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- 17 Oct 2019
- News
How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Health Care Delivery
- November 2021 (Revised May 2022)
- Case
West Virginia: Finding the Right Path Forward
By: Matthew C. Weinzierl, Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
Once at the center of the American economy, the state of West Virginia had seen decades of decline as its coal industry fell on hard times. With beautiful but challenging topography, a proud but shrinking population, and a new scourge of the opioid epidemic, the...
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West Virginia
Weinzierl, Matthew C., Christine Keung, and Reggie Smith. "West Virginia: Finding the Right Path Forward." Harvard Business School Case 722-024, November 2021. (Revised May 2022.)
- November 2021
- Article
Gaussian Process Subset Scanning for Anomalous Pattern Detection in Non-iid Data
By: William Herlands, Edward McFowland III, Andrew Gordon Wilson and Daniel B. Neill
Identifying anomalous patterns in real-world data is essential for understanding where, when, and how systems deviate from their expected dynamics. Yet methods that separately consider the anomalousness of each individual data point have low detection power for subtle,...
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Herlands, William, Edward McFowland III, Andrew Gordon Wilson, and Daniel B. Neill. "Gaussian Process Subset Scanning for Anomalous Pattern Detection in Non-iid Data." Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR) 84 (2018): 425–434. (Also presented at the 21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2018.)
- January 19, 2024
- Article
Value-Based Health Care Can Transform the Treatment of Patients with Substance Use Disorder
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Sarah E. Wakeman
U.S. overdose deaths currently exceed 100,000 per year. New facilities, known as bridge clinics, are broadening access to high-quality care by offering outpatient substance use disorder (SUD) treatment with few access barriers. But many of the critical services offered...
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Kaplan, Robert S., and Sarah E. Wakeman. "Value-Based Health Care Can Transform the Treatment of Patients with Substance Use Disorder." Health Affairs Forefront (January 19, 2024).
- 2022
- Book
Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop
By: Max H. Bazerman
It is easy to condemn obvious wrongdoers such as Elizabeth Holmes, Adam Neumann, Harvey Weinstein, and the Sackler family. But we rarely think about the many people who supported their unethical or criminal behavior. In each case there was a supporting cast of...
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Bazerman, Max H. Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022.
Hacking Heroin
“Hacking Heroin” was the first hackathon that Annie Rittgers, founder of Cincinnati-based consultancy firm 17a, had organized or even attended. “There will continue to be a lot of preventable overdose deaths and wasted potential if the opioid crisis continues...
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Capstone - MBA
medicine, microbiomes, opioid use disorder, organoid systems for drug development, oncology, psychedelics, women’s health, and many more. Recent Capstone Projects iPSC-Derived NK Cells – Changing Cancer’s Fate Richard Nixon declared a war...
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Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop
It is easy to condemn obvious wrongdoers such as Elizabeth Holmes, Adam Neumann, Harvey Weinstein, and the Sackler family. But we rarely think about the many people who supported their unethical or criminal behavior. In each case there was a supporting cast of...
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Curriculum - MBA
introduced. Behavioral Pharmacology Introduction to behavioral pharmacology of CNS drugs (e.g., psychomotor stimulants, antischizophrenics, opioid analgesics, antianxiety agents), with emphasis on behavioral methodology (i.e., model and...
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Faculty & Advisors - MBA
foundation focused on ending the opioid epidemic. She is also a member of Boston University School of Medicine Dean’s Advisory Board. Benjamine Liu DPhil ‘16, University of Oxford; MPhil ‘13, University of Cambridge; BS, Biology, Yale...
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- 15 Nov 2022
- Book
Stop Ignoring Bad Behavior: 6 Tips for Better Ethics at Work
In 1995, Purdue Pharma began selling a powerful and addictive opioid drug called OxyContin. The company was aware that the drug, which was marketed to doctors as a safe way to manage chronic pain, was a potent narcotic that could quickly...
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by Pamela Reynolds
- 30 Apr 2024
- Book
When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners
at Wells Fargo (2016), bribery at Odebrecht (2016), sexual harassment at Uber (2017), misuse of personal data at Facebook (2018), airliner safety at Boeing (2019), fraudulent financial reporting at Wirecard (2020), opioid marketing at...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Nov 2021
- HBS Case
How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves
purpose, and in turn put workers at a greater risk for depression, opioid addiction, and even suicide, Whillans says. “It’s important for managers to realize the psychological threat that workers are facing as they come up against ageism...
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by Michael Blanding
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Past Issues - Alumni
seemingly immovable object: Georgia’s crippling opioid crisis Up by the Roots Inside New York City’s push to become a global fintech capital—and what its ascent can teach other cities Alumni Achievement Awards Meet the 2018 recipients of...
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Research - Health Care
"Health Stop (A): What Type of... January 2024 Article A Cost Model for a Low Threshold Clinic Treating Opioid Use Disorder By: Sarah E. Wakeman, Elizabeth Powell, Syed Shehab, Grace Herman, Laura Kehoe and Robert S. Kaplan The US...
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- 20 Apr 2021
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A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
Imagine a full airplane, most passengers will have paid a different price (and fees!). That’s great for the airline, but it is all just value capture, there is zero value created through the price discrimination. McKinsey’s work in the View Details
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by Danielle Kost
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Info – Less Info In February 2022, the three leading pharmaceutical distributors (AmerisourceBergen, McKeeson, Cardinal Health) and Johnson & Johnson agreed to a $25 billion payment to settle thousands of lawsuits relating to their alleged role in the View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
trajectory of overdose deaths from prescription drugs and heroin. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US death rate from opioid overdose has increased over 400 percent since 1999; the picture is even grimmer...
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- 20 Jan 2017
- News
Beating Pain with Brain Power
teaching medical professionals how to help patients avoid opioid addiction by using hypnotic strategies to reduce the need for pain medications. “My work with Comfort Talk, which is the name of my company, in using hypnotic techniques for...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
in 2016, with Gastfriend as CEO and his father as chief medical officer. A 2014 study estimated that 12.5 million Americans had substance use disorders, and that number was rising, largely due to opioid use. In addition to the human toll,...
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