Financial Health - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2008
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Building a Better MBA

analysis of eleven business school programs. To complete the picture, they also interviewed leading academic critics and 28 executives and recruiters. The findings presented a mixed diagnosis of the health of MBA programs but on balance... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Jun 2021
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The Path Ahead

pandemic, we have seen firsthand the divide in our nation. The majority of citizens have been able to work from home and prosper. At the same time, millions of individuals (especially those in our industry) have been harder hit by this pandemic and extremely challenged... View Details

01 Mar 2007
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Daniel Vasella

the test as he methodically refashioned the two old-line chemical companies with disparate corporate cultures into a single entity focused on health care and powered by an innovative approach to R&D. Today, Novartis is one of the world’s... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; multinational pharmaceutical company; prescription drugs; vaccines; Medicare; generics business; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2016
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Faculty Books for December 2016

Introduction to Financial Accounting: Review Quizzes and Practice Exams by V.G. Narayanan (Self-published) This book provides practice multiple choice questions on introductory accounting topics. It can be used to prepare for quizzes and... View Details

07 Sep 2021
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Embracing Activism for Social Change

In 2020, the city of Detroit logged some 7,000 calls involving mental health emergencies—a critical issue, notes Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who says, “When the mentally ill turn to the police for a response, the system is broken.” To fix... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand

my goals. The financial services industry was just opening up to women, and I was on a mission to be one of the first to participate. I loved being a pioneer. I had my goals and was determined to achieve them. They were, and still are, to... View Details

14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka

population is increasing faster than any other nation in history, while its birthrate is shrinking. That double whammy is reducing both the workforce to care for the elderly and the tax base to support its universal health insurance... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

07 May 2020
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Ensuring Student Equity

learning programs, food and other basic resources, and health services for more than 1,200 children each week in this underserved community. “We had to rethink the operation of our food pantry. We had to develop learning materials that... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 2017
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Year in Review 2017

edited by April White; illustrations by Jonathan Carlson RETAIL: Voice-Activated, One-Hour-Delivery Shopping MANUFACTURING: The Supply Chain Goes High Tech ENERGY: A Future of Lower Energy Prices MEDIA: Courting the Cord-Cutters EDUCATION: Investing in the Next... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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HBS Fellowship Furthers Entrepreneurial Dreams

entrepreneurship and innovation because of how slow-moving medicine can be. That’s when I decided to explore the intersection of business and health care,” says Okeke. Receiving financial assistance to... View Details

14 Jan 2021
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Better Than Cash

Goals. Whether it’s improvements in sanitation or health or education, it starts with a payment system everyone can use.” The Better Than Cash Alliance advocates for this type of digital financial inclusion,... View Details

01 Dec 2005
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MBAs by the Numbers

particularly pleased that the Class of 2007 has the highest representation of women in the School’s history,” said Brit K. Dewey (MBA ’96), managing director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid. As the new MBA candidates settled into life... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Feb 1999
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Classmates Rally to Help Family Stricken with Rare Disease

Children's Pompe Foundation, a nonprofit organization that John Crowley and some HBS classmates have recently established to raise money for research and to help ease the financial burden of the families of children who have the disease.... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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Ready for Departure

included a graph of passenger volume over the years that charted a steady, skyward incline, dotted by a few fleeting blips along the way: the Asian financial crisis of 1997, the SARS outbreak of 2003, the 2008 global View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Chris Gash; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Dec 1998
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Reunited and It Feels So Good

available to them at the School. Wide-ranging faculty presentations included Professor Regina E. Herzlinger's "Market-Driven Health Care," Professor Bruce R. Scott's "The Asian Financial Crisis Goes Global,"... View Details

01 Dec 2004
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Boom Times Ahead

half of next year.” Dent said that the four sectors that represent the best investments are technology, financial services, health care, and Asia. And don’t delay — according to Dent, the boom will end in... View Details

01 Mar 2013
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A Healthy Profit

Only 10 percent of Indians have health insurance, 40 percent live on a dollar a day or less, and hundreds of millions do not have ready access to doctors or the government's beleaguered primary-care facilities. THE DOCTORS ARE IN:... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2017
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Powered by the HBS Fund

productivity. Professor Emeritus Robert S. Kaplan explain how he uses action research to lower the cost of health care. Professor Mihir Desai talk about his research and his testimony before Congress on international tax reform. View Details

01 Mar 2012
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Faculty Research Online

Professor Nikolaos Trichakis. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6857.html. The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms Running a financial organization, never easy to begin with, has quickly become one of the... View Details