Medical Solutions - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Apr 2011
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Capitalism Meets Conservation

Adams: A market-based solution to conservation. Warren Adams (MBA ’95) is making conservation a profitable business in Patagonia. Adams, who sold his pioneering social networking startup PlanetAll to Amazon for $100 million in stock in... View Details

Keywords: Accommodation; Hospitality; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Mar 2014
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Feedback

perseverance, and teamwork. —Michael Brown (MBA 1970) via LinkedIn Curing Health Care Re: How can our health care system be fixed? This is all very well and good, but technical solutions will only work around the edges until two main... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

12 Apr 2011
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Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS

'03 David Merle, MBA '03 Superdome building integrated photovoltaics India HBS Club of India Vikram Sharma, MBA '06 Crossover Energy sustainable energy services Latin America HBS Club of Brazil Thomaz Srougi, GMP 6 2009 Dr. Consulta affordable healthcare View Details

Keywords: Multiple alumni

01 Jun 2020
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The Network Effect

participate in clinical trials. On March 29, Kapoor and his wife devised a solution: WorldWithoutCOVID.org, a nonprofit public health initiative that connects medical researchers with willing volunteers. A longtime student of network... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; COVID-19; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

24 Oct 2016
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Health Care Pioneer Giusti Named McCance Senior Fellow at HBS

dramatically accelerating the pace at which lifesaving treatments are brought to patients and are building an end-to-end solution in precision medicine. She is widely recognized as a pioneer of precision medicine, a champion of... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Feb 2000
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Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care

addressed one of four topics: different models of consumer-driven health care; the role of consumer-driven health care in supporting innovative solutions to chronic problems in the industry; the new breed of consumer information and... View Details

01 Mar 2009
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A New Approach to Health-Care Reform

book aimed at changing our national conversation about health care. In The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care (McGraw-Hill), Christensen and his coauthors, the late Jerome Grossman and Jason Hwang (MBA ’06),... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2003
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Alumni Bookshelf

Authentic Leadership by William W. (“Bill”) George (MBA ’66) (Jossey-Bass) Drawing from a decade of experience as CEO and chairman of medical technology company Medtronic, George analyzes the causes of the current crisis in corporate... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Feb 2001
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Ready for Take-Off

WorldClinic, Inc., a "virtual ER," providing U.S.-quality health-care services to Americans traveling abroad. Cynthia A. Fisher (MBA '90) of ViaCell, Inc., which combines the banking of stem cells from umbilical cord blood with technology to develop these cells for use... View Details

Keywords: Spingboard

07 May 2025
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Scaling New Heights

expanding into the medically tailored meals space, they turned to a team of HBS students for guidance on go-to-market strategies. “The experience of working with the HBS team on this study was great, very strategic, and didn't take away... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 2019
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Research Brief: Subject Expert Matters

the first step toward breaking that code. In 2017, the team conducted a field study in collaboration with Harvard Medical School, which announced a call for research proposals for solutions to human health... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Sep 2018
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Your Keyboard Is Listening

scientific advisory board.) When he heard Samzelius’s ideas, Mahley recognized that many of the characteristics that made typing cadence a promising data security solution also made it a promising diagnostic tool because of its... View Details

Keywords: April White

04 Dec 2014
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Hacking Health Care

The health care industry needs so much improvement, it will take a whole movement to fix it. “The more leaders, the better,” says Luc Sirois (MBA 1997), who sees progress coming not through a single organization, but rather from groups of passionate View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

30 Jan 2018
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Four Alumni Named as Presidential Leadership Scholars

Bush, and Lyndon B. Johnson. The HBS cohort includes: Tynesia Boyea-Robinson (MBA 2005), president and CEO of Reliance Methods, a consulting firm that provides human capital strategy and placement solutions for Fortune 500 clients, and... View Details

28 Feb 2011
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Rebooting the Human Condition

engineered cells, biological tissue, and robots. This perfect storm of innovation will allow humans to shape their own evolution (as well as that of other species) and create solutions to energy, health, and economic problems. Enriquez... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka

dignity—all of which can translate into fewer medical needs, Kiuchi says. As with many of Mediva’s innovations, the government is taking notice of the successes, citing them in conferences and papers, and finding ways to build on these... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

21 Nov 2024
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Mother Nurture

therapy with other moms at the same stage, and medication if necessary. For added support beyond scheduled sessions, patients can use self-guided meditations and wellness activities on the Seven Starling mobile app and find a range of... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

27 Oct 2016
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Paying It Forward

year,” he recalls. “I made a note of it, and then came back to it in my second year. I led a field study on the problem with Professor Walter Salmon.” Kundu discovered that every retail company faced the problem of inventory loss but that, owing to the thin margins on... View Details