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  • 15 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 1/5

celebrations were stolen and replaced with non-stop trauma-inducing news cycles; that Black families were reminded of the challenges they face in America, when they should have been celebrating graduating from institutions their ancestors were unable to attend. 8. I am... View Details
  • 26 Jan 2021
  • News

Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response

financial terms.” Obremskey’s firm, RHIA, on the other hand, is a social impact fund focusing on reproductive health to improve maternal care and combat rising maternal mortality in the U.S. Avestria invested with RHIA to develop a fetal... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Jan 2003
  • News

Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.

costs. Mortality rates for cardiovascular disease, hypertension, asthma, and various infections have been reduced between 40 and 70 percent over the last forty years thanks in large part to more effective and safer drugs. We need to do a... View Details
  • 07 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President

voting data appeal to forecasters precisely because the available numbers are broad and accurate. Predicting long-term trends influenced by aging, migration, fertility, and mortality is possible. Even projections of the future size and... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 24 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 24, 2009

improvement collaboration. The results support our hypothesis that learn-how is positively related to organizational performance, as measured by NICUs' risk-adjusted mortality rates for 1,061 infant patients. Moreover, our data reveal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan

pandemics more likely. Aside from pandemics, what are WHO’s chief concerns? WHO has four major objectives: enhancing global health security by detecting and responding to disease outbreaks; accelerating progress on the UN Millennium Development Goals, which include... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Government; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 13 Jun 2017
  • News

Finding Common Ground

company seem bigger than it actually was. He was almost discovered when a Japanese customer arrived in the United States and insisted they meet and go to dinner. Two years shy of legal drinking age, Crespin spent the evening in mortal... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
  • 25 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 25

emerged in recent years as a flashpoint of debate in the United States. I characterize the direct effects that changes in that price index would have on retirees who differ in their initial wealth at retirement and mortality rates after... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 29

morbidity measures from the Demographic and Health Surveys and health facility based mortality data as reported in the national Health Management Information System. While we find rather robust correlations between the rollout of bed nets... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

Daniel Vasella

inflation, so from that perspective, complaints are understandable. On the other side, there are benefits. Mortality for many diseases has dropped dramatically over the last forty years. Analysis shows that 40 percent of that decline was... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; multinational pharmaceutical company; prescription drugs; vaccines; Medicare; generics business; Health, Social Assistance
  • 26 Mar 2025
  • News

Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore

Conference Looks at Future of Hong Kong as a Global Leader The HBS Association of Hong Kong (HBSAHK) celebrated the club’s 45thanniversary in February, with its 2025 Signature Conference at Cloud 39, a rooftop ballroom at The Henderson skyscraper in central Hong Kong.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 21 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Patient–Physician Gender Concordance and Increased Mortality Among Female Heart Attack Patients By: Greenwood, Brad, Seth Carnahan, and Laura Huang... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

their nations' labor force, or that some countries have infant mortality rates more than ten times our own. Indeed, access to a computer, well enough access to sanitation or a telephone, can be very limited around the world. The lists go... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

'machine-centered' organization. Faced with what it perceived as a mortal threat, the Navy became highly self-conscious about its distinctive competence."5 The concept of "distinctive competence" had great resonance for... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 06 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 6, 2015

with similar experience, workload, and patient profiles—but varying in their level of task shifting—suggests that shifting of lower complexity tasks by senior surgeons to trained junior colleagues does not negatively impact in-hospital View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 13, 2015

in the context of teaching hospitals. Specifically, we examine the impact of the annual July turnover of residents in U.S. teaching hospitals on the average length of hospital stay and mortality rate in teaching hospitals relative to a... View Details
  • 15 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

Implications for Non-communicable Disease Control Strategies By: Balsari, S., P. Vemulapalli, M. Gofine, K. Oswal, R. Merchant, S. Saunik, G. Greenough, and T. Khanna Abstract—Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 26, 2006

Indian pharmaceutical company, Cipla, to bring down the annual per-patient cost of an ARV triple cocktail from $12,000 to under $250; using ARV development as a key component of its prevention and treatment strategy the Brazilian National AIDS Program has managed to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 21

associated with the program rollout, we use both population based morbidity measures from the Demographic and Health Surveys and health facility based mortality data as reported in the national Health Management Information System. While... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 21

characterize the direct effects that changes in that price index would have on retirees who differ in their initial wealth at retirement and in their mortality rates after retirement. I propose a simple but flexible theoretical framework... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne