Health Equity - Publications - Faculty & Research

Mar 2012
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How to Make Finance Work

has been mixed. The sector's growth has been beneficial for U.S. corporations, which enjoy ready access to the deepest capital markets in the world. Venture capital, for example, and the public equity markets that support it, has... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy

racism. ADVANCING RACIAL EQUITY See more from the online-only March Alumni Bulletin Impact section’s focus on how HBS faculty, students, staff, and alumni are addressing racism. ADVANCING RACIAL EQUITY View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

teamed up with Priyank Lathwal, a Ph.D. candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, to mobilize South Asian student organizations across Harvard and other universities to pool resources for Indian health and aid organizations. The... View Details

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Social Entrepreneurship & Systems Change

environmental sustainability, agriculture, health and education sector. It prefers to make equity investments for-profit companies operating in the affordable education services across the world with a focus... View Details

February 2011 (Revised June 2011)
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Hardina Smythe and the Healthcare Investment Conundrum

By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Ann Leamon and Lisa Strope

Hardina Smythe, a recent MBA graduate, has just joined a top-tier venture capital firm in the difficult environment of late 2010. Her first assignment is to evaluate three different deals and make recommendations to the partners. Each potential investment has strengths... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Asset Management; Private Equity; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Financial Services Industry

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Mi Zhou

lower savings rates and stimulate consumption? How do we make housing, reliable health care, and quality education more affordable to everyone?” Update: After graduating from HBS in 2011, Mi moved to Hong Kong. She first worked as an... View Details

15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15

tax policy. Teams and Team Effectiveness in Health Services Organizations Authors:Bruce J. Fried, Sharon Topping, and Amy C. Edmondson Publication:In Health Care Management: Organization Design and Behavior.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

July 2021
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A Close Shave at Squire

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Zoë B. Cullen, William R. Kerr, Benjamin N. Roth and Michael Norris

In 2020, just after closing a $34 million Series B financing round, Dave Salvant and Songe LaRon consider how to adjust their business, Squire Technologies, to the new realities posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Their barbershop technology, including tools to run a shop... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Pandemics; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Technology Industry; New York (city, NY); San Francisco

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17 Oct 2022
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6 Things to Know About Sustainability at HBS

VP of Sustainability, and get involved with the annual Climate Symposium. Sustainability is more than Environmentalism HBS has been expanding its integration of social equity and environmental justice into the campus’ sustainability work,... View Details

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Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry

financial fundamentals for valuation; equity research and investment firm data; For a multimedia learning module on LSEG Workspace check out our Learn with Baker Library LSEG Workspace Introduction. Industry and... View Details

09 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 9

communication and engagement practices, can encourage frontline workers to conduct problem solving. We test our hypotheses in the health care context, in which the use of incident reporting systems to highlight operational failures is... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2007
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Profiles from the class of 2007

taken by photographer Webb Chappell, who did his excellent work in the Stamps Reading Room in Baker Library. Sachin Jain To Your Health Jain “Starting when I was about six,” Sachin Jain recalls, “I’d watch the evening news with my father,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

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Investment Strategies - Course Catalog

already public acquirer - remains a critical step in corporate transformation by private equity investors and innovation by venture capitalists. Because public capital markets play such a key role in the global economy, government... View Details

28 Apr 2023
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How Employers Can Support LGBTQ+ Employees

real results. Equity Audits The first step is to understand where your organization needs to improve so that time and money can be put behind the right efforts. Elizabeth Zwart (MBA 2023) recommended companies “explore, and then address,... View Details

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02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2

corporate directors' fiduciary duties in that state. This change limited incentives to take actions favoring equity over debt. We show that, as predicted, this increased the likelihood of equity issues,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2013
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A Healthy Profit

Only 10 percent of Indians have health insurance, 40 percent live on a dollar a day or less, and hundreds of millions do not have ready access to doctors or the government's beleaguered primary-care facilities. THE DOCTORS ARE IN:... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2017
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Expanding Horizons

his country, India, and more broadly, the world at large. “HBS changed my career direction and broadened my horizons,” he says. “I was going into the health care sector, but a summer in equity capital... View Details

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Academic Experience | MBA

History Initiative Entrepreneurship (Rock Center) Health Care Initiative Institute for Business in Global Society Leadership Initiative Race, Gender & Equity Initiative Social Enterprise Initiative View Details

10 Nov 2020
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Instagram Takeover - Mae Abdelrahman (MBA 2021)

mineral-based sunscreens that will blend flawlessly with dark skin tones. The Nour sunscreens will come in three dark shades that won’t leave an unpleasant white cast on the skin. Mae comes from a long line of strong, Sudanese women who believe that View Details

01 Oct 2021
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HBS-Harvard Collaboration Fosters New Ventures

start at the HIL, are addressing critical issues at the intersection of business and society—from education to health care to climate change. The startups highlighted below are just a sampling of the quantity and quality of ideas... View Details

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