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08 Sep 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing

good place to start The Upside of Highlighting a Product's DownsidesResearchers discover what happens when companies embrace product transparency, accentuating the positive—and the negative. Deconstructing the Price TagExplaining what it View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

Many of us are sailing toward retirement with the hope that Social Security, personal savings, and money saved in an employer's 401(k) or 403(b) plan will add up to the magic sum required to enjoy our remaining years in reasonable style.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

01 Mar 2011
News

Fixing What Ails the Drug Industry

In 2008, private investors and the National Institutes of Health plowed more than $100 billion into pharmaceutical research. And yet, “We’re not seeing the new diagnostics, treatments, preventative approaches, and cures that we might have... View Details

Keywords: pharmaceutical research; Health, Social Assistance

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

work? A: Unfortunately the method is quite difficult to implement—it took us many months to do it properly, and it required mutual fund holdings data that costs tens of thousands of dollars (which the HBS Division of Research was kind... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

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

June 2004 (Revised May 2005)
Case

Judah Folkman and the War on Cancer

Judah Folkman, professor in the Division of Vascular Biology at Children's Hospital in Boston, is considering how best to advance the research in his lab in an era where biomedical research has gotten more interdisciplinary and collaborative. Specifically, Folkman has... View Details

Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Leadership; Research; Personal Development and Career; Health Care and Treatment; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Health Industry; Health Industry; Boston

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Find at Harvard

04 Sep 2019
News

Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives

and commercialize medical diagnostic tools that will, ultimately, improve health outcomes. Lee’s DZD was one of the inaugural startups in 2016 at the Life Lab, a state-of-the-art wet lab and coworking space in Allston for Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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

01 Feb 1998
News

Stephen Covey's Successful Habits

survive. Another force is unsatisfactory personal relationships. I asked a CEO of a major multinational why he had his 35,000 employees trained in the 7 Habits. He said, "My wife had told me I didn't listen to our daughter." After he... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

3-Minute Briefing: Katherine Switz (MBA 2000)

normalcy and finish my degree. My professors knew I had a health condition, but that was all. During case discussions, I thought everyone was talking about me, not the CEO. I only told two friends. The shame and stigma keeps you from... View Details

01 Oct 2001
News

The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision

could be prescribed, assembled, and fitted in the field by trained microentrepreneurs rather than by optometrists or ophthalmologists. The next step was to form a "Low Cost Available Eyeglasses" (LCAE) team and enter the HBS Business Plan... View Details

Keywords: eyeglasses

20 Apr 2020
News

To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual

put them in the proper perspective,” says Seftel, a physician and immunology expert whose company, Enable, is currently developing a highly-sensitive rapid COVID-19 test with its public health laboratory partners. “There’s been a lot of... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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

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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

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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

01 Mar 2010
News

HBS Grads Make Their Mark in India

health-care information to Indian consumers via text messaging and mobile Web browsing. India has a low Internet penetration but 450 million cell phone users, making mobile handsets the best device for delivering information on common View Details

Keywords: child care; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

10 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists

COVID-19 is claiming an unexpected career toll among scientific researchers, and particularly on women, new research shows. If you are female, have young children, or work in a lab, you are more likely to feel the career-crunching effects dealt by the pandemic,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health; Health; Health

Profile

Michael Farias

health-care industry." After graduation, Michael intends to concentrate on pediatrics and on initiatives focused on improving care for children. "I'm leaning toward an administrative role in hospitals," Michael says. "Today, we spend more on View Details

Ralph S. Larsen

Larsen reorganized J&J and managed its costs in order to improve its efficiency and reduce operating expenses. Between 1994-1999, the annual operating costs were reduced by $2 billion, which enabled... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

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

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