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- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
multitude of complex problems plaguing the U.S. health system. The United States over the last 50 years has focused most of its health resources... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation
Defensive medicine spurs innovation They found, ultimately—and perhaps counterintuitively—that far from being an inhibitor to innovation, the practice of defensive medicine might have actually encouraged it. Legal liability pressure in... View Details
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
point-of-purchase intervention improved food choices across racial, socioeconomic (job type) groups. Design: A 9-month longitudinal study from 2009 to 2010 assessing person-level changes in purchases of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2016
- News
Taking Time Out for a Challenge
After living in Sierra Leone from 2006 to 2010, where she worked as a founding board member of the Welbodi Partnership, which supports the country’s health system in delivering essential services to women... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Vital Signs
and CEO of Natalist, a direct-to-consumer fertility company. We talked with Tecco about how the pandemic has impacted the health care startup and venture capital ecosystem. What ideas and companies have seen... View Details
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Launching Leaders: HBS's New Initiative Fuels First-Generation and Low-Income Student Success - Recruiting
students, Student Academic Services, faculty, Admissions, and Financial Aid, reflects HBS's commitment to ensuring all students have the resources to flourish, regardless of socioeconomic or family... View Details
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
Working PapersOptimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
recent study estimates that between 1990 and 1997, two hundred thousand more people moved out of the state than into it, in large part due to housing prices. Poorvu: Analyzing a mix of View Details
- 14 May 2015
- Blog Post
Venture Capitalist Returns to HBS to Mentor MBA Students
Rock Center for Entrepreneurship or lead sessions at the Harvard iLab. Most recently I led one about determining the right monetization paths for one’s business. What has surprised you the most about the role? I have been surprised by the... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
Jorge Tamayo Abstract—Canonical models of criminal behavior highlight the importance of economic incentives and employment opportunities in determining participation in crime... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Startup Balancing Act
It was my first day of work and I was nervous, so much so that my legs were wobbly. I tilted forward, then backward. I finally steadied myself by grabbing onto a cubicle wall and was able to move forward evenly. However, I soon found... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
was then, and is now, a matter of using personal data to secure public health. That raises both its promise and its perils, and the leadership task is to navigate the balance.” —PROFESSOR MITCHELL WEISS As COVID-19 was sweeping the globe... View Details
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
Working PapersOptimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
Until the close of the last decade, health consumers received much of their knowledge and advice about prescription drugs from their physicians or other View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
foreign direct investment (FDI) in determining micro economic performance. Using a new worldwide dataset that reports the activities of more than 12 million establishments before and after 2008, we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Dreaming big for Africa’s future
Tope Lawani (MBA 1995, JD 1996) is cofounder and managing partner of London-based Helios Investments, a private investment firm concentrating on socioeconomic development in Africa. Helios is virtually the... View Details
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
the cleantech industry was still unproven for investors. Nevertheless, he was determined to continue his pattern of making bold investments in this emerging field. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Michael Farias
When Michael Farias initially arrived at Harvard Medical School, he did not think about the business side of medicine. "I thought medicine was just about treating disease," he says. "But my first year in med school opened... View Details
- 12 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers
to determine whether couples registered at the same time; this indicated a joint decision to donate. Of 806 married registrants in the sample, co-registrants accounted for 308, or 38.2 percent. The team... View Details
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
dominated by philosophical and political discourse due to a lack of systematic evaluation. Very little empirical evidence is available to indicate whether these codes legitimately distinguish adopting companies and factories as providing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace