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How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace - Recruiting

Insights & Advice 07 Jul 2023 How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace Becca Carnahan Author HBS Team tag All Industries All Locations Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging Recruiting Advice Recruiting Strategies Candidates consider... View Details

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Profiles - MBA

covered by insurance, I saw the critical role technology can play in bridging gaps in healthcare accessibility, inspiring me to develop software to help patients like my dad monitor their illnesses from home. While View Details

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

describes its co-founders' motivations and their strategy for disrupting an industry in the midst of dramatic structural change; and asks whether a16z's success to date has been due to its novel organization structure. a16z's 22... View Details

Stefan H. Thomke

Stefan Thomke (sthomke@hbs.edu), an authority on the management of innovation, is the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He has worked with firms on product, process, and... View Details

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HBS Health Care Initiative - Blog: Health Supplement

Care Entrepreneurship Health Care Innovation Health Care Investment Health Care at HBS Insurance/payor Medical devices/diagnostics Precision Medicine Public Health 07 Feb 2025 Student Spotlight: From Nigeria to HBS: Reigniting My Passion for View Details

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Strategy Curriculum - Faculty & Research

and how to sustain competitive advantage. How to generate superior value for customers by designing the optimum configuration of the product mix and functional activities. How to balance the opportunities and risks associated with dynamic and uncertain changes in View Details

January 2023
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Cleave Therapeutics: Taking a Risk on Oncology Drug Discovery

By: Regina Herzlinger and Brian Walker

What should a successful executive (HBS Baker Scholar) assess as her next move as the CEO of a firm with a promising and yet uncertain new drug? Amy Burroughs’ mandate to successfully commercialize Cleave Therapeutics’ drug for a cancer with no current successful... View Details

Keywords: Product Development; Leadership; Health Testing and Trials; Research and Development; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Condition; Partners and Partnerships; Pharmaceutical Industry

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Beyond the Barricades: Chile 2023

By: Debora Spar, Willis Emmons, Leonard A. Schlesinger and Ruth Costas

Chile, often considered among Latin America's greatest economic success stories, suffered a shocking wave of protests in October 2019, as its citizens demanded reforms across healthcare and education systems, and protested inequality and rising costs of living. As... View Details

Keywords: Government Administration; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Public Opinion; Equality and Inequality; Public Administration Industry; Chile; Latin America; South America

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Faculty & Research - Leadership

Two? By: V.G. Narayanan and Kairavi Dey Aster DM Healthcare (Aster), founded by Dr. Azad Moopen in 1987, is a prominent healthcare conglomerate with operations spanning hospitals, clinics, retail pharmacies,... View Details

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

Health Care and Treatment ; Employees ; Retention ; Well-being ; Health Industry Citation Read Now Related Bahadurzada, Hassina, Amy C. Edmondson, and Michaela J. Kerrissey. "Psychological Safety as an Enduring Resource amid Constraints."... View Details

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

organizations' behaviors in a given industry or sector, to efforts to change behaviors throughout a country, region, or even the world. Addressing the issue of power and influence in society in an MBA classroom is critical, especially at... View Details

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Joy Chen

she studied government and economics. “I wanted to manage organizations that changed people’s lives for the better.” While there, she cofounded local chapters of two nonprofits, in education and healthcare respectively. “It solidified my... View Details

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Finance - Faculty & Research

Leadership ; Venture Capital ; Talent and Talent Management ; Strategy ; Credit ; Banking Industry ; Argentina ; Mexico ; Colombia ; Latin America Citation Educators Related Alcacer, Juan, and Manuel Franck. "Hyperscaling Dreams: Ualá’s... View Details

26 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 26, 2006

patient needs and working backwards to develop profitable solutions rather than starting with the government, pharmaceutical or healthcare industry or NGO. The examination is undertaken on two levels, a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Academics - Health Care

equity). Course Catalog Listing Transforming Health Care Delivery This course will help students develop the managerial skills required to identify and implement change. It will draw upon a range of approaches for improving healthcare... View Details

09 Mar 2023
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African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees

before and during the MBA program. Chris Egi (JD/MBA 2026) Where is your hometown? My hometown is Markham, Ontario, Canada, a suburb of the Greater Toronto Area. What was your pre-MBA industry and role? Before HBS, I was an investment... View Details

30 May 2007
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Health Care Under a Research Microscope

players, poor customer service, and regional variations in quality of care. "By virtually any standard, it's an underperforming industry," says Richard Hamermesh, faculty chair of Harvard Business School's recently formed View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Biotechnology

03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3

listed and unlisted firms from across a wide spectrum of manufacturing and services industries and ownership structures such as state-owned firms, business groups, and private and foreign firms. Detailed balance sheet and ownership... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Aug 2020
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Pursuing a JD/MBA Joint Degree

background in healthcare and an interest—but no experience—in tech. Knowing that I had an extra summer emboldened me to take more risks when looking for summer internships, and I tried out a new industry... View Details

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Leadership - Health Care

new to the Health Care Initiative (HCI), Lanika's deep-rooted ties to her hometown, Boston, Massachusetts, have given her an intricate understanding of the local healthcare landscape. She graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor of Science in... View Details

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