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Naiyya Saggi
strong systems of support and learning for me. The Social Enterprise Fellowship supported me in my internship with the UNICEF Headquarters in New York over the summer. Organizing the Harvard India Conference helped me establish contact... View Details
- 22 Jan 2018
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
convening of students and alumni from around the world who are excited about health care.” Gaglani: “Many left a great impression on me. I am biased though, since a few HBS professors and staff have since... View Details
- 13 Feb 2023
- News
Alumnus Gift Will Nurture Basic, Therapeutic Science
following completion of the atrium's construction. "Harvard Medical School is a world leader in health care innovation, translational research, and cutting-edge discovery, and it continues to have an immense... View Details
- July 2022
- Teaching Plan
Wellthy: The Economics of Caring
By: Brian Trelstad
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 320-028. In 2014, Lindsay Jurist-Rosner (MBA ’09) founded Wellthy, a B2C business that coordinates care for working professionals seeking help to support loved ones with chronic diseases or aging parents. With personal experience as a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
organizations to determine how he would best fit into the field. Since that time, Kendall has brought innovative and pragmatic leadership to conservation efforts ranging from the protection of Costa Rican rain forests to Massachusetts... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
contact-tracing arena. According to the World Health Organization, as of December 1, Singapore had 58,228 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 29 deaths. “Singapore had a very comprehensive approach to dealing... View Details
- 27 Jun 2016
- News
Ulf Mark Schneider Has Plans to Make Nestlé Healthy
Nestlé’s growth plans: Health products, including medical foods for patients with conditions such as Alzheimers’ and gastrointestinal problems, have become an increasing focus for Nestlé in recent years, with a string of acquisitions and... View Details
- June 2008 (Revised November 2010)
- Supplement
Patient Flow at Brigham and Women's Hospital (B)
By: Anita L. Tucker and Jillian Alexandra Berry
The B Case is an email from the ED Director. He clarifies where the process deviations occurred. View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Health Care and Treatment; Service Operations; Business Processes; Performance Productivity; Conflict and Resolution; Health Industry; Massachusetts
Tucker, Anita L., and Jillian Alexandra Berry. "Patient Flow at Brigham and Women's Hospital (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 608-172, June 2008. (Revised November 2010.)
- July 2002 (Revised April 2003)
- Case
QuickMedx Inc.
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Jonathan P Groberg
QuickMedx has created a chain of small kiosks, located in drugstores and shopping malls in the Minneapolis area, that cater to patients with a limited range of very simple primary care conditions. Service is rapid and cheap and patients wait only a few minutes to be... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Decision Making; Disruptive Innovation; Expansion; Service Delivery; Business Processes; Design; Management; Health Industry
Bohmer, Richard M.J., and Jonathan P Groberg. "QuickMedx Inc." Harvard Business School Case 603-049, July 2002. (Revised April 2003.)
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
with a team of fellow alums to create a $2.5 billion technology company. Today, Langford’s focus falls under an entirely different category of urgency: As executive director of the Georgia Prevention Project (GPP), he leads a nonprofit View Details
- August 2006 (Revised September 2007)
- Supplement
Istituto Clinico Humanitas (C): Pronto Soccorso
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer
Follows on from the cases Istituto Clinico Humanitas (A) and (B). Describes the design and running of the new Humanitas Emergency Department. Istituto Clinico Humanitas has developed a very efficient operating system for dealing with elective (largely surgical)... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Customer Focus and Relationships; Health Industry; Italy
Bohmer, Richard M.J. "Istituto Clinico Humanitas (C): Pronto Soccorso." Harvard Business School Supplement 607-022, August 2006. (Revised September 2007.)
- March 1999 (Revised July 1999)
- Case
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, The
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Ann Winslow
Describes the death of a cancer patient in one of the nation's premier cancer treatment centers and examines the organizational and process characteristics that may have contributed to the medical error. View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Quality; Service Operations; Management Practices and Processes; Business Processes; Failure; Health Industry
Bohmer, Richard M.J., and Ann Winslow. "Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, The." Harvard Business School Case 699-025, March 1999. (Revised July 1999.)
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
New York Club Asks for Donations to September 11 Relief Fund
charities that are helping the families affected by the World Trade Center attacks. A description of each organization follows. Windows of Hope Family Relief Fund provides aid to the families of victims of... View Details
- June 2007
- Article
Efficient Kidney Exchange: Coincidence of Wants in a Structured Market
By: A. E. Roth, Tayfun Sonmez and M. Utku Unver
Patients needing kidney transplants may have donors who cannot donate to them because of blood or tissue incompatibility. Incompatible patient-donor pairs can exchange donor kidneys with other pairs only when there is a "double coincidence of wants." Developing... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Size; Emotions; Human Needs; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Infrastructure; Supply Chain Management; Fairness; Performance Improvement; Health Industry
Roth, A. E., Tayfun Sonmez, and M. Utku Unver. "Efficient Kidney Exchange: Coincidence of Wants in a Structured Market." American Economic Review 97, no. 3 (June 2007): 828–851.
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Social Enterprise 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 -... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Innovation Goes Mainstream
for her opening address at the tenth anniversary Social Enterprise Conference on March 1. The daylong event, heralded in advance by Forbes as one of the top business gatherings for 2009, was organized by students from HBS and the Harvard... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
inspired by the work of Food Solutions New England, an organized network of agricultural experts, farmers, academics, concerned citizens, and regional grassroots organizations working to overcome barriers to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
to produce the vaccine that works.” Even as vaccine efforts gain momentum around the world, hundreds continue to die each day. The pandemic, which shrank the global economy by 4 percent in 2020, has also pushed more than 119 million people into extreme poverty,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
political science, management, communications, and public health, and drawing on the experiences of health policies in Canada and several European nations, this book analyzes current and past U.S. health... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Wheels Up
immediate concerns: the safety and mental health of daa’s 8,000-odd employees and the organization’s liquidity. “We’re a very high fixed-cost industry, so when revenues tank, you run into issues quickly,” he notes. Philips credits the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna