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  • October 2016
  • Case

Addicaid: Scaling a Digital Platform for Addiction Wellness and Recovery

By: Robert S. Huckman and Sarah Mehta
In 2013, Sam Frons founded Addicaid—a mobile application (app) that allowed people in addiction recovery to track their progress, check in with counselors, and connect with others in recovery programs. The app was grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy and used the... View Details
Keywords: Digital Health Interventions; Substance Use Disorder; Addiction Treatment; Addiction Recovery; Scale; Innovation; Health; Health Disorders; Health Industry; New York (city, NY)
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  • October 2008
  • Article

Navigating the Bind of Necessary Evils: Psychological Engagement and the Production of Interpersonally Sensitive Behavior

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Andrew Molinsky
We develop grounded theory about how individuals respond to the subjective experience of performing "necessary evils" and how that influences the way they treat targets of their actions. Despite the importance and difficulty of delivering just, compassionate treatment... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Problems and Challenges; Behavior; Power and Influence; Welfare
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  • 06 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?

Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health
  • 24 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 24, 2009

Despite the importance and difficulty of delivering just, compassionate treatment when it is most needed—when necessarily harming another person—little research has focused on those who must do so. Using qualitative data from 111... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • August 2024
  • Case

Pioneering Pain Management: CWC Alliance Combats the Opioid Epidemic

By: Susanna Gallani, Karen L. Sedatole and Sarah Mehta
Set in March 2024, this case is about CWC Alliance (CWC), a nonprofit working to prevent opioid addiction in the U.S. Founder Cammie Wolf Rice launched CWC in 2018 after her son, Christopher Wolf, died of a heroin overdose. Wolf’s dependence on opioids stemmed from a... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Jobs and Positions; Nonprofit Organizations; Expansion; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Delivery; Mission and Purpose; Health Industry; United States; Georgia (state, US); Atlanta
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  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

specifically about COVID-19 impacts and responses, we spoke with several Harvard Business School alumni committed to reducing the impact of mental illness and addiction on individuals and communities. Here are some examples of how they... View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health
  • 11 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices

to prove that a new medication’s benefits merit a higher price if cheaper, similar drugs are available. The process rewards companies whose drugs are more novel or help patients more, while forcing manufacturers of equally or less effective View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health
  • 14 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

approached a private, for-profit chain of addiction treatment centers about offering the app to its clients as a support tool for the recovery process once they completed treatment. The chain’s management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

new achievement are further escalated by the glamorized treatment they receive in today's media-centric world. The elements of celebrity—spectacle, "bests," charisma, and any form of novelty from the latest in consumption to a... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
  • 03 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

handwashing. Motivated by scholarship that suggests handwashing is habitual, we design, implement, and analyze a randomized field experiment aimed to test the main predictions of the rational addiction model. To reliably measure... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

occupations—management, medicine, law enforcement, and addiction counseling—and noticed three surprising patterns that cut across all four occupations. First, in contrast to the stereotypical image of an emotionally numb performer... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 1

one side can meet its own interests by helping the other side with the other's "internal," "behind-the-table," or "Level II" constituency challenges. Sebenius (2013) offered a moderately theoretical treatment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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