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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
you’re doing today will change as you evolve. Don’t give the doctors and hospitals a suboptimal experience on their first try with your service. Don’t let the VC hype force you to expand faster than you should. (I say this as a health... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
hospitals with its nursing workforce management platform. “We’re building the technological layer that hospitals and health systems need to adapt to the expectations of modern nurses in a post-Covid world,”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
A native of rural Chehalis, Washington, Orin C. Smith (MBA '67) was an EVP for Danzas, an international freight shipping company, when Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz approached him in 1990 to join the fledgling company. Schultz, Smith recalls, was "personable, creative,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
winners and losers?" he asks. Bradach will continue to study these issues in future work. Coordinating Patient Care With tight hospital budgets and shorter hospital stays the norm today, View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out
Raffaella Sadun (photo by Russ Campbell) Raffaella Sadun (photo by Russ Campbell) In the face of economic challenges, hospitals in the English National Health Service have turned to a strategy that has proven effective for small private... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Bringing Out the Best
HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation. As a hospital trustee, she understands the importance of unrestricted giving: “I have seen firsthand how much the hospital needs supporters who trust in its leaders to... View Details
- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
years ago after a serious bike accident landed him in the hospital for a year. From his hospital room, he laid the groundwork and developed the team that would eventually launch alltricks.com in 2008,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
what loyalty means or how to build it. Reichheld, author of the 1996 bestseller The Loyalty Effect, outlines six principles of loyalty that can make the Internet a hospitable and highly profitable place for businesses to succeed. 20/20... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Condo Mania
STERNLICHT: Waiting for the dust to settle. John Vanbeekum A self-described “distressed-real-estate guy,” Barry Sternlicht (MBA ’86) has some vacant condos to move, and that’s a problem he’s glad to have. Consider the unfinished and unoccupied 47-story Paramount Bay... View Details
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Life Lab Nurtures Early Stage Startup Day Zero Diagnostics
Melis Anahtar in the Life Lab If you’ve ever been hospitalized with an infection and had to wait days for test results and a treatment plan, you understand the problems that Day Zero Diagnostics (DZD) is addressing. The company is one of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Tracking a Turnaround
The newly hired president and CEO of a local medical center faces a daunting task: Under intense public scrutiny, he must save a complex, rapidly failing organization whose culture is marred by indecision and distrust — and do so in an environment of increasing... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
grant-making agencies.” McMinn also supports St. Helena Hospital Foundation and Napa Learns, an education nonprofit that gets technology into the hands of students; but the Vine Trail Coalition has the kind of startup energy that inspires... View Details
- 27 Apr 2018
- News
Placing Nurses Where They Are Needed
Alejandro Moreno (MBA 1988) is CEO of Nightingale Nurses, a service that provides traveling nurses to hospitals and health care facilities across the United States. In this interview, he talks about the advantages of flexibility and the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
up a genetics lab at Massachusetts General Hospital and earned a master's degree in social psychology from Boston University. "I came to HBS to get a degree that would be broad enough to apply to any area within the administration of... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
It's Show Time, Folks
For the School's newest alumni, Commencement marks the culmination of hours of hard work and the promise of new beginnings. For staff working behind the scenes to welcome thousands of visitors from all over the world, it's a logistical undertaking of the highest order.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Feedback
residents of Astoria, Oregon, where there is, at present, a first-class summer classical music festival. One of the major forces in making the festival happen is Bill Armington, one of the doctors [at] the hospital (Memorial) that endured... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
New Director of MBA Career Services Focuses on Power of Alumni Network
refers to as a "network job search" - is just the sort of strategy he's advising current MBA students to use as they confront today's considerably less hospitable market. "In this climate, students will need to work harder," Merrick... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard
cofounder of finalist Lucidity Health. The company’s app uses artificial intelligence to analyze x-rays and help frontline physicians lacking access to a radiologist make a diagnosis and formulate a treatment plan—a boon for hospitals in... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Nancy J. Karch
and hospitality industries. At HBS, Karch was a quick study. "I didn't know the basic language, but I found I had an aptitude for business," recalls the straightforward, confident Karch, whose downtown Atlanta office is filled with... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young