Nursing - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Dec 2014
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Hacking Health Care

way: a project leader pinpoints problem areas and organizes a hackathon that is attended by an audience of 200 to 300 participants. Doctors and nurses on the front line engage with software developers who are eager to break through the... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet

swelling as the doctors had hoped. As one day in the hospital became two and then three and four, doctors tried antibiotics, but to no avail. On the sixth day of his stay, Kevin was no better than when he was admitted. Then Kevin’s nurse... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

10 May 2022
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2022

teenage sons.” By example: “My parents didn’t teach me their values around work and family—I absorbed them through their example and expectations. My mother was a nurse who was always helping others, and my dad chose to work as a doctor... View Details

01 Apr 1999
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A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News

transmitted over phone lines to the firm's Natick, Massachusetts, offices, where experienced cardiac nurses also field voice calls. Most calls are questions about symptoms or the advisability of various lifestyle behaviors. Calls... View Details

01 Jan 2007
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A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968

development cycle used to be 24 months; it's now 12." Complementing this, he adds, is a knowledgeable sales force that fosters relationships with home-care providers, nursing homes, and medical equipment retailers; a wide assortment of... View Details

17 Jun 2020
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Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines

Chairman and CEO, Integrated Micro-electronics Inc.: “Ayala-led Integrated Micro-Electronics Inc. (IMI) seeks to bring down the cost of nursing COVID-19–afflicted patients back to health by manufacturing alternative ventilators and other... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Feb 1999
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Classmates Rally to Help Family Stricken with Rare Disease

breathing with a respirator and under 24-hour nursing care. “It's hard to imagine a more agonizing situation for a parent, but somehow, John and Aileen have found the strength to fight back.” “It's hard to imagine a more agonizing... View Details

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

receive a portion for their local medical personnel. Following that initial publicity, requests came in from organizations including the Cleveland Clinic, the City of Boston, rural police departments in Ohio, and nursing homes housing... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match

to continue to serve patients.” Similarly, health systems were able to meet the needs of patients as guidelines changed and COVID-19 spread. So, from the start of the pandemic, organizations could channel users to the services they needed—be it a call to a View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

dares to trust—a young British nurse with a troubled past. When she proves to be an exceptional student of his laws of influence, he urges her to help him complete his mission: Hitler has an atom bomb, and his scientists must be persuaded... View Details

08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work

my parents have progressed to the nursing home of their retirement community, I cherish our memories of happy times together when they were more mobile. I realize that as a small business owner, working less may result in less business,... View Details

06 Jan 2017
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Mental Illness and the Workplace

case, I thought I was Jesus. I was baptizing nurses in the faucet of the urgent care facility. To everybody else around me, it looked incredibly scary. But for me, I thought I was omnipotent. I was speaking in Dr. Seuss rhymes and... View Details

01 Sep 2010
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Fair Trade

pharmaceutical companies. Avon bought health care companies and nursing homes. It turned out, however, that beauty and health had diverged too much from their common origin in the past to be reassembled . The two decades after 1990 saw... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Chemical Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

19 May 2022
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Leading to Salvation

behalf of the funeral home were a revelation. A retired nursing professional, she had never really been involved in any of its operations and admitted she didn’t know much about what was needed to sustain it financially. AE: Bob did... View Details

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