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01 Sep 2018
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Case Study: A Good Fit

By: Jen McFarland Flint

                          Illustration by Matt Chinworth Illustration by Matt Chinworth Every year, millions of Americans resolve to lose weight, but few sustain their loss over time, according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine. The reason lies in the gap between initiating a...

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Assessing the Impact of Health System Organizational Structure on Hospital Electronic Data Sharing

By: A Jay Holmgren and Eric Ford

Horizontal consolidation in the hospital industry has gained momentum in the United States despite concerns over rising costs and lower quality. Hospital systems frequently point to potential gains in interoperability and electronic exchange of patient information as...

September 2018
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Discretionary Task Ordering: Queue Management in Radiological Services

By: Maria Ibanez, Jonathan R. Clark, Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats

Work-scheduling research typically prescribes task sequences implemented by managers. Yet employees often have discretion to deviate from their prescribed sequence. Using data from 2.4 million radiological diagnoses, we find that doctors prioritize similar tasks...

21 Aug 2018
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What Does Knee Surgery Cost? Few Know, and That’s a Problem

Re: Leemore Dafny & Robert Kaplan

                          The rise in hospital prices has outpaced economywide inflation for decades. “When price isn’t tightly linked to cost, that is a sign that the market isn’t competitive,” said Harvard economist Leemore Dafny.

20 Aug 2018
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Why Work Requirements Hurt the Poor

By: Scott Duke Kominers

                          There’s been a lot of talk recently about adding work requirements for in-kind welfare programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which provides food assistance, and Medicaid, the health-care program for the poor.

13 Aug 2018
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Women Heart Patients Do Better with Women Doctors

Re: Laura Huang

                          Roughly one in 66 women has a better chance of leaving the hospital alive if their doctor is also a woman, according to research by Laura Huang and colleagues.

09 Aug 2018
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Women more likely to die of heart attack if treated by male doctor, study finds

Re: Laura Huang

                          In a release from Harvard Business School, where co-author Laura Huang is an associate professor, authors suggested that while male doctors seemed to improve by treating more female patients, the quicker and less deadly solution may be to increase the numbers of female...

08 Aug 2018
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Why Are Women More Likely to Survive Heart Attacks When Treated By Female MDs?

Re: Laura Huang

                          Laura Huang, associate professor at Harvard Business School, Brad Greenwood of the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and Seth Carnahan of Washington University in St. Louis share a common research interest in examining bias and disadvantage. “I’ve looked at [gender...

06 Aug 2018
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Do women heart attack patients fare better with female doctors?

Re: Laura Huang

                          Laura Huang

06 Aug 2018
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Think You’re Having a Heart Attack? If You’re a Woman, Insist on a Female Physician

Re: Laura Huang

                          BOSTON—If you’re a woman and having a heart attack (what’s called in medical parlance an “acute myocardial infarction” or AMI), do your best to make sure you’re treated by a female physician. It’s literally a matter of life or death.

Forthcoming
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A Recombination-Based Internationalization Model: Evidence from Narayana Health's Journey from India to the Cayman Islands

By: Budhaditya Gupta and Tarun Khanna

July–August 2018
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When Technology Gets Ahead of Society

By: Tarun Khanna

New technologies can be unsettling for industry incumbents, regulators, and consumers, because norms and institutions for dealing with them don’t yet exist. Interestingly, businesspeople in emerging economies face similar challenges: The rules are unclear and...