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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
CHRISTENSEN: “By some estimates, 50 percent of all health care is driven by physician and hospital supply, not by patients’ needs.” An acclaimed author and expert on the development and commercialization of technological and business... View Details
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to be Extremely Productive
the concept that results are the most important factor in evaluating performance, if someone leaves early or comes in late in order to take care of a family matter, it's a non-issue—as long as that person is... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
High Brow
You could be forgiven for not knowing it by the look of the average bloke on the street, but American men annually drop $19.5 billion on “hair services” and $5 billion on grooming products, the New York Times (December 25, 2003) reported. That’s a market that Guy... View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- News
How Birchbox Is Disrupting Beauty
- 30 May 2024
- News
Women’s Association Goes Nationwide; Connecticut Club Hosts Beshears
HBS and the many benefits of staying connected with each other and with the school throughout their professional and personal lives. The virtual event will be followed by several in-person HBSWA meetups in a dozen cities over several... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment
other schools competing for the best students. Hayes drew a line between personal investing—he himself is a socially responsible investor, he said—and other types of investment vehicles. Several audience members questioned Hayes on that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Career Coach
Christina LaMontagne
Christina (HBS '09, Dartmouth '03) has held senior roles across innovative healthcare companies. She has led small digital health companies to achieve market leadership and >$100M ARR and has helped larger global companies embrace digital transformation. She... View Details
- 11 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices
market—they must demonstrate to an independent panel from the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) that a new product works better than existing options for an identifiable group of patients. The rule doesn’t apply... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Turning Point: Ready or Not
was so lost in the black hole of Zoom meetings and other pandemic-related frustrations that it was easy to forget the necessity of showing unqualified love, concern, and attention—the sort of care I remember receiving from my grandmother.... View Details
- 10 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists
do you have to stay home and care for your young child? Those things seem to be the bottleneck.” Just 5 percent of the total scientists responding to the emailed query reported working fewer than 42 hours weekly before the pandemic... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Why Leaders Need Great Books
thinking about character, or accountability, or—if you're a practical person rather than a theoretician—about getting things done; about pragmatism." 'A Struggle' Leadership is, in part, a struggle of flawed human beings, said... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
(MBA 1988) is cofounder and COO. She is also the founding CEO of Mediva, the company’s consulting arm. Platanus clinics share overnight resources and electronic medical records, so their combined 2,500 at-home palliative care patients... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 20 May 2020
- News
A Winning Team at TB12
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Geisha Secrets
TSAI: A luxury skin-care line based on ancient Japanese rituals. Years of work-related testing of beauty products had left Victoria Tsai (MBA 2006) with acute dermatitis. After trying various medications to no avail, she turned to Japan for a natural cure involving... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Wyss Celebrated for Career, Conservation
Hansjörg Wyss (MBA 1965) has been unusually public of late, celebrated for his visionary accomplishments in health care and conservation. Wyss, 75, founded Synthes USA, a Swiss-American firm, in 1974 and led it to global prominence as a... View Details
- Career Coach
Sarah Bua
public sector, health care consulting, venture capital and new business creation. Sarah helps her coachees identify, strategize a path towards, achieve and sustain their unique career visions. Her skills and interest span the entire... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Turning Point: Network Effects
nonprofit that develops national networks of volunteer mental health professionals who can provide free, confidential care to individuals experiencing an acute or chronic need for help. Our initial focus was veterans and their families,... View Details
Keywords: Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997)
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
preferentially locate these bonds inside of their 401(k). Getting this decision right, while not a pure arbitrage, is as close to one as most investors will ever see." We talked with Bergstresser about his research and what personal... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 16 Dec 2016
- News