Continuing Care - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Mar 2018
News

Seeing a Way Forward

Daphne Leger (MBA 2012), director of continuous improvement for Mexico-based social enterprise salauno, uses her business savvy to bring affordable eye care to those who most need it. “I firmly believe that... View Details

11 Jun 2021
News

The Power of Resilience

home as well, since they had come to to help with the baby, and now were staying to help with my treatment. About six months into my treatment journey, I did return back to the startup that I was working with and continued to work with... View Details

12 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

silver linings to COVID-19: “The first is that mental health will be prioritized in the same way as physical health; the second is that the care advancements we’ve made through innovation and technology will be permanent and we can View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

01 Dec 2011
News

Faculty Research Online

employees they hire and the way they socialize those employees. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6795.html. Making the Case for Consumer-Driven Health Care Even as “Obamacare” becomes an issue in the 2012 presidential election, policymakers... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

drug promotion of all kinds and the bulk of that spending continues to be directed toward health care professionals. Q: What was the purpose of your study and what methods were employed? Joel Weissman: Our... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

15 Dec 2024
News

After Ozempic

Back before Ozempic, when Kate Mulroney (MBA 1984) spoke at technical conferences about her work at Novo Nordisk, people often assumed she was talking about Novartis. “I’d have to explain that’s a Swiss company; we’re Danish,” says Mulroney, now head of advanced... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Pete Ryan; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2020
News

Prognosis

care they already provide. Peter Slavin: The regulatory steps you mentioned—the licensing, the payments—have definitely helped, but I think telemedicine would have exploded even without those because it’s just so obvious that we needed... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

14 Mar 2019
News

The Merchant of Osaka

Oishi approached McKinsey colleague Sonosuke Kadonaga, an MIT alum and partner in the health care practice, and asked if she could join his group while continuing to lead her own. For the next two years—one... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2000
News

Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain

arming women with better information will encourage them to become more involved in their own care and lead to better results in their fight with cancer. Cohen was working at Price Waterhouse as marketing director for the consulting... View Details

Keywords: Morgan Baker

17 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance

additional relief—and soon—providers and policymakers should expect much greater disruption in insurance coverage going forward.” Some 60 percent of small businesses offered health insurance before the pandemic. Through June 15, 95 percent of those View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

15 Apr 2021
News

Bringing Light to the Fight

symbol of health care activism, not the internationally recognized icon it is today. Starting a public conversation about women’s health was not easy, certainly, but the foundation believed that education and awareness—among both women... View Details

Alfred C. Fuller

salesmen. Although the Fuller Brush Company spent little on advertising, only $50,000 for example in 1948, sales continued to rise reaching $30 million in that same year. View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

06 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations

Prescription drug costs continue to climb in the United States, but tightening a loophole in a federal law may help curb rising expenses, according to research published this week in Health Affairs. Efforts to control US health View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Insurance; Health; Pharmaceutical

15 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Health Is Wealth | The Path To Creating A Venture

to gain experience across strategy, product, and operations within the healthcare space. She took that experience into her EC year, where she was able to continue to build her network and flex her skills. It was in her EC year that Rachel... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care

01 Dec 2017
News

Case Study: The Doctor Deficit

that today’s nurse shortage could reach 1.2 million vacancies in the same time frame. Alexi Nazem (MBA 2011) has seen the impact of these shortages firsthand. “Health care is a very broken system,” says the doctor and cofounder of Nomad... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Feb 2001
News

The Doctor Is In

The spotless, brightly lit corridors of Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital are filled with the ebb and flow of the human condition —people from around the globe and around the corner who come here seeking the best possible care for... View Details

Keywords: healthcare; Health, Social Assistance

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Exploring value-based care: My summer internship with Main Street Health - Recruiting

be tempted to stray from these values at some point and having them continuously in mind can help you avoid pivoting in the wrong strategic direction. Advice for Aspiring Value-Based Care Professionals For... View Details

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

directly to NGOs that have been authorized to supply equipment and supplies to hospitals and COVID care centers in India. By May 12, GiveIndia’s web page was showing a tally of 1,550 donors from 30 different university groups, raising... View Details

Reuben Mark

Restructuring continued with several rounds of lay-offs, plant closings and reconfigurations. Finally satisfied, Mark began investing again and engineered Colgate’s acquisition of Mennen in 1992. Other international purchases followed and... View Details