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Doing Business with China: Early American Trading Houses - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Russell, who began as an apprentice clerk for a maritime merchant in Middletown, Connecticut. In 1830 Augustine Heard became a partner in the firm. Four years later, poor health forced Heard to return to Boston, where he remained actively... View Details

21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

consumption fluctuations faced by individuals, households, and firms. Yet much of this promise remains unrealized. In this paper, we study the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product designed to compensate low-income Indian... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Value-Based Health Care... View Details

March 2015
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CVS Health: Promoting Drug Adherence

By: Leslie John, John Quelch and Robert Huckman

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This Teaching Note explains the theory of the case and teaching plan for the case: CVS Health: Promoting Drug Adherence (515010). The case finds Helena Foulkes, Executive... View Details

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26 Feb 2019
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large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to universities offering both medical education and business education have higher management quality, more... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

21 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

You Don’t Have to Quit Your Job to Find More Meaning in Life

It’s a philosophical debate as old as time: What is the secret to leading a meaningful life? For many, the question gained new urgency after years of social distancing and upheaval during the COVID-19 pandemic. After surviving a public View Details

Keywords: by Shalene Gupta

12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12

March 2014, Kevin Counihan, CEO of Access Health CT, Connecticut's state health insurance exchange, stops to consider the success it has experienced so far and to think about... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1999
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Ikenna Okezie

and the Harvard Medical School. He plans to combine his two loves - medicine and entrepreneurship - in a way that will improve health care for all. Born in Nigeria, Okezie came to the United States at the age of two and was raised in... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

April 2014
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Who Donates Their Bodies to Science? The Combined Role of Gender and Migration Status Among California Whole-body Donors

By: Asad L. Asad, Michel Anteby and Filiz Garip

The number of human cadavers available for medical research and training, as well as organ transplantation, is limited. Researchers disagree about how to increase the number of whole-body bequeathals, citing a shortage of donations from the one group perceived as most... View Details

Keywords: Altruism; Donations; Body; Whole-body; Clinical Anatomy; Medical Specialties; California

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Partners - Case Method Project

US History, AP US Government, AP Macroeconomics FL 34 of 37 Kate Tancrell Palm Harbor University High School Palm Harbor, FL FL 35 of 37 Gary Techentien Frank H Peterson Academies of Technology Jacksonville, FL FL 36 of 37 Erin Tozzi Palm... View Details

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New Venture Competition | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Solara Sacerdote Grand Prize Winner, Social Enterprise Track, 2024 New Venture Competition 1_rwoq7e70 Trans Health HQ Sacerdote Runner-Up Prize Winner, Social Enterprise Track, 2024 New Venture Competition 1_fzd3exaa The Social Enterprise... View Details

28 Jan 2020
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Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

expertise, and then gathering them in the quest for a common goal—the way Torsten Thiele, a European banker, helped get insurance companies together with NGOs to look at projects to improve the health of the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Mar 2021
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Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most

the three-year analysis he conducted with coauthors Hongyu Xiao and Jaeho Kim, both of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. The results provide an important lesson for companies: “If firms want to make sure their best... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

25 Sep 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Colocation and Scientific Collaboration: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Keywords: by Kevin Boudreau, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva Guinan & Karim Lakhani; Health

22 Feb 2023
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Meet the Disability Advocacy and Affinity Group (DAAG)

Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation. Prior to HBS, I worked as a process engineer for Procter & Gamble and then in engineering and business roles at an early-stage manufacturing data analytics company. I graduated from Duke University with... View Details

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HBS ISC Resources Resources Video Courses Data Events & Presentations Frameworks News Publications Video Video Jan 2019 Presentation How to Measure Costs in Health Care How to Measure Costs in Health Care by... View Details

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Batten Hall | About

curriculum. On the first floor is the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab). Launched in November 2011, the i-lab serves as a resource for students from across Harvard University interested in exploring entrepreneurship and innovation, bringing... View Details

24 Jan 2018
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How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

soap before meals can dramatically reduce rates of both diarrhea and acute respiratory infections. To that end, major health organizations have poured a lot of money into handwashing education campaigns in the developing world, but to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Jan 2012
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E. Roe Stamps IV, MBA 1974

came in the field of health care, the firm’s investments now include software, communications technology, semiconductors and electronics, and financial services. With nearly $15 billion under management and over 140 employees, Summit has... View Details

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The Essential Porter - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative The Essential Porter The Essential Porter Michael Porter is the Bishop William... View Details

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