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Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog

technology-commercializing, cost-controlling, and consumer-facing. Evaluating Starting Scaling Exiting It is entirely taught through current field-based cases in all aspects of health care—digital, technological, service, and insurance. The View Details

12 May 2022
News

Turning a Moment into a Movement

Even though Aisha Dozie (MBA 2002) had served on the boards of several private and nonprofit organizations over her career, her two-year search for the directorship of a public board proved to be a “pretty tricky and convoluted” process. The founder and View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Oct 2021
News

No Time Like the Present

give its leaders what they need to lead,” says Delle, who had the opportunity to work with his former Design Thinking professor, Dean Srikant Datar, when Datar led a group of faculty members on an immersion trip to Africa in 2019. Delle runs several organizations... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

of dollars and asking, 'Is it working in an optimum fashion?' " Grossman, the former CEO of Outward Bound USA, wrote (with Christine W. Letts (MBA '76) and William P. Ryan) the pathbreaking 1997 Harvard Business Review article "Virtuous... View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh

25 Aug 2022
News

Case Study: Sound Check

and spent seven years as CEO of WordStream. The founders should ponder this question first: What are you really good at? The product and service lineup is so broad. Every business on Earth could look at this list and find something they’d... View Details

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

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform

be actually brought home to the investor." Most of our social contracts are built on the assumption that individual accountability influences human behavior. Indeed, the recent move by the SEC to require CEOs to personally attest to... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery & Rhonda Kaufman

01 Jun 2008
News

Alumni Books

knowledgeable ambassadors armed with cost-saving solutions customers will be happy to pay for. His method involves “value creation selling,” that is, reconfiguring a sales force’s orientation toward customers’ profitability before its own... View Details

Keywords: Management

01 Jun 2001
News

Point, Click, Give: Internet Fuels Philanthropic Fundraising Revolution

confront several hurdles besides raising money. To channel donations, many need to create links to nonprofits and often face mistrust. Some dot-com CEOs said they were perceived as Internet “robber barons,” out to take advantage of the... View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

08 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?

Utilities began working with software, networking, and technology companies. John Chambers, CEO of leading networking and communications technology provider Cisco, said his company would develop smart grid technologies with an... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Energy; Utilities

01 Sep 2005
News

One-on-One with Thomas Riley

an aircraft carrier, meeting with the King, police escorts when I travel. But you get used to that — well, maybe not the aircraft carrier. Security is tight, but any freedom of movement I have to give up is a small price to pay for the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance; Government

01 Jun 2013
News

Five Bright Ideas

Opportunities for Schools Mickey Freeman (MBA 1993) Name your high-school gym after a sneaker company? Go for it, says Education Funding Partners president and CEO Mickey Freeman. For-profit EFP matches Fortune 500 companies with large... View Details

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

01 Jun 2003
News

Up Against The Firewall

Is your company doing enough to protect itself from cyber attacks? According to several HBS faculty and alumni experts, senior executives need to pay more attention to this potential threat. It makes good business sense — and fulfills a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Robert Austin; Corporate Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2005
News

A Primer on Patents

LERNER: Congress won’t address needed patent reforms until CEOs get involved in lobbying for change. Professor Josh Lerner, who holds a joint appointment in the School’s Finance and Entrepreneurial Management units, is best known as an... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2024
News

Next Level

MBA and then moved to the firm’s Seattle office in 2006, after relocating with her now-husband, Cory Toedebusch (MBA 2006). From there, she became the chief of staff to the CEO of T-Mobile in 2011 and senior vice president of emerging... View Details

Keywords: Maggie Mertens; photos by Cameron Karsten; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

30 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Health Care Under a Research Microscope

away, might encourage more people to use it. The early, surprising answer: yes. Whereas free is sometimes equated with no value, people who pay even a little bit for Clorin are more likely to use it and use more of it, according to the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Biotechnology

Profile

Phillip Michael Strazzulla

Phil Strazzulla, the founder and CEO of LifeGuides, learned early in life the value of a wise and experienced advisor. The advisor in this case was his father, an eye doctor, who helped Strazzulla and his younger brother open brokerage... View Details

02 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

system are settled. The main result is that these liquidity needs are larger when these firms are more interconnected through their debts, i.e., when they borrow from and lend to more firms. Two pecuniary externalities are discussed. One involves the choice of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2020
News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books

not enough if we want a competitive advantage. In Smarter Together, Coupa Software CEO Rob Bernshteyn explains how we will soon be able to draw upon the intelligence of the community—collectively what we, and the organizations we work... View Details