Managed Care - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2010
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Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops

humans or the environment. Magagnini and Strugatz treat their workforce with the same care that they extend to environmental issues, holding open-book monthly staff meetings and naming an employee of the month. “People are definitely not... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

08 Mar 2018
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HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact

HBSAAA. This is a rallying point. We’ve got so many energized, committed alumni who care about the association, the school and the community. We see them becoming more active beyond HBS, and having a much larger impact on our community... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2009
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Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace

masculinity and how such conflation disadvantages women in the workplace. On the two platforms in this study, management had implemented some innovative approaches to leadership development to reduce unsafe behaviors stereotypically... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

01 Dec 2003
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Business Answers the Call

think of it, that’s the challenge for the superintendent of a large city school system, or the head of a charter school —‘How do I take care of and support my people?’ ” The best of what is known from View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Feb 1998
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Short Takes

altruistic reasons for serving, many also reported that such participation allowed them to practice business skills and make professional contacts not always possible through their everyday duties. "One focus group of top-level managers... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

11 Aug 2014
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The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)

working-capital needs of the business, we have to be careful to manage supply and demand." What one piece of advice would you give fellow alumni and current HBS students when it comes to startup life? "Keep... View Details

01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call

associate John Klug (MBA ’72). Recalls Sasser, “The idea was to view process analysis — a concept we taught in Production and Operations Management — in a setting that didn’t involve steel mills, printed circuit boards, or sorting... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

Winshel (MBA 1985) Managing Director, Global Head of Social Impact, BlackRock An MBA from Harvard is a powerful, gender-neutral door opener. I went to HBS for credibility in the social sector, and it’s provided an outsized credential for... View Details

11 Jun 2014
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The First Five Years: Brittani Rettig (MBA 2010)

Your Twitter bio reads like that of a superhero ("Management consultant by day, fitness instructor & wellness blogger by night"). Can you tell us about your day and evening jobs? "By day I'm a manager at Deloitte Consulting. I work with... View Details

Keywords: fitness; wellness; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

06 Feb 2025
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How to Judge Your Next Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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Vision: Learning Curve

after undergrad. But Gupta also spent several years at the Pratham Education Foundation, one of India’s largest educational nonprofits—work that earned him a Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowship for social enterprise leadership at HBS. Mahajan, meanwhile, was View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; education; entrepreneurship; startup; India; Educational Services

01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together

Gleason (MBA '97) is finding a way to make both a profit and a difference. Last fall, as a part of HBS associate professor Marco Iansiti's Managing Product Development course, Gleason created a model for a company that would employ... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

19 May 2015
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Getting Ready for Success

social impact, measured by such factors as higher tax contributions and lower health care costs. “Moreover, what people might not quantify,” she says, “is that our alumni’s success stories create positive ripples in their communities and... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Educational Services

01 Dec 2001
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September 11: A Community Reflects

group of people who were last together as a full group more than twenty years ago still cares enough about each other to reach out." John M. Hereford (MBA '95) managed to add a bit of self-deprecating humor... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

16 Feb 2011
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Healthy Growth

Ayers After gaining experience in strategy consulting, M&As, systems engineering, and running a multibillion-dollar refrigeration company, Jonathan Ayers (MBA ‘83) has come full circle to a job that relates to his Yale undergraduate major in molecular biophysics and... View Details

Keywords: veterinary medicine; Health, Social Assistance

01 Apr 2000
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Books

Business School Press) Risk taking is an integral building block in developing organizational learning. IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, Sr., understood the value of creating an environment in which errors -- and even failures -- are accepted and embraced. When a young... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

13 Jul 2017
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Making Friends with Mother Nature

Donald K. Clifford Jr. wrote the book on how high-performance, midsize companies beat their competition, but growth in the world of nature has always been closest to his heart. “The natural world was always my great interest,” says Clifford (MBA 1956), a former... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

17 Jun 2020
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Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines

ICCP Group has offered its property, the World Trade Center Manila, one of the largest event facilities in the Philippines, to be converted into the first temporary health care COVID-19 facility with a 500-bed capacity called WTC: Heal as... View Details