Health Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

January 2021 (Revised June 2023)
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Biobot Analytics

By: Raymond Kluender, Joshua Krieger and Mitchell Weiss

In 2017, Newsha Ghaeli and Mariana Matus were deciding whether to leave their labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, put other job opportunities aside, and dive full-time into founding a wastewater analysis start-up, Biobot. Ghaeli, an architect, and Matus,... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Information Technology; City; Analytics and Data Science; Personal Development and Career; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Kuwait; Korean Peninsula

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19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

attending industry conferences, visiting their companies, interviewing them, developing a practitioner advisory team, and maybe spending some time working as a practitioner. (For his own part, Toffel worked as director of environment,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
Background Note

Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner

association lobbied to get it approved. Local backing also helped Dlodlo secure $300,000 in pre-development financing for Madikizela from the state of Maryland. Her professional network helped too, with industry ties to the Reinvestment... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)

business administration (DBA) in accounting and control, marketing, policy and management, or technology and operations management. Another option is a joint program with Harvard University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences that grants a Ph.D. in business... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

capture important information seemingly ignored by the market. A long-short portfolio based on these legislators' views earns abnormal returns of over 90 basis points per month following the passage of legislation. Industries that we... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

01 Jan 2014
News

To Spot Financial Trouble Early, Use Three Circles: A conversation with Blythe McGarvie of Harvard Business School

28 Jul 2016
Op-Ed

Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?

to do by care providers and payers. Consumer empowerment in health care is nowhere as advanced as it is in the travel industry and financial services, for example. Doctors are not especially interested in... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

30 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers

context of the health-care industry drew instant attention. Preventable medical errors resulting in injury cost the industry somewhere between $9 billion and $15 billion a year, the report stated. Even more... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model

how India will cope with an anticipated population boom. The downside of a knowledge-based industry boom is that it does not employ enough people relative to a population, he said. "The only hope for India is that the lessons of the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

12 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them

ask them whether a drug will “work in people like me.” Beyond the health and financial ramifications of overlooking large population segments, the research offers a call to action for drugmakers at a time when companies face pressure to... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Health; Health

24 Sep 2007
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The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

products. Markets are excellent at promoting innovation and driving toward efficiency, but they don't function without governments. As we've been discussing, the FDA protects the public while industry seeks out consumers of health-care... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Health; Health; Health

06 Jan 2012
News

Where Are They Now?

figures in his goals for Sundaram’s future. “I hope we can be an integral part of building a high-quality health care industry in India, and that I can create an organization that will make my daughter... View Details

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

18 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.

employees clam up, the overall performance of an organization often suffers—and the effects can be dire, especially in an industry like health care. “Delivering patient care is one of those situations where... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

Profile

Yi-An Huang

internal consulting group. How is your current job related to your HBS experience? When I came to HBS, I had been working in global health and development issues. I had realized that healthcare is an exciting sector with powerful social... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

05 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

trying to secure specimens. Alongside primary medical education providers, a large number and wide range of other users are also trying to secure cadavers for their own needs. The continuing training of medical doctors, for instance, relies on cadavers. In addition,... View Details

Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health

15 Dec 2024
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After Ozempic

Back before Ozempic, when Kate Mulroney (MBA 1984) spoke at technical conferences about her work at Novo Nordisk, people often assumed she was talking about Novartis. “I’d have to explain that’s a Swiss company; we’re Danish,” says Mulroney, now head of advanced... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Pete Ryan; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

Student-Profile

A Jay Holmgren

A Jay Holmgren (he/him) hadn’t yet developed a strong interest in health policy when he graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in History in 2011. But when his father was diagnosed with cancer in 2014, A Jay found himself... View Details

01 Jun 2020
News

Prognosis

cost of the health care that they’re paying for their subscribers has gone down by 50 percent in the last month or so. It seems irresponsible for the private insurance industry to realize a windfall at a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

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