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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Clean Slate
For the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), the pandemic opened up the rare opportunity to rethink “everything we do and how we do it,” says CEO Lisa Wieland (MBA 2001). The independent public authority that owns and operates the... View Details
- 26 Nov 2013
- News
Care.com, a Site for Caregivers, Aims at Wall Street
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Giving New Ventures a Boost
proposed a plan for Judicial Intelligence, a suite of computer-based tools that will help litigators strategically analyze the opinions of judges they will face in court. In the social enterprise track, a team from Harvard’s School of View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
1971, JD/MBA 1978). Now Fisher is also on the board of Easterly Government Properties, and she’s launching two additional businesses: FitMoney, a nonprofit K–12 financial literacy program, and a health IT company that is still in the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Research Brief: The Benefits of Bias
Every year, specially chosen committees help the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) decide how to allocate massive—totaling more than $24 billion in 2014—competitive federal grants for medical research. But the evaluators on the... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
For her innovative research and outspoken advocacy of US health-care reform, Professor Regina Herzlinger is known in some media circles as "the godmother of consumer-driven health care." At HBS, she holds the distinction of being the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System
Shape up, people! That was the message for both the health-care industry and the public at a November forum of more than 150 medical practitioners, health-industry executives, academics, and others who gathered at HBS. Titled "Healing... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 20 Jan 2017
- News
Teaching a Solutions-Oriented Take on the News
know about their world, they’re missing a big part of the story. They’re missing a pathway into what can be done to fix what’s wrong. “We do that by creating a training curriculum for journalists. We work now with more than 70 news organizations—mostly big newspapers,... View Details
- 11 Jun 2015
- News
Making connections at Harvard and beyond
included a number of senior administrative roles at HBS, as well as 10 years in the private sector as president and COO of the First Marblehead Corporation. “The world’s critical problems are not one-dimensional,” he continues. “Improving View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Donor Spotlight
Penny and Bill George Investing in HBS What Keeps HBS Ahead? You Do! The Personal Touch Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices FAQ Penny and Bill George (MBA ’66) Bill and Penny George’s generous $1.25 million 45th Reunion... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward
Your research explores entrepreneurship and the social safety net. What is the connection between those two things? I look at whether stronger social safety net benefits make it more likely for people to start a business. For instance, there’s this large View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
wants to understand the barriers to effecting change on global issues such as health care." Under Ray Gilmartin's leadership, Merck has launched an unprecedented number of new drugs and forged partnerships with the View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
ventilation, air quality, water, moisture, and security. The pandemic is making it “easier than ever to invest in the basics of a healthy building,” says Macomber. He expects that a growing public focus on View Details
- 11 Apr 2020
- News
Reading Together, Apart
subscription-based app allows people to connect over video while reading a children’s book together in real time, as if the services of FaceTime and Kindle were knitted together. The product took off, particularly among military families. Tuchman, who had been a View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
impressed by the public health community's ability to communicate this virus to the population. As someone who spends my time thinking about how to communicate an invisible, deadly crisis that's creeping up... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Giving Hope and Comfort
hygiene products. In 2016, the organization moved to a larger space and hired its first employee. A few years later, it moved to a still-larger location. In the early days of Hope and Comfort, Feingold sometimes struggled to explain the concept of hygiene insecurity to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Harvard’s Future in Allston
campus with cutting-edge science and technology facilities, campuses for the graduate schools of public health and education, and student housing. Ways the new campus can contribute to a vibrant community,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Tracking a Turnaround
The newly hired president and CEO of a local medical center faces a daunting task: Under intense public scrutiny, he must save a complex, rapidly failing organization whose culture is marred by indecision and distrust — and do so in an... View Details
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone
Healthcare Alumni Conference Marks 25 Years The HBS Healthcare Alumni Association (HBSHAA) hosted its 25th Annual Conference at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge on November 7, and once again offered an exclusive agenda that was jam-packed with industry thought leaders... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Short Takes
and not 12- to 17-year-olds, the study clearly shows that cigarette advertising is significantly related to youth, but not young adult, readership. King and his colleagues conclude that the study can be used as an important tool in the View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey