Primary Care - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

Case 118-053 Kaiser Permanente Colorado: Primary Care Plus A gerontologist in Kaiser Permanente’s Colorado region is concerned with the high and growing cost of treating the elderly population. She... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Mar 2020
News

Educating the Whole Student

their families. The school, which opened its doors in East Palo Alto, California, in 2016, integrates academics with health care and family support services, all of which is offered tuition free. “We knew the education system was broken,”... View Details

Keywords: April White; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

29 Aug 2024
News

A Kick Start for Latin American Startups

When Monica Saggioro Leal (MBA 2018) and her business partner, Lara Lemann, started MAYA Capital, a tech-focused, Brazilian VC firm launched in 2018, they wanted to take a hands-on approach with their startup investments in their first 12 months. They wanted to support... View Details

18 Apr 2018
News

Into the Light

Energicity. “Modern life, as we know it, is impossible.” Poindexter has seen the human and economic costs of “energy poverty” firsthand in rural Ghana. There, her startup is working to bring solar power to communities where highly flammable kerosene and expensive... 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 starlings. By following their seven... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2013
News

Revitalizing America

"near-peers," helping kids to stay in school and on track. City Year was founded by Harvard Law School graduates Alan Khazei and Michael Brown with Jennifer Eplett Reilly (MBA 1990). Similarly, health care could use paraprofessionals to... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

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Lucasz S. Babiarz

together." In fact, Lukasz's clinical rotations are themselves lessons in both clinical care and business operations. At Cambridge Hospital, Lukasz worked largely with a poor and medically underserved population. Later, he served a... View Details

01 Mar 2006
News

A New Path for Alumnae

offering, A New Path. Hart’s survey of HBS alumnae indicates that 60 percent of respondents between the ages of 35 and 45 dialed down the volume on their professional careers to care for their young families. Although 40 percent continued... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

12 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them

then could be tested experimentally. Studying doctors and patients The research team devised two experiments, one involving primary care doctors, the other, patients. In the first experiment, the researchers... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Pharmaceutical; Health

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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Harvard Business School's Intensive Seminar on Value-Based Health Care and Partner's HealthCare's Residents and Fellows course and is a member of the senior advisory board for InciteHealth at Harvard Medical School's Center for View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

Fair Trade

far more on fragrances and skin care than Americans, who in turn spend far more on color cosmetics than Europeans. The Asia-Pacific region is a modest market for fragrance, accounting for only 6 percent of the world fragrance market, but... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores

03 Jun 2024
Blog Post

Five Ways to Rethink Your Job Description

beginning easy to scan so candidates quickly know if the job is a good match. Consider writing a few attention-grabbing introductory sentences before more specific headlines and bullets. Be careful with bullet length; you do not want them... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Mar 2009
News

Model Patient

we need to reform the way health care is delivered. By that we mean redesigning primary care to better prevent costly chronic diseases and to remove the waste and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

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Driving Profitable Growth - Course Catalog

enterprise growth is quite poorly understood. Careful empirical studies show that very few enterprises grow profitably over sustained periods of time. Indeed, many organizations’ pursuit of growth is the very cause of their demise. When... View Details

02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2

PublicationsManaging the New Primary Care: The New Skills That Will Be Needed Author:Richard Bohmer Publication:Health Affairs 29, no. 5 (May 2010) Abstract Developing new models of primary View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2010
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Alumni Eager to Help Shape School’s Future

have been as diverse as the School’s more than 70,000 alumni. Yet there has been one clear and consistent area of agreement: Alumni care passionately about the future of HBS, and we welcome the opportunity to support HBS and the new Dean... View Details

Keywords: Ann Kelly

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FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Health Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network VBHCD Initiative VBHCD... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Education: Investing in the Next Generation of Workers

Business needs to care about the performance of students in the public education system, from preschool through college. It is the primary source of future employees for every business. It’s also where the... View Details

Keywords: Amy McIntosh (MBA 1984) , associate vice chancellor for academic strategy, The City University of New York

01 Sep 2003
News

Transforming Baker Library

Baker Library, long the primary icon associated with Harvard Business School, is getting a total makeover. During the summer, the School began an extensive renovation of the stately 1927 building. By late 2005, the new Baker... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

24 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

a firm practicing by-product synergy is that quantities of the primary product and by-product are linked, with production of the primary product defining the upper bound of the quantity of the by-product.... View Details