Health Solutions - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

on climate change are concrete, immediate, and immense. They explore climate change solutions that will make the world healthier and more prosperous, aiming to begin a new type of conversation on the issue that will spur bolder action by... View Details

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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition

1:34 2025 New Venture Competition Runner-Up, Social Enterprise Track: Aidra Health Aidra Health is bridging the urgent gap in medical equipment availability by facilitating equipment sharing and... View Details

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Impact Stories - Business & Environment

Broido Johnson MBA 2002 | Leading Change, Locally “I’m developing new financing solutions that make it more affordable for people to use renewable energy (as we did at SunEdison) and working with entrepreneurs across the clean energy... View Details

01 Apr 1999
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Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong

technologies include: Automobiles (electric vehicles) Bookstores (Internet sales) Department stores (discounters) Doctors (nurse-practitioners) Health insurance (HMOs) Mainframe computers (desktops) Motorcycles (dirt bikes) Network... View Details

12 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 12, 2006

discouraged by existing organizations, which don't see the catalytic innovators' solutions as viable. As the authors show through examples in health care, education, and economic development, both nonprofit... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part - Recruiting

The main focus of ARF to date has been to create a giving process that educates and engages donors and anti-racism allies. By building a platform that explains how donors can make an impact through the ARF four Pillars of Purpose - Justice System Reform, Education... View Details

05 Mar 2024
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IFC India: Our Godrej Site Visit

of sustainability efforts, decarbonization, and net zero in the context of a broader development agenda. The class culminated in a series of site visits in January 2024 in Mumbai and Bangalore and this is one of 14 student essays that highlights their reflections on... View Details

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IFC India 2025: Decarbonizing Rice Paddy Farming - Pioneering Sustainability in Indian Agriculture - Blog - Business & Environment

Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business... View Details

15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

offered Ovia Health a multi-million-dollar contract, but Wallace wondered whether Ovia Health could create a better family benefits solution by turning down the contract and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

27 Sep 2019
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HBS Alumni and Students Take On the Climate Crisis

dedicated to bringing safe water and sanitation to the world through market-driven initiatives such as household-level financing. INTO THE LIGHTNicole Poindexter (MBA 1997), cofounder and CEO of Energicity, is combating “energy poverty”--and improving View Details

01 Dec 2017
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HBS Online Certificate Programs Offer Unique Insight Into Business

tailored to the needs of a management team. Participants can explore issues related to their company in private online, applying Christensen’s theories and frameworks to find solutions to strategic questions posed by their executive... View Details

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History | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

and pursues an action research agenda with practitioners, which results in multiple papers and course notes, a project-based field course, and a case-based course module on the mobilization of financial resources for social change. 2010 New MBA Elective Managing Global... View Details

11 Jan 2016
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Meet the Business and Environment Initiative

BEI organizes conferences, seminars, and symposia that increase the visibility of environmental problems and their solutions among students, alumni, and the broader business community. What are the Initiative’s goals? Our primary goals... View Details

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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024

(HBS) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) MD/MBA Program celebrated two decades of educating leaders who navigate the complex intersections of health care and business. Since its inception in 2004, the program has maintained its mission: to... View Details

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Krishna Yeshwant

technology transfer issues, which in turn led him to the joint MD/MBA program at Harvard. "My focus," says Krishna, "is on bringing new technology to bear on health care problems. I see the MBA as a giant brainstorming... View Details

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Buildings & Cities - Business & Environment

important historic landmarks and public resources such as hospitals. Heat tends to concentrate in dense urban centers, increasing health risks. A worldwide investment of $3.2 trillion in energy conservation would pay for itself within 3... View Details

29 May 2019
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HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni

California Though the United States currently spends approximately $3.5 trillion a year on health care—the equivalent of the entire GDP of the world’s fourth-largest economy—our life expectancy has decreased for the last two years in a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Micah Macfarlane

Micah Macfarlane tries to make every career decision to make the greatest difference in the most lives. Before HBS, Micah worked in global health – expanding access to quality care and, especially, affordable medicines. "I worked to... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech; Manufacturing/Energy; Nonprofit/Government/Education

01 Dec 1999
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Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building

instruction. The initial phases of planning and design have just begun, with construction anticipated to commence in the summer of 2000 and completion scheduled for late 2001. Hawes retired last year as chairman and CEO of Life Re Corporation, a Stamford,... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

Since its founding in 2010, the Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) at HBS has worked to educate students and business leaders about the environmental challenges and opportunities confronting companies and organizations today, and advance faculty research that... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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