Publications

02 Feb 2017
News

Enabling Everyone in a Community to Contribute

how a life can be changed if you’re committed to doing it and seeing the person behind the form that we all present. “I’d say the endgame for what I do as CEO of the organization is to show the world that... View Details

06 Mar 2018
News

A Voice for Diversity and Impact at Scale

scaling local knowledge. Back in the United States, that realization led Hunt to explore other aspects of the health care industry’s value chain, from billing to insurance to product development. “I loved the sense that I was working in... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

Beyond Accommodation

thought it would allow me to have a direct impact for a while.” The interesting business model that attracted Gibbons to NIB was also the organization’s weak point only a few years earlier. As a nonprofit organization established by the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; AT&T; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations

September 2010 (Revised February 2014)
Case

The Global Sight Initiative

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

How to replicate a 'one of' social entrepreneurship effort: To cure blindness, Seva took the Aravind Eye Hospital & scaled it up to 100 hospitals globally. View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Medical Specialties; Health Care and Treatment; Globalization; Health Industry

13 Mar 2020
News

Expanding Cancer Care

I spent pretty much every weekend going to nursing homes and making house calls with my dad and spending a lot of time around pretty sick patients. So for most of my life—my adult life—I decided I actually didn't want anything to do with View Details

July 2002 (Revised August 2002)
Case

Washington Hospital Center (D): Emergency Medicine After September 11

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Michelle Heskett

The all-risks-ready emergency room prototype project becomes widely accepted as a need after September 11, 2001. The already operational medical informatics system, Insight, comes under heavy demand after its strong performance during crises and is noticed by various... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Health Care and Treatment; Nonprofit Organizations; Medical Specialties; Organizational Culture; Crisis Management; Technological Innovation; Higher Education; Performance Productivity; Health Industry; District of Columbia

27 Apr 2023
News

Life Preserver

because they lack access to an organ transplant. Worldwide, the World Health Organization estimates only 10 percent of the need for View Details

Keywords: April White

Fast Answer

Health: data by country and disease

world's epidemiology data National Center for Health Statistics - US health related data portal Healthy People.gov - rich data on various US health related... View Details

01 Mar 2013
News

Sizing Up Social Impact

anticorruption benchmarks as determined by third-party data from organizations such as the International Finance Corporation, the World Health Organization, and the Heritage... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

01 Dec 2003
News

HIV/AIDS and Business

Harvard University. Cosponsored by UNAIDS and the World Economic Forum, the workshops were organized in conjunction with Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (KSG), School of Public Health, and... View Details

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

2004
Chapter

Genzyme's Gaucher Initiative: Global Risk and Responsibility

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Andrew N. McLean

Keywords: Health Disorders; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Globalization; Risk and Uncertainty; Health Industry; Health Industry

May 2024 (Revised February 2025)
Case

Choosing the Course of Passion: Brooke Boyarsky Pratt at knownwell

By: Jon M. Jachimowicz and Alexis Lefort

Brooke Boyarsky Pratt (HBS ’13) enjoyed considerable success in her early career, quickly climbing the ranks to associate partner at McKinsey, and later becoming an executive vice president at Berkadia, a Berkshire Hathaway portfolio company. Throughout these years,... View Details

Keywords: Passion; Career; Career Planning; Purpose; Personal Development and Career; Mission and Purpose; Identity; Business Startups; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Health Industry; United States

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations

02 Mar 2015
News

To Market, To Market

Ending poverty and hunger for millions of people around the world may sound like an insurmountable goal, but that hasn’t stopped Pierre Ferrari (MBA 1976) from taking it on—and finding success. “By 2020, we will end poverty for 4 million... View Details

February 2020
Teaching Note

Ariadne Labs: Building Impactful Partnerships

By: Ariel D. Stern and Sarah Mehta

Teaching Note for HBS No. 619-017. View Details

Keywords: Health; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Health Industry; Boston