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Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact (MBA)
Health, and development more broadly, is not something we give to people: it is something they produce themselves, interacting with supply-side and institutional factors. This course trains students to see through the lens of the end-user and to use the levers of... View Details
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IFC: Saudi Arabia; Economic Diversification - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog IFC: Saudi Arabia; Economic Diversification Course Number 6060 Professor Tarun Khanna January; J; 3.0 credits Fall On-Campus Course Sessions: Thursdays 3:10 – 5:10 pm: September 12th, November 7th, and December 5th....
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- 28 Sep 2020
- News
Some Workers Face Looming Cutoffs in Health Insurance
- 17 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance
insurance coverage going forward,” the authors write. Small businesses, which account for more than 40 percent of economic activity in the United States, prioritized employee health insurance premiums as the...
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- May 2020
- Article
Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care
By: Amitabh Chandra and Douglas O. Staiger
In medicine, the reasons for variation in treatment rates across hospitals serving similar patients are not well understood. Some interpret this variation as unwarranted and push standardization of care as a way of reducing allocative inefficiency. However, an...
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Health Care and Treatment;
Performance Efficiency;
Performance Productivity;
Mathematical Methods
Chandra, Amitabh, and Douglas O. Staiger. "Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care." Quarterly Journal of Economics 135, no. 2 (May 2020): 785–843.
- 2012
- Article
Behavioral Economics and the Psychology of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption
By: Joe Price and Jason Riis
Behavioral economics is an emerging paradigm that challenges the assumptions and predictions of classical economics. This new paradigm emphasizes that consumers do not always make optimal use of available information nor do they always make choices and tradeoffs in a...
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Plant-Based Agribusiness;
Food;
Social Marketing;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Consumer Behavior;
Nutrition
Price, Joe, and Jason Riis. "Behavioral Economics and the Psychology of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption." Journal of Food Studies 1, no. 1 (2012): 1–13.
- January 2001
- Case
Merck Global Health Initiatives (B): Botswana
By: James E. Austin, Diana Barrett and James Weber
The case series focuses on Merck's drug donation program and then raises new issues facing management about what to do about HIV/AIDS in Africa given the company's development of a new therapy. Describes collaboration among many parties including the Gates Foundation,...
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Health Disorders;
Health Care and Treatment;
Private Sector;
Public Sector;
Alliances;
Problems and Challenges;
Africa;
Botswana
Austin, James E., Diana Barrett, and James Weber. "Merck Global Health Initiatives (B): Botswana." Harvard Business School Case 301-089, January 2001.
- 2018
- Working Paper
Two Hundred Years of Health and Medical Care: The Importance of Medical Care for Life Expectancy Gains
By: Maryaline Catillon, David Cutler and Thomas Getzen
Using two hundred years of national and Massachusetts data on medical care and health, we examine how central medical care is to life expectancy gains. While common theories about medical care cost growth stress growing demand, our analysis highlights the importance of...
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Mortality;
Life Expectancy;
Medical Care;
Productivity;
Public Health;
Healthcare Spending;
Spending Per Year Of Life Gained;
Personal Medicine;
Technophysio Evolution;
Health;
Economics;
Health Care and Treatment;
Spending;
Data and Data Sets;
Health Industry
Catillon, Maryaline, David Cutler, and Thomas Getzen. "Two Hundred Years of Health and Medical Care: The Importance of Medical Care for Life Expectancy Gains." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 25330, December 2018.
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Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts The Health Care Crisis In...
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- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
digital platform, and the increased fiscal pressures created by the worldwide economic crisis. Unfortunately, the educational programs for future health care leaders fail to provide many of the needed...
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- 25 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset
When COVID-19 cases in the US began to spike in March, Hikma Health, a digital health startup from the Harvard i-lab and winner of the 2019 Harvard Business School (HBS) New Venture Competition, asked how they could best help to stop the...
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- 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...
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- 2020
- Chapter
Health Care Markets a Decade After the ACA: Bigger, but Probably Not Better
By: Leemore S. Dafny
Love it or hate it, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) embraced and extended the role of private markets in financing and delivering health care in the United States. Ten years after the ACA’s passage, it is unclear whether health care markets are better (along a range of...
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Health Care and Treatment;
Markets;
Laws and Statutes;
Outcome or Result;
Health Industry;
United States
Dafny, Leemore S. "Health Care Markets a Decade After the ACA: Bigger, but Probably Not Better." Chap. 15 in The Trillion Dollar Revolution: How the Affordable Care Act Transformed Politics, Law, and Health Care in America, edited by Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Abbe R. Gluck. New York: PublicAffairs, 2020.
- 02 Mar 2007
- What Do You Think?
What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?
government's role in U.S. healthcare? What do you think? To Read More: Robert H. Frank, "A Health Care Plan So Simple, Even Stephen Colbert Couldn't Simplify It," The New York Times, February 18, 2007, p. C3. He is the author of a book,...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alvin Roth Wins Nobel Prize in Economics
Shapley, of the 2012 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The men were recognized for their contributions to solving a core economic problem—how to match different agents...
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Fostering Innovation in Life Sciences - Health Care
Impact Fostering Innovation in Life Sciences Gaining Ground on ALS Re: Rob Blum (MBA 1991) Health Minute: How Can Technology Improve 21st Century Health Care Health Minute: How...
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- July 2015
- Background Note
The State of U.S. Public Health: Challenges and Trends
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Howard Koh and Pamela Yatsko
The World Health Organization defines health as "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity." For many Americans, the World Health Organization's definition of true health seems unattainable, given...
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Kanter, Rosabeth M., Howard Koh, and Pamela Yatsko. "The State of U.S. Public Health: Challenges and Trends." Harvard Business School Background Note 316-001, July 2015.
- 14 Mar 2020
- News
U.S. Economic Outlook Under Coronavirus Hinges on Layoff Decisions
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
economy, but it uses IT the least." —David Cutler "We're not really in the post-reform era yet," said HBS professor Robert Huckman, faculty co-chair of the HBS Health Care Initiative. He introduced the three panelists:...
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- 17 Aug 2010
- News