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- 25 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Raymond Hwang (MBA 2010)
people will experience significant spine-related symptoms at some point. The ability to improve the quality of many lives makes spine surgery relevant. Contemporary spine surgery is also heavily technology dependent, which makes for interesting View Details
- 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 View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Investigation Leads to Sanctions, Recommendations
working with students, faculty, and administrators to establish procedures "for preventing these kinds of situations in the future and for addressing violations of our standards in a fair and prompt manner."... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
and accurate commercial data (to facilitate business forecasting, for example), and a skilled workforce with seasoned supervisors. “That mix of factors does not come standard with every country,” Fields notes. As for government’s role in... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
due to the condition. In addition, 3 percent of Mexicans suffer from glaucoma and 7 percent of diabetics in Mexico are needlessly blind. According to salauno, only 30 percent of the Mexicans who need corrective vision procedures or... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Better Care at Lower Cost
company called MinuteClinic, with locations in Minneapolis/St. Paul and Baltimore, operates a number of facilities where a nurse-practitioner or physician’s assistant provides an array of basic medical services, from diagnosing and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The Business of Babies
“We have a business that doesn’t feel like a business,” she noted. “Nobody wants to acknowledge the extent of commercialization.” Yet Americans alone spent $2.7 billion on fertility treatments in 2002. Procedures such as egg and sperm... View Details
- 16 Sep 2010
- News
Idea Takes Root
Almost without notice in the American press, a new international effort is under way to create a standardized global reporting model for operating sustainable businesses in the 21st century. HBS professor... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
matter to leave to tech departments, no matter how good they may be,” warns HBS assistant professor Robert D. Austin. “That’s because, more than being a technical problem, achieving cyber security is an operational issue that requires... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
been designed to create a new kind of offshore operating environment, where safety was the priority. Management attacked the safety issue from the top down, investing extensively in leadership training, policies, and practices intended to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
matters). Thus, among its other ramifications, globalization is forcing companies to operate and conduct themselves according to certain international standards and expectations. This trend is inevitably... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
financial institutions are too big to fail? There are two valid reasons for bailing out a financial institution. First is to protect the system for processing payments, like checks, because that system is critical to the operation of the... View Details
- 25 Jun 2024
- News
On the Move: Alexis DePree (MBA 2007)
When Nordstrom announced the promotion of Alexis DePree (MBA 2007) to COO in early June, media outlets noted DePree’s expanded, end-to-end role in managing operations and customer experience in an increasingly complex retail environment. DePree joined Nordstrom in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
authors propose that a process emphasizing learning and adaptation is the key to successful innovation in this emerging age. To understand the procedures required for product evolution in these new circumstances, the researchers studied... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
standards and committed to transparency on environmental issues. Few new graduates will immediately become CEOs, with the direct responsibility to reshape a company’s ESG policies in such dramatic ways, but Serafeim wants to show students... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real
money in unnecessary admissions and treatments, and save patients from dangerous procedures they may not need." Gilligan is already talking with several hospitals and HMOs to get the service off the ground. Taking a step away from high... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Finance: Helping Consumers Improve Their Financial Life
Large consumer banks have historically collected a lot of data on their customers, which they have used to sell standardized products. Increasingly, however, we have seen new entrants using customer data to help the consumer and provide... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Righting the Ship
engineers. Right off the bat, Stuckey identified two issues. One, there was no standard to evaluate the CIP managers at the division level. And two, the way the funds were being distributed at the headquarters level was problematic as it... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
acquisitions. Today, the company Parker leads from its headquarters in Bradenton, Florida, offers a wide range of products to protect people and property, has 6,500 employees, operates in 35 countries, and generates annual sales... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
patients than any other hospital in the state—to bend without breaking under the pressure of the pandemic. Professor Robert Huckman is an economist and health care researcher who serves as unit head for Technology and Operations... View Details