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- 01 Apr 2020
- News
What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages
essay with the Washington Post, which published it on March 27. The concern about shortages of masks, ventilators, hospital gowns, and testing kits got me to thinking about the Vietnam War, when I was the senior civilian official... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Clubs Convene to Focus on Health Care
Canada’s public healthcare system. Kessel cofounded the Center for Partnership Medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, while Dr. Sivjee, a respirologist, is a fellow with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)
At the Cedars-Sinai Hospital complex in Los Angeles, patients, visitors, doctors, nurses, and delivery people stream up and down the hallways on a busy summer afternoon. The bank of phones in the lobby is fully occupied. On one of them,... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
doing with a dollar more effective than what the poor can do for themselves?” Cash isn’t the only answer, he acknowledges. Direct cash transfers won’t build hospitals or pave roads, but they can spur entrepreneurship. One recipient in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
hospital stays and doctors' visits showed her the health care system up close. "I realized that I really wanted to make a difference," she recalls. At Harvard, this self-described "contrarian" recalls having to push her idea of promoting... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Decade of Change
Hospital for Special Surgery; Meredith Cantrell, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; Matthew Schrimpf, Harlem Children’s Zone; Christopher Satti, City of Boston Mayor’s Office; (back row) Ana Mahony, Consumer Financial Protection... View Details
- 04 Jan 2016
- News
Taking Time Out for a Challenge
during this unprecedented public health crisis. She is committed to planning for the long recovery and rebuilding process that lies ahead. “I’m proud that, over the last year, Welbodi was able to play an important role in helping three government hospitals—including... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alvin Roth Wins Nobel Prize in Economics
graduates in hospital residence positions, as well as systems in several US cities that pair pupils with public high schools. "This is an extraordinary and well-deserved honor for Al," said Dean Nitin Nohria. "In the best tradition of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
Image by John Ritter In 2019, US restaurants topped $860 billion in revenues; prior to COVID-19, Americans spent more for food away from home than food purchased for at-home consumption, whether it be a pitstop at fast food drive-through, a lunchtime burrito bowl, or a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; restaurants; COVID-19; pandemic; recovery; Hospitality; Hospitality; Hospitality; Hospitality
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
THOMAS: A career switch from high tech to the restaurant biz calls on every bit of HBS know-how. Photo Courtesy Scherrer As a teen, Laurie Thomas (MBA ’93) didn’t devote her summers to extracurricular activities. Instead, the Wisconsin native worked, usually at her... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
what loyalty means or how to build it. Reichheld, author of the 1996 bestseller The Loyalty Effect, outlines six principles of loyalty that can make the Internet a hospitable and highly profitable place for businesses to succeed. 20/20... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Catch Up and Win by Steven J. Spear (DBA ’99) (McGraw-Hill) Spear finds that the internal operations of such market leaders as Toyota, Alcoa, and top-tier teaching hospitals have one thing in common: the skillful management of complex... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
First Pitch
Ario Keshani (MBA 2011) took his turn during his class’s One-Year Reunion to make a 30-second elevator pitch for souschef meals, a Maryland-based start-up that delivers ready-to-cook meals to customers’ doorsteps. Keshani was one of 20 classmates who participated in... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
grant-making agencies.” McMinn also supports St. Helena Hospital Foundation and Napa Learns, an education nonprofit that gets technology into the hands of students; but the Vine Trail Coalition has the kind of startup energy that inspires... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Forecasting ’15
Health Care: Data-Driven Diagnosis Robert Wah (AMP 175, 2008) President, American Medical Association; Global Chief Medical Officer, Computer Sciences Corporation “We’re entering the third phase of health information technology. The first phase was to get off of paper... View Details
- 13 Feb 2013
- News
Everything but the Cook
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Faculty Research Online
HBS Cases: Lady Gaga What goes into creating the world’s largest pop star? Before her fame hit, Lady Gaga’s manager faced decisions that could have derailed the performer’s career. A new case by Associate Professor Anita Elberse examines the strategic marketing choices... View Details
- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
having to manually ventilate a friend’s 2-year-old son with a bag-valve mask for two days in a Pakistani hospital because of a shortage of ventilators. The boy, Bilan, died. Shaheer and his partners, Hamza Khan (MBA 2019) and Sanchay... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Tracking a Turnaround
The newly hired president and CEO of a local medical center faces a daunting task: Under intense public scrutiny, he must save a complex, rapidly failing organization whose culture is marred by indecision and distrust — and do so in an environment of increasing... View Details