HIV - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Mar 2023
Blog Post

How to Come Out at Work

felt the most affirmed and championed when my team has seen my distinct lived experience as an asset, not just an advertisement opportunity. Social Finance did just that and allowed me to leverage my queer identity and global health background to add value to an View Details

19 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

on the world. A long-term view Prior to pursuing a joint degree at HBS and HKS, I worked with the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) in Southern Africa, supporting the Ministries of Health in Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and South Africa to scale up their View Details

28 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time

you are saving lives. So it has to have a humanitarian angle to it." (Cipla manufactures generic versions of a number of commonly prescribed medicines and is the world's largest manufacturer of the antiretroviral drugs that fight HIV and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

23 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?

of some governments that say they simply can't afford to purchase drugs for their AIDS-stricken populations. Dr. Pride Chigwedere "It has to start from the top. Governments have to put money toward HIV and AIDS," she said.... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

27 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 27

accessible, preventive HIV vaccine, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) pioneered ways of addressing the inadequate incentive structures that prevented progress toward vaccines for AIDS and other diseases predominantly... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

to paint a vivid and compelling picture of social life. In the extreme, Bales (1999) conservatively estimates that there are 27 million slaves in the world today, while Attaran and Sachs (2001) report that 35 million people are now infected with the View Details

Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh

31 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Bring your authentic self to work: Advice from HBS alumni

felt the most affirmed and championed when my team has seen my distinct lived experience as an asset, not just an advertisement opportunity. Social Finance did just that and allowed me to leverage my queer identity and global health background to add value to an View Details

Keywords: All Industries

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism

negatively to Google's compliance with restricted access to information in China; this is seen as breaching the company's motto, "Don't be evil." In 2003, Jeffrey Leiden at Abbott Laboratories set off a furor by announcing a 400 percent increase in the price... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Three Steps for Crisis Prevention

South Africa over its attempt to reduce the cost of HIV drugs through parallel importation (buying pharmaceuticals in countries with lower prices and then importing them) and compulsory licensing (requiring patent holders to allow others... View Details

Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman

01 Jun 2009
News

Cynthia Carroll

in enterprise development through our incubator units in South Africa and Chile, which support over 220 freestanding businesses providing jobs to some 13,500 people. In South Africa, I’m also very proud that we have the largest workplace View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management; Mining

24 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 24, 2006

paper, we examine the impact of the AIDS epidemic on African nations through 2002 using the male circumcision rate to identify plausibly exogenous variation in HIV prevalence. Medical researchers have found significant evidence that male... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2002
News

Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth

“helps businesses provide this increasingly important information in a more rationalized way.” Massie's energy and output is even more remarkable given the fact that some twenty years ago, he acquired HIV in the course of his many... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; management; ethics

01 Mar 2013
News

Making Change

Ministry of Health to test new policies to improve infant HIV testing. Similar initiatives are under way in Uganda and Cambodia. We are a fee-for-service nonprofit and have received start-up support from the Echoing Green and Rainer... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; housing; gay rights; diabesity; disability; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Real Estate

06 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

foreign business—without experience in that type of environment—to enter and to prosper in. The crime rate is certainly one of the highest in the world, to the extent that it affects the everyday lives of people and managers. The HIV... View Details