Digital Health Reforms - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2015
News

Golden State of Mind

pedigree, becoming a VC wasn’t the original plan. Instead, Tim Draper wanted to be an entrepreneur. He had some good ideas, he says, which ran the gamut from digitizing music (back in the early 1980s) to a new global stock market to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

11 May 2020
News

Better Than Cash

partnership is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, BMZ, Flourish, Mastercard, Norad/Vipps, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the US Agency for International Development, and Visa, and hosted by the United Nations Capital Development... View Details

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

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management

06 Dec 2021
News

Action Plan: Whole Sale

Jet.com, and then, when Walmart acquired the young company, as vice president and general manager of the retail giant’s health and beauty e-commerce business. In that role, he saw the potential for the beauty category to be a pioneer of... View Details

Keywords: April White; ecommerce; bricks and mortar; marketing; beauty

01 Jun 2016
News

Feedback

March 2016 Early Observers Re: The New Space Race A nice overview, but what was neglected was the important contribution of earth observation (remote sensing) technology and spin-off ventures to the current array of commercial space activities. View Details

13 May 2014
News

Willing Hands

just have to be willing to participate with others in the work." "Real estate is the thread that's run through my career," adds Spencer, who most recently served as president of Cogdell Spencer Inc., a publicly traded health care, real... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

22 Aug 2020
News

Bluemercury’s Marla Beck on How Covid-19 Is Changing the Beauty Business

“We’ve taken so many good things from them,” Beck tells the podcast. “They have technology infrastructure that we don’t have. They have incredible financial infrastructure. We’ve piggybacked onto some of their relationships with digital... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

the Syrian Electronic Army, which then tracked down an email with the Twitter login info. To Rothrock, one of the easiest ways to reduce the human factor and make it harder to hack is to treat digital awareness like a public View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

01 Jun 2017
News

Developing Insight that Has Power in Practice

senior associate dean for research. “That’s the promise of HBS. The world’s problems are becoming increasingly complex and don’t lend themselves to one type of research. Our faculty employ constantly evolving methodologies to address topics of critical importance.” The... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

Innovation: Crowdfunding College Costs

noted, Cordero started GradSave, an online college savings registry that makes it possible for family and friends to contribute directly to a child's 529 plan or savings account. Parents can send digital reminders of the account's... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Gradsave; crowdfunding; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance

01 Jun 2020
News

Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom

changed the way we work. But according to Rachel Greenwald (MBA 1993), some of the core tenets of interpersonal communication that were important in the office remain just as important in our new digital workspaces—we just need to adjust... View Details

Keywords: Zoom

19 Feb 2020
News

Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change

organized by the HBS Business & Environment Initiative and the HBS Club of Washington, DC. The expert panel featured voices from the energy, environmental, and governmental sectors; attendees from fields as diverse as education, health... View Details

Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy

01 Apr 2002
News

Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

of the inner city (lack of health care and substandard housing, for example) are important, they do not get at all the root causes. "To build healthy and sustainable inner-city communities, it is necessary to create healthy economies in... View Details

Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate

01 Sep 2013
News

Faculty Books

money searching for the next blockbuster, why superstars are paid unimaginable sums, and how digital technologies are transforming the entertainment landscape. Wall Street Research: Past, Present, and Future by Boris Groysberg and Paul M.... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2010
News

Noted & Quoted

afford to pay their mortgages but walk away from the property instead. (Boston Globe, December 22, 2009) “How predictable was it five years ago that probably well over 90 percent of pictures are taken off smartphones?” — Jim Balsillie (MBA ’89), co-CEO of BlackBerry... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Information

01 Jun 2019
News

City on a Hill

rich culture and heritage, technology, and health care—what does that look like? It looks like Pine Mountain Settlement School,” he says. Marietta wastes no opportunity to interweave the seemingly disparate aspects of the social... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

01 Sep 2010
News

Dean Nohria Looks Ahead

technological innovations taking place in the life sciences, in clean tech, and in computer science that could profoundly reshape the business landscape. A third factor is regulation. Whether or not you like the regulatory reform that’s... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

02 Sep 2021
News

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 of the equation was trying to... View Details