Health Care Entrepreneurship - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

criminal justice reform, other issues like that, health care reform, but the nexus between corporate America and what Black America needs and the most, in my opinion, is employment. And so if we can do... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

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

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

political system, our review of the literature finds no academic consensus on the consequences of inequality for the health of the economy or the democracy, or for nearly any other macro-level outcome. With the academic community reaching... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

29 Jan 2021
News

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

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

01 Mar 2024
News

Leading Businesses in a Web3 World

Illustration by Daniel Hertzberg Web3 is poised to transform everything we do online by decentralizing and democratizing the internet. That transformation is already underway in the business world: built on blockchain technology that offers increased security and... View Details

March 2022 (Revised July 2022)
Case

Nexleaf Analytics: Saving the World Using the Internet of Things

By: Frank Nagle

In 2019, a decade after co-founding Nexleaf Analytics, CEO Nithya Ramanathan faced an important decision that would impact the ability of the small, but growing, not-for-profit organization to thrive for another decade. Their sensor technologies and big data analytics... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Nonprofit Organizations; Competitive Strategy; Patents; Expansion; Information Technology; Health Industry; Information Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Technology Industry

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04 Apr 2024
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The Making of a Medical Milestone

trial in ALS as well. We recently spoke with Dr. Gros, Eledon’s founder and CEO, about tegoprubart’s potential to revolutionize transplant medicine, why he left medicine to become a serial health care... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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New Venture Competition | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Solara Sacerdote Grand Prize Winner, Social Enterprise Track, 2024 New Venture Competition 1_rwoq7e70 Trans Health HQ Sacerdote Runner-Up Prize Winner, Social Enterprise Track, 2024 New Venture Competition 1_fzd3exaa The Social Enterprise... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women

08 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

maximizing productivity? How do we help employees with work/life balance?” “How to keep people engaged and connected and OPTIMISTIC in appropriate measure while so many have so many competing personal and business and health and family... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

20 Apr 2020
Blog Post

Introducing LivelyHood, A Volunteer Nonprofit Founded in Response to COVID-19

thereafter, the world started to change quickly and dramatically. The impending health crisis and mass stockpiling consumed the collective psyche. And a tweet from the UK went viral: a nurse who had worked all day taking View Details

10 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly

device was defined using the FDA's standard as one that "supports or sustains human life or is of substantial importance in preventing impairment of human health or presents a potential, unreasonable risk of illness or injury.") The... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Health

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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

inform business decisions Implement analytical techniques in Excel Develop effective pricing strategies Identify sources of competitive advantage through differentiation Evaluate the financial health of a business using financial... View Details

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David Velasquez

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? I want to be better prepared to lead and improve the delivery of health care in our country. Patients cannot wait for our systems to be more accessible,... View Details

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Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Emerson Collective - Recruiting

development of sectors like education, the environment, immigration, and health care through impact investing, philanthropy, advocacy, and more. The organization brings together entrepreneurs, academics,... View Details

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Events - Business History

to bhi@hbs.edu for the Zoom link. Sep 29 29 Sep 2025 Business History Seminar Dan Wadhwani (USC Marshall), "Moral Imaginaries of Entrepreneurship in the US, 1775-2025" 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM. Part of the 2025 Business History Seminar,... View Details

23 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit

cares that provide nutrition, health care, and educational support for mothers and young children—represent a particularly rich target. Rocket is currently working with the Ministry of Women and Child... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

Curb Appeal

residents depend on sanitation every single day—to empty the litter bins, sweep and plow the streets, pick up the trash and recycling, and more. “If we don’t do our job for one day, pretty much everyone notices,” she says. “If we don’t do it for two or three days, it’s... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

20 Dec 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

How to Design a Better Customer Experience

customer’s champion and own the problem. “We landed after a delayed 12-hour flight and learned that our connecting flight was gone. Our expectations were low because we flew on a mileage ticket from American Express. The airline agent ignored us. So we called Amex and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Health

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