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  • 11 Oct 2017
  • Video

Empowering Women Through Personal Health Data

  • October 2023
  • Case

Hey Jane: Delivering Abortion Pills to the Doorstep

By: Rembrand Koning, Geraldine Pena-Galea and Sarah Mehta
This case tells the story of Hey Jane, a telehealth clinic founded in 2020 that provides virtual medication abortion services to eligible patients in nine U.S. states. By January 2023, the company had served more than 20,000 patients and raised nearly $10 million in... View Details
Keywords: Operations; Business Startups; Health Care and Treatment; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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  • February 1990 (Revised March 1990)
  • Case

Quantum Semiconductor, Inc.

By: Janice H. Hammond and Roy D. Shapiro
Quantum is faced with a difficult ethical dilemma--industry studies provide evidence that chemicals used in semiconductor manufacturing may cause women working in fabrication cleanrooms to suffer a higher likelihood of spontaneous abortions. The possibility of other... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Prejudice and Bias; Law; Equality and Inequality; Cost; Production; Ethics; Health; Gender; Semiconductor Industry
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  • 03 Apr 2019
  • News

Africa rising? A historical perspective

  • Research Summary

Work, Mate, Marry, Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny

By: Debora L. Spar
What will happen to our notions of marriage and parenthood as reproductive technologies increasingly allow for newfangled ways of creating babies? What will happen to our understanding of gender as medical advances enable individuals to transition from one set of... View Details
Keywords: Technology; History; Relationships
  • July 2008 (Revised August 2008)
  • Case

In-Vitro Fertilization: Outcomes Measurement

By: Michael E. Porter, Saquib Rahim and Benjamin Chung-Shi Tsai
As of 2007, there were very few examples of widespread measurement and reporting of health outcomes, a critical quality measure. In-vitro fertilization clinics have been required to report their patient's health outcomes since 1995. The protagonist of the case, Dr.... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Measurement and Metrics; Operations; Outcome or Result; Health Industry; Cleveland
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  • January 2020 (Revised March 2020)
  • Case

LOLA: Do You Know What's in Your Tampon?

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Aldo Sesia
LOLA is a direct-to-consumer (DTC) business launched in 2015. What started as a company to provide women with organic and transparent material-labeled tampons via a subscription model, had, by 2019 evolved to include additional menstrual and sexual wellness products.... View Details
Keywords: Direct-to-consumer; Channels; Disruption; Business Model; Brands and Branding; Internet and the Web; Strategy; Retail Industry; United States; Canada
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Capstone | MBA

project investigated potential genetic technologies like Tissue Regeneration Enhancer Elements (TREEs), which may enable the replacement of damaged or dead sound-sensing inner ear hair cells. Redefining Female Reproductive Health Women’s... View Details
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The Baby Business: How Markets are Changing the Future of Birth

By: Debora L. Spar
It is difficult to conceive of the child as commerce. For even at the start of the 21st century, we like to believe that some things remain beyond both markets and science; that there are some things that money can't buy. In economic terms, these things are defined as... View Details
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Re-Producing Exclusivity: A History of the Transatlantic Fashion Industry, 1929-1960

The history of fashion has been increasingly explored over the last decade, but two important and intertwined features of the topic are still underdeveloped: business and its international aspect. These dimensions are crucial. Fashion is first and foremost an industry... View Details

    Chip Bergh

    Chip Bergh is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School. Prior to joining HBS, Chip served as president and chief executive officer of Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) from September 2011 until January 2024. He also served on the Company’s Board of Directors... View Details

    • 20 Aug 2020
    • Book

    From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives

    For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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    The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

    could develop only to a point.” 11 When color began to be added to the products themselves, advances in color printing and reproduction followed. Starting in the 1920s American consumers went from a commercial world of white towels and... View Details
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    Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

    Health helps doctors select the healthiest embryo(s) for assisted reproductive therapy. Darza Yazan Halwani, MBA 2020 Business Track Runner-Up DARZA is a new e-commerce fashion brand that provides the best online shopping fashion... View Details
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    The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

    1936-1937. The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography: Body By the 1920s, with the rise of national magazines and improved technical reproduction of photographs, photography increasingly became the medium of choice for... View Details
    • 18 Nov 2014
    • News

    Giving women more control over their biological clocks

    Reproductive technology pioneer Christy Jones (MBA 2004) founded Extend Fertility in 2004 to enable women to freeze their eggs and then utilize them when the time is right. (Published November 2014) View Details
    • 01 Jun 2006
    • News

    The Baby Business

    health, morality, and fairness, it is high time, she says, to consider how to bring order to this chaotic arena. Is this really a “market,” and if so, how big is it? We don’t like to think of children as economic objects, and yet over the past thirty years, advances in... View Details
    Keywords: Garry Emmons; Government; Health, Social Assistance
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    Search for Special Collections | Baker Library

    & Archives de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room or order reproductions through HOLLIS Special Request. HOLLIS Special Request Have questions about Special Collections & Archives? Our team is here to help. Ask Us View Details
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    Finding & Using | Baker Library

    our collections and the diverse research that has come from their use. Search for collections Plan a visit Reproductions Use and Permissions Fellowships Teach with Special Collections Have questions about Special Collections & Archives?... View Details

      Eric Boutin

      AI. Prior to dRx, Eric was Founder and CEO of Evolve, an AI-powered consumer tech company, which was acquired by HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS). He was Founder and CEO of Good Start Genetics, a reproductive health and genomics company, which was... View Details
      Keywords: Healthcare