Population - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2007
News

Letters to the Editor

for HBS. Steve Taylor (MBA ’71) Park City, UT Is Current Capitalist Model Sustainable? The March Bulletin was uplifting. I was very pleased with the news about Al Gore visiting the campus and Garry Emmons’s article addressing the problem of a growing View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

07 Aug 2009
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?

population covered) than any other country. And things don't seem to be getting any better. There are a large number of examples of various approaches to the problem extant in the world, nearly all of which include greater government... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

16 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025)

accelerate progress toward malaria elimination and gaining a better understanding of what it takes to successfully deliver global health solutions. Although the population vulnerable to malaria has doubled since 2010, funding has... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

Case Study: Off to a Fine Art

“It’s been a great boost, and top-line results followed.” What’s ahead: Last spring the company raised $15 million in Series B funding, which will help GAIA expand into other densely populated urban areas in Mexico, as well as on the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

24 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

including aging populations and medical technology. But an underlying and misunderstood source of health care’s escalating costs has been the inability of health care provider organizations (such as large academic medical centers) to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 20

about the random coefficients logit can be attributed to the lack of cross-level inference in previous research. To overcome this deficiency, we design several Monte Carlo experiments to show what the model predicts at both the individual and the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 1999
News

Ted Anthony

for it was apparent that a substantial portion of the Business School population was present." The students' May 12 program included constructive discussions on topics ranging from riot control techniques to the social and political... View Details

Keywords: Ted Anthony

06 Dec 2012
News

New Thinking on Healthcare Reform

added. "There are more uninsured people in Texas than the population of Massachusetts. How are we going to care for them?" MinuteClinic is obviously only part of the solution: "No one is going to get an appendectomy in the greeting card... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2016
News

Pricing Paradise

population is willing to pay $92 billion a year to protect, or not lose, the national parks and the service’s key programs such as education and historical preservation. Further studies by Bilmes and student researchers focus on... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Oct 2002
News

Bozidar Djelic

can bring everything to a halt.” Djelic adds to the pressure by placing himself very much in the public eye. “Communicating is a big part of my job,” he explains. “In this small country, we have 350 television stations serving a View Details

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Training Course in Personnel Administration: 1937 - 1944 | Baker Library

evening seminars, and discussion groups. Other houses nearby provided additional dormitories as the student population grew. This tight-knit community fostered many opportunities for lively social and intellectual exchanges among the... View Details

01 Sep 2020
News

Maintaining a Resilient Democracy

interests, above our partisan interests—political conflict has often proved highly productive, and a great deal has been achieved. Today, we need to look hard at ourselves and our own political parties and make sure a strong and resilient democracy remains our first... View Details

Keywords: Deb Blagg

01 Sep 2020
News

Saving Grace

fees to service and administrative charges and investment and withdrawal penalties. Chapman is not alone in his struggle to make sense of a murky system, though his career probably gave him a leg up on the average pensioner—a growing View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

20 Nov 2019
News

Lifting Fallen Families

percent of the population serves.” So the Children of Fallen Patriots began to show the public how to support military families and the children who are left behind when parents are killed in combat, in training, or by suicide after war... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

13 Nov 2018
News

Building a New Real Estate Investment Model

renting than any time in the last five decades, and Davis knew there was a market opportunity here. Yet Davis moved in the opposite direction of many real estate investors. He didn’t target big states with large suburban populations and... View Details

Keywords: April White; Real Estate

14 Mar 2019
News

The Merchant of Osaka

population is increasing faster than any other nation in history, while its birthrate is shrinking. That double whammy is reducing both the workforce to care for the elderly and the tax base to support its universal health insurance... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

04 Aug 2023
Blog Post

Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change

their inspiring stories. Chidalu Onyenso: Empowering small business owners’ self-sufficiency Climate change and the energy crisis have disproportionately impacted underdeveloped countries and the most vulnerable populations with them.... View Details

01 Jan 2002
News

Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)

of its HIV/AIDS medicines. In addition, Merck has initiated a unique partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Republic of Botswana-where more than one-third of the population is infected with the virus-to model how the... View Details

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Arjun Goyal

“marries a scientific eye for identifying precise populations in which therapies are effective, with a commercial appetite for successful drugs that need more time and money to prove their potential.” As part of a four-person clinical... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Health Care

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Business at the Base of the Pyramid - Course Catalog

population of the world that is near indigence and for whom market solutions are less relevant. Course Evaluation and Grading 50% of the grade will be based on class participation, 10% on an original posting and two responses on the... View Details

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