Public health - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2023
News

Step Change

population is approaching 110 million, the highest in the MENA region, with about half of its citizens between the ages of 15 and 45 and the range of mobile-phone penetration well over 90 percent. The market to meet a host of consumer needs is wide open and still... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

03 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

greater marriage age gaps, increased marital abuse, lower reported autonomy, and poorer health. My results are robust to a TS2SLS specification employing distance to a major health center as my instrument. As the first cohort of females... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

CEO Dan Vasella made counterintuitive moves by expanding Novartis's generic drug, vaccines, and consumer health businesses in spending heavily on acquisitions to offer alternatives to patented drugs. Meanwhile, he focused Novartis's... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Mar 2021
Blog Post

International Women's Day Featured Stories

School became the first school to reintegrate students and I personally was the first student on the ground, working in a relief COVID-hospital. I am grateful for the opportunity to serve my community and challenge the status quo to improve View Details

13 Apr 2021
Book

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

others’ views and insights. Superficial recognition that doesn’t allow women to fully contribute won’t placate employees who feel their voices are unheard. Indeed, lip service can be all the more frustrating, as expressed by one woman working in the View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

At the start of the pandemic, the uncertainty primarily concerned health issues—the diffusion of the virus and its effective threat. As the virus expanded from China to other countries, the uncertainty extended to the economic domain. For... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

and prosperous than others. And the third, which arose from the second, examines how you can take competitive thinking and apply it to social problems such as the environment, inner cities, and health care. Most of my readers have tended... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

03 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2010

doctoral student Julia Adler-Milstein, Harvard School of Public Health professor Sara Singer, and HBS professor Michael W. Toffel examine this question in a hospital setting. Conceptual Foundations of the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

17 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

patient satisfaction, and problems with patient safety. Nearly all U.S. health care organizations have used similar evidence to justify their investments in safety and quality. Herein, we provide conservative formulas based on readily... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Oct 2017
News

Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time

multigenerational cycles of poverty. “You can’t expect schools to consistently outperform the health of their neighborhoods,” says Majors, a vice president at Purpose Built Communities, an Atlanta-based, nonprofit consulting group. “The... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

25 Aug 2022
News

Up on the Corner

housing in the next few years, and Dlodlo is currently looking to assume control of a large portfolio of vacant properties presented to her by community leaders, in which she intends to house frontline health care workers. The program... View Details

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

28 Jul 2016
Op-Ed

Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?

important and complex decisions of their lives. Related Reading: How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

05 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?

where employees pass by naturally increased the likelihood of getting vaccinated by 6.4 percent. The study was published in the June 2016 edition of Medical Care, a journal produced by the American Public View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

06 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

Ashraf, an associate professor in the Negotiations, Organizations, and Markets unit at Harvard Business School. “Asking them to apply something that's been generated somewhere else isn't involving them in the process” But there's a dearth of co-production in the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health; Health

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
Background Note

Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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16 Jul 2014
HBS Case

Marketing Obamacare

couldn't still succeed, says John Quelch, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a professor of health policy and management at Harvard School of Public... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

whereas South Korea has 216 cases per million. "South Korea created a vast number of testing sites, which included not only big hospitals but local clinics and public health care facilities." What South... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

30 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers

reports. The paper, authored by Julia Adler-Milstein, an HBS doctoral candidate in the Health Policy Management program; Sara J. Singer, assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

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

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management

diabetes is a public health crisis that needs urgent attention. However flawed, early programs that attempt to manage the disease may at least get more people thinking about serious solutions for their... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

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