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01 Jun 2002
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Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life

visitors each month, and had “a lot of fun in the process.” How did you end up at the American Kennel Club? My dog was instrumental in getting me this position. After retiring from the Navy, my wife and I... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

09 Jan 2017
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Role Model, Coach, Life Guide, and Cheerleader

to working with me every Saturday morning, I’ll teach you how to hit, I’ll teach you how to throw. You’ve got the talent to be one of the best players on this team.’ “So every Saturday we went out and threw a baseball. I taught him how to... View Details

11 Sep 2018
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Care for the Elderly: Process is More Important Than the Destination

400 million by 2033 and one third of the population by 2050), I wanted to utilize my background in health care services / life insurance, to be part of the solution to provide... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

July 2021 (Revised July 2022)
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Brigham & Women's Hospital: Using Patient Reported Outcomes to Improve Breast Cancer Care

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Navraj S. Nagra and Syed S. Shehab

Dr. Andrea Pusic, breast cancer reconstruction surgeon, wants to extend outcomes measurement beyond traditional surgical metrics of infections, complications, and survival rates. The case describes her development of a new mobile phone app, which collects patients’... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Cost Management; Activity Based Costing and Management; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Health Testing and Trials; Surveys; Health Industry; Boston

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Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts The Health Care Crisis In... View Details

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HBS Health Care Initiative - Blog: Health Supplement

Blog Blog Health Care and Life Science at HBS Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Blavatnik Fellow Author Blavatnik Fellowship Team Author Executive Education Author HBS... View Details

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Work & Life - Race, Gender & Equity

Care Tech. / Social Assistance 49 55 Software Publishers / Technology 52 54 “My career has been fulfilling and I achieved most of the goals that I had set for myself. I’m still young but feeling a bit burnt... View Details

18 Nov 2020
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Taking it to the Street: Health Care Startups Bet on Success Despite COVID-19

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THE VALUE OF THE PHYSICIAN SHADOW PROGRAM: Witnessing The Front Lines of Care Delivery - Blog: Health Supplement

Sutter Author Health Care Initiative Team tag Care Delivery Health Care at HBS The Physician Shadow Program, sponsored by the HBS Health Care... View Details

04 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon

to get the best results with the lowest costs." “In the end what we're looking for is the first community that actually lowers health care costs without harming a soul." —Atul Gawande Gawande... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

04 Feb 2010
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

crowds' breeds convenient conformity and creativity is often lost in the process." At the other end of the intuition-analysis spectrum, R. C. Saxena opined, "I believe intuition ought not to play... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

More Proof That Money Can Buy Happiness (or a Life with Less Stress)

life and make people happier impacts not only the poor, but also more affluent Americans living at the edge of their means in a bumpy economy. Indeed, in 2019, one in every four Americans faced financial... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 Oct 2016
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Kathy Giusti: Sharing Life Lessons From a Death Sentence

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Advancing Global, Public, and Societal Health - Health Care

Impact Advancing Global, Public, and Societal Health Building Affordable Health Care in Paradise Re: Tarun Khanna Health Minute: How Can Companies Bring "Missing Drugs" to Market? More “Developing Nations” stories Faculty Focus Global... View Details

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Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation - Course Catalog

in this course should have one of the following : be actively pursuing a job or entrepreneurship in the life sciences post-graduation; are already actively working on a life... View Details

2007
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An Experiment in Fair Value Accounting? The State of the Art in Research and Thought Leadership on Accounting for Life Assurance in the UK and Continental Europe

By: Joanne G Horton, Richard H. Macve and George Serafeim

"Fair value" is currently the central topic of debate in the development of accounting standards. While it has now been defined to mean an exit price in US GAAP, the IASB is still considering its own definition, and some commentators are arguing for versions of entry... View Details

Keywords: Transition; Financial Instruments; Framework; Market Entry and Exit; Insurance; Revenue Recognition; Fair Value Accounting; Standards; United Kingdom

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September 2016
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Health Leads: Reaching for Impact (A)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Sarah Appleby

Explores strategies to achieve system-level impact for a nonprofit focused on addressing patients' basic social needs through healthcare institutions. Founded in 1996 with a volunteer-staffed help desk at Boston Medical Center connecting low-income patients with basic... View Details

Keywords: Scaling Social Impact; Nonprofit; Healthcare; Health Care Outcomes; Health Care Reform; Health Care Delivery; Scaling Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Health; Nonprofit Organizations; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States

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29 Jun 2015
HBS Case

Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records

Your patient health care data is most likely scattered throughout the medical universe, in everything from notes scribbled by various doctors to test results resting in far-flung computer systems. So when medical professionals need to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Technology

2019
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Preferences for Experienced Versus Remembered Happiness

By: Cassie Mogilner and Michael I. Norton

Consider two types of happiness: one experienced on a moment-to-moment basis, the other a reflective evaluation where people feel happy looking back. Though researchers have measured and argued the merits of each, we inquired into which happiness people say they want.... View Details

Keywords: Well-being; Life Satisfaction; Experience; Retrospective; Time; Happiness; Satisfaction; Welfare; Perception

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September 2016
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Health Leads: Reaching for Impact (Abridged)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Sarah Appleby

A nonprofit in the healthcare arena explores strategies to achieve system-level impact. Founded in 1996 with a volunteer-staffed help desk at Boston Medical Center connecting low-income patients with basic resources like heating assistance, job training, and childcare... View Details