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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
two dilapidated row houses that had been vacant since 1978. She intends to replace them with affordable rental apartments—the opening salvo in an ambitious plan to redevelop West Baltimore Street, whose boarded-up windows and abandoned... View Details
- 13 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
Mobile Banking for the Unbanked
the costs down dramatically and improving access, so the poor could afford to bank. The problem is that this is not the way that the poor think of money. They hardly have any savings. Their main need is money-transfer." The Success... View Details
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
environment to drive innovation." Out of that commitment came SK-II, a skin care product that sells for about $120 a bottle and has moved them into a whole new range. Now this prestige line is being rolled out globally. So the... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
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Harvard Business School
IlliniCare Health in August 2017. Rashid is a pioneer in the Medicaid managed care landscape, helping to ensure there is access to quality and affordable health care to the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Collaborative Cures
issues, makes health care an exciting space. It’s even more so now because of the feeling that there’s momentum for change. Seeing the Affordable Care View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
charity care to uninsured patients. "It's a Robin Hood story," Heese says. "These hospitals overbill the insured patients to generate money to pay for the uninsured." (Heese's research was done before the enactment of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
“worried well,” he said, who are involved in their own health care, are staying healthy, and are taking preventative action. The Invincibles: These are the folks the Affordable Care View Details
- Portrait Project
Vaibhav Singh
got stuck in rough terrain. They taught me not to brake hard on corners and how to act if things went horribly wrong. No one ever cared if a CEO with a superbike was riding next to someone who bought a... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
Why an MD/MBA from HBS and HMS?
undifferentiated student, I wanted the option to see a variety of specialties before narrowing down my career. Moreover, Harvard Medical School (HMS) faculty have been leading the national agenda on health care reform, as demonstrated by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
"affordability" of the Affordable Care Act is questionable, but some aspects of the initiative are pushing companies in the right direction. I'm glad I've stuck around long... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
Contest were Boss Medical and Baby.com.br, while SANA Care won in the social enterprise track. More than 90 teams submitted entries as part of this year's Alumni New Venture Contest. Clubs in Boston, Brazil, Chicago, Germany, India, New... View Details
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
will still get high-quality health care, but within a system designed around the concept that tradeoffs exist. When health care organizations act this way, they begin to thrive in unprecedented ways. A:... View Details
- 11 Dec 2019
- News
A Righteous Path
Today, there are 40 staffers working in partnership with 450 pro-bono attorneys to represent the 1,001 children who would not otherwise be able to afford an advocate. These young migrants, most of whom arrived from Central America, have... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
families out of homeownership. “People love the idea, and I have always loved the idea,” says Laurie Gould (MBA 1996), a partner in Massachusetts-based VIVA Consulting who focuses on affordable housing. “We have these downtowns that are... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers
remember thinking, oh, that must just be my dad; he must be the only person who cares about that." The Dodd-frank Requirement Fast-forward to 2010, when the US Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
the Health Connector, which acts not as an insurance company but as a purchasing agent for small employers or individuals.” A final piece of the puzzle, Pozen says, was redirecting the funds in an existing “free-care pool” to subsidize... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
everyone everywhere in the world in unprecedented ways and the consequences are real,” says incoming HBS MBA student Isha Khambra, a member of the Students Fight COVID initiative. “Despite these challenges we—now and in the past—have seen View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
undermine U.S. international competitiveness. This background note digs deeper into these trends and their origins, the barriers hindering change, and past and current reforms, including the 2010 Affordable View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 1/5
I’m angry. I’m angry about more things than I care to list, but with the hope that this may land with some of you, I’ll try. I’d like to start this letter with an example. This e-mail was sent by “Schultz.staffel” (Schultz.staffel = SS,... View Details
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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and helped launch the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) that was created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). He also... View Details