Cancer Care In The U.S. - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

Viceira: I think that the best example to understand this is to look at U.S. Treasury bonds. Over short horizons, bond prices fluctuate as interest rates change. Increases in... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

04 Sep 2019
News

Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives

data and machine learning to improve health care. Kelley, who recently received a Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship at HBS, aims to bring fast and accurate diagnoses to cancer patients... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

of the study, Alvin Silk, Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus, and Joel Weissman, associate professor, department of Medicine and Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School. View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

19 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature

serious commitments to staffing and enforcing environmental oversight and regulation, and compensation and promotion structures for local and state officials that prioritize environmental improvement. In taking View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Manufacturing

01 Apr 2024
News

Generosity Multiplied

Foundation launched the Big Give in 2007, and since then, it has raised nearly £200 million for 10,000 charities that address a range of causes, from climate change and cancer... View Details

Gilbert Colgate

Colgate merged with the Peet Company and B. J. Johnson, maker of Palmolive soap, the largest selling soap brand in America in View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

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Kraft Accelerator

unmet need: Extracting, cleaning and codifying the data stored in dozens of electronic medical record systems in an attempt to understand how patients experience View Details

King C. Gillette

Gillette invented the safety razor, creating a new U.S. industry. In 1903, Gillette sold 51 of his razors and 168 blades. He increased these numbers dramatically so that by... View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

01 Sep 2007
News

Faculty Books

Jane Wei-Skillern, James E. Austin, Herman Leonard, and Howard Stevenson (Sage Publications) This book presents HBS research and cases about international and U.S. organizations in View Details

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

19 Jun 2019
News

Connecting Patients and Providers

Greg Jarzabek (PLD 21, 2016) was living in London and working in finance when his mother was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer in her... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2007
News

Avon CEO Jung on Leadership

the courage to reinvent yourself, not hold on to the past, and to act swiftly.” Proudly noting that corporate responsibility has always been integral to Avon’s identity, Jung stated that View Details

Keywords: makeup; grooming; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores

21 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?

research shows that only 45 percent of music files downloaded in the United States come from computers in the U.S.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Music

26 Apr 2011
News

BioMine Strikes Gold

Contest were Boss Medical and Baby.com.br, while SANA Care won in the social enterprise track. More than 90 teams submitted entries as part of this year's Alumni New Venture... View Details

Keywords: Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Feb 1999
News

New HBS Alumni Board Members

The final in a series of profiles of the twelve new members of the HBSAA Board of Directors. Since 1994, New York native Thomas G. Mendell (MBA... View Details

10 Aug 2021
News

Moving Education Within Reach

close contact with her mentor over the years. Speaking to Ramalingam on the phone one day, she noticed he had developed a cough and urged him to see a doctor. That visit led to a diagnosis of View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

Fair Trade

far more on fragrances and skin care than Americans, who in turn spend far more on color cosmetics than Europeans. The Asia-Pacific region is a modest market for fragrance,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores

01 Mar 2016
News

Off Script

are following their own business models—whether they are for-profit or not-for-profit. The additional spend on health care is due to increased utilization of health-care services as View Details

Keywords: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

01 Dec 2014
News

Clubs Hopping

NETWORK SOLUTIONS In 2012, Richard Kane (MBA 1968) and Bruce Bockmann (MBA 1967) sat in the audience at New York’s Lincoln Center as Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin... View Details