mortality - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Sep 2006
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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

08 May 2007
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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

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

entitlement, a belief that they are special, that the rules that apply to mere mortals don't apply to them. This, coupled with the notion that "everyone's doing it," led to the downfall of Drexel Burnham, Michael Milken, and... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

01 Jun 2019
News

City on a Hill

poverty, education, and infant mortality rates, the ARC and the word salad of state and local agencies that it funds have failed to redress the enduring social and economic problems faced by communities like Harlan. So when Marietta... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

01 Apr 1999
News

Spirit at Work

the workplace. "Divorces, job changes, and the cold wind of personal mortality blowing on my neck have all fed into my interest in issues of personal meaning in relationship to work," Vaill notes. photo courtesy Peter Vaill View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

21 Apr 2015
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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

24 Jul 2013
Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

The economist John Maynard Keynes was right about the ultimate mortality of human beings ("In the long run, we are all dead," he once said.), but when it comes to places, it may be precisely the opposite. View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto

23 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

health-care reform is a management problem. It can't be solved by policymakers acting at a distance.” Having said that, I think we have to recognize that in the last 10 to 15 years there have been substantial advances. Mortality rates for... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

the workgroup. We test our hypotheses in a study of 23 hospital neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) involved in a quality improvement collaborative. We find that using deliberate learning activities is associated with better workgroup performance, as measured by... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

have higher management quality, more MBA trained managers, and lower mortality rates. This is true compared to the distance to universities that offer only business or medical education (or neither). We argue that supplying joint... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

FDA approval for emergency compassionate use of its Lenzilumab antibody in COVID-19 patients. “The idea is to reduce the morbidity and mortality dramatically until we can develop the tools to prevent and/or mitigate transmission of the... View Details

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