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- 01 Oct 2021
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HBS-Harvard Collaboration Fosters New Ventures
start at the HIL, are addressing critical issues at the intersection of business and society—from education to health care to climate change. The startups highlighted below are just a sampling of the quantity and quality of ideas...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Developing Insight that Has Power in Practice
100-plus health care centers to develop value-based accounting to help lower costs of health care delivery. The ability of faculty members to study these and other business...
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- 01 Jun 2004
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The Inner-City Advantage
for business prospects outside of real estate, Lloyd M. Metz (MBA ’96) of ICV Capital Partners recommended investments based on intellect rather than physical capital, such as health care and software. Ventures that have low distribution...
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- 27 May 2020
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Prepare to Exit
one of the millions of Americans to lose their job. Tran had been on the opposite side of the table any number of times in his career, working on post-merger integrations and reducing redundancies. In those moments, “I kept telling myself it’s nothing personal, we just...
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- 01 Apr 1999
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Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
cognitive problem. The PCs simply did not make sense to DEC, given their customer context and their cost structure/business model. “Disruptive Tech 101” When Clay Christensen speaks of disruptive and sustaining technologies, he uses the...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Delivering the Power to Dream Big
lightweight, transparent solar panels, which can be integrated seamlessly into everyday objects, like windows or electronic displays. The technology's promise could lead to widespread adoption of solar power and reduce its cost by...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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Alumni Books
implicit in the book’s title, the authors interviewed more than forty CEOs from both industry and the nonprofit sector, studied what successful managers do right, and drew on their own years of experience at Bain. They came up with four principles: View Details
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Making Change
cancer-screening project in southern India as part of my summer internship while at HBS. We used community health workers armed with mobile phones to take pictures of oral cancer patients in rural areas and send them to Bangalore for...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
today goes to telecom, high tech, or software,” said Mahesh, founder and CEO of Sundaram Medical Devices in Chennai. Mahesh trained at Stanford as an engineer and worked for McKinsey and Toyota before attending HBS. He plans to apply engineering and View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
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Case Study: Declawing the Competition
Illustration by Peter Arkle KitNipBox is a monthly subscription service for cat owners. Each box contains products designed to keep cats happy, healthy, and fit: toys, treats, health and hygiene products, must-have accessories, innovative...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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The Exchange: Venture Forth
introduction of Amazon Web Services in early 2006. This was the defining moment when the cost of starting consumer internet businesses really plummeted. That fact was very useful in rationalizing other things we saw happening: VC...
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- 07 Sep 2021
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Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
educating great people who are concerned about the world and who understand that the way they manage a business will affect their employees, customers, and their communities. It would be hard to do that if we didn’t have diversity in all these dimensions in our...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 29 Aug 2024
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A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
transformative mission. Alice, for example, is a Brazilian startup upending the health care industry, offering insurance coverage combined with proprietary primary care, delivered digitally and in person, as Latin America works to catch...
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- 01 Jun 1999
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Short Takes
only the costs for capital, labor, and traded goods but also social costs like the effect of air pollution on health or even the value people derive from the continued survival...
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Judith A. Ross
- 06 Dec 2021
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What's the Word?
relatively high costs for labor and energy as well as the investment and time required to build factories in a country that has much more stringent environmental standards. “COVID-19 has changed only a few of the variables across...
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- 15 May 2023
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From Scientist to Business Leader
ideal way to marry my science background with my business aspirations.” However, cost was a concern. “Contrary to what many people think, the biotech industry—especially a tiny startup like mine—doesn’t pay well.” Fortunately, HBS offered...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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Case Study: Moment in the Sun
health benefits—it helps the body store less fat, helps build the immune system, and reduces stress.” Hoskins cofounded the company in 2014, launching a Kickstarter campaign in November 2015 that netted Ario more than $200,000 in 30 days....
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Oct 1998
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Short Takes
and not 12- to 17-year-olds, the study clearly shows that cigarette advertising is significantly related to youth, but not young adult, readership. King and his colleagues conclude that the study can be used as an important tool in the public View Details
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 04 Nov 2014
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Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
Santiago Ocejo (MPH 2010/MBA 2014) wants to improve health care in Mexico. He always thought he would do that, one patient at a time, as a surgeon. But, today, the medical school graduate is a social entrepreneur, working with the Mexican...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2008
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Kash Rangan
took care of 1,000 children at a cost of $80 a child, which is less than $120 a child spent by comparable organizations. Even that amount of reporting would be very useful, but it is not the norm. By and large the reporting focuses on the...
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