Medical Loss Ratio - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

77 percent of its profits from outside North America. But Goizueta's strategy soon ran into trouble, due in large part to the Asian currency crisis. By the end of 1999, when Douglas Daft took the reins, earnings had slumped, and Coke's stock had lost nearly one-third... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

01 Jun 2023
News

From Big Pharma to Startup

pitch their experience and skills to each other. That’s how Goble met Dr. Wayne Lencer, a Harvard Medical School professor who had spent a decade developing technology to enable the oral delivery of biological medicines—therapies created... View Details

Keywords: April White

25 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout

the dollar losses were related to physician turnover and reduced clinical hours. The research adds to previous work showing how physician stress generates negative clinical and organizational outcomes. No studies have previously been... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

17 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

legalizing cannabis has been growing steadily over the years. According to the Pew Research Center, as of April 2021, 91 percent of adults in the United States supported legalization; 60 percent supported legalization for both medical and... View Details

Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson

05 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

percent of its revenues to fraud annually, which translates to a projected global fraud loss of $3.7 trillion. Most of those studies, however, have focused on the practical logic behind the crimes. What sets this study apart is that it is... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

permanent shift in the ratio of part-time workers to full-time workers across the economy. COVID-19 may yield similar changes. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

07 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

customers, and society at large, without regard for how much it costs, with 90 percent of consumers stating that brands should be willing to suffer substantial financial losses to ensure the well-being and financial security of others.... View Details

Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

leading Harvard Business School faculty and is delivered in an active learning environment based on the HBS signature case-based learning model. Will HBS Online continue to offer Disruptive Strategy? Harvard Business School Online is saddened by the View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Up on the Corner

to name the building Madikizela, in honor of the late South African political activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, a symbol of Black female resilience.) The upper floors will contain well-appointed rentals, whose target market includes single moms working low-wage jobs... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

your own longevity? Learn how to support aging parents without derailing your career, damaging your health, or unnecessarily depleting the family’s assets. Join your peers to discuss specific legal, financial, medical and caregiving... View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

Off Script

red tape to approve drugs? What is the drug industry’s own view on why there is this constant inflation in the cost of prescription drugs? —Etienne Locoh-Donou (MBA 2002) HASSAN: Governments are not good at managing markets or driving innovation. “Forcing” a minimum... View Details

Keywords: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

15 May 2023
News

From Scientist to Business Leader

Brianna Kim (MS/MBA 2023) When she was little, Brianna Kim (MS/MBA 2023) fell in love with the hard sciences and expected to eventually go to medical school or earn a PhD. But her plans changed after college. Kim grew up outside... View Details

01 Sep 2012
News

A Silent Workplace Crisis

children, and Ray’s demanding travel schedule. To supervise my parents’ care, I relocated my family to Boston, five miles from their home, and Ray and I began commuting to our jobs in Manhattan. I soon discovered the challenges of aging in America: the lack of... View Details

Keywords: Janet Simpson Benvenuti; caregiving; aging; Nursing and Residential Care Facilities; Health, Social Assistance

09 Sep 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

and BEI faculty cochair Forest L. Reinhardt. "I don't think this ought to be treated as a religious question. I think it's better seen as a classic managerial question about decision-making under uncertainty." Indeed, nothing is certain, but scientific predictions are... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt

explains. “It's only in the US in 2007 and 2008 that we observed the highest fraction of the non-performing loans coming from households. And even then, you can see that the losses coming from the companies were substantial as well.” The... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

25 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

target shareholders in the form of higher deal premiums or more competing bids. Completion rates and deal jumping rates also remained unchanged. We estimate that the incidence-rate ratio of UK deals to non-UK deals after the reform was... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

03 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

Reenen Abstract—We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to universities offering both... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Nov 2020
News

Learning to Fight

their three college-aged children. “Everything was going along just great,” Sontag recalls. “Then came the evening of June 24, 1994, and our entire earth came apart.” That night, Susan had a stroke that left her with short-term memory View Details