Massachusetts - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2000
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Willoughby G. Walling II: A Learning Experience

beginnings of what he now terms his "obsession." Since leaving his day job as a fundraiser for the University of Massachusetts last year, Walling has produced about a painting a week from his studio at home in suburban Boston. His wife,... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Mar 2008
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Innovation, Inc.

in Massachusetts that manufactures high-quality folding bicycles. The case illustrates the difficulties faced by a new company introducing innovation within an established industry. “Montague’s creative insight was to develop a folding... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Mary Tripsas; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

01 Sep 2006
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Down the Memory Chute

Jacksonville, Florida. As he flew, I typed my WAC on a small Olivetti in the left seat, navigated, landed, got a bit of sleep, and got a turnaround flight back to Massachusetts in time to deliver the WAC by Saturday midnight, before... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2020
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Prognosis

Image by John Ritter Back in January, the leadership at Massachusetts General Hospital, including President Dr. Peter Slavin (MBA 1990) (pictured above, right), took note of a virus that was spreading in China. They decided to activate... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2007
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Mission Possible

research consortium, tapping a national team of top geneticists, imaging experts, molecular biologists, and clinicians headed by Rudy Tanzi, Ph.D., director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, and... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Margie Kelley; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change

That’s a huge amount of work.” Bohmer has firsthand knowledge of the issues faced by MHCD participants. A physician, he practiced medicine in New Zealand and England, helped establish a surgical hospital in Sudan, and served as clinical director of quality improvement... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Oct 1998
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Short Takes

Health, Carolyn Celebucki, and Gregory N. Connolly, both of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, point out, prior studies provide only indirect evidence that magazine advertising targets youth markets. First, since most... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick joked in his speech.) Related Links A Blueprint for Patient-Driven Drug Development Gene Williams (MBA 1987) Blavatnik Gift Accelerates Biomedical Advances Oscar Winners Even worse is what... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

07 Sep 2021
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Green House

available in the building industry,” she recalls. She could, for instance, track the positive environmental impact of each dollar the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development spent on retrofitting and installing... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Road to Recovery

and a prominent addiction psychiatrist and former director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Addiction Research Program—explained the challenges to his son, whose background was in the video-game industry. In study after study,... View Details

Keywords: April White; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

03 Jun 2020
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Keeping a Community Connected

country. I’ve been in conversations about how we might be able to partner with private sector employers who are going to lay people off. Is there a way we could get some highly skilled people to help us? I'm on the board for the View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

09 Nov 2017
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Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress

grad Seth Moulton (MBA 2011) of Massachusetts and Republican Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin. “They validated the need for an organization that could provide strategic national support for next-generation veterans and help them win, and for... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

27 Oct 2016
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Paying It Forward

from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he briefly had a job creating facial-recognition software for airports. An entrepreneur at heart, he then launched and ultimately sold a successful instant messaging software company.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2004
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Retirement's Changing Face

and have the benefit of significant life experience. They have a lot more to offer than someone off the street who gets the bug and decides to run.” A Change of Pace Beth Terrana (MBA ’83) Age: 47 Home: Wellesley, Massachusetts As a... View Details

Keywords: Personal Services

01 Jun 2005
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Bringing Hope to a Violent Land

administrator and financial manager for pediatric medical services at Massachusetts General Hospital. Then, in 1989, came an opportunity with UNICEF. “It was the perfect match with my interests and experience,” she says. “Doing... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; UNICEF; nonprofit; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2008
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Letters to the Editor

Obama, by contrast, is the most liberal U.S. senator. When it comes to the presidential arena, of course, HBS alumni are well-represented in the Republican Party, including President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) and former Massachusetts... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Government; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Feb 2000
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No Place Like Home

two-bedroom apartment rents for $1,400, considerably more than 30 percent of an average South End family's income. In Massachusetts as a whole, one recent study estimates that between 1990 and 1997, two hundred thousand more people moved... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

20 Nov 2015
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Room to Grow

values of local, sustainable, healthy food, they can have a huge economic, environmental, and health benefit throughout their institutions.” The University of Massachusetts at Amherst—the largest institutional food operation in the... View Details