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- 04 Apr 2024
- News
The Making of a Medical Milestone
On March 16, doctors at the Massachusetts General Hospital made history when they successfully transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig to a living human. The groundbreaking procedure marked a significant milestone in animal-to-human transplant, or... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 Aug 2020
- Book
From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives
For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
distinguishing between direct and complementary spillovers, we examine (1) the extent to which a hospital's specialization in areas related to cardiovascular care directly impacts performance in cardiovascular View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures
became CEO of the researcher’s fledgling firm, Novazyme Pharmaceuticals. But Crowley’s personal involvement in the cure he sought almost proved his undoing, as perceptions of potential conflicts of interest threatened to keep his kids out of the View Details
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Regional Winners - Alumni
fun, reliable, effective, eco-friendly personal care brand focusing on children and teenagers who have their own age-specific needs and preference. Tingting Zhong, MBA 2006, Co-founder & Co-CEO Region: Asia/Pacific Deeper Pulse Deeper... View Details
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
AI-based analysis of cardiac arrhythmias to expedite clinical decision making. Alumni Track, 2022 fleetzero Steven Henderson (MBA 2016) Alumni Track Winner Ocean cargo. Zero emissions. Collective Patricio Bichara (MBA 2015) Alumni Track... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
Why I Chose to Pursue an MD/MBA at Harvard
medical school, because fundamentally medical school is geared towards teaching students how to be competent individual clinicians. On the one hand, this makes sense: there is a lot of clinical medicine to learn, and everyone wants... View Details
- July 2020
- Case
King's College Hospital in Crisis
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
On December 11, 2017, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (King’s), one of London’s leading teaching hospital groups, was put into “special measures” by NHS Improvement (NHSI), the financial regulator of England’s National Health Service (NHS). The future of... View Details
Keywords: Hospitals; Financing; Health Care and Treatment; Financial Condition; Crisis Management; Organizational Structure; Transformation; Strategic Planning; United Kingdom
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "King's College Hospital in Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 721-356, July 2020.
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
reality technology to treat amblyopia (more commonly called “lazy eye”), the single biggest cause of visual disorders among children. By February 2017, the three founders had raised $950,000 in angel funding and developed a prototype of their virtual reality product,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
criminal justice reform, other issues like that, health care reform, but the nexus between corporate America and what Black America needs and the most, in my opinion, is employment. And so if we can do something about the 5.5 million... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Seth Klarman, MBA 1982
"We care about the urgent needs of our local community." The foundation bearing the family name, run by Beth, has supported medical, educational, religious, and social service organizations, including McLean... View Details
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
conquering the weight-loss market. With approval seemingly coming soon, Gaur had to decide what his strategy should be in continuing to grow Allurion, dealing with the challenges of the GLP-1 craze, and preparing for long term success. Keywords: Corporate... View Details
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
great organizations; it is aimed at tackling messy, recalcitrant problems that surround teams and organizations. The kinds of problems that leaders don’t fully control but that can get in the way of business as usual. And the kinds of problems that View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout
Physician burnout costs the United States health care industry $4.6 billion a year, a number that brings a new spotlight to an age-old problem. In a paper published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine this past June, a research... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Fostering Diversity
believe is crucial to society. “You need to invest in the pipeline in order for things to change,” says Victoria, an independent consultant focused on health care and technology. “We believe that we need more diversity—race, gender,... View Details
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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
students. HealthLab: A new University-wide accelerator for student ventures, HealthLab brings together students and postdocs from across the Harvard ecosystem to solve challenges in public and planetary health. Legal support: Harvard Law School Transactional Law View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
traditional hospital, such as retail pharmacies, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care centers, telemedicine, and wireless sensors. Public policy mirrored these changes by allowing access to telemedicine... View Details
- 14 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need
doctors had to switch from their traditional specialties to treat patients affected by the virus. Given the isolation of coronavirus patients from family members, many doctors and nurses who were not accustomed to providing end-of-life View Details
- 03 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
Physicians Off the Beaten Path
(Physician, Entrepreneur, Co-founder and CEO of Arctoris) Recalling my experience at university, I asked them how they manage the tension between a strong lack of exposure to the outside world and their mission to expand that exposure. “Medicine not only prepares you... View Details
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Events - Business History
business history research appears to show that profits and sustainability have been hard to reconcile throughout history. These tensions and conflicts merit careful examination from a variety of scholarly and practitioner perspectives.... View Details