Ariel Dora Stern

Ariel Dora Stern serves as Associate Professor at Harvard Business School, Harvard University, and has been an ECONtribute Research Fellow since 2022. She is a faculty affiliate of Ariadne Labs (a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) and the Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science.

Her research centers on technology management and innovation in health care, investigating regulation, strategy, and economics of health care systems with specific focus on drivers of new product development and adoption of medical technologies. Key research areas include:

• Health Care Innovation
• Technology Management
• Health Care Regulation
• Digital Health
• Medical Technology Adoption
• Health Economics

Professor Stern teaches the MBA course "Transforming Health Care Delivery" and her work has been cited by Bloomberg, The New York Times, and National Public Radio.

Her honors include:

• NBER Predoctoral Fellowship in the Economics of Health and Aging
• ECONtribute Research Fellowship

She maintains active research collaborations through Ariadne Labs and the Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science, contributing to interdisciplinary health systems innovation initiatives.