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  • 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
  • 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
  • 10 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 10

MaterialsOral Rehydration Therapy Nava Ashraf and Claire QureshiHarvard Business School Case 911-035 This case highlights the puzzlingly high rate of diarrhea-related child mortality in developing countries despite the existence of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 22, 2008

Improving Infant Mortality Rates: The Impact of Front-line Staff Collaboration on Neonatal Care (revised) Authors:Ingrid M. Nembhard, Anita L. Tucker, Richard M.J. Bohmer, Jeffrey D. Horbar, and Joseph H. Carpenter Abstract Front-line... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Building a Strong and Prosperous Society

lowest voter participation rates of any major democracy. Are you optimistic about business and government working together in support of democracy? RH: I’m not optimistic, but I am hopeful. I think the decline of democracy is a mortal... View Details
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 26 Mar 2025
  • News

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

Cohen, and Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman. Favorite restaurant in Singapore? My favorite restaurant is Elemen, which serves wholesome, meatless local food in a modern format. View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

Covering the Issues

years under its belt, the fledgling Bulletin found itself thinking the unthinkable - and perhaps pondering its own mortality - as the world staggered from the Crash of 1929 toward the abyss of the Depression. Emblazoned on the magazine's... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons
  • 08 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

that play a crucial role in strategic search. The deductive part steps beyond our focal firm and uses these constructs to derive theoretical propositions about the typical path of strategic search and the mortality associated with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Aug 2017
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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