medicine - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

This focus, I argue, limits the practical utility of the discipline because universal propositions form only a part of new policy recipes.” Remote Patient Monitoring—Overdue or Overused? New England Journal of Medicine Keizra Mecklai,... View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

Banishing Balkan Ghosts

medicine required for recovery.” “Those experiences were invaluable for what I'm doing now,” Djelic continues. “I learned that you can't wait for better conditions because they'll never materialize. There's always political risk involved.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jan 2003
News

James E. Burke, MBA 1949

as a product director after three years at Procter & Gamble, Burke attempted to market several over-the-counter medicines for children. They all failed-and he was called in for a meeting with the chairman. "I assumed I was going to be... View Details

07 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Intermountain Healthcare: Pursuing Precision Medicine Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Intermountain Healthcare operates 23 hospitals and hundreds of clinics in Utah and Idaho and provides insurance to approximately 850,000 patients... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Ray A. Goldberg

"Transforming Life, Transforming Business: The Life-Science Revolution," a McKinsey Award-winning article he coauthored in the March-April 2000 issue of Harvard Business Review. "As distinctions between food and medicine... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Agriculture & Agribusiness

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About

joined on stage by our five Alumni Achievement Award recipients. Their backgrounds and career paths are very different, but as a group, they have something in common: at decisive moments in their lives, each acted courageously. Reshma Kewalramani acted courageously by... View Details

23 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2008

Authors:Michel Anteby and Mikell Hyman Periodical:Social Science & Medicine (forthcoming) Abstract Human cadavers are crucial to medical science. While the debate on how to secure sufficient cadavers has focused primarily on donors'... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jan 2009
News

Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985

cross-cultural initiatives at Harvard. Committed to enabling young people to reach their potential, Lemann co-founded Fundação Estudar to provide scholarships for Brazilian students. He also heads a family foundation that supports education, health, the environment,... View Details

07 Jul 2022
Blog Post

Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience

entrepreneurial interests as two separate threads that came together in 2020.When I was at UCLA, I studied molecular biology. After deciding to not pursue medicine and feeling paralyzed by my career outlook, my dad recommended I take a... View Details

12 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

help a lot through modifying and extending key policies, particularly in the area of results information and removing restrictive and unnecessary impediments to competition. The corporate practice of medicine law is a perfect example. The... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

25 Oct 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

Camden as a science teacher with Teach for America, earning the Sue Lehmann Award for Excellence in Teaching. Witnessing the stark health disparities faced by his students and their families, Haan was driven to pursue medicine at Harvard... View Details

19 Jun 2019
News

Connecting Patients and Providers

product was obvious. “Medicine has made unprecedented advancements over the last decades,” says Schucht, who is available for consultation with brain cancer patients through the Trustedoctor platform. “However, the way a patient accesses View Details

Keywords: April White

05 Aug 2016
News

Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier

entrepreneurial spirit from my mother.” Amadio became interested in medicine as a boy. He felt a calling to help other people and it led him to pursue a mix of science and computer classes and activities. When he was a teenager, his... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

24 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost

investment but the net income curve now is much higher, more favorable, than just letting these evident climate issues take their course. This is a harder investment concept to explain and analyze but the return on investment is just as real. US analogs include seat... View Details

16 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Delivering Solutions During a Crisis: an Interview with Hans Kristian Furuseth

more cities across the country. An increased portfolio of medicines will also be available for customers. For Furuseth, “this role connected all the dots.” His family was able to return to Norway, adding baby Sophia to the family this... View Details

30 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers

Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine published To Err is Human, a groundbreaking report that pushed the issue of medical errors into the public spotlight. That we all make mistakes was certainly nothing new: Operational failures occur... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

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What Others Are Saying - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

policy makers. This book deserves to be read carefully by everyone concerned with the future of health care in the United States.” — Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, PhD, President, Institute of Medicine Charles D. Baker, President and Chief... View Details

02 Jul 2015
Op-Ed

The Future of the Greek Economy

default are not encouraging. There is a mistaken view that these countries fared well after these actions were taken. In fact, acommodity boom helped Argentina reignite its economy, but not before extreme hardships took their toll—imports were extremely expensive,... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini & George Serafeim; Banking

08 Nov 2024
Op-Ed

How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy

01 Jun 2016
News

Faculty Q&A: That’s Classic

you realize he’s writing to the best version of Nero—and that if you do that with everyone, they’ll be that version of themselves more often. Were there any surprise favorites with the students? ED: Cato’s On Agriculture. It’s a back-to-the-land handbook, very... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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