Health ＆ Wellness - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Dec 2015
News

The Year in Ideas 2015

thing you hoped to promote. What the health care sector needs most, HBS’s Health Care Initiative said with the debut of Harvard’s Health Acceleration Challenge, is widespread... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

01 Nov 2012
News

for a positive reason,” Swearengin recalls. Even after a blindside hit on his very first play in high school left him staggering and wondering if “football was worth the sickening feeling inside my head,” the pride he felt in playing the game View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

17 Oct 2019
News

Venturing Away from Venture Capital

they worked so hard to bake. If the company becomes the next Facebook, says Professor Josh Lerner, that’s all well and good. If not, “you might be better off with 100 percent of the smaller pie.” In addition, says Lerner, the standard VC... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

01 Apr 1998
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

groups in discussions focusing on how new competitive dynamics are playing out in retailing, health care, and several rapidly consolidating industries. Alumni who lead small, entrepreneurial companies will have a chance to discuss... View Details

19 Jun 2019
News

Connecting Patients and Providers

make global specialized healthcare accessible to anyone, anywhere. Trustedoctor “focuses on the first half mile of the patient and provider journey, before customers become in-patients of a provider” explains Jarzabek, who remembers well... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2005
News

Profiles from the Class of 2005

another farewell, bound for every corner of the globe, they mark the completion of a degree and the beginning of a new relationship with one another and the School. (“It’s sad that we can’t all go to work for the same company,” one graduate remarked ruefully.) Yet the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Julia Hanna; James E. Aisner; Graduate profiles; Government; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

13 Apr 2022
News

New School

market. “People don’t want to work just anywhere. I believe purpose-driven companies are going to outperform because they are powered by people who care deeply,” he says. For Curriculum Associates employees, the importance of their products—used in classrooms as View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy

Industrial Revolution. The wiring of the world with fiber-optic cable, he said, combined with the launching of a new generation of satellites, presents the potential for revolutions in communications and health care, as View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

Alumni Books

The MBA Oath: Setting a Higher Standard for Business Leaders by Max Anderson (MPA/MBA ’09) and Peter Escher (MBA ’09) (Portfolio) The MBA Oath has become a worldwide movement for a new generation of leaders who care about society as well... View Details

01 Mar 2003
News

A Casual Approach to Success

regarded for its distinctive investment philosophy as well as its bottom-line results, the firm has raised and managed over $4.8 billion of committed capital in its eighteen-year history. Its investments in some forty companies —... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

02 Sep 2021
News

Back to School

had entered an extraordinary public health challenge that would affect all aspects of our society. Information about how the virus worked was key. There were so many competing beliefs. One fundamental part of the equation was trying to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2020
News

Two Truths and a Lie About 5G

will see vast increases in reliability and the number of devices connected to one antenna as well as reductions in the cost of data per gigabyte, Menard says. Beyond that, fixed wireless access could enable fiber-like speeds to homes or... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

07 Sep 2021
News

Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity

Black applicants as well as applicants from other underrepresented minority groups. While admissions are based on merit, financial aid awards are based on demonstrated need, and in recent years, HBS has looked at this need with a new lens... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Feb 1999
News

Social Enterprse Forum Discusses Strategy

nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), including The Nature Conservancy, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and Family Health International. The remaining participants represented a variety of disciplines - sociology, business, and public... View Details

01 Jun 2002
News

Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth

Seated in his office near Boston's Public Garden, he recollects sunlit summers in Maine (where his love for the natural world flourished) and his family's four-year sojourn in Paris (where, as a teenager, he received state-of-the-art medication, at no cost, from the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; management; ethics

19 May 2015
News

Getting Ready for Success

students annually and boasts a college-completion rate of more than 90 percent. “We’ve now proven our model replicates well and is quantitatively effective, so we are looking to aggressively expand.” Her time at HBS strengthened both her... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Educational Services

20 Feb 2014
News

Managing the World’s Trouble Spots

their health and education programs. Goodwin’s days as a global citizen began in the air force. In his early years as a second lieutenant, during the mid-1990s, he worked in foreign military sales in Saudi Arabia, then in Colombia setting... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

04 Mar 2008
News

HBS Blogs

Bulletin blog. I have included only ongoing blogs that have had entries in 2008. Though the number of blogs listed is small, the range of their topics is broad, including kite-surfing, food and wine, technology, politics, and investing. Several of these blogs are very... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Jun 2000
News

The Business of Biotech

BioDevastation 2000. Obviously, advances in biotechnology are not viewed with confidence by all. Although much of the debate focuses on the possible health hazards posed by genetically engineered crops, as View Details