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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

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

01 Dec 1999
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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

23 Dec 2008
First Look

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

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 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

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Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

care as part of their business model Executives from health care insurance companies, government entities that pay for health care, or other payor organizations Leaders from... View Details

26 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

article proposes that the review process initially be adopted on a pilot basis. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53264 September 2017 Health Affairs Narrow Networks on the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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

17 Aug 2011
News

Breath of Life

only been done in rats, at Massachusetts General Hospital.” After HBS, Green worked at Monitor for a time, in which capacity he advised South Africa’s African National Congress, among other assignments. In 1996, he and a new management... View Details

Keywords: stem cell research; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

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Health: data by country and disease

world's epidemiology data National Center for Health Statistics - US health related data portal Healthy People.gov - rich data on various US View Details

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Career Timeline - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

1986 – “Competition and Strategy” course becomes part of core MBA curriculum at Harvard Business School 1990 – Publishes The Competitive Advantage of Nations 1994 – Founds The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) 1998 –... View Details

13 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

Business School Case 817-088 Hygeia Group: Delivering Quality Care in Nigeria Fola Laoye is the Group Managing Director of Hygeia Group, a Nigerian healthcare insurer and provider, and she is deciding on the optimal strategy to grow the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2006
News

Entrepreneur's Notebook with Paul Conforti and Kim Moore (both MBA '97)

upscale, premium desserts to the masses. Elevator pitch: Finale is an upscale dessert-focused restaurant concept that provides people with an alternative to bars or coffee shops, where they can enjoy a sensational dessert experience. Our goal is to become a View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; desserteries; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Jun 2020
News

How Sports Should Use Its Timeout

path ahead for education, health care, management, and the hotel and restaurant industries. Return to June Bulletin THE WAY FORWARD See more from the online-only June Bulletin’s coverage of the path ahead for education, View Details

01 Jun 2013
News

Revitalizing America

Faculty Opinion Illustration by Corbis/Image Zoo/Cargo Whatever the question—disaster relief, education, health care, foreign policy—national and community service is an answer. Organizing a full-time civilian service corps—the civilian... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

Summer 2019
Article

The Price Effects of Cross-Market Mergers: Theory and Evidence from the Hospital Industry

By: Leemore S. Dafny, Katherine Ho and Robin S. Lee

We consider the effect of mergers between firms whose products are not viewed as direct substitutes for the same good or service but are bundled by a common intermediary. Focusing on hospital mergers across distinct geographic markets, we show that such combinations... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Markets; Geographic Scope; Price; Outcome or Result; Insurance; Health Industry

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Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (F)

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ramona Hilgenkamp

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry