Addiction - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2022
News

Road to Recovery

Illustration by Jon Krause Eric Gastfriend (MBA 2015) had watched friends and family members struggle with addiction. He’d seen some of them go to treatment, and he’d seen many of them relapse. He didn’t understand why the field of View Details

Keywords: April White; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2017
News

Turning Point: Addiction’s Impact

of jeans for her burial, I came across a brown, leather-bound journal. I opened it and found passages from the weeks before she died. When I showed the journal to a neighbor (who happened to be an addiction psychiatrist) he said, “You... View Details

Keywords: Melissa Weiksnar (MBA 1982)

26 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future

things we take for granted in the West” Lack of jobs is a likely cause of rising addiction rates, with their myriad attendant pathologies and costs. Whereas Afghanistan once just grew poppies, its inhabitants are now increasingly View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna

Portrait Project

Mark Cicirelli

addicted to the electric excitement of building new things, taking chances, and trying to influence the future. Fuses exist to prevent surges of energy. After HBS I hope to blow a bunch more fuses. View Details

Career Coach

Sasha Grinshpun

have the conversation around, "What do you really want?!" Sasha graduated from the Harvard Business School, with a concentration in innovation, organizational behavior and design thinking. She finished Yale, with a BA in Economics & International Studies... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Startup - Founder; Entrepreneurship; Startup - Joiner; Entrepreneurship; Technology

19 Apr 2018
News

One Last Pitch

2015) appeared nervous yet confident as he took the stage and began his pitch to the energized audience of more than 500. Gastfriend spoke of a friend, Anna, who was addicted to opioids. He watched her struggle with the indignity of... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

09 Jan 2013
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Understanding Customers

Addiction to Service Heroes In their new book, Uncommon Service, coauthors Frances Frei and Anne Morriss show it is possible for organizations to reduce costs while dramatically enhancing customer service. The key? Don't try to be good at... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

Portrait Project

Martin Eston

Addiction doesn’t fit neatly into the first chapters of a success story, yet it plagued much of my early adult life. It’s the kind of thing that gets edited out of an otherwise promising narrative. It’s not what our biggest fans want to... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Action Plan: The Power of Story

you were to where you are.” Henderson brings his story to audiences from LA to South Africa as managing director of the leadership development firm Henderson, Harper & Associates. Its power lies in its truth: From dabbling in marijuana at age 12 to a full-blown heroin... View Details

Keywords: Ryan Jones

09 Mar 2021
News

A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible

tried-and-true pedagogy and gamification. “We want you to get addicted to the course the way you get addicted to a game,” he says. See more from the online-only March Alumni Bulletin Impact section’s... View Details

Keywords: April White

19 Dec 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

New Year, New Habits

research not only confirms change is possible, but outlines ways to make new behaviors stick. Here is research out of Harvard Business School that explores the latest thinking in behavioral research and how big changes can start with something as simple as a nudge. How... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

27 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care

for customers? Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution? Millions of people have been harmed by cigarettes, defective merchandise, pollution, addiction and other business by-products. now,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

Profile

Ann Lucena

Organization where she is consulting with the American Society of Addiction Medicine. "I'm helping them create a business plan for software they'd like to launch. It's an exploratory project: Is it feasible? If so, what's the best... View Details

31 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories of 2012

the Smartphone Addiction Published: May 14, 2012 In her new book, Sleeping With Your Smartphone, Leslie Perlow explains how high-powered consultants disconnected from their mobile devices for a few hours every week-and how they became... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Jun 1997
News

Thomas C. Høegh

countries. Høegh explains that he always tries to include a philanthropic side to his artistic endeavors: "Among those employed in my productions in Norway were rehabilitated drug addicts from a special jobs program. Having this kind of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

12 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

specifically about COVID-19 impacts and responses, we spoke with several Harvard Business School alumni committed to reducing the impact of mental illness and addiction on individuals and communities. Here are some examples of how they... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

23 Apr 2014
HBS Case

Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?

the amount of nicotine they inhale, gradually weaning themselves off their addiction if they choose. “The value proposition of e-cigarettes is clear” "The value proposition of e-cigarettes is clear," says John A. Quelch, Charles... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Advertising

14 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

new product and, if so, what terms he should offer new and existing investors to finance the next phase of product development. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817066-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 617-018 Addicaid: Scaling a Digital... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

The Business of Saving the Planet

"The fact that the benefits of addressing the problem of climate change almost certainly outweigh the costs ... does not make concerted global action to address the problem easy." —Climate Change in 2018: Implications for Business If there is one positive... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Green Technology

20 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018

Gone Too Far When Ethan Bernstein used wearable technology to track workers around their open office, he discovered many were trying to avoid collaboration rather than engage in it. How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit Reshmaan... View Details