World Health Organization - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 2001
News

The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts

Homelessness. Entrepreneurial services for the poor. The arts. Spirituality. Who — or what — in our society can best address these issues? Here's a hint: It's not business, and it's most definitely not government. "Nonprofits are the most effective View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2009
News

Alumni Books

The People Factor: Strengthening America by Investing in Public Service by Linda J. Bilmes (MBA ’84) and W. Scott Gould (Brookings Institution Press) The authors argue that the federal government can achieve the same gains as the best private-sector and military View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

20 Jul 2017
News

Pushing the Next Generation Forward

and dear to my heart.” Central to HCZ’s approach is a birth-to-college education pipeline of best-practice academic, community development, and health and wellness programs that serve 13,000 children and nearly as many adults. Recently... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

20 Nov 2017
News

Finding Common Ground

only thing missing was ominous John Williams theme music playing in the background. CollaborateUp specializes in bringing corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, and other organizations together, to take on big, complex issues,... View Details

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

01 Mar 2014
News

Everything Old Is a New Opportunity

global organization whose mission is accelerating innovation to improve the lives of older adults. Much of their early work has been nurturing promising entrepreneurs through the aptly named Aging2.0 GENerator—which provides strategic... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Health, Social Assistance; Personal Services

01 Mar 2018
News

Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations

keep getting great things done? Organize Tomorrow Today proposes simple new habits to adopt. For example, writing down our top priorities helps us to focus—but doing it the day before triggers a powerful psychological phenomenon that... View Details

Keywords: April White

16 Oct 2013
Op-Ed

Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

natural gas from coal does not solve the world's climate change problem, but it is a bridge. We need to stop burning all fossil fuels, but in order to do so, the world needs much cheaper dispatchable, zero-carbon alternatives. The... View Details

Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

07 May 2020
News

Ensuring Student Equity

learning programs, food and other basic resources, and health services for more than 1,200 children each week in this underserved community. “We had to rethink the operation of our food pantry. We had to develop learning materials that... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

23 Oct 2020
News

Educating the Whole Student

“We knew the education system was broken,” says Meredith Liu (MBA 2010) of her first meetings with Priscilla Chan, who founded the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a philanthropic organization that she founded with her husband, Facebook CEO... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

21 Oct 2020
News

Cold Calculations

in engineering and public policy, for assistance in setting up the organization. The Arctic Ice Project’s research focuses on materials-based solutions to ice loss—basically, substances that can mimic the beneficial reflective properties of old ice. After a decade of... View Details

Keywords: April White

18 Aug 2021
News

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

four years “to fight racial injustice and inequity in our world and to promote health and wellbeing for all.” Peloton will focus on five areas: increasing hourly wages for its workforce; investing in... View Details

Portrait Project

Rahima Dosani

I will love, unconditionally and with abandon. For my mother. Having already given birth to eleven children, my grandmother tried to abort her. It failed. My mother was brought into this world unwanted, neglected, and abused. No one knew... View Details

27 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

June 2012 working paper, Key Drivers of Successful Implementation of an Employee Suggestion-Driven Improvement Program. Tucker is an associate professor in the Technology and Operations Management unit, and the Marvin Bower Fellow at HBS. Singer is an assistant... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry

Web

History | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

entrepreneurs moving their organizations from start-up to growth phase. 2019 Celebrated SEI's 25th anniversary with the Frontiers of Change convening of over 300 alumni, faculty, leaders in the field, students and staff. Published... View Details

27 Jul 2017
News

Seeing a Way Forward

surgeries, 40 percent of which were free of charge. The enterprise has been able to reduce the cost of surgery by up to 60 percent, working with support from partners that include Duke University, World Diabetes Foundation, Pfizer... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

16 May 2016
HBS Case

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

keep close watch over them. In 2015, Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, highlighted the problem. “A local food safety problem can rapidly become an international... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

Web

Residents & Fellows Course - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Health Care Courses View Details

19 May 2020
News

Exploring the Economics of a Pandemic; Alumni Forums Draw Closer Online

April 29 aimed at helping members navigate the economic and health impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on the black community. The series kicked off with “How Black Businesses Can Survive Covid-19” and featured Rogers, and his daughter,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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