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  • August 2017
  • Case

Hacking Heroin

By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah Mehta
"Hacking Heroin" was the first hackathon that Annie Rittgers, founder of Cincinnati-based 17a, had organized or even attended. "There will continue to be a lot of preventable overdose deaths and wasted potential if the opioid crisis continues unabated," she said.... View Details
Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Hackathon; Heroin; Opioids; Crowdsourcing; Public Sector; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Health Pandemics; Public Administration Industry; Health Industry; Ohio; Cincinnati
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Weiss, Mitchell, and Sarah Mehta. "Hacking Heroin." Harvard Business School Case 818-010, August 2017.
  • November 2019
  • Teaching Note

Hacking Heroin

By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah Mehta
This teaching note pairs with a case that is used in a course on Public Entrepreneurship, for a first module on "ideas." The case is designed to help students work through the question: where do new ideas to stubborn problems come from? And, in particular, the question... View Details
Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Hackathon; Heroin; Opioids; Crowdsourcing; Public Sector; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Health Pandemics; Public Administration Industry; Health Industry; Ohio; Cincinnati
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Weiss, Mitchell, and Sarah Mehta. "Hacking Heroin." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 820-063, November 2019.

    Hacking Heroin

    “Hacking Heroin” was the first hackathon that Annie Rittgers, founder of Cincinnati-based consultancy firm 17a, had organized or even attended. “There will continue to be a lot of preventable overdose deaths and wasted potential if the opioid crisis continues... View Details
    • 21 Apr 2004 - 23 Apr 2004
    • Conference Presentation

    Becoming a Heroine

    By: C. G. Brush, N. M. Carter, E. J. Gatewood, P. G. Greene and Myra M. Hart
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    Brush, C. G., N. M. Carter, E. J. Gatewood, P. G. Greene, and Myra M. Hart. "Becoming a Heroine." Paper presented at the WISE Symposium, Syracuse, NY, April 21–23, 2004.
    • 02 Nov 2017
    • News

    Could a Hackathon Help Solve the Heroin Crisis?

    • 01 Sep 2009
    • News

    Heroines and Helping Hands

    WuDunn Photo Courtesy Sheryl WuDunn Girls matter — we take that for granted here in the developed nations, and we all expect our daughters, sisters, and wives to make a difference in the world. But take a moment to think about another kind of girl, one who might live... View Details
    Keywords: Sheryl WuDunn; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
    • 02 Aug 2018
    • News

    Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?

    the bad news is that with younger audience is increasingly seeing heroin as OK, that heroin is cool for some reason. 20% of them think there is little or no risk in trying heroin, and 15% think it's OK to... View Details
    • August 2024
    • Case

    Pioneering Pain Management: CWC Alliance Combats the Opioid Epidemic

    By: Susanna Gallani, Karen L. Sedatole and Sarah Mehta
    Set in March 2024, this case is about CWC Alliance (CWC), a nonprofit working to prevent opioid addiction in the U.S. Founder Cammie Wolf Rice launched CWC in 2018 after her son, Christopher Wolf, died of a heroin overdose. Wolf’s dependence on opioids stemmed from a... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Jobs and Positions; Nonprofit Organizations; Expansion; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Delivery; Mission and Purpose; Health Industry; United States; Georgia (state, US); Atlanta
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    Gallani, Susanna, Karen L. Sedatole, and Sarah Mehta. "Pioneering Pain Management: CWC Alliance Combats the Opioid Epidemic." Harvard Business School Case 125-012, August 2024.
    • 01 Jun 2023
    • HBS Case

    A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?

    1970, he saw that heroin had taken hold of his hometown, and many of his friends had overdosed and died. Feeling lost, Miller fell back into a life of crime, sold drugs, and committed a string of armed robberies, which landed him back in... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Apparel & Accessories
    • Web

    Skydeck - Alumni

    The Value of Valleys Alumni share stories of some of their greatest challenges—and what they learned in the process Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic? Jim Langford (MBA 1984) , executive director of the Georgia Prevention... View Details
    • 30 Apr 2020
    • Book

    Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

    Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy
    • 01 Jun 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing

    using drugs, prospective employers found drug users hireable 62 percent of the time, versus only 45 percent of the time for those who chose not to answer that question. Of course, such honesty has its limits, John hastens to add. "You might not want to say you are... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 01 Dec 2009
    • News

    One Man Crime Wave

    contain the seeds of their own moral destruction, just as business threatens itself by pillaging the environment. And while MacDonald indulged in sexism, he always portrayed his heroines with deep regard and respect. Photograph courtesy... View Details
    Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
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    Melissa Weiksnar

    losing my 20-year-old daughter to heroin addiction, I also spend my time educating about how the substance abuse epidemic is not just devastating families and communities, but also undermining U.S. economic competitiveness and national... View Details
    • 01 Dec 2018
    • News

    Action Plan: The Power of Story

    you were to where you are.” Henderson brings his story to audiences from LA to South Africa as managing director of the leadership development firm Henderson, Harper & Associates. Its power lies in its truth: From dabbling in marijuana at age 12 to a full-blown View Details
    Keywords: Ryan Jones
    • 01 Feb 2002
    • News

    Mary Quin: A Life-Changing Story

    has kept her actively engaged internationally and led her to attend the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in 1995. She then launched the 100 Heroines Project, a group that awarded grants of $1,000 to each of one... View Details
    Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
    • 01 Jun 2017
    • News

    Turning Point: Addiction’s Impact

    image by Jeffrey Decoster image by Jeffrey Decoster I was blindsided when my daughter told me, “I’m a heroin addict.” It was November 16, 2009, at a meeting with her drug counselor at Boston College. After I uttered a profanity and... View Details
    Keywords: Melissa Weiksnar (MBA 1982)
    • 01 Jun 2017
    • News

    Ink: Home Cooking, Secure Retirements, and Restoring Humanity to Finance

    chaos of the world.” (PD-1923) (PD-1923) Elizabeth Bennet: The heroine of Pride and Prejudice is a master at risk management in questions of 19th-century matrimony, Desai says. Her decision at the end of the novel to marry the man she... View Details
    • 01 Mar 2024
    • News

    Turning Point: Eternal Returns

    The room I shared with my parents and five siblings was about one hundred square feet; next to our room lived the “red ladies” or prostitutes, and on the other side, the heroin addicts. Yes, there was crime and poverty; but there was also... View Details
    Keywords: life experience; search firm; entrepreneurship
    • 05 Sep 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

    https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/617058-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 818-010 Hacking Heroin “Hacking Heroin” was the first hackathon that Annie Rittgers, founder of Cincinnati-based 17a, had organized or even attended.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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