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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Rhenisch Rick Bern/Courtesy Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority A community organizer during the 1960s, Madelyn Rhenisch was a pioneering advocate for better medical care for the people of rural upstate New York. More... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
garment factory owners engaged in cutthroat price competition to secure orders from Western manufacturer and retailer brands. These brands conveniently sourced their requirements at arm’s length through third-party intermediaries to avoid any View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
shelters, Shumway talked to homeless residents about their circumstances. “These are good people,” he says. “They may have started to self-medicate with drugs or alcohol because they didn’t have access to the psychiatric or medical... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
this one played out brilliantly. Within a decade, Dr. Daniel Vasella (PMD 57, 1989) rocketed through the ranks of Sandoz and in 1996 led the firm’s merger with Ciba-Geigy, emerging as CEO of the new company called Novartis, based in... View Details
- 27 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery
the disaster recedes into the past, the students are shifting focus. During trips in earlier years, they studied the emergency response and rebuilding of companies. Now the emphasis is transitioning from... View Details
- 14 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Does December's Drug-Approval Dash Mean for COVID-19 Vaccines?
greater than that downside, justifying our potential need for emergency approvals.” Maybe even those emergency approvals could then be gradated by risk scale. So, for these types of people [of a certain age... View Details
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
The carbon market has emerged in response to concerns about global climate change. This note characterizes the market in 2008, describing each segment and how it operates. Purchase this note:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- November 2010 (Revised June 2015)
- Teaching Note
B Lab: Building a New Sector of the Economy, B Lab: Can it Scale Business as a Force for Good?
By: Christopher Marquis and Bobbi Thomason
Teaching Note for 411047 and 415080 View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses
When MBA students returned to Soldiers Field in the fall, they had nine new second-year courses to choose from, four with an emphasis on fieldwork. For faculty, developing a course affords the opportunity to draw on research and address what they see as some of the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Web
2+2 Application Process | MBA
who have not held a full-time work position (other than internships or co-ops) are eligible to apply. To be eligible for the 2+2 program, candidates need to have gone directly from undergraduate to graduate school. PhD Programs, Law School & View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
Benvenuti Photo courtesy Janet Simpson Benvenuti Although I didn’t realize it until much later, my life changed the day I agreed to become legally responsible for my 78-year-old father and my 77-year-old mother, who suffered from lung... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
Image by John Ritter Back in January, the leadership at Massachusetts General Hospital, including President Dr. Peter Slavin (MBA 1990) (pictured above, right), took note of a virus that was spreading in China. They decided to activate the hospital’s View Details
- Profile
Tariro Goronga
Midway through his third year of medical school, Tariro Goronga came to a critical realization: “I just didn’t like sick people,” he says. “You have to be patient—and I don’t have that kind of patience.” Suddenly, the Zimbabwean native... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- Profile
Emmanuel Mensah
York, where he appreciated the firm’s “skill at managing execution; its ability to lay out clear goals for its clients.” Recognizing the value of a business approach to challenges, Emmanuel applied to HBS just as he was about to enter Harvard View Details
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Amanda Pratt
graduation, Amanda took on a traditional engineering role – working on medical imaging devices within General Electric's Healthcare business – that took her to some nontraditional worksites: Wisconsin, India, and Southeast Asia. Yet after... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
responsible for the safety and effectiveness of prescription drugs, biologics (biotech products derived from living sources such as cells), over-the-counter medicines, medical devices, cosmetics, nutritional... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Uncovering The Secrets of Mittelstand Success
companies prevalent in German-speaking countries—has long captured the attention of global business practitioners and scholars. Why are these firms so competitive globally, particularly in emerging markets, and how have they managed to... View Details
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
Funding Progress Back Home
“Harvard gives you powerful tools for getting things done in the world,” observes Eric-Vincent Guichard (MBA 1990). “Over time, you more fully appreciate the responsibility that goes with that education.” Guichard, who grew up in rural... View Details
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
managing the political conflict and the informational and procedural shortcomings that accrue to organizational differentiation. Finally, we show that the creation of an independent group responsible for managing not forecasts directly,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
leapfrog and adapt to climate change, ensuring that Africa can feed itself and even the world. The book is for aspiring and emerging agribusiness entrepreneurs across Africa as well as agribusiness students globally. It will also inspire... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley