Health Care And Treatment - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 2002
News

Web Exclusive: Behind the Scenes with Karen Tumulty

scoop: Naomi Wolf and the alpha male The Better Half 12/28/98 Hillary Clinton shines as husband declines Let's Play Doctor 7/13/98 Politicians and health View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

16 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

live concerts and merchandising (for music) and product placements (for movies and network shows), will become essential for the financial health... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

12 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

pharmaceutical companies, government regulators—can play a role in righting the industry. The payoff? Valuable improvements in health care and a shinier future for human... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 28

After an overview of Boston Children's Hospital and its local health care market environment, the case presents process maps and financial data... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Apr 2016
News

New Venture Competition Winners Announced

the $2,000 crowd favorite prize. It was a big night for big ideas in the health care field. In the student competition, Astraeus Technologies, a faster lung cancer screening, View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

America today are far more knowledgeable about the disease, which has led to earlier detection and treatment, and higher survival rates. Declares Langer, who has become a national advocate View Details

27 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

Alejandro Ruzzier Abstract It is often argued that competition forces managers to make better choices, thus favoring managerial autonomy in decision making. I formalize and challenge this idea. Suppose that managers View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

for basic scientific research through newly created agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and through existing... View Details

Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing

Profile

Zihan Lin

at CIRTEC Medical Systems confirmed his "innate feeling that my goal was not an engineering goal: I wanted to start my own company." HBS impressed Zi with its health-care-industry depth. In addition to the Health View Details

Fast Answer

India - Industry specific research

regulations, reports and statistics on the sector. Health Care View Details

Web

“It’s like a pie-eating contest” | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

a self-identified “finance guy” in health care operations? The question had long intrigued him. Before coming to HBS through the 2+2 program, Josh had fulfilled internships and... View Details

Portrait Project

Amanda Yang

and traveling to exotic places. But I was extremely fortunate. After a six-hour open surgery, the entire tumor was removed and I was cured. In several weeks, I recovered thanks to the View Details

24 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 24

theoretical framework contribute to our understanding of the nature of expert influence and how and why functional groups, such as risk managers, can become influential. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

Portrait Project

Katy Lankester

I spent most of my childhood in a place that cared a lot about appearances. The 'pretty' girls were thin and went to extraordinary lengths to stay that way. I didn't want to go on 'celery diets' – I wanted... View Details

01 Aug 2001
News

Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)

respected spokesperson for patient needs and rights. She advises corporate and government cancer programs and medical professional organizations, gives presentations on cancer... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; Health, Social Assistance

Willibald H. Conzen

Conzen built Schering Corporation into a global health care organization through the acquisitions of Plough, Incorporated and Scholl, Incorporated. Through his leadership,... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

02 Nov 2020
Blog Post

WE RISE

watched the venture capital world change, slowly. When she got her start in the sector at the early stage health care fund Cardinal Partners in 1998, she was often the only woman View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Other Financial Services; Venture Capital / Private Equity

14 Feb 2019
News

Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change

will in turn provide politicians with the political capital and will to make changes. “There is a way to turn this around if we make it more personal,” she said. “People may not care about the View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

Alumni Bookshelf

Health Care Organizations by David W. Young (DBA ’77) (Jossey-Bass) Young, a member of the faculty at Boston University’s School of Management who will teach next semester at IESE Business School in... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

Portrait Project

Rahima Dosani

telling people how I feel about them. I developed deep compassion for other marginalized people, leading me to pursue a career in health care for disadvantaged populations. And... View Details

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