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01 Mar 2013
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A Healthy Profit

Gita's medical history and her symptoms suggest a heart problem, MeraDoctor ultimately recommends that she get an echocardiogram (for which she has to pay at a private facility because the government one is too crowded). The test reveals... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

Harsh Mariwala

Keywords: Consumer Goods; Health; Beauty; Wellness

04 Nov 2014
News

Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years

Santiago Ocejo (MPH 2010/MBA 2014) wants to improve health care in Mexico. He always thought he would do that, one patient at a time, as a surgeon. But, today, the medical school graduate is a social entrepreneur, working with the Mexican View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2003
News

HIV/AIDS and Business

Harvard University. Cosponsored by UNAIDS and the World Economic Forum, the workshops were organized in conjunction with Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (KSG), School of Public Health, and AIDS Institute. After opening at... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

03 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 3, 2006

the most basic medical services. China is still governed by a staunchly Communist regime, and both its industrial infrastructure and capital markets are dominated by state-owned enterprises. These are not... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

summer 1993
Article

Database Marketing: New Rules for Policy and Practice

By: Frank V. Cespedes and H. Jeff Smith

Keywords: Information Technology; Marketing; Policy; Practice

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23 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 23

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-048.pdf Regulating for Legitimacy: Consumer Credit Access in France and America Author: Gunnar Trumbull Abstract Theories of legitimate regulation have emphasized the role of governments either in fixing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2025
News

Agenda: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963)

In the early 1970s, Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) was CEO of Texas International Airlines, a struggling regional operation. There were whispers of change coming for the airline industry as Washington considered the pros and cons of ending regulation. “If there was a list of... View Details

Keywords: April White

October 2010 (Revised November 2010)
Background Note

Plavix: Drugs in the Age of Personalized Medicine

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Mara G. Aspinall and Rachel Gordon

PIavix, one of the world's best selling drugs in 2010, appears to have a limited future. Its patent was due to expire soon, and recently new data had been discovered that indicated that a small subset of the population would be at risk for stroke, heart attack, or even... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Product Positioning; Business and Government Relations; Genetics; Competitive Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry

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June 2010
Article

The Pathologies of Online Display Advertising Marketplaces

By: Benjamin Edelman

Display advertising marketplaces place "banner" ads on all manner of popular sites. While these services are widely used, they suffer significant challenges, including weak user response and low accountability for both advertisers and web site publishers. I survey a... View Details

Keywords: Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising; Online Advertising; Cost; Corporate Accountability; Information Publishing; Consumer Behavior; Relationships; Web Sites

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01 Jun 2009
News

Inside the Partnership

the 1929 stock market crash revealed disastrous investments made by his superiors, Weinberg, who became head of the firm in 1930, worked tirelessly throughout the Great Depression and World War II to keep the firm alive. At the same time,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

Career Coach

Laurie Matthews

it all very human and worth your time. Besides her MBA, Laurie has a Master's in Education from Harvard's Graduate School of Education, and is a graduate of the Leadership Coaching Certificate program at Georgetown. Her BA in View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Entrepreneurship; Hospitality; Retail

01 Aug 2012
What Do You Think?

Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’

government intervention " Gerald Nanninga was less willing to accept the notion of "too big to succeed," setting forth several ways of scaling up a company to minimize the burden of size on management. As he put it, "... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Financial Services

08 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?

energy sources. But lately it's turned into something of a marathon, with companies and financial institutions involved in the market slowed by regulatory and political climates that evolved in the face of new economic realities. That's... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Energy; Utilities

29 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 29

Publication:Stanford Social Innovation Review (summer 2012) Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/in_search_of_the_hybrid_ideal Coordinating Marketing and Sales in B2B... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2018
News

Averting Crisis

time, researchers would be able to predict financial vulnerability. Enter the BFFS project, which focuses on five areas: regulation and monetary policy, measuring bubbles, extrapolation and neglected risks, the size and structure of the financial sector, and View Details

16 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025)

tests and medications — can get to the people who need them. My projects at CHAI focus on helping governments in Central and West Africa with the finance work that enables this solution delivery. So far, I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to... View Details

01 Jun 2024
News

Crash Pad

each floor—“and lots of little cubicles on the inside. Turning those into units with light is not at all easy to do.” Still, post-pandemic trends are reshaping commercial real estate markets in ways that favor repurposing at least some... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford; illustrations by Kathleen Fu; building coversion; housing crisis; innovation; real estate; Real Estate

April 2009 (Revised April 2013)
Case

Barack Obama: Organizing for America 2.0

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Laura Winig and Aaron Smith

Less than a week before Barack Obama was due to be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, Obama for America (OFA), the president-elect's official campaign organization, announced the formation of a post-election organization, Organizing for America. The... View Details

Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Political Elections; Marketing Communications; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Internet

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