BBH Review gives students a platform to research, write, and publish thoughtful perspectives on the business, policy, and innovation shaping the future of healthcare.
Research Day 2026
Most recent projects.
Business Strategy
GLP-1 Market Dynamics: Supply as Strategy
This project explores how manufacturing capacity became a competitive weapon in the booming GLP-1 market. It examines how supply strategy, not just innovation, reshaped the race between industry leaders and determined who could actually meet unprecedented patient demand.
This project evaluates how AI-driven prediction models can more accurately estimate surgical duration, a key driver of operating room efficiency. It highlights how better forecasting improves scheduling, reduces costly OR downtime, and streamlines hospital workflows for both staff and patients.
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Policy
Spending More, Achieving Less
This project analyzes why the U.S. healthcare system continues to underperform compared to peer nations despite spending significantly more per capita. It breaks down the structural drivers behind this paradox and what they reveal about the gap between healthcare spending and health outcomes.
Why do three insulin makers and a single EpiPen supplier get to set life-or-death prices? How patents and “evergreening” sustain pharma monopolies, and what reform could change.
The Inflation Reduction Act lets Medicare negotiate drug prices for the first time. Who benefits, who’s suing to stop it, and how it could reshape pharma.
Seventeen people die each day waiting for organs. Genetically modified pig hearts and kidneys could change that, if the science and public trust can catch up.
An aging population, retiring nurses, and strained schools are driving a national nursing shortage, with staffing, not pay, at the center of the fight.