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Dean Nitin Nohria | About

serve as the gateway and gathering hub for the more than 10,000 executives who attend Executive Education courses on campus each year. November 2015 Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator The Robert and Myra Kraft Family Foundation pledged... 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

03 Dec 2021
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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
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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
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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

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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

28 Mar 2016
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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

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

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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

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

01 Mar 2024
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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

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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

02 Dec 2019
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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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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
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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

06 Sep 2019
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The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact

University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard. She later worked with leadership at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the World Health Organization on a high-impact effort to improve access to cancer View Details

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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