industry; Health Industry; Brazil; Chile
Hamermesh, Richard G., and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho. "DentalCorp." Harvard Business School Case 806-023, October 2005. (Revised September 2006.)
- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Weathering the Storm
Nnamdi Okike (MBA 2007) Nnamdi Okike (MBA 2007) In this special video edition of Skydeck, contributing host Chitra Nawbatt (GMP 6, 2009) speaks with 645 Ventures Cofounder and General Partner Nnamdi Okike (MBA 2007) about near-term and long-term strategies for... View Details
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
require a shift in the traditional philanthropy mindset, Hamermesh says, from funding the construction of a new cancer pavilion to financing the development of specific therapies for cancer subtypes—a less visible, but potentially more... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
“If I had been leaving Harvard in 2010, this would be the area I would want to be going into.” — Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69), a founder of the European venture capital industry, referring to his latest venture, Social Finance, a social investment bank. (London... View Details
- January 2011 (Revised January 2012)
- Supplement
The Case of the Unidentified Healthcare Companies2010 (CW)
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Ethan S Bernstein, Margarita Krivitski and Srinidhi Reddy
This case presents financial statements and selected rations for 14 unidentified healthcare organizations and asks that each set of financial information be matched with one of the following healthcare companies: a biotechnology firm, a community nursing company, a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
capitalism remains a major challenge. “When you don’t have the marketplace slapping you in the face, telling you your product is no good, you can really get confused,” Gates acknowledged. In health care, the foundation simply looks at the... View Details
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Industry General Management Michael S. Kaufman , Andy Pforzheimer Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders Accounting & Management, General Management, Organizational Behavior Robert Simons Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Cities, Structures,... View Details
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Kaitlin Hearn
Kaitlin grew up in Canada and studied engineering, but has spent the bulk of her career in finance and consulting in New York. As a serial career switcher herself, Kaitlin is well positioned to help you think through the merits and... View Details
- 05 Oct 2017
- Cold Call Podcast
How to Promote Home Delivery of Prescription Drugs? Give Employees a 'Nudge'
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Improving the business of medicine
As founder and managing partner of KBL Ventures, Dr. Marlene Krauss (MBA 1967, MD 1979) combines her business and medical training to bring health care device and bio-tech ventures to market. (Published December 2014) View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
venture-backed start-ups. (See sidebar, page 28.) Their concern extends beyond clients to the overall health of the U.S. economy. While the venture-capital community itself is small, numbering several thousand professionals... View Details
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
Coleman, acquired the household goods division of American Home Products for $1.3 billion.27 Proceeds from these sales, supplemented by retained earnings, helped to finance the expansion of the company's healthcare businesses. In 1986... View Details
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Treatment Of Opioid Use Disorder Among Commercially Insured U.S. Adults, 2008–17
By: Karen Shen, Eric Barrette and Leemore S. Dafny
There is abundant literature on efforts to reduce opioid prescriptions and misuse, but comparatively little on the treatment provided to people with opioid use disorder (OUD). Using claims data representing 12–15 million nonelderly adults covered through commercial... View Details
Keywords: Opioid Treatment; Medication-assisted Treatment; Substance Use Disorder; Private Insurance; Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; United States
Shen, Karen, Eric Barrette, and Leemore S. Dafny. "Treatment Of Opioid Use Disorder Among Commercially Insured U.S. Adults, 2008–17." Health Affairs 39, no. 6 (June 2020): 993–1001.
- 10 Jan 2005
- What Do You Think?
Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?
their twenties unfathomable." No one, however, supported individual decision making regarding investments. In Edward Hare's opinion, "The average Joe could get fleeced badly and find that he's still unprepared to finance his... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
Africa; its importance to the country is as great as the threat to its existence. Illegal logging fueled Liberia’s recent civil war: “Blood timber” financed the violence, just as blood diamonds have in other African conflicts. The civil... View Details
- Profile
Zayed Muhammed Yasin
gives me the ability to mobilize and organize resources to address the big health problems among people who need the most help," he says. "If you understand finances and operations, you can find... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
1971, JD/MBA 1978). Now Fisher is also on the board of Easterly Government Properties, and she’s launching two additional businesses: FitMoney, a nonprofit K–12 financial literacy program, and a health IT company that is still in the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- August 2024
- Article
How Do Copayment Coupons Affect Branded Drug Prices and Quantities Purchased?
By: Leemore S. Dafny, Kate Ho and Edward Kong
Drug copayment coupons to reduce patient cost-sharing have become nearly ubiquitous for high-priced brand-name prescription drugs. Medicare bans such coupons on the grounds that they are kickbacks that induce utilization, but they are commonly used by... View Details
Keywords: Prescription Drugs; Coupons; Impact; Health Care and Treatment; Markets; Price; Spending; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
Dafny, Leemore S., Kate Ho, and Edward Kong. "How Do Copayment Coupons Affect Branded Drug Prices and Quantities Purchased?" American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 16, no. 3 (August 2024): 314–346.