Urgent Care Clinic - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Aug 2011
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A Fearless Force for Change

founded with her husband Dave Linn (MBA '00) to fund research and clinical trials at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Linn died July 20 at the age of 40. Diagnosed with a soft-tissue sarcoma (a relatively rare cancer) in December... View Details

01 Jun 2001
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Christina Ehrenberg: The Examined Life

Papua New Guinea. “The focus of medical practice and the attitudes of practitioners in those places were so different than in the West,” notes Ehrenberg. “In Israel, doctors felt they could never go home because there were always more patients in View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

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FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

systems throughout the world. Challenges of TDABC Use Q: What is the biggest challenge with TDABC? A: Obtaining support of leaders capable of linking clinical care providers with representatives from finance... View Details

01 Mar 2013
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Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System

Experience," HBS professor Clay Christensen analogized that just as the computer industry evolved from massive mainframes to customer-friendly personal devices, "We need to bring technology to outpatient clinics and patients' homes so... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

23 Apr 2020
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Fireside Chats with Harvard Faculty: A COVID-19 Symposium

collective potential of US businesses to catalyze action and bolster the public sector in response to COVID-19. The Clinical Challenge of Managing a Pandemic View Video Professor Ashish Jha and Professor Rob Huckman discuss the View Details

01 Mar 2007
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Daniel Vasella

Vasella Illustration by Dennis Balogh Twenty years ago a young doctor with a hankering for business experience gave up his clinical practice in Bern, Switzerland, and moved to East Hanover, New Jersey, to try his hand at drug sales with... View Details

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

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Andrew Dervan

inefficiencies." Where Andrew breaks away from many other medical students, however, is in his commitment to doing something about it, to find ways to "fix the system." Applying insights from outside industries In his first year at Harvard Medical... View Details

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David Gellis

Care Center. Under the tutelage of center director Laura Esserman, MD/MBA, David examined ways to leverage information systems to improve breast-cancer treatment. "Dr. Esserman used her clinic as a lab... View Details

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Suppliers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Value-Based Health Care... View Details

16 Jul 2024
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Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025)

The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to apply their classroom training as they explore career opportunities in roles or regions where compensation is generally lower than the traditional MBA level. This summer, we are connecting with some of our 70 Social... View Details

01 Jun 2012
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Attention, HBS Entrepreneurs!

President Drew Faust announced a University-funded initiative, the President’s Challenge, that backs student entrepreneurs solving urgent global social problems. View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

29 Jun 2022
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Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows

business school, Ilana was a registered nurse on the Bone Marrow Transplant and COVID-19 units at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. She also brings operational experience from her roles at two early-stage health-tech startups, Elektra Health and... View Details

11 Jun 2021
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The Power of Resilience

You are healthy now, thankfully. I wondered, how do you see your work at Silver Linings evolving in the future? Somani: When I first launched Silver Linings, a lot of the work was still focused on the health care side and sharing my View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Giving hope and inspiration to cancer patients around the globe

Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) and the Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium. The MMRF built the first multi-center myeloma tissue bank, became the first to sequence the myeloma genome, and launched the MMRF CoMMpass Study to generate a critical mass of... View Details

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Thomas Grenier

In case after case, HBS students are challenged to make and defend crucial business decisions. In the summer of 2008, Thomas Grenier and his fellow climber had to make an even more urgent choice: whether to respect the signs of incoming... View Details

15 Apr 2021
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Bringing Light to the Fight

symbol of health care activism, not the internationally recognized icon it is today. Starting a public conversation about women’s health was not easy, certainly, but the foundation believed that education and awareness—among both women... View Details

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What Others Are Saying - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Journal (UK) “Mr Porter and Ms Teisberg have written a profound and powerful critique of America's health-care system. It deserves to be read widely. And probably will be.” — The Economist “One Harvard professor says it's time to redefine health View Details

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Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Revitalizing America

help address urgent priorities that the public cares about and bring communities together for the common good. An early slogan for AmeriCorps, the lead program of America's Corporation for National and... View Details