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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
system, and other countries have lessons to offer. Are you optimistic that health-care reform is imminent? We cannot continue on our present course in health care. The current system will not allow us to remain View Details
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HBS Global Opportunity Fellowship: Making a Difference in Africa - 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...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
finance, it seems, are never far from the minds of anyone in health care these days, even at fiscally sound MGH, the Harvard-affiliated teaching hospital that is recognized as an industry model. Indeed, with its conflicting mix of human...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
All Hands on Deck
Program and provided one-on-one virtual coaching. THE WAY FORWARD See more from the online-only June Bulletin’s coverage of the path ahead for education, health care, management, and the hotel and restaurant industries. Return to June...
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Jen Mele
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Imagine an Economy Without Wall Street
Photography by Bryce Vickmark In a recent opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, HBS Dean Nitin Nohria made a strong statement in defense of Wall Street and the financial system. Recalling his youth in India, Nohria related the story...
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- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
vulnerable families and individuals are suffering from job losses, mental health issues, and food shortages due to significant disruptions in the food system.” SecondBite is a national food relief organization committed to “ending waste,...
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- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
1971, JD/MBA 1978). Now Fisher is also on the board of Easterly Government Properties, and she’s launching two additional businesses: FitMoney, a nonprofit K–12 financial literacy program, and a health IT...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 09 Jun 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Aggregate and Firm-Level Stock Returns During Pandemics, in Real Time
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
health and financial savings. It's not always easy to implement behavioral economics techniques in a way that properly incentivizes people to change their behavior. One thing is sure, however. When they are...
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- 14 Dec 2015
- News
Building Platforms of Life for the World’s Poorest Children
and we have impact in thousands of communities with millions of children around the world who are largely vulnerable and left out of key health and education systems. “We do what I would call the ‘building blocks of life’: clean water,...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Health and Human Services Secretary, Tom Daschle, was an advocate of universal coverage. While few would deny that some kind of fundamental health-care reform is needed, many others contend that it will have to wait, given the nation’s...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
the fixed-fee system, filling cavities is a cost, not a revenue opportunity. So the financial incentive supports preventive care. So a system where health providers offer comprehensive care for a fixed fee...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
social and financial cost of inaction is so high that standing by is not an option, particularly for multinational corporations doing business in countries with high infection rates. “AIDS places a dramatic spotlight on the question of...
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- February 2022
- Case
Leading The UK Vaccine Task Force
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Claudia Pienica
This case describes the first six months of the UK Vaccine Taskforce, under the leadership of Kate Bingham. With a career spent in the private sector as a biotech investor, Bingham’s appointment within the government was considered unusual. The overarching brief given...
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Health Pandemics;
Health Care and Treatment;
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Edmondson, Amy C., and Claudia Pienica. "Leading The UK Vaccine Task Force." Harvard Business School Case 622-079, February 2022.
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
teamed up with Priyank Lathwal, a Ph.D. candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, to mobilize South Asian student organizations across Harvard and other universities to pool resources for Indian health and aid organizations. The...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Porter Helps Jerusalem Mayor with Economic Development
a press briefing, Barkat explained that he has adopted Porter’s cluster-based development approach to focus on three existing areas of strength: culture and tourism, health care and life sciences, and outsourced medical and View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
the test as he methodically refashioned the two old-line chemical companies with disparate corporate cultures into a single entity focused on health care and powered by an innovative approach to R&D. Today, Novartis is one of the world’s...
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- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
forced that company into bankruptcy. The acquisition further strengthened American Home Products's new animal health unit and its established prescription drug line. In 1987, predating the Robbins transaction and the sale of the...
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- 13 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists
day. If participants reached their weight loss goal by the end of the trial, they got to keep the money, thus doubling their deposits. But if they failed to reach the goal, they lost all the cash. Meanwhile, a control group of participants entered a weight loss program...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
Spaces Drive Performance and Creativity, coauthored with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Assistant Professor Joe Allen. “Public health is obviously directly connected to society’s success in...
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