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- 05 Apr 2017
- News
Ian Carson: Making A Difference
- 09 Feb 2016
- News
Providing the Care That Seniors Need
Patricia Will (MBA 1980) is cofounder and president of Belmont Village Senior Living, which operates 25 retirement communities in the southwestern and midwestern United States. In this video, she talks about how she came to found a company that now employs more than...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Personal crises inform a life’s work
One of the youngest women to attend HBS, Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA 1977) was building a successful investment banking career when a cancer diagnosis at age 29 spurred her to volunteer at the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations. She eventually became the...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Finding a cure so that others may benefit
In 1986, Joe O’Donnell (AB 1967, MBA 1971) and his wife, Kathy, founded the Joey Fund in memory of their son, who died as a result of cystic fibrosis. O’Donnell has raised millions to battle the disease, and when asked to help the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation raise...
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- November 2023 (Revised April 2024)
- Case
BiomX: Bringing Phage Back to the Stage
By: Paul A. Gompers, Elie Ofek, Orna Dan and Emilie Billaud
In the spring of 2023, and following the favorable results of a trial involving its phage cocktail for treating lung infections among cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, the leadership of BiomX had several critical issues to wrestle with. First, given its precarious...
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Working Capital;
Financing and Loans;
Health Testing and Trials;
Product Development;
Research and Development;
Science-Based Business;
Commercialization;
Biotechnology Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Gompers, Paul A., Elie Ofek, Orna Dan, and Emilie Billaud. "BiomX: Bringing Phage Back to the Stage." Harvard Business School Case 524-051, November 2023. (Revised April 2024.)
- January 2022
- Article
Global Behaviors, Perceptions, and the Emergence of Social Norms at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic
By: Lukas Hensel, Marc Witte, Stefano Caria, Thiemo Fetzer, Stefano Fiorin, Friedrich M. Goetz, Margarita Gomez, Johannes Haushofer, Andriy Ivchenko, Gordon T. Kraft-Todd, Elena Reutskaja, Christopher Roth, Erez Yoeli and Jon M. Jachimowicz
We conducted a large-scale survey covering 58 countries and over 100,000 respondents between late March and early April 2020 to study beliefs and attitudes towards citizens' and governments' responses at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Most respondents reported...
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COVID-19;
Government Regulation;
Social Norms;
Health Pandemics;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Behavior;
Perception;
Global Range;
Surveys
Hensel, Lukas, Marc Witte, Stefano Caria, Thiemo Fetzer, Stefano Fiorin, Friedrich M. Goetz, Margarita Gomez, Johannes Haushofer, Andriy Ivchenko, Gordon T. Kraft-Todd, Elena Reutskaja, Christopher Roth, Erez Yoeli, and Jon M. Jachimowicz. "Global Behaviors, Perceptions, and the Emergence of Social Norms at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 193 (January 2022): 473–496.
- November 2007
- Case
Antegren: A Beacon of Hope
By: Joshua D. Margolis, Thomas J. DeLong and Terence Heymann
The CEO of Biogen Idec faces a set of difficult decisions regarding a promising drug for Multiple Sclerosis that is headed for early approval by the FDA. The first in a series focuses on operational decisions triggered by the drive for early approval. Sparks discussion...
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Demand and Consumers;
Leadership;
Ethics;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Crisis Management;
Health Testing and Trials;
Biotechnology Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Margolis, Joshua D., Thomas J. DeLong, and Terence Heymann. "Antegren: A Beacon of Hope." Harvard Business School Case 408-025, November 2007.
- 02 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?
increasingly populated by a new generation of managers. We’re told this generation is fueling the shared economy, in which physical things are rented and shared. But will that provide any clue to how they will regard their jobs and the View Details
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by James Heskett
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing
Boston predict which places might be violating public health regulations. And it is working with an education nonprofit in Watertown, Mass., Education Resource Strategies, to study how school districts spend money. "The outcome is that...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences
government to create a new educational program that happened also to make new relationships and gain new business. One of the companies gave employees two hours a week to tutor at a school and was influential in raising standards for View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
slotting into a job in an established business had little allure. He wanted to start something new, ideally a for-profit enterprise that would have a visible social impact. But when he thought about health care delivery, Singh found...
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Sasha Issenberg
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
18.2%—an effect driven by substitution of water for sugary drinks. Study 2 showed that graphic warning labels work by heightening negative affect and prompting consideration of health consequences. Study 3 indicated that public support...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
health insurance may delay its arrival. Q: How is your idea of a height tax greeted among economists and policymakers? How do you address potential criticisms as mentioned in your paper, such as fears about a slippery slope leading to...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
Seated in his office near Boston's Public Garden, he recollects sunlit summers in Maine (where his love for the natural world flourished) and his family's four-year sojourn in Paris (where, as a teenager, he received state-of-the-art medication, at no cost, from the...
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- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
Klinik: Eating Disorder Care Michael E. Porter, Emma Stanton, Jessica A. Hohman, and Caleb StowellHarvard Business School Case 712-475 The Schön Klinik is a private, for-profit German hospital group trying to establish itself as a premium View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
do with engaging, and that’s what excites and delights our members,” she says. After earning her MBA, she worked as an executive in the senior-housing industry, which included oversight of a multibillion-dollar portfolio for a health care...
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- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
allowed by health authorities. Yet caries remained a significant threat to public health in many countries, both developing and developed. As Suzan Harrison, Colgate's president of Oral Care, prepared to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Celebrating our Student Fathers - MBA
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID...
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- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
potential shared resources. Johnson & Johnson has done this effectively with many of its health care companies—acquiring separate platforms of growth and leaving them largely independent. Knight Ridder and the Tribune Company have...
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by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
business, government, and community sectors to deal with poor nutrition in inner cities while reducing food waste. A concerned European banker used the power of persuasion, not position, to find novel financing for improving the health of...
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