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Regional Winners - Alumni

Alumni Regional Winners Haf Haf Inc. A fun, reliable, effective, eco-friendly personal care brand focusing on children and teenagers who have their own age-specific needs and preference. Tingting Zhong, MBA 2006, Co-founder & Co-CEO... View Details

17 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

Last month, US Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer and senators Cory Booker and Ron Wyden introduced draft legislation to legalize cannabis federally. Some commentators say that by expunging federal, nonviolent marijuana offenses from criminal records, the proposed... View Details

Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson

25 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

Health Care Club, Co-President, PRIDE Club, Soccer Club, Tech Club, Management Consulting Club Christina Byrd “While working on cross-functional and strategic initiatives at Uber,” says Christina, “I... View Details

01 Jun 2024
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2024

Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details

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Innovation & Innovative Capacity - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Innovation also holds the key to solving many of the world’s most pressing social challenges such as health care and improving the quality of the physical environment. The institute works with U.S. and... View Details

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

With COVID-19 cases growing worldwide, business leaders are scrambling to deal with a wide variety of problems, from slumping sales and stalling supply chains to keeping employees healthy and making sure they can continue working. We asked professors of Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

08 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate

“Restricting women’s access to this important health care seems to be a means, at least partly, to disincentivize them from being promiscuous.” “The gender gaps in labor market participation,... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

16 May 2024
News

On the Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. We all have early memories of on-the-job learnings—those moments that had a lasting impact on how we see the world of work and our place in it. This... View Details

Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade

October 2022
Case

Cost Plus Drugs

By: Alexander MacKay and James Barnett

In September 2022, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs Company CEO Alex Oshmyansky considered the future of the company. Cost Plus Drugs was a retailer for more than 340 generic oral medications, selling their drugs at significantly lower prices than typical pharmacies.... View Details

Keywords: Business Ventures; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Health; Markets; Social Enterprise; Society; Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Business Divisions; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States; Texas

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04 Apr 2024
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The Making of a Medical Milestone

On March 16, doctors at the Massachusetts General Hospital made history when they successfully transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig to a living human. The groundbreaking procedure marked a significant milestone in animal-to-human transplant, or... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

24 Jan 2018
News

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

29 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family

you are not working is a moment that's wasted,” says Whillans. “The negative effects of constantly choosing work over personal relationships appear to accumulate over time and in turn contribute to negative mental health outcomes.” Help... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka

05 Jun 2009
What Do You Think?

What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?

Other activities included in GDP, such as health care costs, do not reflect the fact that spending more on health care is, in John Caddell's... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

29 Jan 2021
Op-Ed

How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics

UK’s National Health Service improved influenza vaccine adoption by employing medical professionals in its media efforts." Doctors, nurses, and medical professionals are also opinion leaders because patients trust their View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim

01 Dec 2023
News

Rounding the Bend

Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

17 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

How Our Brain Determines if the Product is Worth the Price

interested in the medial prefrontal cortex (the area in the brain that deals with estimating decision value) and the nucleus accumbens (an area that's been called the pleasure center, and whose activity is correlated with whether a product is viscerally desirable).... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

John T. Gourville

John Gourville is the Albert J. Weatherhead, Jr. Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He joined the HBS Marketing Unit in 1995 after receiving his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in marketing and behavioral research. His most... View Details

Keywords: health care; health care; health care; health care; health care; health care; health care; health care

November 2022
Case

The Battle Among Channels for Marketing Pharmaceuticals: UpScript, Pharmacy Benefit Managers, and Direct-to-Consumer Sales

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Tiffany Farrell

Can an online, direct-to-consumer pharmacy both improve the quality and speed of care for patients who need branded drugs and stabilize profits for pharmaceutical manufacturers? UpScript, after years spent achieving legal and regulatory compliance and simultaneous... View Details

Keywords: DTC; Internet and the Web; Marketing Channels; Customer Value and Value Chain; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competitive Strategy; Service Delivery; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry