Universal Health Insurance - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2018
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Alumni Achievement Awards

people will all mentor others, which amplifies my actions by my choice to invest in you. Chris Howard (MBA 2003) President, Robert Morris University My narrative is the American narrative—from the great-great-grandson of slaves to the... View Details

01 Mar 2023
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March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

Bill Thompson tells his life story, not from the CEO suite, but from his personal memories of people, places, and unexpected turns in the road. Harvard Square: A Love Story By Catherine J. Turco (MBA 2003) Columbia University Press... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

25 Feb 2020
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Profits and Purpose

second-year MBA course Reimagining Capitalism in 2012, Rebecca Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor, has been helping students explore the roles that the corporation and its leaders can play in addressing these... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Mar 2009
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The Myth of Laissez-Faire

taxes bring us? Improved schools, universal health care, energy and environmental solutions, better jobs and rising incomes, and the flexibility to deal with abrupt changes in the world. In short, the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

15 Sep 2016
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The Burning Man Project

become a nonprofit in the past six years. And it's really a wonderful tribute to the founders, who began it and then ran it for years, carrying the liability themselves. So they formed a corporation originally for insurance purposes, but... View Details

01 Apr 2000
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Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences

Lauren Love (MBA '95) and Rena Clark (MBA '90). Harvard University professor Cornel West, author Les Brown, and David Steward, CEO of St. Louis based Worldwide Technologies, were featured speakers. A new element of this year's conference... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

gratitude, visualize hope, be mindful, and keep moving. He also offers techniques to integrate these habits into any challenging, busy life. Health Journal: 10 Minutes a Week to Greater Health through... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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The Path Ahead

On January 1, 2021, Srikant Datar became the 11th Dean of Harvard Business School. Datar joined the HBS faculty in 1996 and had served in a range of leadership positions at HBS, most recently as the senior associate dean for University... View Details

01 Jun 2007
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Profiles from the class of 2007

taken by photographer Webb Chappell, who did his excellent work in the Stamps Reading Room in Baker Library. Sachin Jain To Your Health Jain “Starting when I was about six,” Sachin Jain recalls, “I’d watch the evening news with my father,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

01 Oct 2002
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Class Notes Extra

interviewing and tracking subscribers and customers on behalf of clients in publishing and other industries. He lives in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, with his wife and three children. Since his college days at the University of Massachusetts,... View Details

05 May 2020
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“Walking a Tightrope”

age of innovation. There are people all over the country in universities and colleges who are actually doing research and conducting randomized control trials to determine what solutions work and what solutions don't work. And that's... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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Launch Codes

painfully with finances every time a family member gets an unexpected diagnosis. We started Hive Health to make health insurance more accessible to the employees (and their... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Alvaro Dominguez

02 Jun 2021
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HBS Announces 2021-22 Blavatnik Fellows

Entrepreneurship is part of a gift to Harvard University from the Blavatnik Family Foundation, headed by Len Blavatnik (MBA 1989). This unique program supports HBS alumni and Harvard-affiliated postdocs in their new ventures around... View Details

01 Sep 2012
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What’s the Big Idea?

happiness and altruism, the psychology of cheating, and our amazing ability to rationalize our questionable behavior. Almost all have implications for business as well as public policy. He plans further equality-focused research in the areas of View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

01 Dec 2014
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Clubs Hopping

with the men: the midlevel skills gap. “That was the spark,” says Kane, who along with Bockmann and other members of the HBS Club of New York launched the HBSCNY Skills Gap Project to translate research into real-world action. The group identified View Details

Keywords: April White

19 Feb 2020
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Running a Decathlon

space was donated by Loyola Marymount University for the national competition and funding came from Pacific Life Insurance Company, Lawry’s Foods, Twentieth Century Fox, Walt Disney Company, and many other... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work

The choice is that we live in the Marina in San Francisco and we have health insurance and I work for Goldman Sachs—and people would give their left arm in this economy to have this job.” And she said, “Oh,... View Details

01 Sep 2017
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History’s Lessons

the North continued to suffer crushing numbers of casualties. Pressure grew on the Union side to end the conflict, even if it meant foregoing universal emancipation. Facing the prospect of an upcoming presidential election against a... View Details

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Ernest Shackelford; Rachel Carson

01 Jun 2022
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What We’re Reading

Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World, written by Tracy Kidder and originally published in 2003, is a fascinating, close-on look at the life and work of Paul Farmer,... View Details