Public health - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Aug 2018
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Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?

Second phase of what we've done is an upgraded white paper with lots more pieces of legislation recommended, lots more things that agencies should be doing, and that's going very well. Another key piece of what we recommended the Department of View Details

02 Sep 2021
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Back to School

had entered an extraordinary public health challenge that would affect all aspects of our society. Information about how the virus worked was key. There were so many competing beliefs. One fundamental part... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

02 Mar 2020
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Educating the Whole Student

their families. The school, which opened its doors in East Palo Alto, California, in 2016, integrates academics with health care and family support services, all of which is offered tuition free. “We knew the education system was broken,”... View Details

Keywords: April White; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2009
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Alumni Books

The People Factor: Strengthening America by Investing in Public Service by Linda J. Bilmes (MBA ’84) and W. Scott Gould (Brookings Institution Press) The authors argue that the federal government can achieve the same gains as the best... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Feb 1999
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Social Enterprse Forum Discusses Strategy

nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), including The Nature Conservancy, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and Family Health International. The remaining participants represented a variety of disciplines - sociology, business, and View Details

26 Aug 2020
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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

04 Sep 2019
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Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives

and commercialize medical diagnostic tools that will, ultimately, improve health outcomes. Lee’s DZD was one of the inaugural startups in 2016 at the Life Lab, a state-of-the-art wet lab and coworking space in Allston for Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2017
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Yoga Inc.

chain YogaWorks went public in August, valued at about $40 million; and Wanderlust’s yoga-focused festivals have attracted major crowds and major sponsors. But the bigger the business of yoga gets, the further away it moves from its... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Halber

04 Sep 2014
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Our focus was to get drug companies to invest money in ALS

prize to identify a treatment that leads to a 25 percent extension in survival rates. “After eight years, in which we have raised over $10 million,” says Kremer, who lives in his native Israel and communicates via Skype and adaptive technologies, “most of the big drug... View Details

01 Oct 1998
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A Community Investment

happen and that people like us must help lead such change. What does your company do regarding social enterprise, philanthropy, public service, and community involvement? Davey Scoon: At Colonial, we have an Outstanding Volunteer Program,... View Details

11 Oct 2022
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On Balance

the public sector in its data collection and analysis, expanding its reach to 60 percent of workers.) Almost a decade’s worth of data shows progress, says Wooldridge, but not enough. “In Australia, what we see is that we are making... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2007
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Rediscovering America

possible for organizations and individuals to donate unused computer time for use in AIDS and cancer research, which requires huge amounts of data-processing capacity. What is the difference between the “no child left behind” approach to View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

20 Jan 2017
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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
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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

26 Oct 2020
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A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions

tours of the space in December. Chicago Alumni Host Webinar on Hispanic Star Campaign More than 40 HBS alumni from seven alumni clubs joined the HBS Club of Chicago in celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month on October 6, with a webinar featuring social entrepreneur, View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2007
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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

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

Innovation in Health Care: How to Make Value-Based Delivery Work by Vijay Govindarajan (DBA 1978) and Ravi Ramamurti (DBA 1982) HBR Press Though still a pipe dream in the US, value-based competition (value as measured by patient outcomes... View Details

16 May 2018
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ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup

Enterprise, and Student Business tracks — took the stage at Shad Hall to describe their business concepts in just 90 seconds. The Alumni winner, DynamiCare Health (New England region), rose to the top of a field of 164 original teams from... View Details