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Emily Schlichting
At age 19, in the spring of 2009, Emily Schlichting was diagnosed with Behcet's, a rare autoimmune disease that introduced her "to the realities of U.S. health care firsthand." Although the disease... View Details
- 13 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?
Most eight-year-olds are familiar with cooties: an imaginary infectious disease spread through proximity to children of the opposite sex. We eventually outgrow the silly idea. But when it comes to the world of consumer products, fear of... View Details
- 20 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism
forces operating today, business and consumer spending, in service toward eradicating deadly disease in Africa. Kiva connects small lenders-many of whom lend $50 or less-with promising entrepreneurs, mostly in developing countries. Three... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
- 15 Nov 2018
- Book
Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?
JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
O'Donnell spends almost half his time on philanthropic matters, especially The Joey Fund, which supports cystic fibrosis research and is named after his son, who died from the disease in 1986 at age 12. Although he is now chairman of the... View Details
- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
we desperately need more meaningful innovation for a whole host of diseases—diabetes, cardiovascular disease, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and ALS. We want cures, not chronic disease management. How does Amazon’s foray into health care help... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
Healthcare Initiative, with broad community support, with cooperation from the Centers for Disease Control, and with backing from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Also, we've been testing these ideas with our students: Kent in the... View Details
- 09 Jun 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge
issues elsewhere, such in new biotechnology-related fields. For instance, a great deal of interest has surrounded proposals to use patent pools to address the multiplicity of rights that are slowing research in critical diseases such as... View Details
- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
industry like drug development, it’s not like you can just switch from one disease to another disease,” she says. While R&D-intensive ventures can shift the application of their underlying technology, Shu continues, the fact they are... View Details
- 24 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit
A few years ago, Reshmaan Hussam and colleagues decided to find out why many people in the developing world fail to wash their hands with soap, despite lifesaving benefits. Every year more than a million children under the age of five die from diarrheal View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Web
2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
management that differ radically from what comes before or after. Participants will leave this session with a better understanding of how to make and manage such hypergrowth—and how to build more successful and sustainable tech ventures. Ending Alzheimer’s View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity
are within our grasp." “Although we don’t have as much data on the quality of COVID care, I’m quite sure there are much greater quality differences across hospitals in treating COVID than heart attacks,” he says. “In Boston, the leading academic medical centers, with a... View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
Kanter (@RosabethKanter) is the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration. John Macomber: Employees and buildings will be healthier COVID-19 will change the nature of our offices, apartments, hospitals, schools, and government buildings. Concern about... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
respondent admitted to frequently hiding a sexually transmitted disease from a partner, 64 percent of participants chose that person over the person who decided not to answer the STD question. One explanation for this result may be that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
refusing to deal with this horrific disease as it spread through Africa. Multinational companies have to be more like Genzyme and find ways to balance their huge global power with their assumption of global responsibility. I think that... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
since the Middle Ages by the rise and ongoing progress of modern science. The development of the germ theory of disease in the nineteenth century, for example, and of the science of genetics in the twentieth, have gone into the formation... View Details
- 17 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Medical Tourism
India [see article], treats indigent people from neighboring countries—Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma—who suffer from heart disease and can't afford surgery. Treatment for them is free. The hospital is able to provide it because surgical... View Details
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Effects of Climate Change - Business & Environment
Health Climate change is predicted to be responsible for 250,000 additional deaths each year between 2030 and 2050 as the result of heat exposure among the elderly, childhood undernutrition, malaria, and other diseases exacerbated by... View Details
- 21 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Machine Learning and Behavioral Economics
more – we can understand each person’s baseline health, making it easier to detect signals of disease before they fully manifest themselves. It’s a proactive versus reactive approach.” Applying a general management perspective to machine... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
early in our marriage, we lost our first daughter. She was just eight months old. Her name was Tanya. She was born with an immune disease that had no cure. And that was a very hard thing to comprehend and cope with. And then we had... View Details