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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Racial Bias Pervades Health Care
cites a library full of studies (some his own) as well as his own personal experiences to document that minorities receive a lower standard of health care than do white men. For example, he writes, African Americans receive fewer operations than whites for lung cancer,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
DNA.) We're also planning to launch an AKC-branded pet insurance product to meet a critical need since medical advances that have served humans well are now being made available for our canine companions. Procedures such as hip... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
at HBS, 1988–2000), wades hip deep into business history (he cites HBS historians Richard Tedlow, Thomas McCraw, and Walter Friedman in a span of a few pages) and economic theory to argue that, in fact, the erosion of technological and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Class All His Own
handwritten pages of Class Notes) to come to his home in nearby West Newton. But Brigham, 92, will hear nothing of it. “It’s just a short drive down the Pike,” he says. Hip replacement surgery has done little to slow down Brigham, who... View Details
- 25 May 2015
- Blog Post
RapidSOS Wins the HBS New Venture Competition
father climbed up the ladder to clear the roof. My father remembers it as a blur, but in an instant he was lying in the driveway with the excruciating pain of a shattered hip and broken wrist. Surrounded by only the snow piles of our... View Details
- 15 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Coming Out Calculus: A Reflection in Honor of National Coming Out Day
“Be my gay best friend!”-objectifying statements. Both are annoying. Next—is there a limit to how gay I can be? In many situations, there is a Threshold of Tolerable Gay. For example: in the workplace, a gay man who acts like “one of the guys” is tolerated while a gay... View Details
- 13 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists
Gino, Maryam Kouchaki (Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics), and Ata Jami (the University of Central Florida). The article will be published in an upcoming issue of Journal of Experimental Psychology. TIP #4 - Put your hands on your View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
Supporting the School as a Student and Young Alumna
when she was confined to a wheelchair for long periods—first as a little girl, then as a teen—due to hip problems brought on by a contaminated vaccine she received. “I especially loved watching behind-the-scenes shows about how a director... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Long and Winding Road
and hips and repaired with laser surgery. Laptop computers, the Internet, and cell phones make the 24-hour workday a virtual reality. As we journey even deeper into middle age, will we decide to restructure the priorities we've placed on... View Details
Keywords: Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
with women, we find that men enjoy taking our class—and keep coming back. Because our choreography is more based on jumps and shoulder motions, as opposed to hip movements, men don't feel intimidated by the class." What's been the most... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
headline “Mom? Dad? I’m home!” “You can imagine the ribbing I took from my classmates,” says Andrus, who still cringes when he tells the story even though he now has little to be embarrassed about. That’s because last year he was named president and CEO of Skullcandy,... View Details
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Jeremy Andrus
about. That’s because last year he was named president and CEO of Skullcandy, an edgily hip global company that does business at the intersection of consumer electronics, media, and lifestyle branding. Skullcandy, which Andrus helped... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
historical long run). Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52277 February 2017 Journal of Arthroplasty Drivers of the Variation in Prosthetic Implant Purchase Prices for Total Knee and Total Hip Arthroplasties... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Research & Education Foundation Clinical Research Award; the American Bone & Joint Surgeons Marshall Urist Young Investigator Award; the American Association of Hip & Knee Surgeons James A Rand Young Investigator Award and Lawrence D.... View Details
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Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
approach, starting with accurate measurement of the outcomes and costs associated with repairing orthopedic conditions such as knee and hip arthritis and rotator cuff tears. View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
orthopedic technology, we struck a deal to hire two entrepreneurs who had made important advances in hip and knee replacements." Thirty years ago, Stryker had revenues of $8 million; today it is the world's largest orthopedic company,... View Details
- Profile
Minal Mehta
popular with women, we find that men enjoy taking our class—and keep coming back. Because our choreography is more based on jumps and shoulder motions, as opposed to hip movements, men don't feel intimidated by the class." What's... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
have found—millennials prefer practicing yoga to hip hop music. Consumers will be drawn to, and pay for, those distinctions. The same could be said for clients at Bob Vaccaro’s Yoga by Donation, even with its pay-as-you-wish approach.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research Event
What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?
organizations toward positive social change. “We change the language; we change the conversation,” said writer and hip hop artist Bryonn Bain. “We don’t have a truly functional democracy if every voice is not heard.” Mensah said if... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
headline “Mom? Dad? I’m home!” “You can imagine the ribbing I took from my classmates,” says Andrus, who still cringes when he tells the story even though he now has little to be embarrassed about. That’s because last year he was named president and CEO of Skullcandy,... View Details