Treatment Of Prisoners - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

Gaucher disease. In the United States, the treatment costs a couple of hundred thousand dollars a year. But Genzyme will treat anyone in the world who has this disease, and there are two prices for the... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Oct 2001
News

Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus

Fountain House board member since 1986, he speaks with deep conviction about the challenges faced by the emotionally handicapped. "With advances in pharmaceutical treatments for emotional illnesses, hospitalization is no longer the right... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

31 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

Every year depression affects one in every five employees and costs American businesses $210 billion in medical bills and lost productivity. In fact, for every worker with a depressive disorder, a company loses an average of 32 productive... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

10 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly

While the US Food and Drug Administration has chiseled away pharmaceutical review times over the years to speed innovative drugs to market, the opposite seems to have occurred in the agency's approval of medical devices. Instead View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Technology

12 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

encouraged and instructed teens how to safely dispose of unused prescription medications in their homes. “Several thousand teens participated online or watched replays,” Langford says. SUD treatment... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

With a pandemic temporarily closing many businesses and stifling consumer demand, whole industries, especially those that recently leveraged their balance sheets to take advantage of near-zero interest rates, are seeing their profits... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

23 Aug 2017
News

Developing Leaders Behind Bars

Chris Michel (MBA 1998) has taken photographs all over the world. He recently had the opportunity to visit the Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California to document the graduation ceremony of a... View Details

Keywords: Robert Bochnak

Portrait Project

Brooke-Logann Williams

goal is to challenge the status quo, particularly in our treatment of marginalized communities. These youth, and anyone we encounter, are humans with complex identities. I will always seek that nuance and... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Addressing roadblocks to innovation in health care

convenes health care management educators to develop and implement new curricula for health care management education. She also recommends policy changes, such as standards for health care IT and transparency to consumers on the price and value View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Road to Recovery

options to assist people with substance use issues. Then he learned that there were better treatments available—a category of interventions known as contingency management, which offer motivational... View Details

Keywords: April White; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

25 May 2016
Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

private treatment that they and their families can afford. In poor countries, consumers are best advised to keep their own medical records since nothing approaching an electronic record-keeping system is available. As a result, enormous... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

16 May 2018
Research & Ideas

How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps

Prisoners were housed in old stone barracks and newly constructed huts made of corrugated iron. The researchers examined the corporate archives of three German multinationals... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2020
News

Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers

symptoms of diseases like diabetes or congestive heart failure. Before the implantable congestive heart failure monitor, for example, we had very poor diagnostic tools to alert the need for ASAP therapy, but these sensors can now alert... View Details

Keywords: April White

07 Oct 2014
News

Network Effect

after, because more genes with which to work would mean more avenues to explore in new drug development, exponentially increasing the chances of finding effective treatment and prevention. In 2004, the three... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush

25 May 2010
Other Presentation

Value-Based Health Care Delivery

By: Michael E. Porter

This presentation draws on Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg: Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Harvard Business School Press, May 2006, and "How Physicians Can Change the Future of Health Care," Journal of the... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Republic of Ireland

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01 Mar 2004
News

Ex-Con Talks Ethics with HBS Students

official. He eventually turned himself in and served four years in prison in Costa Rica and the United States. Currently on probation, he spoke at HBS last November as part of the Leadership & Ethics Forum... View Details

Keywords: Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional

by panelist Andy Slavitt (HBS MBA '93), Founder, President and CEO of Healthallies.com, is an exchange that links patients with local health care providers who offer preferred rates. Services include everything from traditional medical... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

15 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care

examples have already begun to appear in the form of specialized treatment centers that concentrate, for instance, on cardiac or renal disorders or high-tech medical imaging. This narrow focus minimizes... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

24 Aug 2017
News

Unlocking Potential

Most people have a conventional view of incarceration: People convicted of breaking the law are criminals, and criminals are locked up in big prisons with lots View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Community Partners; Legal Services; Professional Services

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?

new drugs and therapies that can be tailored to individuals and result in fewer side effects. Advances in treatments of cancer and infectious diseases are likely to be early benefits View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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