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- 27 Jan 2014
- News
Why I Hired an Executive with Mental Illness
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
meetings and release my agenda and be more quiet, to make sure that I don't have another period of psychosis. So as I always say, psychosis still comes and it's just a matter of managing it and dealing with it when it does. Hanna: Tell me a little bit how you revealed... View Details
- 18 Jan 2011
- News
Apple CEO Jobs's Illness Prompts Calls for Greater Disclosure
- November 2019
- Article
Many Medicare Beneficiaries with Serious Illness Report Financial Hardships Despite Coverage
By: Michael Anne Kyle, Robert J Blendon, John M Benson, Melinda K Abrams and Eric C Schneider
In a national survey, seriously ill Medicare beneficiaries described financial hardships resulting from their illness—despite high beneficiary satisfaction with Medicare overall and the fact that many have supplemental insurance. About half reported a serious problem... View Details
Kyle, Michael Anne, Robert J Blendon, John M Benson, Melinda K Abrams, and Eric C Schneider. "Many Medicare Beneficiaries with Serious Illness Report Financial Hardships Despite Coverage." Health Affairs 38, no. 11 (November 2019): 1801–1806.
- December 2018 (Revised July 2023)
- Case
Instituto Dara: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty and Illness at Scale
By: Julie Battilana, Marissa Kimsey, Priscilla Zogbi and Johanna Mair
Dr. Vera Cordeiro founded the NGO Instituto Dara in 1991 to help poor families break the cycle of poverty and illness in Brazil. She and her team of employees and volunteers developed a holistic methodology to address the multidimensional sources of poverty based on... View Details
Keywords: Social Innovation; NGO; Scaling; Health; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Non-Governmental Organizations; Health Care and Treatment; Poverty; Health Industry; South America; Brazil
Battilana, Julie, Marissa Kimsey, Priscilla Zogbi, and Johanna Mair. "Instituto Dara: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty and Illness at Scale." Harvard Business School Case 419-048, December 2018. (Revised July 2023.)
- 08 Feb 2021
- News
How Managers Can Support Employees with Chronic Illnesses
- 05 Jul 2010
- News
Bill George On The Ill Health Of Health Care
- 09 Dec 2014
- News
Snark, Sarcasm And Ill Will: Why We've Stopped Being Civil
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Offering a breath of life for critically ill patients
A scientist by training, David Green (MBA 1991) is drawing upon his business acumen to lead a science fiction-style breakthrough: the creation of replacement body parts (specifically, the trachea) using a recipient’s stem cells. Green is CEO of Massachusetts-based... View Details
- July 20, 2023
- Article
How to Build a Life: Being Anxious or Sad Does Not Make You Mentally Ill
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: Being Anxious or Sad Does Not Make You Mentally Ill." The Atlantic (July 20, 2023).
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Martin Gonzalez - Quiet Courage
Photography by Robert Schoen If I take one overall impression away from HBS, it's that everyone here has a powerful story to tell,” says Martin Gonzalez, a lanky Chilean whose own life story took a dramatic turn during his first year at Soldiers Field. A former... View Details
- 27 Jun 2012
- News
Larry Page’s Lost Voice Provokes Widespread Worry
- 16 May 2019
- News
To Improve Food Inspections, Change the Way They’re Scheduled
- May 16, 2019
- Article
To Improve Food Inspections, Change the Way They're Scheduled
By: Maria Ibanez and Michael W. Toffel
Health inspections are an important tool to increase food safety, but there are still 48 million cases of food-borne illnesses and 128,000 hospitalizations every year in the United States. Our research finds that inspectors reported fewer health code violations as they... View Details
Keywords: Inspection; Scheduling; Food; Safety; Health; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Performance Improvement
Ibanez, Maria, and Michael W. Toffel. "To Improve Food Inspections, Change the Way They're Scheduled." Harvard Business Review (website) (May 16, 2019).
- March 2024
- Article
Do Safety Management System Standards Indicate Safer Operations? Evidence from the OHSAS 18001 Occupational Health and Safety Standard
By: Kala Viswanathan, Matthew S. Johnson and Michael W. Toffel
Problem definition: Given the enormous disruptions and costs of occupational injuries, companies and buyers are increasingly looking to voluntary occupational health and safety standards to improve worker safety. Yet because these standards only require... View Details
Keywords: Occupational Health; Occupational Safety; Program Evaluation; Safety Performance; Injuries; OHSAS 18001; ISO 45001; Working Conditions; Safety; Standards
Viswanathan, Kala, Matthew S. Johnson, and Michael W. Toffel. "Do Safety Management System Standards Indicate Safer Operations? Evidence from the OHSAS 18001 Occupational Health and Safety Standard." Art. 106383. Safety Science 171 (March 2024).