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  • January 2021
  • Case

mPharma (A)

By: Rembrand Koning, John D. Macomber, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Wale Lawal
mPharma pioneered electronic prescriptions in Ghana, and aimed to increase drug affordability and accessibility in Africa, but the company remained unprofitable. Following investor concerns about mPharma's business, CEO Gregory Rockson considered alternative business... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Acquisition; Health; Business Model; Health Industry; Health Industry; Ghana
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  • June 2017
  • Case

MIA: Profit at the Base of the Pyramid

By: Lynda M. Applegate, José Antonio Dávila Castilla, Sarah Mehta and Aldo Sesia
In January 2016, Guillermo Jaime had just returned home to Mexico City after attending a Harvard Business School executive education program. Jaime was the founder and CEO of Mejoramiento Integral Asistido (MIA), a company providing affordable housing to low-income... View Details
Keywords: Base Of The Pyramid; Social Capitalism; Housing; Emerging Markets; Social Enterprise; Society; Wealth and Poverty; Social Entrepreneurship; Construction Industry; Mexico
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  • 19 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

$15 Billion in Five Years: What Data Tells Us About MacKenzie Scott’s Philanthropy

finished giving, but with more than $15 billion granted to nearly 2,000 organizations, some meaningful patterns have begun to emerge. We parsed all the Yield Giving donation information available to date and matched it with Internal Revenue View Details
Keywords: by Matthew Lee, Brian Trelstad, and Ethan Tran
  • 03 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 3, 2007

  Working PapersCan Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Abstract The pricing of health products in the developing world has become a center... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

Yoshimi Anzai, Marta E. Heilbrun, Derek Haas, Luca Boi, Kirk Moshre, Satoshi Minoshima, and Vivian S. Lee Abstract—The lack of understanding the true costs (not charges) of delivering health care services... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Amy C. Edmondson

    Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, a chair established to support the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises that contribute to the betterment of... View Details

    Keywords: health care; health care; health care; health care
    • Web

    HBS Working Knowledge – Harvard Business School Faculty Research

    three working Americans with criminal records from the economy? In a case study, Paul Gompers explores the challenges a social justice startup encounters in helping the formerly incarcerated, as well as lessons for other entrepreneurs. 12 Nov 2024 | HBS Case What... View Details
    • 28 Jul 2016
    • News

    Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?

    • 07 Jul 2015
    • News

    Doing Good Scientifically

    • 08 Feb 2021
    • Working Paper Summaries

    In the Red: Overdrafts, Payday Lending, and the Underbanked

    Keywords: by Marco Di Maggio, Angela Ma, and Emily Williams; Financial Services
    • November 2021 (Revised December 2024)
    • Case

    Kermit PPI

    By: Kyle Myers, Matt Grennan and Sarah Mehta
    Launched in 2011, Kermit PPI helped hospitals save money on expensive orthopedic implants and devices by enabling them to renegotiate their contracts with device manufacturers and better monitor compliance. In 2021, as they look to grow, they are entertaining two... View Details
    Keywords: Health; Health Care and Treatment; Strategy; Expansion; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Contracts; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States; Maryland
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    Employment Data

    3% Entertainment / Media 3% Health Care 6% Investment Banking 5% Investment Management / Hedge Fund 6% Manufacturing 5% Nonprofit / Government 5% Other Financial Services 4% Private Equity 19% Retail 2%... View Details

      Henry W. McGee

      Henry McGee joined the HBS faculty in 2013 after retiring as President of HBO Home Entertainment, the digital and DVD program distribution division of Home Box Office, the pioneering premium television company. A member of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit,... View Details

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        Innovating in Healthcare: Creating Breakthrough Services, Products, and Business Models

        Innovating in Healthcare offers effective approaches for designing, reworking, and implementing innovative healthcare services, products, and business models. It will help anyone working in healthcare service or product development, from hospitals to... View Details

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        Faculty & Research

        backdrop, we outline unique opportunities for prejudice reduction through ‘synthetic’ intergroup contact, wherein consumers interact with AI products and services that counter stereotypes and serve as a ‘proxy’ members of the outgroup... View Details
        • 21 Apr 2009
        • First Look

        First Look: April 21, 2009

        care depends on the degree to which the hospital "co-specializes" in related areas (complementary spillovers). We find evidence of complementarities in specialization between cardiovascular care and related service areas.... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
        • 27 Sep 2006
        • Research & Ideas

        Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences

        philanthropic efforts but more often helping communities through core business practices, such as gaining flexibility to hire and fire from the union by raising wages and increasing training or helping laid-off employees start small businesses that offered new View Details
        Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

          ULI Report Provides Wildfire, Energy, and Economic Resilience Strategies to Sonoma County

          Sonoma County, Calif., can enhance its ability to withstand and recover from wildfires by re-envisioning its land use, energy, and housing policies through a cooperative... View Details

          • 02 Mar 2023
          • Blog Post

          Women, Work, and the "M" Word

          international development, big tech at Google, government service in the Obama administration, and on the founding team of the healthcare startup Cityblock Health, I watched fertility and pregnancy companies enter the digital View Details
          • Program

          Leading in the Digital Era

          professional service firms, unless they are currently leading a digital transformation for a client organization in which they are embedded Individuals and teams are welcome to attend. Participation by multiple company representatives... View Details