Treatment Of Prisoners - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

But we must all press and pray for a return to intelligent and careful deliberations, as this is a setting where shock treatments can do permanent harm. Regardless of political leaning, we must all hope and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

on a holistic treatment plan comprising one of eight "bundles." “If we can drive down costs while improving outcomes, that will be much more favorable to our economy and to our competitiveness as a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

01 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients

Visiting the doctor can sometimes feel like being slammed down on an assembly line: Make co-pay. Check vitals. Diagnose the problem. Get a prescription. Next! The fee-for-service model of American medicine doesn’t put much value on long... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

27 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

treatment rather than prevention, and often give higher priority to diseases that afflict the wealthy rather than the poor. This paper discusses ways of addressing these obstacles and meeting the need for... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

March 2022 (Revised March 2024)
Case

DaVita Responds to COVID

By: Susanna Gallani and David Lane

Early in August 2021, DaVita CEO Javier Rodriguez was assessing the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on his firm, which provided life-sustaining kidney dialysis to roughly 240,000 people. Effective infection control practices and information sharing had ensured... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Change Management; Communication; Talent and Talent Management; Fairness; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Health Care and Treatment; Health Pandemics; Human Resources; Employee Relationship Management; Retention; Wages; Working Conditions; Leadership Style; Crisis Management; Organizational Culture; Health Industry; United States

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Educators

Purchase

06 May 2002
What Do You Think?

What’s Driving the “New Marketing?”

department and focused on the "interruption" of customer buying behaviors, the need to acquire new customers, immediate transactions, and the treatment of marketing... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management

out e-mail or making phone calls to remind patients of test and checkup dates. Another route is to offer a combined monitoring, tracking, and alert system. This method automatically lets the healthcare provider know if patients skip their... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

30 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along

believed their partner would be trustworthy while Democrats predicted 62 percent would. Both wildly underestimated. The actual reciprocation rate of Player B was 93 percent for Republicans and 85 percent for Democrats. Minor and Hernandez... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Banking; Financial Services

20 Jul 2020
Op-Ed

It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees

The recent twin economic and pandemic calamities should cause us to rethink the status quo for health insurance compensation. Must General Motors be a benefits company that happens to make cars? Is it in the best interest of employees if... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer; Health; Insurance

21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

Stockdale, former vice presidential candidate, naval officer, and prisoner of war, said leaders must balance both realism and optimism in their messaging. In a POW camp, Stockdale said, it was the optimists... View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

senior researcher, and Daniel Curran, director of the Humanitarian Leadership Program at HBS. Participants drew up a long list of supply-chain characteristics that help determine the degree to which an... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete

Harvard Business School professors Raffaella Sadun and Leemore Dafny are both economists who have studied hospitals extensively—Sadun’s research has looked at the economics of management, while Dafny’s examines interactions between health... View Details

Keywords: by Alumni Bulletin Staff; Health

17 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance

A health insurance crisis may be looming for employees of small businesses, with many firms struggling to cover their share of these costs, new research from Harvard Business School finds. Nearly one-third... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

01 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Sometimes Success Begins at Failure

In the late 1980s, scientists for New York City-based drug-maker Pfizer began testing what was then known as compound UK-92,480 for the treatment of angina. Although UK-92,480 seemed promising in the lab and... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough; Health; Pharmaceutical

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Stuart Gilson

business). Despite how Scott's restructuring was often portrayed in the news media, however, the treatment of the affected workers was by and large pretty humane. Moreover, Dunlap's compensation for the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong

The Bachelor is a wildly popular reality dating game show on which 28 women compete for the hand of a single man. Along with flirting and fighting and engaging in feats of derring-do, many View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women

people," said Cynthia Fisher (HBS MBA '90). In 1993, using her own capital, Fisher founded ViaCord, a business that allows customers to bank cord blood stem cells for possible future use in the treatment View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

30 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Looking Behind Bad Decisions

African government take a stand against an effective AIDS treatment drug? The inability of government to make wise tradeoffs—give up small losses for much larger gain—has been investigated by HBS professor... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

06 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

understand why there are so many diarrhea-related fatalities in developing countries. (Diarrheal diseases account for one in nine child deaths worldwide, according to the Center for Disease Control.) This, despite the existence of an... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

03 Nov 2022
Op-Ed

Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains

employees to form personal relationships with founders outside of work. Late night beers or weekend family barbecues may have become routine. With a larger team, consider how these special out-of-work connections reflect on your... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

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