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- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
considering whether or how to deepen the company's investment in Arogya Parivar, its profitable program that sold Novartis medicines in rural India while expanding access to medicine and health information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 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
- 05 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Our Godrej Site Visit
provided by Mangroves, which show why conservation is necessary for the well-being of the planet (1): 1. Provision services: Mangroves forests contain food sources eaten by indigenous species and animals (fruits, leaves, fish, prawns, crabs, lobsters, etc), along with... View Details
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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
- 07 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.
annoyed, and it distracts them from dealing with the patient.” The study, published in the February 20 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, looked at five types of visits: primary care visits, ER visits resulting in a patient discharge, general... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
illustration by Marcos Chin illustration by Marcos Chin It’s hard to overstate the impact that antibiotics had on medicine after they became widely available in the 1940s. In the United States, the leading causes of death shifted from... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
biofuels project should eventually permit researchers to turn algae into microscopic factories for the manufacture of virtually any organic compound, leading to what Enriquez describes as a full-blown algal revolution. “You can make vaccines in the stuff, you can make... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
Visiting the doctor can sometimes feel like being slammed down on an assembly line: Make co-pay. Check vitals. Diagnose the problem. Get a prescription. Next! The fee-for-service model of American medicine doesn’t put much value on long... View Details
- 07 Sep 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?
of all stripes with the Seventh Sense?(Just envision this training occurring in law schools that originate most of our politicians.) Could sanctions against malpractice that have been established in professions such as law and medicine... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
health, morality, and fairness, it is high time, she says, to consider how to bring order to this chaotic arena. Is this really a “market,” and if so, how big is it? We don’t like to think of children as economic objects, and yet over the past thirty years, advances in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
direction in the early planning stages required a fuller understanding of its financing. “I also wanted to bring better management skills to the nonprofit sector,” she adds. “I thought business school was going to be like taking medicine... 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
- 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
- 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
- 08 Mar 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?
it passes in Congress. About the Authors John A. Quelch is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He also holds a joint appointment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as Professor in Health Policy and... View Details
- 02 Sep 2010
- What Do You Think?
How Transparent Should Boards Be?
his way. In John Caddell's words, "The CEO made mistakes. The board did as well-the hired the wrong guy Both need to take their medicine So, the answer is: pay the man now. Move on." In Guishan Longani's words, " avoid the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 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