illness - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care

reconsidering the traditional model of global health delivery. Each year, the United States alone spends over $9 billion on health improvement worldwide, yet nearly 13 million people die from illnesses that are relatively easy to... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

launched a training program for inner-city residents, featuring one-on-one mentoring for new hires, it proved so successful that the company began to mentor all new hires. "Traditional solutions to America's recalcitrant social ills... View Details

Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate

01 Sep 2004
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A Market-Based Prescription

are seriously ill or in pain, would you prefer a system where you have to find your own individual specialists, make sure they are communicating, and integrate your own care, or would you rather have a team that integrates itself around... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Feb 2000
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Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care

standardization of that information; evaluation of adjustments for the severity of illness of the patient; changes in the tax system to avoid discrimination against the uninsured; reform of state regulation, which one participant... View Details

01 Jun 2002
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Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth

hemophiliac, I knew I was different, but that was just normal life for me,” Massie recalls. “My family led a very romantic existence; we had a great time.” Yet as a child with a chronic illness (“the constant shadow,” he once wrote) that... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; management; ethics

01 Feb 1998
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Women at the Top

and Thomas K. McCraw, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and his wife, Susan, an attorney, all of whom spoke about how personal events such as death and illness have affected their careers. "I was amazed at how candidly they... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young

01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

J.R. Klein Oxford University Press In the wake of the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump, globalization is increasingly under the microscope. The view that the reversal of globalization and a return to protectionism and isolation will cure the world’s View Details

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