National Health Insurance - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2017
News

Ink: Home Cooking, Secure Retirements, and Restoring Humanity to Finance

largest senior population in the history of the United States. And millions of boomer households are financially unprepared, one extended health crisis, job loss, or traumatic event from insolvency. As individuals facing this situation,... View Details

18 Feb 2016
News

Challenge Aims to Speed Drug Trials Process

The HBS Health Care Initiative is seeking innovative ideas from the science, patient, business, and medical communities on how to transform trials for precision medicine. Through the HBS Precision Trials Challenge, it aims to bring... View Details

03 Apr 2012
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programs. Finally, the authors suggest approaches to mitigating barriers to implementing leadership development programs and highlight the major reasons why health care delivery organizations, residency programs, and View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51321 Entrepreneurship and Public Health Insurance By: Olds, Gareth Abstract—I examine the relationship between public health... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost

African people, businesses, cities, and nations are increasingly stressed by climate related perils like drought, river flooding, extreme heat, and sea level rise. This is already leading not just to destruction of assets but also... View Details

15 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions

the editor-in-chief of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: andresr] Related Reading Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance How to Help Small Businesses Survive... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage

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Cameron Cohen | MBA

interested in the intersection of machine learning and economics and how we can develop automation for social good. Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business Last summer, I worked for a startup that developed machine learning models for View Details

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Krisha Patel | MBA

technology/business, especially in the health sector. I am currently working on a platform, ling.ai, to detect developmental language disorders for non-native English speakers, inspired by my own family and friends. Exploring deployment... View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building

instruction. The initial phases of planning and design have just begun, with construction anticipated to commence in the summer of 2000 and completion scheduled for late 2001. Hawes retired last year as chairman and CEO of Life Re Corporation, a Stamford,... View Details

21 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill

for three key reasons: One, they tend to have unusually familiar relationships with their clients, whom they see repeatedly throughout the year. Two, a client sitting still for a haircut is a captive audience. Three, while there is a dearth of View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

15 Apr 2021
News

Bringing Light to the Fight

symbol of health care activism, not the internationally recognized icon it is today. Starting a public conversation about women’s health was not easy, certainly, but the foundation believed that education... View Details

13 Nov 2020
News

Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues

practiced; what it means to be a “health care provider” needs to expand to include caregivers without advanced clinical degrees; and the United States needs a new health insurance model. Huckman concludes,... View Details

Portrait Project

Elizabeth Bruyere

to a health-care project at work. Initially, I was indifferent – healthcare seemed messy, dull, obstinate. Yet as I immersed myself in the health-care ecosystem, memories emerged that I had locked away: my mother's countless, emotional phone calls with the View Details

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S&P Capital IQ Pro | Baker Library

Utilities Materials (metals and mining) Insurance (including Health Insurers) Industrials Consumer Technology, Media and Communications To add industries to your account, click on the "Profile" icon in the... View Details

19 Jan 2021
In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

Confront the powerful divides in America The Public Option health insurance proposed by the Biden campaign will weaken our economic status by adding to the national deficit and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

February 2023
Article

A Different Framework to Achieve Universal Coverage in the U.S.

By: Katherine Baicker, Amitabh Chandra and Mark Shepard

This JAMA Forum discusses alternative ways to achieve universal coverage in the US such as administrative simplification in the Affordable Care Act plans to increase enrollment, having a basic policy that would be available to everyone, and options for supplemental... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Government Legislation; Insurance; Cost; United States

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23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

rich and poor. We find evidence that for wealthy Germans, and for the rich half of European nations, higher levels of per capita income don't buy greater happiness. The reason appears to be adaptation. However even for the rich half of European View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Feb 2020
News

Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change

Clean Air Act was one of the first and most influential federal environmental laws—and many in the business community saw benefits from a national strategy to combat pollution. Prof. Michael Toffel Prof. Michael Toffel Now, as the world... View Details

Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy

02 Apr 2010
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Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

are, at the same time, exercising cost-cutting efforts (such as low wages, poor benefits, no health insurance for many employees in the case of Wal-Mart, fines for safety violations in the case of BP) in... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

13 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw

targeting credit bureau Equifax and the UK’s National Health Service, which could possibly have been prevented if organizations had run available software updates sooner. Tracking software vulnerabilities... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology; Information Technology; Computer; Web Services

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