Healthcare As An Investment - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Feb 2022
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on the Public Sector

pursuing an MBA at HBS will provide a global residential experience to become a successful public entrepreneur and city developer. The United Nations projects that by 2050 more than 68 percent of the world's population will live in... View Details

04 Oct 2016
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: CVS Health

on-campus interviews. We are also lucky to have our President of CVS Pharmacy, Helena Foulkes, as an HBS alum and recruiting advocate. She was also named one of Fortune Magazine’s most powerful women in... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

09 Jun 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge

directly competitive product, if the rival introduces an inferior substitute, it may damage consumers' perceptions and depress sales in the entire product category. As a result, intellectual property... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

16 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

Wahlen of MIT Sloan—examine whether such “wisdom of the crowd” can beat the odds in predicting a blockbuster at a higher rate than the gut of an individual producer. "While some companies have used crowdsourcing View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Motion Pictures & Video

18 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 18

Khurana Publication:Harvard Magazine, May-June 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the article: http://harvardmagazine.com/2010/05/the-pay-problem Working PapersMen as Cultural Ideals: How... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Latinx Women in the Spotlight: Marimar Pérez-Riera (MBA 1994)

I was born and raised in Puerto Rico, and Spanish is my first language. There was no Nickelodeon or Disney Channel so I learned English watching Sesame Street. My gift was math and science, and after studying hard and graduating from Yale, I worked in View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

In My Humble Opinion: Home Base

well-researched, expert advice, she turned to other working parents, asking, What do you wish you had known? Those inputs helped Dowling guide colleagues at Blackstone, where she had taken a job as head of talent development. Helping... View Details

Keywords: April White

Profile

Ahmed Alimi

What's a natural childhood ambition? To be an astronaut? A firefighter? For Ahmed Alimi, the attraction was to number crunching. "My parents tell me that as a child, I said I wanted to be View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Financial Services

10 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Taking Advantage of Life’s (Few and Far Between) Inflection Points

boost of career momentum." He paused, then gave me a wink as he thought of just the right way to illustrate his point. "You're too young to remember this," he began, "but in the early 1970s the Apollo 13 spacecraft was midway between... View Details

Keywords: Re: Howard H. Stevenson

01 Oct 1997
News

Brice Cutrer Jones

sealing off Sonoma-Cutrer's green bottles are presampled to ensure that they will not taint the wine's final flavor. This investment of tender loving care has paid off: in an annual survey published in Wine... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

12 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

In a Landscape of 'Me Too' Drug Development, What Spurs Radical Innovation?

ubingruo New research finds that large pharmaceutical companies, typically conservative in their pursuit of novel drug development, are more willing to undertake radical innovation after receiving an unexpected cash windfall. The... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health; Pharmaceutical

11 Aug 2021
Blog Post

The Equity Network: How HBS Helped Me Launch a Tech-Enabled Social Enterprise

Kristina Hu is from the Class of 2022 and a proud member of Section H. After graduating from Harvard College in 2016, she worked in investment banking at Morgan Stanley before pivoting into tech, eventually becoming a product manager at... View Details

25 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market

managers who trade in foreign debt as well as for emerging market countries. "The cost of funds will go up," naysayers may cry. "We won't get any money; no one will View Details

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro

01 Jan 2011
News

Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977

Russia to build a textile business. "Half the workers in this country are employed in small businesses. We need to make sure they have the tools to grow their companies, create stable jobs, and move our economy forward." Mills serves as... View Details

17 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

New Treasury Rules Help Long-Retirement Planning

a man at age 60 can purchase a deferred life annuity with $50,000 from his IRA, and then receive $17,614 in annual income for life starting at age 80. This type of deferred life annuity, called a longevity annuity, is much less expensive than View Details

Keywords: by Robert Pozen; Financial Services

27 Sep 2016
First Look

September 27, 2016

selecting investments, VCs see the management team as more important than business-related characteristics such as product or technology. They also attribute more of the likelihood of ultimate View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 1998
News

Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War

Vu Hoai (MBA '94), an acquaintance whom she met through HIID and who worked most recently at the Vietnam offices of KPMG. "If I had to give two pieces of advice to foreign investors in Vietnam," says Hoai, "the first would be to be... View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)

08 May 2020
Blog Post

Building a World of Trusted Leaders: Taking the MBA Oath

leaders. Students representing more than 100 schools around the world have taken this important step toward building a planet with a shared standard for ethical and professional behavior. The MBA Oath Committee decided to share their mission with the world by hosting... View Details

18 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

factor: the degree of the top management team’s (TMT) frame flexibility, i.e., their capability to perceptually expand an innovation’s categorical boundaries and to cast the innovation as emotionally... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

03 Nov 2022
Op-Ed

Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains

You’re the founder of a growing startup and it seems like just yesterday that you were a team of five, sharing a co-working space with one table and five chairs. There was an open flow of communication in the room and unless someone’s... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

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