National Institutes Of Health - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill

for three key reasons: One, they tend to have unusually familiar relationships with their clients, whom they see repeatedly throughout the year. Two, a client sitting still for a haircut is a captive audience. Three, while there is a dearth View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers

Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine published To Err is Human, a groundbreaking report that pushed the issue of medical errors into the public spotlight. That we all make... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

01 Dec 2022
News

Road to Recovery

illegal-drug addictions totaled an estimated $700 billion in direct and indirect costs, according to a 2015 report from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. DynamiCare developed an app that provides... View Details

Keywords: April White; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

13 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Women Heart Patients Have Better Survival Odds with Women Doctors

their doctor is also a woman, the study published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows. Researchers looked at about 582,000 census records... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

bank, a deposit-taking institution that most often kept the loan on its books, retaining the credit risk. But over time the banks would sell more and more loans to the secondary market, particularly since the Fannie Maes and Freddie Macs... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

01 Mar 2011
News

Wyss Celebrated for Career, Conservation

Wyss: Thanks the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association for presenting him with the Beatrice D. Ellerin Alumni Achievement Award. Related Links 2007 Alumni Achievement profile Hansjörg Wyss Institute for... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

01 Mar 2006
News

One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan

this work as part of the World Health Organization.” You were Hong Kong’s health director during the 2003 SARS outbreak. What did you learn from that experience? The SARS... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

12 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

unfortunately, we are left with how to deal with it. Q: Fifteen years ago during the first Clinton Administration there was a national appetite for some kind of major healthcare reform. Do you see any such... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

28 Jun 2010
HBS Case

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

details how one institution has implemented its own version of health-care reform, taking overall performance levels from well below average to the top 10 percent in the industry. Coauthored by HBS assistant... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

11 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices

market—they must demonstrate to an independent panel from the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) that a new product works better than existing options for an identifiable group View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

01 Mar 2011
News

Fixing What Ails the Drug Industry

In 2008, private investors and the National Institutes of Health plowed more than $100 billion into pharmaceutical research. And yet, “We’re not... View Details

Keywords: pharmaceutical research; Health, Social Assistance

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and... View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

January 2021
Supplement

Aster DM Healthcare: Budget Exercise

By: V.G. Narayanan and Amy Klopfenstein

In April 2020, Alisha Moopen, Deputy Managing Director of Aster DM Healthcare, a network of clinics, hospitals, and pharmacies in the Middle East and India, must create her company’s budget for the 2021 fiscal year in light of the onset of Covid-19. The pandemic had... View Details

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Purchase

26 Feb 2020
News

Alumni-Led Biotech Developing Vaccine to Combat Coronavirus

As reported in the Boston Globe, Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000, AMP 170) and his firm Moderna Therapeutics are working with the National Institutes of View Details

04 Jan 2016
News

Taking Time Out for a Challenge

After living in Sierra Leone from 2006 to 2010, where she worked as a founding board member of the Welbodi Partnership, which supports the country’s health system in delivering essential services to women... View Details

Keywords: ebola; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

you decide to put together this collection of articles? Porter: In retrospect, my work divides into three major areas. The first has to do with how firms compete in industries and gain competitive advantage. The next focuses on locations... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

15 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

Robert and Myra Kraft Family Foundation, the Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator is a partnership between the foundation, Harvard Business School, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. The alliance is... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Health

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

27 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

manage investors' expectations, and how you manage partners. The competitive advantage of the U.S. economy lies in our great science institutions and university infrastructure. —Gary Pisano "I see a lot... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Health; Health

13 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists

week in advance of delivery. Looking to determine how personal decisions made for tomorrow differ from decisions made for several days from now, researchers from Harvard Business School and the Analyst View Details