Dr. Williams Carson - Publications - Faculty & Research

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Musical Quarterly, The Journal for Popular Music Studies and Parcours anthropologiques. Other publications include chapters in I Was Born to Use Mics: Listening to Nas’ Illmatic and The Hip-hop & Obama Reader. In addition to scholarly work. View Details

07 Oct 2014
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Network Effect

venture capital investor Jacqueline Morby called him soon thereafter. She and husband Jeffrey Morby (MBA 1961) were launching a nonprofit to fight Alzheimer’s and invited McCance to join them, along with Boston philanthropists Jerome and Phyllis Rappaport. They... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush

07 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat

increased information about the plans and their providers. After lunch, Dr. Robert Waller, president emeritus of the Mayo Clinic, gave a talk on the impact of consumer-driven health care on the current system, using the Mayo's lauded... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

models of all shapes, ages and abilities. Catherine Connell Dr. Catherine Connell is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University. Dr. Connell is a qualitative researcher focused on the... View Details

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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Guardian and The New York Review of Books . They are currently writing a book, Real Men on Top: How Patriarchy Weaponizes Gender, under contract with Oxford University Press. Courtney McCluney Dr. Courtney L. McCluney (she/her) is an... View Details

01 Jun 2014
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Early Impact

Mulan Chu Chao Center will open where Kresge once stood. Made possible by a gift from a Dr. James Si-Cheng Chao and family foundation, it will be a hub for executives and a bridge to the HBS community. MBA Program Innovation Continuing... View Details

Keywords: Construction of Buildings; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2018
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‘We were just doing what needed to be done’

issues. ROY WILLIS was born in 1939 in Halifax County, North Carolina, and moved to Norfolk, Virginia, when he was 12. Though an honors student, Willis was denied admittance to the College of William & Mary during the early days of... View Details

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Henry McCance

Jeffrey Morby (MBA 1961) were launching a nonprofit to fight Alzheimer’s and invited McCance to join them, along with Boston philanthropists Jerome and Phyllis Rappaport. They introduced him to Dr. Rudolph Tanzi, a Harvard geneticist... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services; Health Care

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Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

toward the war effort included the production of quinine. Natural quinine was derived from the bark of tropical tree in Java, but this source was cut off by the Japanese occupation. Polaroid sponsored the work of MIT graduate Dr. Robert... View Details

01 Feb 2000
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Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care

Dr. Robert Waller, president emeritus of the Mayo Clinic, gave a talk on the impact of consumer-driven health care on the current system, using the Mayo's lauded operations as an example. This thought-provoking presentation led to a... View Details

21 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

How to Sink a Startup

Tim Westergren of Pandora and Evan Williams of Twitter. YouTube cofounder and former CEO Chad Hurley has called the book "an invaluable alternative to real-world trial and error." A past recipient of the HBS student-voted award for... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change

protagonist Dr. Gary Kaplan in attendance. In addition to a full schedule of case preparation and project work, MHCD participants engaged in frequent group discussions and exercises. The curriculum and faculty (including Professor Regina... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

19 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 19

PublicationsLabor Regulations and European Venture Capital Authors:Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr Publication:Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

cancer and AIDS. Those working in the biotech trenches, however, point out that the real work has only just begun. Dr. Robert Tepper, chief scientific officer for Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., put it this way in a Business Week... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

15 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808087 Two Brattle Center: A Mental-Health Clinic in Search of a Viable Operating Model Harvard Business School Case 408-103 Two Brattle Center (TBC) is a struggling for-profit private mental health clinic... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick joked in his speech.) Related Links A Blueprint for Patient-Driven Drug Development Gene Williams (MBA 1987) Blavatnik Gift Accelerates Biomedical Advances Oscar Winners Even worse is what... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 2009
What Do You Think?

Can the “Masks of Command” Coexist with Authentic Leadership?

it as a question, Dianne Jacobs challenged us to think about whether "the experience and consequences of practicing leadership (and the use of masks) will be different for women"? (She believes they are.) Dr. Kervokian asked... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

04 May 2007
What Do You Think?

How Do Managers Think?

"The concept of people, be they patient or employee, holding back information either knowingly or just forgetting, is a problem that can kill a patient or a company." Others suggested important contrasts that they think make comparisons less relevant. View Details