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- 03 Aug 2022
- News
Hungry for Change
damaged the health of the planet, with single-use plastic from food packaging clogging landfills. Flynn had never imagined herself as an entrepreneur, but she quickly recognized that the food system was not... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
clinicians need to take responsibility for letting health care get out of their hands and help right the ship in the way health-care systems are being managed. Physicians can not absolve themselves and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Club Flourishes in London
representing business, sports, academia, civil and military services, politics, and religious organizations, inspire thoughtful conversations. Recent forums on private equity and the Internet, along with debates on single currency and... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
health-care system is in critical condition: The cost of U.S. health care not only hampers its citizens’ well-being and the country’s ability to compete globally, but it also draws funding away from other... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
she had a different type of leukemia. They ran more tests but saw no sign of one. The hospital was affiliated with the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Medical Science, which had partnered with IBM Watson, a cloud-based cognitive-computing View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
system that pays for quantity without regard to quality and opaque regulations, in fact one study found that nearly 80 percent of the rules patients and physicians cited as barriers to great care were basically rumors. Plus, we have a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
improving health status. Do consumers actually need the systemic protections provided under managed care? I can’t tell you how many people I’ve talked with who say how difficult it is to try to navigate in... View Details
- 31 May 2017
- News
Father Agribusiness
Agribusiness, he explains, “..[i]s not just agriculture and business, it’s people from the medical school and government and the school for public health all working together.” For Goldberg, observing those connections in the context of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
to be a doctor, but over time I became interested in larger health-care systems issues, too.” After graduating from Harvard College, where he started a health clinic for homeless people in Harvard Square,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
finance, it seems, are never far from the minds of anyone in health care these days, even at fiscally sound MGH, the Harvard-affiliated teaching hospital that is recognized as an industry model. Indeed, with its conflicting mix of human... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
reach all of the 50 million patients who use the government primary care system in Tanzania. He also sees opportunity in other countries in the region such as Kenya, Uganda, and Nigeria, as well as in working with private View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Collaborative Cures
Business Administration “When I looked at the health care system through a systems engineering lens, I could see it as a network of multiple parts that needed to be optimized... View Details
- 11 Jul 2025
- News
Utah Club Dives into Great Salt Lake’s Challenges; Colorado Alumni Talk Defense Over Breakfast
Utah Alumni Explore Future of Great Salt Lake The HBS Club of Utah recently got an insider’s look at the economic and ecological health of the Great Salt Lake (GSL) with a presentation by Utah’s first GSL commissioner, Brian Steed, at the headquarters of Traeger Grills... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
draws on historical case studies and research into areas as varied as improvisational comedy and military training to provide a series of intellectual and practical frameworks that defy conventional wisdom and show how to seize triumph... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Cardiac Kid
has more than 1,000 workers and expects revenues of about $280 million this year. “The company was founded basically to prevent heart attacks,” Huennekens told the San Diego Union-Tribune (January 25, 2010). To that end, Volcano makes View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
Father of Modern Management by Bob Buford (OPM 2, 1977) (Worthy Publishing) Where Does It Hurt?: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Fixing Health Care by Jonathan Bush (MBA 1997) and Stephen Baker (Portfolio) Bush, the cofounder and CEO of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
ranked 23rd in the world in 2014, besting the likes of Israel and Austria, according to the consulting group Hamilton Place Strategies. It’s not just independent hackers. It’s state-sponsored hackers who put on military uniforms and head... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
Spaces Drive Performance and Creativity, coauthored with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Assistant Professor Joe Allen. “Public health is obviously directly connected to society’s success in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
traditional Indian greeting. It’s hard for Western observers to fathom, but EMRI’s 108 service is India’s first coordinated emergency response system, similar to the 911 system in the United States. At least for residents of Andhra... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
teamed up with Priyank Lathwal, a Ph.D. candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, to mobilize South Asian student organizations across Harvard and other universities to pool resources for Indian health and aid organizations. The... View Details