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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
The Well-Healed Athlete
to studying athletes of different ages, genders, and ethnicities to better understand the potential of the healthy human body and to improve knowledge of injury prevention and rehabilitation. The goal is to give people of all abilities... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
our students disconnected from the mainstream economy; it prevents our businesses from growing.” —Gerald Chertavian (MBA ’92), founder and CEO of Year Up, a nonprofit providing urban young adults with technical and professional skills... View Details
Keywords: quotations
- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
during the 2011-2012 flu season, compared to 46 percent of all adults nationwide. “They were a great partner,” Beshears says of Express Scripts. “But even they, who are so attuned to the importance of these preventive measures, didn’t... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Richard Edelman
Chicago community, Edelman finds it natural to give back to society. A Civil War buff, he is an active board member of the New-York Historical Society. His interest in fitness and fighting obesity attracted him to the board of the Centers for Disease Control and View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
(Palgrave Macmillan) make clear, the blowout that killed 11 people and created an ecological miasma could have been prevented by any one of dozens of managers or executives speaking up about eight serious signs of trouble. Authors LaRue... View Details
- 09 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Solving the Complexities of the Biotechnology Industry
Azita Sharif (MBA 2000) is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of DSI- Precision Medicine Biobanking & BINDS (Bio-Informatics Network for Discovery Science). Her goal is to positively impact human and public health using engineering with a focus on analytical... View Details
- Blog
How We Are Keeping HBS—and Our Program Participants—Healthy
Video Coming to Campus? We've Got You Covered If you are planning a trip to campus for one of our Executive Education programs—or for any other reason—you can be sure that HBS is working hard to keep you safe. To prevent surprises and... View Details
- Student-Profile
A Jay Holmgren
of papers examining the efficacy of hospital IT systems at flagging and preventing adverse drug events. He credits the diverse expertise of his fellow doctoral students with helping him expand and enrich his research pursuits. “I’ve... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Head Games
“The pressure for more safety via better equipment is a continuing phenomenon: at one time ice hockey goalies didn’t wear masks, and baseball and hockey players didn’t wear helmets. Although injuries are widely accepted as part of sports, View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Books
practical guidance. The conditions they have always faced—intense competition, scarce resources, and unforgiving markets—are true now for everyone. Preventing Regulatory Capture: Special Interest Influence and How to Limit It edited by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Cardiac Kid
has more than 1,000 workers and expects revenues of about $280 million this year. “The company was founded basically to prevent heart attacks,” Huennekens told the San Diego Union-Tribune (January 25, 2010). To that end, Volcano makes... View Details
- 05 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
The HBS New Venture Competition Turns 25: Celebrating A Quarter Century of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
(MBA 2023), Heung Kim Faced with a problem all surgeons have struggled with for decades—the buildup of fluid (blood) that prevents effective and safe tissue dissection—the ClearCut Surgical team prototyped a simple solution to the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2004
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?
be able to tell what may come, but it takes a whole lot of confidence and conviction to be able to act upon the vision and take preventive action." That confidence and conviction presumably has to be supplied by real leaders willing... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
Meet the 2018-2019 Blavatnik Fellows in Life Science Entrepreneurship
care and is the CEO and co-founder of InfiniteMD, a telemedicine company connecting Chinese patients with US physicians for second opinions. She is a practicing Preventive Care and Occupational Medicine physician at Cambridge Health... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
These Walls Can Talk
when energy use is lowest; companies will begin to use data to predict and prevent home maintenance issues. Soon: New homes will be wired for connectivity just as they are wired for electricity. “Think about a world where, instead of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Gulati states that managers have figured out what consumers want and what their company should offer but are only now appreciating the huge institutional barriers that prevent them from delivering. He offers a practical process by which... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Clubs Hopping
care tools in several Ebola-affected West African countries where IBM has introduced education and data-gathering mobile applications to improve prevention and treatment. View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Respond to a Worthy Cause
African soul star Angélique Kidjo, and country icon Dolly Parton — and partnered with the Family Violence Prevention Fund, a national organization focused on ending domestic violence, and RESPOND Inc., one of the oldest domestic violence... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Pricing Paradise
How much is the Grand Canyon worth? What would you pay to prevent developers from building condos on the Cape Cod National Seashore? As difficult as it may seem to answer those questions, Linda Bilmes (MBA 1984) has made it her business... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
by specialty and discrete interventions. Third, prevention and screening can dramatically improve value, as does ongoing disease management to prevent recurrences and setbacks. Fourth, the only way truly to... View Details