Publications

March 2025
Case

Niramai: An AI Solution to Save Lives

By: Rembrand Koning, Maria P. Roche and Kairavi Dey

Founded in 2017, Niramai developed Thermalytix, a breast cancer screening tool. Thermalytix used a high-resolution thermal sensing device and machine learning algorithms to analyze thermal images and detect tumors. Its patented solution leveraged big data analytics,... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; AI and Machine Learning; Technology Adoption; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Management; Entrepreneurial Finance; Business Strategy; Science-Based Business; Technology Industry; Health Industry; Asia; India; South Asia

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

benefiting small business Karen Mills, Former administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and now a senior fellow at HBS and at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

2025
Working Paper

Mammography - Early Detection, Precise Diagnoses: Case Histories of Transformational Advances

By: Amar Bhidé, Srikant M. Datar and Katherine Stebbins

This case history describes how the development of x-ray-based techniques and equipment (“mammography”) led to widespread screening for breast cancer and enabled “minimally invasive” biopsies of breast tumors. Specifically, we chronicle how: 1) new protocols and... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Technology Adoption; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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December 1994 (Revised December 1994)
Case

Physician Sales and Service, Inc. (A): June 1992

A medical products distribution company faces strategic opportunities and challenges in a rapidly changing market. Physician Sales and Service (PSS), founded by Patrick Kelly in 1983, operates in 20 states in the United States and intends to expand to 50 states by... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Distribution Industry

July 28, 2020
Article

Economic Vulnerability of Households with Essential Workers

By: Grace McCormack, Christopher Avery, Ariella Kahn-Lang Spitzer and Amitabh Chandra

The label of “essential worker” reflects society’s needs but does not mean that society has compensated those workers for additional risks incurred on the job during the current pandemic. When an essential worker contracts severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus... View Details

Keywords: Essential Workers; Health Pandemics; Household; Financial Condition; United States

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16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

Business historians can profit from careful analyses of government and personal archives to reconstruct the early "start-up" phases of firms—and to uncover the role... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

14 Jul 2021
Blog Post

From Colombia to the District of Columbia: Making an Impact with Paulina Llano (MBA 2022)

her ultimate goal – working in her home country to make it a better place. Positioning Herself for Success After high school, Llano lived in France for a year and then studied Business Administration and... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

Profile

Luc Sirois

vision is Hacking Heath, a Montreal-based social collaborative that hosts weekend brainstorming sessions, or “hackathons,” to spur innovation in the industry and, ultimately, save lives. “The end game is to... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care; Health Care

29 May 2019
News

HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni

Clubs News Clubs News A team from HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) hit the road in March with a goal of bringing career education and coaching services to alumni in... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Apr 2002
News

Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

of the inner city (lack of health care and substandard housing, for example) are important, they do not get at all the root causes. "To build healthy and sustainable inner-city... View Details

Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate

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Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement

Health Health Care Innovation Health Care at HBS Public Health I’m the eldest of three daughters in a medical family. With a urogynecologist and... View Details

January 2018 (Revised April 2021)
Case

Capital Allocation at HCA

By: W. Carl Kester and Emily R. McComb

In early 2017, HCA Holdings, an investor-owned hospital management company, faced a strategically important capital allocation decision. After the exit of its private equity sponsors in 2016, HCA had to determine how best to allocate its substantial annual free cash... View Details

Keywords: Capital Allocation; Cash Distribution Policy; Dividends; Share Repurchases; Growth Strategy And Execution; Growth Investing; Capital Expenditures; Debt Management; Debt Reduction; Debt Policy; Hospital Management; Investor-owned Hospital Chains; Capital Budgeting; Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Corporate Finance; Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Industry; United States

03 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

control over pricing and associated revenues from the content to the content provider in order to reduce price competition at the platform level.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Feb 2015
News

The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)

it means for them. It is particularly hard in the U.S. because the topic has become unnecessarily controversial and polarizing. This is a massive... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

01 Feb 1997
News

Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

Businesses in Agribusiness, New Opportunities in the Health Care Industry, and Managing in View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

The coronavirus crisis forced health care providers to mobilize in ways few could have predicted six months ago, revealing not only the system’s... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

March 2002 (Revised May 2003)
Case

NeoPets, Inc.

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Elizabeth Kind

NeoPets, a rapidly growing Internet start-up, faces decisions about its international expansion strategy--whether to enter a joint venture with a conglomerate in Singapore to exploit Asian markets as well as which other regions to target. NeoPets allows its... View Details

Keywords: Expansion; Global Strategy; Network Effects; Joint Ventures; Business Conglomerates; Age; Internet and the Web; Product Positioning; Digital Marketing; Internet and the Web; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Information Technology Industry; Asia; Singapore