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Involvement in Faculty & Student Ventures | About

expected to grow and evolve in coming years. This policy revises and clarifies the School’s previous policy on faculty involvement in student ventures and extends it to cover student involvement in faculty... View Details

16 Dec 2020
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My HBS Student Loan Story: Ina Foalea (MBA 2018)

health foundation in Uganda where I was making less but saving more, given my lower expenses. Throughout those years, I was conservative in my spending. I had managed to save about $20,000 and had no student debt. Still, when I started... View Details

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Burroughs Wellcome and AZT (A)

By: Willis M. Emmons III

Burroughs Wellcome Co., developer of AZT, the first drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), finds itself under siege in September 1989 by AIDS activists and various segments of the U.S.... View Details

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Ethics; Business and Government Relations; Communication Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Monopoly; Intellectual Property; Research and Development; Price; Pharmaceutical Industry; London

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14 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World

environments. CEOs have little idea what to expect in terms of health care policy, financial transactions, national security, and global trade—all of vital importance to themselves, their employees, and... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

01 Sep 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details

01 Mar 2025
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Venture: Time Heals All

Assembling a nursing schedule for a hospital ward can be surprisingly difficult—a little like playing three-dimensional Tetris, says Ilana Springer Borkenstein (MBA 2022). “It is a really challenging, tedious task.” Nurse managers must take into consideration a host of... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford; Illustration by Klaus Kremmerz; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

15 Oct 2001
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What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions

But take care not to double count. Go-no-go choices involve only one option and don't qualify as two alternatives. Assumption Testing. "Facts" come in two varieties: those that have been carefully tested and those that have been... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto

25 Aug 2014
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Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981

support for education and health care—particularly for underserved populations—can be seen in the Boston area as well as in Mumbai, where the couple met as teenagers. Working with Shamim, a medical doctor who has survived two bouts with... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

18 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!

Marketers can make a bottle of sugar water look like golden elixir. Can health advocates sour the taste for consumers? (SteveDF) San Francisco is in a three-year battle with the American Beverage Industry over whether soda companies can... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Public Relations

03 Oct 2007
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Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator

and Bazerman observe, negotiation geniuses are made, not born. Excerpt from Negotiation Genius What appears to be genius actually reflects careful preparation, an understanding of the conceptual framework of negotiation, insight into how... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman

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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online

Laguna Health Care Strategy & Innovation Leader Determine which startups to invest in by understanding the key metrics that dictate whether a venture has achieved product-market fit and is ready for scaling.... View Details

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

employee with young kids at home, or someone taking care of elder relatives, or a worker needing to focus on their own physical and mental health as a result of the situation will not be able to do a 40-hour... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2022
News

Road to Recovery

providing more effective treatment. The bigger obstacle was fitting into the American health care system. An app-based digital health program isn’t something that View Details

Keywords: April White; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

11 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Meet the MBA Class of 2020

BREAKTHROUGHS PEOPLE THOUGHT IMPOSSIBLE A YEAR AGO.” HOME REGION Wayne, PA UNDERGRAD EDUCATION College of William & Mary, Economics, 2014 PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Verily, Google, Symplivety HBS ACTIVITIES Digital Impact Initiative, The Future Society, View Details

04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

W. Feeley Abstract—Patients and providers are frustrated with seemingly endless data entry. We used our patients’ vested interest in their own health care by actively engaging them in the entry of their own... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Oct 2021
News

Fostering Diversity

believe is crucial to society. “You need to invest in the pipeline in order for things to change,” says Victoria, an independent consultant focused on health care and technology. “We believe that we need... View Details

30 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies

adoption, testing the model on 15 technologies in 166 countries from 1820 to 2003. They covered major technologies related to transportation (from steamships to airplanes), telecommunication (from the telegraph to the cell phone), IT (the PC and the Internet), View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

livestreamed on YouTube, while Chipotle hosted Zoom hangouts where 3,000 fans could virtually mingle with celebrities. SnapChat curated mental health resources into a “Here for You” campaign, demonstrating its View Details

Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

31 Jan 2014
News

Body, Heal Thyself

BANCEL Throughout 2009 and 2010, Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000) had received upward of 20 calls from biotech companies asking him to come aboard and lead the company. It made sense. He was a highly recruited CEO successfully running bioMérieux, a diagnostics company with... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; biotech; Health, Social Assistance; Scientific Research and Development Services

23 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 23

staff, and graduate students affiliated with Harvard Medical School are already world class and at the top of the medical research game, with approximately $1.4 billion in annual funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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