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31 May 2023
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2023

took me to his personal dentist, and we put the fruit flies in the dentist’s chair.” Kidney love: “In medical school, renal medicine seemed to scare other students away. It’s about acid-based imbalances. Electrolyte abnormalities. You... View Details

Keywords: leadership; management; work-life balance

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Team - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Fellow Syed Shehab M.D., Senior Researcher Leemore Dafny M.B.A., Ph.D., Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration Robert Huckman Ph.D., Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration Harvard Medical School Tom Lee M.D., Professor of View Details

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CSV in Practice - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Cluster Development Portfolio of the appropriate and affordable medicines drawn from the company’s patented, generics, and over-the-counter (OTC) businesses Localized sales teams that know the culture and speak the dialect, understand... View Details

Research Summary

Research Thrust

By: Rakesh Khurana

I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details

03 Dec 2021
Blog Post

Physicians Off the Beaten Path

fall into medicine not really without thinking about alternative career paths. It becomes a cycle, because there are not many examples of people who went outside the traditional path to inspire others,” says Youssef. “We want to expose... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Research Brief: Making Way for Moonshots

Josh Krieger (Courtesy subject) Josh Krieger (Courtesy subject) Many innovations in modern medicine have come about due to cutting-edge drugs—advances that required both a scientific leap and a willingness to take risks. And while most pharmaceutical companies would... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

17 Feb 2022
Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

success by focusing on delivering not only for their shareholders and customers but also for their employees, communities, and the environment. In the video below, I speak with Deepak Chopra, clinical professor of medicine at the... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

01 Mar 2024
News

On the Radar

Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Our planet is teeming with trillions of viruses and bacteria, most of which are innocuous or even helpful, but some pose a significant risk to public health, animals, and crops. In recent decades,... View Details

Keywords: Janine White; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

enforcing it. In comparing management with the more traditional professions of law and medicine along these criteria, one inevitably finds it wanting. (We say this despite the inroads made by market values at the expense of traditionally... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

28 Mar 2016
Blog Post

Why I Chose to Pursue an MD/MBA at Harvard

of organizations and about issues that are new to healthcare, but that other industries have dealt with for decades - like customer satisfaction, efficiency, and providing quality service for a reasonable cost. Even though these are some of the biggest issues in View Details

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Presentations - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

January 2018 The Value-Based Health Care Agenda by Michael E. Porter In this video Professor Porter teaches the essentials of value-based health care. Length: 46 min. June 2019 Quality Metrics and Value-Based Care in Medicine by Thomas W.... View Details

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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement

Practitioners Topics Topics Biotech/pharma Care Delivery Clinical Trials Digital Health Global Health Health Care Entrepreneurship Health Care Innovation Health Care Investment Health Care at HBS Insurance/payor Medical devices/diagnostics Precision View Details

28 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Making the Decision to Franchise (or not)

appears to be true when you get a new type of consumer for the same product." In the pharmaceutical industry, for example, selling medicine to both an independent general practitioner and a hospital will require a different organizational... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

14 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need

article, which he co-wrote with physicians Lisa Rotenstein, assistant medical director at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston; and Christine Cassel, professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco. For many... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

Profile

Prineeta Kulkarni

an Indian pharma, Cipla, that was specifically "focused on access and affordability," says Prineeta. Through her work on the acquisitions team, Prineeta helped Cipla expand access to inexpensive HIV medicine to more countries in... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

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McCollum Center | About

“The self interest in business is best served when the public interest is paramount.” His own philanthropy included extensive involvement in health-related organizations. He served for 14 years as chairman of the Baylor College of View Details

17 Jan 2019
Blog Post

MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

Advances in precision medicine will soon generate therapies that are genuinely curative. In our lifetimes, we could be in world with not just one or two or three cures, but 30, and quite possibly, 300. These are not just treatments that... View Details

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Kraft Accelerator

in Precision Medicine in Immunotherapy (video) Close DOWNLOAD ALL TOOLS Discover how others in the community are provoking positive change Learn from Leaders Before you download the tool Please complete the form: Your First Name * Your... View Details

02 Dec 2019
News

Championing the HBS Fund

expert in endocrinology who serves as a clinical professor of medicine at Stanford, and Stavropoulos is a partner at Threshold Ventures, an early-stage VC firm that spun out of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ). The parents of three children,... View Details

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

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Student Spotlight: 2023 HCC Co-Presidents Reflect on Their Time at HBS and the Current Health Care Systems - Blog: Health Supplement