Personal Health Costs - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2005
News

Campaign Passes Goal, Continues

each recipient. This amount is a small fraction of the overall cost associated with attending HBS, which is $125,000 for a single student. “Decreasing our students’ debt load will open up more career choices in both the public and the... View Details

Keywords: Personal Services; Personal Services; Personal Services; Personal Services

01 Jun 2009
News

Faculty Books

Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care by Richard M.J. Bohmer (Harvard Business Press) In this book, Senior Lecturer Bohmer, a medical doctor, explains that health-care professionals provide two different types... View Details

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

15 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

personalized medicine, among other approaches,” Giusti says. “For example, how would we design a model to allow investors the return they’re seeking?” Hamermesh also cites the possibility of funding open source challenges as a less... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Health

01 Sep 2004
News

A Market-Based Prescription

factories. Why are you such a strong advocate of a factory-like approach to health care? What I call health-care-focused factories are a response to the reality that today 80 percent of health-care costs are... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

14 Mar 2019
News

The Merchant of Osaka

hold across the country. Seeing the win-win of reduced costs and improved care, the government recognized it as a specialty in 2015 and vowed to support the momentum with further training. And the community-based home View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

be important to determine how often physicians feel pressured into prescribing drugs inappropriately, and if this affects patient health. Silk: An important question facing policymakers is rising health care View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

19 Oct 2011
News

A Good Look

Kemin Personal Care, a division of Kemin Industries, Levy launched her business-within-a-business in January this year. “We have the opportunity to be the No. 1 supplier of natural ingredients to the View Details

Keywords: Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores

01 Dec 2019
News

The Race Against Resistance

resistance, we will fall back to a time when simple infections killed people.” “We are approaching a cliff. If we don’t take steps to slow down or stop drug resistance, we will fall back to a time when simple infections killed people.” The World View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

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Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

examining several options for expansion and growth. International Hopital Universitaire de Mirebalais, Partners in Health in Haiti The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery Teaching Cases, Vol. 1 Robert S. Kaplan, Bipin Mistry and Karla Z.... View Details

25 Jun 2020
News

Covering All Corners

the pharmaceutical needs of emerging markets and has a strong presence in more than 40 countries throughout Africa and the Middle East-North Africa region. “We are a very purpose-driven team and believe in empowering the fight for health... View Details

November 2019
Article

Many Medicare Beneficiaries with Serious Illness Report Financial Hardships Despite Coverage

By: Michael Anne Kyle, Robert J Blendon, John M Benson, Melinda K Abrams and Eric C Schneider

In a national survey, seriously ill Medicare beneficiaries described financial hardships resulting from their illness—despite high beneficiary satisfaction with Medicare overall and the fact that many have supplemental insurance. About half reported a serious problem... View Details

Keywords: Medicare; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Financial Condition

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24 Apr 2020
News

Spreading the Love

Photos courtesy of Lovepop Photos courtesy of Lovepop When Lovepop cofounders Wombi Rose and John Wise (both MBA 2015) heard Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker’s entreaty for businesses to assist with sourcing personal protective... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

A Healthy Profit

of Building a Culture of Health: A New Imperative for Business. “But if you have a norovirus outbreak on a weeklong cruise with 5,000 people, and that vessel has to port and the cruise is canceled, that loss will cost Royal Caribbean a... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Sep 2004
News

Mickey Herbert (MBA 1969)

were providing better health-care coverage for Americans. By the early 1990s, the industry had undergone an almost complete transformation to for-profit health care. I took my own HMO public in 1993. But by the mid-1990s, View Details

Keywords: Lewis Rice; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

existing models of cancer care delivery and reimbursement. Its programs are based around the principles of value-based health care delivery, which focuses on the outcomes and costs of care. The Institute has... View Details

15 Aug 2015
News

Victoria Tsai: Skin Secrets of a Geisha

Keywords: beauty products; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores

20 Mar 2023
News

Taking His Shot

Ivy League Player of the Year. While his professional tennis career has been slightly derailed by health issues and COVID, he expressed gratitude to all of those who have helped support him on his journey—including his former HBS... View Details

April 1, 2024
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Paying For AI In Healthcare: Setting The Right Precedent Amidst Growing Use

By: Mitchell Tang, Kaylee Wilson and Ateev Mehrotra

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; AI and Machine Learning; Cost