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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
A native of rural Chehalis, Washington, Orin C. Smith (MBA '67) was an EVP for Danzas, an international freight shipping company, when Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz approached him in 1990 to join the fledgling company. Schultz, Smith...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
nonexistent in India. In most of the country, people are on their own to get to a hospital after an accident or in an medical emergency. Beyond that, though, there’s no cultural understanding of emergency care, and few doctors are...
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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Patricia ("Tosh") Rapoport Barron
rural development project in Tanzania between her first and second years at HBS changed her life completely. Professionally, the excitement of the business challenges she tackled showed her that "arts administration wouldn't be creative...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
for hospitals in Pune and elsewhere. Dr. Natarajan’s Lighthouse Communities Foundation also “set up citizen help lines, organized food supplies for the needy, and collected money from all over the world to equip a new government COVID...
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- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
709-474 In 2005, Partners in Health (PIH) was invited by the Rwandan Ministry of Health to assume responsibility for the management of public health care in two rural districts in Eastern Rwanda and create an HIV treatment program at...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
testing in Canada, and how Canadian hospitals handled surges and so on,” says club president Kazi Ahmed “It was a great opportunity for our club to strengthen our relationship with the Cleveland Clinic.” According to the club’s board...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Rhenisch Rick Bern/Courtesy Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority A community organizer during the 1960s, Madelyn Rhenisch was a pioneering advocate for better medical care for the people of rural upstate New York. More...
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- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/519011-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 119-027 Fundraising at St. Camillus Hospital St. Camillus is a fictional non-profit hospital in View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
The path from the rural South to the upper echelons of Wall Street is not heavily traveled. Indeed, E. Stanley O’Neal (MBA ’78) is surely the only person who has made the journey from the fields of Wedowee, Alabama — where he labored on...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
Milk, and Management As a Leadership Fellow for the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI), John Kim (MBA ’08) never had the same kind of day twice. On one day, he might take a bumpy flight and a four-hour drive to check out a health center in View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
access to unprofitable services. Using data from hospitals, we examine mispricing via "upcoding," which involves misclassifying ailment severity. Archival analysis indicates less stringent regulatory enforcement of upcoding for beneficent nonprofit hospitals,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
researchers to study a comprehensive sampling of patients. CoMMpass also had a patient-facing element that allowed the patient community to communicate with one another and with professional moderators. By mid-2014, some 550 patients were enrolled and 85 View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
humor, however, is a no-nonsense approach to business performance that stems from Fisher’s upbringing as the daughter and granddaughter of rural central Pennsylvania entrepreneurs who taught her that great ideas can be backed with the...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
survey of randomly selected urban and rural colleges and document statistically significant differences in employment opportunities for rural and urban graduates. Our survey results also indicate that not...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
dairy operation in a rural area. It might be augmented and complimented by companies engaged in electric generation, telecommunications, housing, and water purification. Poverty, as we have noted, is systemic. Its alleviation requires a...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
existence of rural areas not supplied by grid electricity was an important motivation for early movers in both the U.S. and Denmark. Public policy was the problem rather than the opportunity for wind entrepreneurs before 1980, but...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
dramatically since then, old ways of thinking die hard. In this blend of memoir and manifesto, Dr. White draws on his experience as a resident at Stanford Medical School, a combat surgeon in Vietnam, and head orthopedic surgeon at one of Harvard’s top teaching View Details
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
are the best managed. Firms in developing countries, such as Brazil, China, and India, tend to be poorly managed. American retail firms and hospitals are also well managed by international standards, although American schools are more...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
healthcare organizations and asks that each set of financial information be matched with one of the following healthcare companies: a biotechnology firm, a community nursing company, a distributor (medical), a DME licensee and seller, a DME developer and seller, a home...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a...
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Julia Hanna;
entrepreneurship;
women;
venture capital;
Egypt;
developing economies;
Finance