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- 06 Dec 2012
- News
New Thinking on Healthcare Reform
of minicomputers created more of a midpoint (clinics) before desktop PCs became prevalent (home healthcare and services such as MinuteClinic). "We need to bring technology to outpatient clinics and patients' homes so they can provide more... View Details
- 15 Apr 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
of Spark, New Zealand’s largest telecommunications and digital services company. That practical experience informed her work on the board of Breast Cancer Foundation NZ, of which she became chair in 2009. “Measuring performance in charity... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
on refining best practices for future conference hosts, including how to identify sponsors and define their role and how to provide consistency in the areas of marketing and promotion. They will also work on developing financial View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
two-thirds of American workers. It’s a particularly expensive practice for employers, who pay up to 30 percent more to hire graduates for middle-skills work even when individuals without degrees perform equally or nearly as well,... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
reduced wait times in salauno clinics by using Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to change clinic schedules, optimize operational flow, and improve communication. These View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
what guidelines might you suggest? —Norm Boone (MBA 1977) DITKOFF: At Bridgespan, we define impact investing as “investing capital to generate social impact in a way that also provides monetary returns.” As you can see, a broad spectrum... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
When Ray Kusisto (MBA 1986) graduated from Harvard Business School, he knew he had been part of a unique experience. “I still feel that way,” says Kusisto, now CEO of Ortho NorthEast, the premier orthopedic clinic and specialty center in... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
aspirations, purpose, and values, so that they work together as an aligned team." Dan Vasella finds that the skills he called upon as a practicing physician are equally useful in running one of the world's largest pharmaceutical... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
finalizing a set of Best Practices Guidelines that will serve subsequent conference hosts. In addition, committee members made inquiries into finding a vendor to oversee an alumni travel program; this will... View Details
Keywords: John Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
practices to understand principles,” Porter has said. As part of that effort, and emerging from his trip, Porter and several GHD colleagues have written a case study, “HIV Care in Rwanda,” that was the subject of a special seminar at HBS... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
career in banking in 2018. “I am grateful to learn from the from practitioners, researchers, and educators who are consolidating best practices from countries throughout the world,” he says. “I am also mindful of the View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
you can’t study a leader in isolation; there’s a relational construct between a person and society. Clinical psychology gets into the underlying motivation for people who seek leadership positions. In political science, we saw the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
them with Zoom to prioritize hospital beds, something that was unheard of just a few months ago. We shortened the average time from when a study is published to when it is applied in clinical practice from a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
To Market, to Market
Life Science Entrepreneurship Program, which connects recent HBS alumni with Accelerator projects, and is directed by HBS Professor of Management Practice Vicki Sato. Blavatnik Fellows receive a one-year stipend, as well as additional... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
so that we can help get clinical trials done and move the pace of discovery even quicker.” How do they expect to get there? Here, a look at the accelerator’s model, which comprises four work streams, each inspecting a different part of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
some very exciting initiatives. One that has been flourishing is the work of our Entrepreneurial Management unit. We live in a dynamic world, rich with opportunity. The very nature of general management is changing. The creation of new enterprises and the View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
siblings, get to work every day on time, work toward a degree at night (paying their own tuition), and manage to save enough to slowly build a house. While generally excited by democracy, Liberians are understandably impatient for roads and View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
The occasion? The company, a leading supplier of cloud-based services for electronic health records (EHR), practice management, and care coordination, was expanding. In a big way. Founded in 1997, athenahealth now serves about 44,000... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
of personalized medicine into clinical practice. Why does it seem that science is often so far ahead of practice in the medical field? Science has moved especially quickly in the last five years with the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
genes to the inner ear with unprecedented efficiency.” The five-year-old company will likely apply for clinical testing permission for its lead therapy in the first half of 2022—a key hurdle in the notoriously lengthy process of advancing... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg