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- September 2020
- Article
Regulatory Sandboxes: A Cure for mHealth Pilotitis?
By: Abhishek Bhatia, Rahul Matthan, Tarun Khanna and Satchit Balsari
Mobile health (mHealth) and related digital health interventions in the past decade have not always scaled globally as anticipated earlier despite large investments by governments and philanthropic foundations. The implementation of digital health tools has suffered... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; mHealth; Digital Health; Design Thinking; Regulation; Intervention; Regulatory Sandbox; Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Design; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; India
Bhatia, Abhishek, Rahul Matthan, Tarun Khanna, and Satchit Balsari. "Regulatory Sandboxes: A Cure for mHealth Pilotitis?" Journal of Medical Internet Research 22, no. 9 (September 2020).
- December 2020 (Revised May 2021)
- Case
Riverstone
By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred
In 2020, Luke Minion and the leadership team at Riverstone, a hog producer founded in 2013 in Shandong, China, were evaluating Riverstone’s strategy as it rebounded from outbreaks of African Swine Fever (ASF) in two of its three farm complexes. Riverstone was a joint... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Globalization; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Disruption; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Consulting Industry; United States; China
Bell, David E., and Natalie Kindred. "Riverstone." Harvard Business School Case 521-063, December 2020. (Revised May 2021.)
- June 2020
- Article
Evaluation of Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Integration with Hospital Electronic Health Records by US County-Level Opioid Prescribing Rates
By: A Jay Holmgren and Nate Apathy
Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) have become a widely embraced policy solution to the opioid epidemic in the US. PDMPs offer prescribers a comprehensive view of patients’ controlled substance prescription history and can be used to monitor and reduce... View Details
Keywords: Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs; PDMPs; Electronic Health Records; Hospitals; Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Integration; Performance Evaluation
Holmgren, A Jay, and Nate Apathy. "Evaluation of Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Integration with Hospital Electronic Health Records by US County-Level Opioid Prescribing Rates." JAMA Network Open 3, no. 6 (June 2020).
- 12 Sep 2023
- Book
Successful, But Still Feel Empty? A Happiness Scholar and Oprah Have Advice for You
they’re leading a whole bunch of other people. So emotional management is even more important.” Brooks says the country, and maybe the world, is in a happiness slump. This epidemic predates the COVID-19 pandemic (though lockdowns and... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- Portrait Project
Albert Chiu
COVID-19. As a chemical engineer, I designed the process to manufacture Moderna and Pfizer’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. I developed new technologies to improve how vaccines are manufactured and shortened production time in half for Operation Warp Speed. My mother’s... View Details
- 15 Nov 2022
- Book
Stop Ignoring Bad Behavior: 6 Tips for Better Ethics at Work
and distributors. It took a village of complicity to create an opioid epidemic that has led to a surge in overdose deaths, says Max H. Bazerman, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
begun. For example, MASS Design Group, a non-profit collective founded a decade ago in response to epidemic outbreaks, is currently working with restaurateurs Jody Adams, Jaime Bissonnette, and Ken Oringer on case studies developing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
city’s darkest days, during the drug and murder epidemics of the late 1980s and early 1990s. When Mayor Marion Barry was busted in an FBI sting for smoking crack in 1990, Dixon’s mother, Sharon Pratt, won the election to replace him,... View Details
- 23 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness
Loneliness, in the March edition of the journal Frontiers in Digital Health. The loneliness epidemic Even before the pandemic’s social distancing requirements isolated people in their homes, one January 2020 study found that three in five... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
are social creatures, after all—we need connection to survive. But with global cultures in flux and the post-pandemic digital age, shadow epidemics of anxiety and loneliness are on the rise. Plus, the old rules of “decorum” don’t match... View Details
- 26 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)
an epidemic of the flu and everyone needs to work overtime, or there is an exogenous increase in demand,” Gallani says. “There is so much left unwritten.” Because of that, employers rely on employee motivation to go above and beyond the... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
epidemic of business scandals would be to speak of a widespread failure among CEOs and other senior executives (along with board members, auditors, financial analysts, and others) to uphold their professional obligations. To speak of the... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
epidemic of loneliness. They noted that loneliness is the health equivalent of 15 cigarettes a day. Social connection matters. Countless studies tie social connection to longevity, wellness, and good mental health. The Life and Leadership... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
Forty-two million people around the globe live with HIV/AIDS; an additional 80 million may be infected by 2010, with new cases concentrated in Russia, India, China, Nigeria, and Ethiopia. The scope of the epidemic is so staggering that... View Details
- Alumni WDYDWYD
Melissa Weiksnar
losing my 20-year-old daughter to heroin addiction, I also spend my time educating about how the substance abuse epidemic is not just devastating families and communities, but also undermining U.S. economic competitiveness and national... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Turning Point: Addiction’s Impact
needed for the most important problems of our time.” The opioid epidemic is devastating our country and undermining our economic competitiveness, from the streets to the C-suites. It is a scourge whose complexities span the geopolitical... View Details
Keywords: Melissa Weiksnar (MBA 1982)
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Late Start, Dramatic Finish
bold new strategy for dealing with the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa,” team member Lyn Baranowski wrote in the Harbus. Noting that the case encompassed ethics and leadership issues as well as marketing challenges, she added, “When the GSK... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Rob Price (MBA 1997)
this feeling than it used to be, because one of the byproducts of technology is an epidemic of passive numbness. I think our experience begs a question for other brands and concepts: How do you create a counterpoint to the dull hum of the... View Details
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
Much like how disruptive technologies can threaten established businesses, the growing epidemic of AIDS has the power to blindside and possibly topple companies who choose to ignore the threat, participants concluded at a Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Five Degrees of Doriot
is one of the highest-ranking business schools in the world. (Baker Library) “Duck” boots In another wartime effort, Doriot sought to help solve the “trench foot” problem—which was becoming an epidemic due to cold, wet winter... View Details