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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
decisions on the ground. It’s also testing a diagnostic app that relays data from the site of an emergency to the hospital to save time and, perhaps, lives. Fortunately there’s been only one fire since implementation and one opportunity... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
points out. "And in both a hospital and a business, you have to rely on cross-functional teams." It is that cross-functional approach that lies at the heart of Vasella's management philosophy. At Novartis, clinical researchers from... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
times as many Ph.D.’s as India. Basic education and technical and vocational training languish despite renewed government commitments. The rich-poor gap in education is mirrored in health care — India boasts hospitals and clinics with... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Patricia ("Tosh") Rapoport Barron
Xerox as manager of multinational projects in 1979. Six years later, fate intervened again. Practically en route to the hospital to deliver her long-awaited first child, she received a telephone call: Rukia had been diagnosed with cancer... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
McArthur Hall Dedication
as Dean. He expressed his personal appreciation for McArthur's friendship, which began when Menino was a city councilor, and applauded McArthur's influence on the stewardship of the city's hospitals and in establishing a relationship... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Full Circle
hospital with a staff of forty) grows and demands a more sophisticated understanding of finance and managerial issues. “All of the things I turned away from to become skilled as a surgeon are becoming more important,” he observes. “As the... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
Some, like Bancel, predict that a vaccine approved for emergency use could be administered to hospital workers as early as this fall. Others, like Bingham, are quick to point out that even after vaccines are approved, distribution will be... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
her and her research. Today, millions of people recognize Carson’s courage, dignity, and lasting influence. The year after Silent Spring was published, Carson gave a speech to the Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Permanente Medical Group... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
as a pressing issue. What sparked your interest? Originally I came to the DBA Program to study finance, but I switched to control, primarily because of the pathbreaking work that Bob Anthony was doing on control in nonprofits. Bob was working with Massachusetts General... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
business administration and sociology. A four-and-a-half-year battle with tuberculosis cut short his formal university training, however, and required Andresen to be hospitalized for over two years. Still not completely recovered, in 1963... View Details
- 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
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
call out “bingo.” The faculty frowned on this disruption. To meet this challenge, the rules were again changed, and you had to be called on and work the word “bingo” into your participation in the classroom discussion. Some efforts were a real stretch. For example, one... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
help us manage climate change.” There are possibilities in genomics, she says, where data is expanding beyond our capacity to grasp it. There’s potential in health care, helping to eliminate simple things like false positives in hospital... 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 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
other Harvard schools and seven Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals in contributing to the work of the new Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI). Launched in April, the HSCI has a goal of moving from the laboratory to the clinic the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
which account for between 15 and 18 percent of the overall health-care costs. The big item is hospital costs. Even if you take away all profits from the pharmaceutical industry, you could lower overall health-care costs by maybe 3 percent... 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 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 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
Frei and Morriss: No heroics, please—partner with customers to make strategic service choices instead of trying to be the best at everything. In their new book, Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business (Harvard Business Review... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; customer service; Hospitals; Hospitals; Hospitals; Hospitals; Hospitals; Hospitals; Hospitals; Hospitals