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- 01 Mar 2013
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Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System
a survey of US health-care executives conducted for the forum, Huckman reported that 55 percent of respondents believed that, considering quality and cost in combination, America is losing ground relative to other nations. But problems... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
payload—this one delivered the company’s New Shepard module that someday could give human passengers a taste of space travel—and are destroyed on the way up or crash back to Earth in pieces. With rockets costing tens of millions of... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
instructive,” Fleishman continues. “Controlling health-care costs remains unresolved. From the standpoint of lessons learned, the Massachusetts experience underscores the reality that providing access to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
products with various levels of cost and provider choice. Its impressive organic growth also has many lessons on how to train and evaluate people. Modeled after HBS professor emeritus Ray Goldberg's highly... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
Straight Talk on Investing coauthored by John J. (“Jack”) Brennan (MBA ’80) (John Wiley & Sons) Brennan, chairman and CEO of The Vanguard Group, provides a hands-on, straight-forward guide to investing. Company Towns of the Pacific... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
emissions offsets. A 10 percent reduction would fall in line with industry practice and cost $3.7 to $5.9 million; 40 percent would provide an innovative, positive story for the public and View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
integrate supportive services to provide stability and reduce management costs for property owners. For example, a service provider can work with new tenants to create a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
patients’ needs. Today’s doctors work in a system where they are rewarded by Medicare and insurance companies for the number and cost of the services they provide rather than by the value of those services... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
A World of Information at Your Fingertips
The next time you need to do Career Planning or business research, Baker Library can help. With the click of a mouse, its eBaker online service delivers a trove of brand-name resources at little or no cost to HBS alumni. Career planning... View Details
- 29 May 2019
- News
HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni
useful,” says Engle. “The workshop was excellent and provided guidance on how to consider our goals, strengths, what we love to do, and what the ideal environment might be.” Andrews says that while the workshop tour is not specifically... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
formulation. The interviews also revealed that compensation committees face a number of pressures to keep top executives' pay at a certain level. Not the least of these, says Lorsch, are surveys performed by compensation consultants. These surveys View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
ambassador to Austria. Unlike cap-and-trade, which depends on the open market to determine costs for carbon emissions, a carbon fee would be transparent and predictable, allowing companies to figure in the View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Saving lives through new vaccine technology
negligible, the problem is that shipping vaccines requires expensive cold storage and distribution. The solution that Vaxess provides is a room-temperature-storage technology using silk proteins, which lowers View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
need to have universal health insurance. We don't have it now because it costs too much. But a market-driven health-care system will lower costs, so it will be more feasible to provide insurance to the poor... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Clubs Convene to Focus on Health Care
public health care, skyrocketing costs of prescription medications, and how AI-assisted personal medicine is coming in the future.” Ahmed says the Cleveland Clinic Canada (CCC) represents one of the growing patient-centric models of care... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities
unemployment. Nevertheless, a minimum wage increase is controversial. Why is that? Because the conversation is really about much more than a technical debate on the costs and benefits. Most people are aware that the long-term economic... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Faculty Books
Redefining Global Strategy by Pankaj Ghemawat (HBS Press) Why do so many global strategies fail despite companies’ powerful brands and border-crossing advantages? In this “semiglobalized” world, one-size-fits-all strategies don’t stand a chance. Differences matter.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
A Better Way to Go on Strike
W hen President Clinton imposed a cooling-down period in the American Airlines pilots' strike, he recognized that a strike would impose huge costs on those not involved in the labor dispute - from travelers and airfreight shippers to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
curb cost increases while ensuring quality treatment. Those goals have not been reached, largely because patient and physician resistance to stringent gatekeeping has led to more relaxed controls and freedom to use out-of-network... View Details
- 07 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Property Owners Reduce Their Carbon Footprint
water and energy efficiency in their buildings so they can reduce the carbon footprint that they are causing. We found that many of our customers implement new clean technology to reduce energy cost and water View Details