Publications

15 Nov 2018
Book

Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?

and public health schools, public policy schools, and agricultural and business schools will have to work more closely together; cross-registration will be more common and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Agriculture & Agribusiness

28 Apr 2016
News

Is good health good for business?

10 Oct 2019
News

The Case for the Public Option Over Medicare for All

14 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

structure, value, and finance large, "Greenfield" projects. He also has created the Project Finance Portal. Perhaps fittingly, his HBS office is just a few miles down the road from one of the most expensive View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

May 2016
Background Note

Health Systems in the Developing World

By: Kevin Schulman, Muhammed Pate and Gary Carbell

This note offers an approach to the evaluation of health care markets globally. It prepares students with a set of questions about the organization of core elements of the health care system. The organization of these elements can vary across markets and can vary in... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Developing Countries and Economies; Public Sector; Private Sector; Opportunities; Analysis

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30 Mar 2017
News

Public Funding Essential for Advances in Biomedical Research

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Corporate Strategy Course - Project Resources

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28 Nov 2006
Other Presentation

Value-Based Competition in Health Care: Issues for Singapore

This presentation draws Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg: Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Harvard Business School Press, May 2006. Earlier publications about health care include the Harvard Business Review... View Details

Keywords: Integration; Competition; Customer Value and Value Chain; Insurance; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Singapore

15 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

The U.S. health care industry is unique in that despite the presence of significant competition, which usually drives increased value through decreased costs and improved quality, the nature of the competition in View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

May 2009
Case

Global Health Partner: Obesity Care

By: Michael E. Porter, Zayed Muhammed Yasin and Jennifer F Baron

Global Health Partner (GHP) was founded in 2006 as a privately owned health care provider in Sweden serving both public and private paying patients. In contrast to most providers in the country, GHP organized around specific service lines where it saw the potential to... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Service Delivery; Organizational Structure; Outcome or Result; Quality; Competitive Advantage; Integration; Health Industry; Sweden

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April 5, 2023
Article

We Need an Operation Warp Speed for Long COVID

By: Esther K. Choo and Scott Duke Kominers

With millions of people affected and at least $1 trillion of economic value at stake, long COVID is our next national health emergency. View Details

Keywords: COVID; COVID-19; COVID-19 Pandemic; Scientific Research; Policy; Health Policy; Innovation; Science; Public Finance; Public Health; Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; Human Capital

April 13, 2021
Article

Misinformation about Science in the Public Sphere

By: Dietram A. Scheufele, Andrew J. Hoffman, Liz Neely and Czerne M. Reid

This is an introduction to a special issue on a colloquium of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine titled, “Advancing the science and practice of science communication: Misinformation about science in the public sphere.” This event was the... View Details

Keywords: Knowledge Dissemination; Communication Strategy; Science; Information

11 Nov 2015
Working Paper Summaries

Public R&D Investments and Private-sector Patenting: Evidence from NIH Funding Rules

Keywords: by Danielle Li; Health; Health; Health; Health

19 Jul 2006
Other Presentation

Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results

This presentation draws on Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg: Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Harvard Business School Press, May 2006. Earlier publications about health care include the Harvard Business Review article... View Details

Keywords: Health; United States

01 Mar 2013
News

Setting Health Priorities: Strategy versus Tactics

Article

Measuring the Scientific Effectiveness of Contact Tracing: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

By: Thiemo Fetzer and Thomas Graeber

Contact tracing has for decades been a cornerstone of the public health approach to epidemics, including Ebola, severe acute respiratory syndrome, and now COVID-19. It has not yet been possible, however, to causally assess the method’s effectiveness using a randomized... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Contact Tracing; Public Health; Infectious Diseases; Health Pandemics

April 2019
Article

Incentives for Public Goods Inside Organizations: Field Experimental Evidence

By: Andrea Blasco, Olivia S. Jung, Karim R. Lakhani and Michael Menietti

Understanding why employees go the extra mile at work is a key problem for many organizations. We conduct a field experiment at a medical organization to study motivations for employees to submit project proposals for organizational improvement. In total, we analyze... View Details

Keywords: Field Experiment; Innovation; Contest; Incentives; Free-rider Problem; Healthcare Organizations; Employees; Motivation and Incentives; Innovation and Invention; Organizations; Performance Improvement; Perspective

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5 Apr 2006
Other Presentation

Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results

This presentation draws on a forthcoming book with Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg (Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Harvard Business School Press). Earlier publications about the work include the Harvard Business Review article... View Details

Keywords: Health; United States

12 Apr 2005
Other Presentation

Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results

This presentation draws on a forthcoming book with Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg (Redefining Health Care: Creating Positive-Sum Competition to Deliver Value, Harvard Business School Press). Earlier publications about the work include the Harvard Business Review article... View Details

Keywords: Health; United States