Social Determinants Of Health - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Oct 2017
Blog Post

What Should German Applicants Know about HBS?

Before attending HBS, German native Charlotte Pallua spent three years at The Boston Consulting Group in Munich where she worked on a variety of health care related projects in Tokyo, London, Miami, and... View Details

04 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

"The study of e-commerce has unfolded in much the same way that e-commerce thrust itself on the business world—with a great deal of overstatement," says Marc J. Epstein, Visiting Professor and Wyss... View Details

Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein

01 Feb 1998
News

Short Takes

Who Does Good and Why While it's common knowledge that business leaders often serve on nonprofit boards, there has been little formal information about the characteristics and motivations of such individuals. In a 1997 working paper... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

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Digital Transformation - HBS Online

vital tools and frameworks, and the diversity of your peers’ perspectives to analyze the problem and determine a path forward. Active Immerse yourself in a dynamic, interactive learning experience. You’ll... View Details

05 May 2020
News

“Walking a Tightrope”

workers. And let's hope that's not just sort of PR. And that it really is something that's happening because we do need to change the dynamics for the working class. April: One of the things you emphasized... View Details

28 Jul 2015
Blog Post

Nairobi Love: Heading Home

conference on Africa in the world (Africa Business Conference 2015), to more social pursuits including weekend getaways, section retreats and happy hours, half-marathons boredom is not part of the vocabulary... View Details

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IFC: Italy; Tradition and Innovation - Course Catalog

Policies and Course Fee & Financial Aid . Visit IFC Financial Aid for a quick assessment to determine your eligibility and process or contact finaid@hbs.edu for more information. Enrollment: Limited to 45 MBA students (due to the nature... View Details

18 Jan 2021
Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

hearts. That is what health tech entrepreneur turned public leader Todd Park said, and I agree. Hire people with a set of modern skills around user-centered design, product management, UX and UI, or software... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Oct 2019
News

Venturing Away from Venture Capital

Meridith Unger (MBA 2010), founder of Nix, a startup that is developing a single-use, wearable sensor to determine a person’s real-time hydration status, says that this stems directly from the risky nature... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

Profile

Scott Wu

environmental sustainability, health and wellness, natural and organic consumer products, and business services. He was also a member of the founding team of Upstart, which is... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services; Technology

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Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

among workers. Lunchtime softball game, Geneva Steel Plant, Geneva, Utah. Show caption Hide caption The corporation used these images in its annual reports and corporate publications to affirm U.S. Steel’s concern for the health and... View Details

10 Mar 2021
News

Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia

Genocide Museum, site of the high school that became a torture prison. In his maniacal determination to turn the country into an agrarian utopia, Pol Pot killed off anyone who was educated, who was a... View Details

Keywords: mentorship; nonprofit management; retirement; leadership

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Teaching Cases - 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... View Details

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Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation - Course Catalog

landscape, the Corporate Strategy course addresses three questions that challenge every modern corporation. The first and most fundamental is, "How do companies create shareholder value across multiple markets?" in the midst of radical... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

has two parts. The first discusses the geological and social history of the site, focusing mainly on the park’s construction in the late 1850s and 1860s. The second part has essays on the 200-plus tree... View Details

22 Dec 2022
News

LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway

Everlywell, a digital health care company founded by Julia Cheek (MBA 2011); Foodology, a virtual restaurant and ghost kitchen chain cofounded by Daniela Izquierdo (MBA 2019) and Juan Azuero (MBA 2019); and Bone View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

30 Jan 2018
News

Four Alumni Named as Presidential Leadership Scholars

2002), cofounder and CEO of Parsagen Diagnostics, an early-stage medical device company focused on women’s health The members of the 2018 class were selected based on their... View Details

01 Mar 2018
News

@Soldiers Field

STEPPING UP Above: HBS students are among the Wednesday morning, stair-climbing fanatics at Harvard Stadium—a 2,122-step challenge led by The November Project, a global social fitness group that started in Boston. (photo by Susan Young)... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right

their social conscience. To them, doing good is just table stakes. Scratch has developed a proprietary methodology examining “brand love” to decode the science of brand affinity across generations. We found... View Details

13 May 2021
Blog Post

Zhalisa Clarke’s Sabbatical Story: Tech Leader Turned Healer

be a healer) in India and Peru. True to her nature, Zhalisa found herself putting on her business hat to bring the holistic health insights she’d learned in India back to the States. Next, Zhalisa planned trips with each View Details

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