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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
prevent a new disease from becoming endemic to a region. It raised the profile of public health and brought the importance of international cooperation in health to new heights. SARS — severe acute respiratory syndrome — caused enormous... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Ticked Off
prevent the disease, been an information clearinghouse, and helped establish the country’s first endowed research dedicated to finding a cure for the disease. The HBS club provided pro bono consulting to help TFL identify ways to achieve... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- Op-Ed
Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities
The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Class of 2004 Gives Fellowship
graduate of Princeton, Shariff is committed to international development. Prior to HBS, she worked with CARE International in Rwanda, primarily on HIV prevention and microfinance targeted at households run... View Details
- 10 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative
purpose of the collaboration and to each other.Cross-sector partnerships do not happen; they are built. To trigger the relationship there generally needs to be an emotional connection with the social purpose. The prospect of a program that View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
persons from 1999 to 2016. Beyond the devastating personal costs, there is an economic toll, too, caused by rising health care expenses for overdose prevention drugs and addiction treatment, criminal justice... View Details
- Web
Work & Life - Race, Gender & Equity
at home [1] 51 Women with children under 18 at home 54 Men with no children at home 54 Men with children under 18 at home Top 5 Industries Hours/Week Women Men Consulting / Professional Services 52 55 Educational Services / Academics 49 53 Finance / Banking /... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
directly to NGOs that have been authorized to supply equipment and supplies to hospitals and COVID care centers in India. By May 12, GiveIndia’s web page was showing a tally of 1,550 donors from 30 different university groups, raising... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
during the 2011-2012 flu season, compared to 46 percent of all adults nationwide. “They were a great partner,” Beshears says of Express Scripts. “But even they, who are so attuned to the importance of these preventive measures, didn’t... View Details
- Web
Hidden Workers: Caregivers - Managing the Future of Work
childcare and eldercare, it's in the best interest of employers to invest in fostering a care culture—one that attracts caregivers on the margins of the workforce and helps current employees succeed. Read the Report Related Research... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Covering All Corners
battle must be fought on three fronts: preventing the spread among the general population, relieving hospitals running at full capacity wherever possible, and ensuring the availability of life-saving medicine in the face of threats to... View Details
- 21 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
My Fear of Student Debt: Funding the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
but then prevented or delayed me from pursuing them because of student loans? Financial aid opportunities for joint HBS/HKS students As I looked more closely at joint degree programs, the financial aid available at Harvard stood out. Not... View Details
- 14 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
The Case for Consumer-Driven Medicaid
Carolina Governor Mark Sanford (R) has suggested an option that is worth serious consideration in other states. His plan gives Medicaid enrollees a choice: Every recipient would obtain catastrophic and preventive coverage as well as a... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
“Delivering patient care is one of those situations where timely speaking up can be a matter of life and death, or frequently a matter of high- or low-quality care.” “Psychological safety describes a belief that the work environment is... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
destroying individuals and families. In recent years, as the opioid crisis swept the country, the organization shifted to a broader focus, re-branded as the Georgia Prevention Project. Now Langford wants to stem the spread of opioids with... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Turning Point: Network Effects
nonprofit that develops national networks of volunteer mental health professionals who can provide free, confidential care to individuals experiencing an acute or chronic need for help. Our initial focus was veterans and their families,... View Details
Keywords: Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997)
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fixing What Ails the Drug Industry
In 2008, private investors and the National Institutes of Health plowed more than $100 billion into pharmaceutical research. And yet, “We’re not seeing the new diagnostics, treatments, preventative approaches, and cures that we might have... View Details
- Profile
Fatou Bintou Sagnang
career in Africa, while Fatou's mother is on campus to help Fatou with her son. As a consequence, Fatou's schedule looks very different from most other MBA candidates; after classes, she resumes care of Ahmed, then rises at 3 or 4am to... View Details
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Harvard Business School’s Armed Forces Alumni Association - MBA
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
resulted in 96,402 potentially preventable deaths from 2006 to 2008. Health care will change, because it must. Designing that transition with minimum threat and maximum benefit for patients is a delicate... View Details