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- 10 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative
emotional level with this initiative. As one Pfizer manager put it, "One of the reasons people enjoy working at Pfizer is that we conduct medical research that helps with the illnesses that mankind suffers." Indeed, this type of... View Details
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
the Global Poor: Creating Social and Economic Value. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2007 Abstract In much of the developing world, poor health is a major impediment to both quality of life and economic development. The poor are particularly vulnerable to the economic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World
respond rapidly whenever necessary. As information technology escalates the pace and complexity of business everywhere, managers can ill afford to operate according to the bureaucratic dictates of the past. As organizations become... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
of sick people coming in,” to “Oh my God, are we going to run out of ventilators?” Our volume of cases doubled, with the number of critically ill people requiring a ventilator increasing over tenfold. At the peak, that meant every 20... View Details
- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Embracing Activism for Social Change
In 2020, the city of Detroit logged some 7,000 calls involving mental health emergencies—a critical issue, notes Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who says, “When the mentally ill turn to the police for a response, the system is broken.” To fix... View Details
- 11 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
From Britain to Boston: Two Years at HBS
with personal illness and a family tragedy and having support from the friends I made at HBS got me through. I will always appreciate and love them for that. Academically, what part of your HBS experience has been the most meaningful?... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
also titled “The Globalization of Markets”— recalled these and other ideas and developments first discerned by Levitt, now universally hailed as a “marketing guru.” Although he was unable to attend the conference due to ill health, his... View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
then the vendor is placed financially at risk for the costs of patient medical care and is responsible for coordinating all aspects of care for those patients. The vendor is often also involved with other chronically ill patients of the... View Details
- 11 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes
chromate was used to make milk look creamier; and various poisonous ingredients were used to create bright colors for various candies, reportedly causing some children to fall ill or even die. Hisano highlights key dates in food coloring... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
serious illness and its attendant financial insecurity could one day focus instead on a brighter, healthier future. A Cornell graduate who holds an MBA from Boston College, Rhenisch was for years well employed and enjoyed excellent... View Details
- 04 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Restructure Conglomerates in Emerging Markets
and international technology. Rushing to dismantle the business groups that now fill these institutional voids could do more harm than good. It would simply reinforce the inefficiency of the private sector and may intensify social distress, which emerging economies are... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
her own physician. Reflecting on his background, Shetty wrote on his Web site that he became a doctor because of the recurrent illnesses of his parents. As a child he lived in fear that he would lose his mother; his father, a diabetic,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
as a way of going into the Airbnb business are going to get crushed. I don’t wish Airbnb any ill will. I think it’s a good, well-run business, but I think they’re going to have some significant challenges in the short term, maybe in the... View Details
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
terminal illness or execution—may be more pleasant than one imagines. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53127 in press Current Opinion in Psychology (Mis)perceptions of Inequality By: Hauser, Oliver P., and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
students began to attack these cases by working together. The goal was threefold, says Dr. James Young, executive dean of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine: Watson was to help doctors get better at diagnosing illnesses and... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
Heart to Heart, a group of California doctors who volunteer their time to perform heart surgery on Russian infants and children. “When they began their work in 1991,” she reports, “the situation was so dire that there were hundreds of people in line outside the... View Details
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Alumni-Authored Books | Baker Library
Mentally Ill Executive . 1984 Bilmes, Linda: The Ghost Budget: Paying for America’s Endless Wars (forthcoming 2025), Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs: America’s Best Investment , T he People Factor: Strengthening America by... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)
diabetes to support services for those with catastrophic illnesses such as AIDS. Through the church's efforts, hundreds of residents in Riverhead and beyond have been able to climb out of poverty, drug abuse, and crime to create lives of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance
making sure that these donations actually make a difference in alleviating some of the major ills and inequities of society. What, many ask, are the measures of effectiveness in these operations? Where is the accountability? Would there... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
are seriously ill or in pain, would you prefer a system where you have to find your own individual specialists, make sure they are communicating, and integrate your own care, or would you rather have a team that integrates itself around... View Details