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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
excessive risk-taking (or, at a minimum, didn’t respond with increased prudential regulation), stockholder demands for ever higher returns grew still further. It was a vicious cycle.... “The stockholder-centric view of the current Schumer bill simply cannot be the cure... View Details
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
treatment rather than prevention, and often give higher priority to diseases that afflict the wealthy rather than the poor. This paper discusses ways of addressing these obstacles and meeting the need for healthcare in developing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
principles: putting patient care decisions, tasks, and workflows first; separating complicated, ambiguous diseases and conditions from those that are understood; ensuring that infrastructure and practices such as the mix of staff,... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
Fristrom (MBA 2008), managing partner, TerraNova Capital Advisors “Much like parenting your own children, an aging parent makes you realize how much is out of your control. Often plans must be altered to adapt to the changing environment of View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
organs. My husband, an MIT physicist, started a company that developed technology intended to keep a diseased heart beating while the patient was awaiting a transplant. Working with him on that start-up was a fascinating experience that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
cultural psyche. The war served further to diffuse hygienic habits, as the need to keep millions of soldiers free of disease resulted in soap, razors, and other toiletries becoming required elements of soldiers’ equipment. Soap companies... View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
the parts of Africa that have a heavy disease incidence. MTV has developed a DNA of public service announcements that it claims are of central relevance to its high-risk customer base. How core is this to the strategy of a for-profit firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
drives; and how to manage the disease and vaccinations in the villages of developing countries. The book also explores how governments across the world can work closely with private-sector companies to fight the illness and accelerate... View Details
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
Life was hard enough for the one-third of Americans who had wrestled with anxiety prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the disease that has killed almost 100,000 in the United States, left millions unemployed, and socially distanced many... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
disease fighting. There are just a million areas where, you know, they're still looking for help on solving problems with a lot of data and we think we can help there. You know, we've had these infrastructure things, bad things happen,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
a jumper in 1997. A rider since the age of 10 (“I blame my mother for getting me into it”), Minard saw great potential in Westley. But the horse suffered from a degenerative eye disease that could lead to blindness. The vet advised Minard... View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
manufacturers who wish to build an exclusive platform for patients taking their medications. But Barry, against the advice of her management team, is considering an alternative business model, which would open the platform up to all manufacturers in a given View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. He also leads a new merchandising and media company serving the African-American community via the Internet. Of these ever-changing challenges, he quips, "I just enjoy learning new... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
showed its vaccine to be 94.5 percent effective. A vaccine that protects against severe disease would be a “game-changer,” said Bancel, citing “the impact on hospitals, the impact on people’s psyche, and the impact on deaths,” in the... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
guilt and insecurity. NeuroPhage is a family business of sorts. Jonathan Solomon’s (MBA 2007) mother, Beka Solomon, chair for biotechnology of neurodegenerative diseases at Tel Aviv University, had spent years working with a virus that... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
have assumed greater roles in defining disease categories than in the past and now influence clinical trials and participate in regulatory decision making. Yet these developments are far from universal and are taking very different forms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
model for inflammatory bowel disease in 2001 and 2009, before and after the reorganization. The case can be used to examine health care provider strategy, integrated care delivery, and quality measurement. The case also profiles Sweden's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
a not-for-profit research center at the Harvard Medical School (HMS). The center was started in late 2000 with a gift of $37.5 million from an anonymous donor. Its mandate was to conduct research that could lead to actual treatments for neurodegenerative View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
promoted services ranging from data-driven technologies that helped manage stress to mobile tools that attempted to diagnosis medical conditions as diverse as Alzheimer's disease and foot ulcers. The case is set in August 2011 as Rock... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
screening rate for breast cancer, a disease that killed over 12,000 Japanese women in 2011. Cancer screening initiatives accounted for 60% of the company's 2013 sales of $2.5 million. Purchase this case: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne