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Career Advancement | Research Associates

know I can go into a new situation, ask the right questions, and represent my firm well. Ayesha Kanji, BA, Biology, Wellesley College; MA, Harvard School of Public Health The position offered the flexibility I needed to develop and launch... View Details

01 Jun 2010
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Cardiac Kid

has more than 1,000 workers and expects revenues of about $280 million this year. “The company was founded basically to prevent heart attacks,” Huennekens told the San Diego Union-Tribune (January 25, 2010). To that end, Volcano makes View Details

Keywords: medical devices; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

March 2010 (Revised June 2010)
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Whose Money Is It Anyway? (A)

By: V.G. Narayanan, Richard G. Hamermesh and Rachel Gordon

The Brigham and Women's Physician's Organization (BWPO) and its corporate parent disagree over who has jurisdiction over significant legacy funds. Are they controlled by the BWPO or do they belong to BWPO's corporate parent? The BWPO and its corporate parent must... View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Investment Funds; Governance Controls; Agreements and Arrangements; Boundaries; Health Industry

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01 Sep 2020
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Building a Strong and Prosperous Society

book, Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire, Henderson says that we have failed to reenvision capitalism. It must be not only an engine of prosperity, she offers, but also a system that is in harmony with environmental realities,... View Details

01 Sep 2007
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To The Rescue

traditional Indian greeting. It’s hard for Western observers to fathom, but EMRI’s 108 service is India’s first coordinated emergency response system, similar to the 911 system in the United States. At least for residents of Andhra... View Details

Keywords: Garrett M. Graff; emergency response networks; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

29 Jun 2022
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Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows

digital therapeutics company using an AI and digital biomarkers-enabled platform that will churn out highly potent and personalized therapies at a fraction of the current cost and time. Prior to HBS, Alex worked with the World Health... View Details

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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

System, an innovative health plan and care delivery system subsidiary of Anthem, Inc with $1.2B revenue and over 100,000 members. In this role, he has operational responsibility for more than 800 clinical... View Details

08 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Fix a Broken Marketplace

An economic handyman of sorts, Alvin E. Roth fixes broken markets. As a Nobel Prize-winning pioneer in the field of market design, the Harvard Business School professor cofounded a kidney donation matching system for New England,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

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Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

strategy: Build a firm foundation for exploring and implementing strategy transformation Manage the issues that arise when implementing new approaches Lead strategic and organizational change to generate value Improve health care quality,... View Details

07 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Negotiation and All That Jazz

There's a saying in the military: "Plans go out the window at the first contact with the enemy." Even General Dwight Eisenhower—who oversaw the most ambitious military invasion in modern history—said, "Plans are worthless." But he added... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 Apr 2019
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HBS Shares Their Favorite Books for HR Leaders

role. However, Gino will push you to question why some rules exist, and think about what would happen if you did things differently. Rebel Talent profiles successful business owners, pilots, magicians, and military leaders to highlight... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Zihan Lin

at CIRTEC Medical Systems confirmed his "innate feeling that my goal was not an engineering goal: I wanted to start my own company." HBS impressed Zi with its health-care-industry depth. In addition to the View Details

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

devised, which paved the way for the use of quantitative analysis in formal strategic planning. In 1944, John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern published their classic work, The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. This work essentially solved the problem of zero-sum... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Health Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network VBHCD Initiative VBHCD... View Details

29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50648 2016 New York: Oxford University Press Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health: A Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Business By: Quelch, John A. Abstract—The public health footprint... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2005
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WATER Ltd.

at the turn of a faucet. Not so for 1 billion other residents of planet Earth, whose day begins quite differently. With their basic health already compromised for lack of water-based sanitation, those less fortunate must also worry that... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

22 May 2020
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Remembering Well and Making Meaning of Memorial Day

me that the military does not have a monopoly on selfless service – countless businesses and non-profits, both domestic and around the world, are doing incredible things to alleviate human suffering, drive View Details

01 Jun 2023
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Action Plan: Net Proceeds

“I’m a root-cause kind of guy,” says Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2007), reflecting on a military, government, and civilian career that has taken him from counterdrug operations in Colombia to assisting with the peace process in Sudan to rebuilding the health care system in... View Details

Keywords: April White; recycling; corporate social responsibility; waste management; water; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

01 Jun 2005
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One-on-One with Grover Norquist

government. Those four measures are completely doable over a 25-year period. Excluding the military, the three major expenditures of the government are education; health care; and retirement security, meaning Social Security and federal,... View Details

Keywords: Government

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Inessa Lurye

today, Inessa heads up product strategy at Maxwell Health, an "operating system for employee benefits" that centralizes health and benefits data to help employees navigate options more simply and... View Details

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