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- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
to Make Careful Decisions? Summing up reader responses, Professor Jim Heskett finds compelling arguments for a process involving intuition based on analysis and experience. Should people also make their own decision-making process more... View Details
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- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
academics talk a good game about the need for interdisciplinary thinking, but we usually fall back on the strengths (or prejudices) of our primary discipline. Chandler was heavily influenced by sociologists such as Max Weber and Talcott... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations
Prescription drug costs continue to climb in the United States, but tightening a loophole in a federal law may help curb rising expenses, according to research published this week in Health Affairs. Efforts to control US View Details
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
multigenerational cycles of poverty. “You can’t expect schools to consistently outperform the health of their neighborhoods,” says Majors, a vice president at Purpose Built Communities, an Atlanta-based, nonprofit consulting group. “The... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Clubs Hopping
small, in California, Florida, and Texas, where most HBS Latino alumni live. Dallas was the proving ground for this strategy. “We want to collect and build our networks more regionally,” says Calderon, who sits on the club’s board. “There’s a demand and an appetite for... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
challenge. For example, LVHM, a French multinational corporation and conglomerate specializing in luxury goods, announced it will cease the production of perfumes in some of its factories in order to make hand sanitizer, and Nike stated it will start producing personal... View Details
- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
require any number of 100 or 200 services and subprocesses. On top of that, the most knowledgeable people about those subprocesses-the doctors-come and go from the factory and are not employed by it." That complexity makes errors inevitable. And despite the growing... View Details
- 03 Feb 2014
- News
Eyes on Medical Breakthroughs
1979), she learned not only about the workings of the human body, but also about the value of relationships and collaboration. It all added up to make her one of the savviest health care sector investors in... View Details
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Laura Mackay
summer internship allowed me to try a new space that I had not considered prior to HBS and to discover a new passion: the use of technology and services to empower consumers to play a role in their own health care. I was then able to take... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
With a yearly price tag of roughly $87 billion in lost productivity and adverse health consequences, the flu is nothing to sneeze at. It’s no surprise that workplace flu vaccination clinics have gained popularity as employers try to keep... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
housing in the next few years, and Dlodlo is currently looking to assume control of a large portfolio of vacant properties presented to her by community leaders, in which she intends to house frontline health View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Raymond Hwang (MBA 2010)
were exposed to at HBS can be applied to problems in health care and medicine. As an industry, we face the same fundamental challenges, just with the addition of some special regulatory and market... View Details
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
heart care for children. It's also a story made of equal parts Robin Hood humanitarianism, entrepreneurship, and the Indian government's newfound ability to allow entrepreneurs a free hand in trying to solve some of society's most... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
health-care professionals. So the primary responsibility for health care is and remains with governments to take care of their citizens. And in... View Details
- 06 Oct 2022
- News
On the Road to Recovery
indeed, the entire travel-nursing sector—entered a growth phase as newly insured people sought health care and the demand for nurses surged. During this time, many of Nightingale’s competitors sold to... View Details
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
trying to secure specimens. Alongside primary medical education providers, a large number and wide range of other users are also trying to secure cadavers for their own needs. The continuing training of medical doctors, for instance,... View Details
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
health. “We’d all had experiences that left us feeling that the current health care system wasn’t serving us, as women,” Keshani says. The name Seven Starling was inspired by the flocking behavior of... View Details
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Cash flow struggles can take down a company or spark ideas that transform an industry
hospitals, and patients were hurting athenahealth’s bottom line. Bush shifted the company’s focus from clinical care to Internet billing and information processing, and athenahealth now provides cloud-based practice management, billing,... View Details
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Kyle Schultz
Kyle Schultz (MBA 2004) works with a software company that is developing ways to notify patients about the costs of their health care procedures and the ways insurance can be applied. View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- News
Where Are They Now?
the HBS Club of India—over the top. “We identified a significant global market and focused on an unmet but essential need, as health care is not optional,” says Mahesh, who got a very personal perspective on... View Details