Personal Care - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2004
News

Whit Sears (MBA 1959)

direction until after my divorce and remarriage in 1970. I finally found my stride working in internal audit, and after much moving around both domestically and overseas, I settled down in northeastern Illinois. My wife, DD, and I began foster View Details

Keywords: Personal Services; Personal Services

28 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

von Clausewitz, the brilliant Prussian general and strategist, wrote, "War is an area of uncertainty; three quarters of the things on which all action in war is based lie in a fog of uncertainty to a greater or lesser extent." His view was that the principal value of... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco

19 Jan 2023
Blog Post

11 Ways to Reengage Employees in the New Year

to ensure employees feel recognized and valued. Plan to celebrate personal and professional milestones and achievements: birthdays, the birth of a child, work anniversaries, completion of a long-term project, etc. When staff feel that... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

26 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

database, which gives the hometown for each inventor on each patent. We developed methods to determine whether the two patents by "Lee Fleming" and "Lee O. Fleming" are from the same person (they are) and whether the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Mar 2018
News

Do the Things You Love

Rebecca Henderson (MBA 1985, PhD BE 1988) is the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard University. In this interview, she discusses the value of money versus personal satisfaction. “Money doesn't matter nearly as much as... View Details

Student-Profile

Hummy Song

sure I would maintain practical relevance and significance vis-à-vis the health care field. I felt that the Health Policy Management program would provide the perfect environment to combine and explore my interests further. Research... View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

Model Patient

again: As the very first person to enroll in an innovative new health-care program in Massachusetts, she may be leading the way to medical coverage and care for the 47 million Americans who are currently... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2018
News

Case Study: A Good Fit

gym, for example—and sustaining it over time, says Sean Eldridge (MBA 2009). He and his cofounders at Gain Life, an early-stage startup based at the Harvard Launch Lab, have an app for that. By combining behavioral science and marketing best practices with the View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

Profile

John Nordin

important person in my life. That's where environmental issues became important to me." So important, in fact, that a year before John entered HBS, he founded his own company, Flipswitch, a web application for solar companies that... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy

01 Jun 2010
News

NFLers Tackle HBS

More than 35 active players from a number of National Football League teams, including the Baltimore Ravens, New York Jets, and Minnesota Vikings, spent a week at HBS in February in a custom Executive Education program. Now in its sixth year, the program is taught by... View Details

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Portrait Project

Janice Lin

"favorite aunt." I'll find a way to make senior care desirable and not negative. I'll live and abide by "no fear." Most importantly, I'll burn as brightly as possible for a short period of time, but impart every bit of... View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

Wyss Gift Supports HBS Doctoral Programs

HBS has received a $25 million gift to support doctoral programs from Hansjoerg Wyss (MBA ’65), an entrepreneur who built Synthes, Inc., into a leading international medical-device company specializing in orthopedic instruments and implants. “One of the greatest... View Details

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Profile

Farrah Jamal

the CFO, they gave me a chance – and I stayed almost three years.” “Health care is in transformation,” Farrah says. “It’s an industry that can really benefit from the perspectives, lessons learned, and best practices of other industries.... View Details

Web

Seven Lessons from the Section Experience - MBA

Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID... View Details

29 May 2019
News

HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni

Etienne Deffarges (MBA 1985), author of Untangling the USA: The Cost of Complexity and What Can Be Done About It. Deffarges, a health care entrepreneur and investor, talked about his book and the concept of complexity to a gathering of 60... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

Portrait Project

Soline Miniere

hear the prejudices I am carrying with me because of where I am born, my gender, or my relationship status. I feel the box I am in. As seconds pass, I reflect. All those voices, surrounding me, that I have never really listened to. I want to listen better, to View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

Having a Ball

founder and CEO of a Virginia technology company, snapped it up through his Stafford Foundation. “We’ve gotten away from the core values that made America great,” Stafford told the Washington Post (December 4, 2008). “We just need to get back to View Details

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25 Jun 2020
News

Covering All Corners

patients. Fortunately, I am a member of an MBA alumni association that has addressed the problem of providing the Egyptian health care system with ventilators, which are prohibitively expensive and have been in short supply since the... View Details

Article

The Economic Consequences of Hospital Admissions

By: Carlos Dobkin, Amy Finkelstein, Raymond Kluender and Matthew Notowidigdo

We use an event study approach to examine the economic consequences of hospital admissions for adults in two datasets: survey data from the Health and Retirement Study, and hospitalization data linked to credit reports. For non-elderly adults with health insurance,... View Details

Keywords: Personal Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Insurance; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Health Care and Treatment

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