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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
teamed up with Priyank Lathwal, a Ph.D. candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, to mobilize South Asian student organizations across Harvard and other universities to pool resources for Indian health and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
people’s lives, not only job performance but family matters, health issues, disappointments. The most difficult issues often involve life outside the School. What accomplishments are you proudest of? When we started out ten years ago,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
children and parents alike. “Our interests really aligned on early childhood education,” Mahajan says. Recognizing that more than 50 percent of Indians have smartphones—and that mobile internet penetration is high, even among low-income... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
was then, and is now, a matter of using personal data to secure public health. That raises both its promise and its perils, and the leadership task is to navigate the balance.” —PROFESSOR MITCHELL WEISS As COVID-19 was sweeping the globe in January 2020, public View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19
COVID-19, there was a critical shortage of ventilators in health care settings across the globe . . . we knew we had a proven product that could help.” — Sanchay Gupta MD/MBA 2022 Cofounder, Umbulizer “Even before COVID-19, there was a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
to merge with information from other facilities. There’s a new disruptive technology in the works, personal electronic health records (PEHRs), an open-source tool that collects data from all providers and gives patients access over the... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
heart of public services decision making.” That’s why DeBere and Helga Mutasingwa, a doctor and public health professional based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, cofounded Afya Pamoja in that country in 2020 with Patrick Anyanga and Robert... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
moving along, getting ‘back to normal,’” says Pasricha. “That approach sweeps most deeper human emotions under the rug. Loneliness, anxiety, and mental health challenges are spiking. There is a lot of mourning and guilt, too. Survivor’s... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Apr 2011
- News
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
shared mobile-based longitudinal Electronic Health Records via mobile phone. AVA is an invitation-only shopping platform. The company addresses the gap between the growing market demand for fashion and the... View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Social Enterprise Start-Ups Recognized for Bold Ideas
start-up in Bangalore cofounded by CEO Sidhant Jena (MBA 2011), has developed a mobile phone attachment that will enable patients to test their blood sugar and seamlessly transmit the results to a physician or nurse for appropriate... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
thing you hoped to promote. What the health care sector needs most, HBS’s Health Care Initiative said with the debut of Harvard’s Health Acceleration Challenge, is widespread... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
something that’s still taboo to talk about. People are afraid to talk about it. They don’t want to offend others.” — HBS professor Robin Ely commenting on the reluctance of firms to accept the real business case for diversity in the workplace. (NPR, January 10, 2010)... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
students; currently, 132 students are studying to receive a DBA (offered in accounting, management, marketing, strategy, and TOM) or, in collaboration with Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, a PhD (business economics, organizational behavior, and View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Private capital, public good
US in 2011, a nonprofit organization dedicated to mobilizing capital to drive social progress. “The vision of expanding opportunity, by applying the rigor and discipline of markets to public goals, is what compelled me to launch Social... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
David Velasquez (MBA/MPP 2023, MD 2024), right, at the GOTVax mobile clinic in greater Boston he helped to cofound. Photos courtesy David Valesquez David Velasquez (MBA/MPP 2023, MD 2024), right, at the GOTVax View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
vertically integrated, local market. In technology, capital flows to the location where products can be produced most quickly and cheaply for the moment; our model focuses on the long-term sustainability that comes from the health of the... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Getting There
the notion that the mobile phone revolution might help unlock a chronic problem in Southeast Asia: safe and reliable on-demand transportation. They launched Grab in Malaysia in 2012. In its earliest days, the company offered an app to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
Faculty Opinion Illustration by Corbis/Image Zoo/Cargo Whatever the question—disaster relief, education, health care, foreign policy—national and community service is an answer. Organizing a full-time civilian service corps—the civilian... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 19 Aug 2016
- News
Using Technology to Help Reclaim Lives from Addiction
from seeking help. Our at-home program uses secure videoconferencing to ensure that clients are known only to their counselors and their fellow recovery group members.” Lionrock also uses a proprietary mobile application to help clients... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Invest in the New Abnormal
need to adjust to the new reality that customers prefer not to come into their stores. B2C firms must enhance their delivery and pickup options and provide incentives [such as rewards points for using a mobile app] to customers to... View Details