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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
has invested over $1 billion in laying 2,000 miles of water lines and building 33 wastewater treatment plants while returning strong profits for shareholders. Equally important, the company has emerged as a model for integrating financial... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
have died.” Chan, who hails from the People’s Republic of China, obtained her medical degree from the University of Western Ontario in Canada. In 1994, she was named Director of Health for Hong Kong, where she began her public-health... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)
opting instead for HBS and an executive career. Ten years later, he again aborted plans to attend medical school when his wife's health suddenly deteriorated, leaving him with primary responsibility for... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 22 Mar 2016
- News
Bill (MBA 1966) and Penny George
answering President Kennedy’s call to give back. He then transitioned to the private sector. “I’ve always been interested in how leadership leads to service,” says George, who served in senior executive positions at Honeywell and Litton Industries before joining... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
occurred in 2020. “COVID-19 is a dreadful pandemic,” she says in the following discussion, “but it has turned everything upside down in the health care sector in some good ways.” What are the most interesting digital health care innovations to View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
patients’ needs. Today’s doctors work in a system where they are rewarded by Medicare and insurance companies for the number and cost of the services they provide rather than by the value of those services in helping patients. In short, View Details
- 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
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
Stephen Johnston (photo by Gary Laufman) For a mobile-focused business entrepreneur, Stephen Johnston (MBA 2002) is more than a bit of a contrarian. Unlike many of his peers, Johnston, 41, has his sights set not on emerging nations but on... View Details
- 27 Apr 2023
- News
Life Preserver
Summit in 2016 Subzero human liver biostasis experiment at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital as part of a Sylvatica-funded project. (Photo: Jeffrey Andree, Reinier de Vries and Korkut Uygun.) Giwa speaking at the White... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
The sci-fi future for cancer treatment has become a reality, with breakthrough therapies that can use a cancer patient’s genetic information to create personalized treatments or employ the body’s immune response to treat disease. But for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 15 Apr 2022
- News
Funding His Purpose
institution for nonprofits and for-profit social or environmental impact companies. Instead of relying on often restrictive grants, nonprofits with revenue-creating programs—say, an organization that offered free medical treatment in... View Details
- 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
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
technologies. “Innovation should be part of the mission of every physician,” says Amadio, currently chief resident in the neurological surgery residency program at Emory University, in Atlanta. “We have been at the medical game for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Conversation with Dean Nohria
benefit to doing more, as is evident from our recent experience with the School's US Competitiveness Project. In pondering how to better understand the prospects for American competitiveness, we realized that our alumni represent a unique resource. Indeed, their View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Faculty Books
institutional environments alter financing decision-making around the world. Environmental Protection and the Social Responsibility of Firms: Perspectives from Law, Economics, and Business edited by Bruce L. Hay, Robert N. Stavins, and... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard
nonprofit, for-profit, and hybrid business plans. “The SEI aims to educate, inspire, and support leaders across all sectors to tackle society’s toughest challenges and make a difference in the world,” explains Director Rob Zeaske (MBA 2002). “NVC is a key program for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
FIELD 2 in Accra
Tim Leach (MBA 2015) had backpacked in Africa before, so he was somewhat prepared for the heat, noise, traffic, dust, and disorientation he and his FIELD 2 team experienced in early January, when they emerged from the airport and began... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
wellness and medical technology—always seeking to maximize financial returns while delivering social and environmental impact." During her time at Funk, she connected with the Calvert Foundation, a non-profit investing institution... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
an invitation-only workshop for top management and senior physician leaders. The School also launched a joint-degree program with Harvard Medical School in 2005, with the first full cohort of students graduating this past May. Left out... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
iStock The faculty, students, and staff of Harvard Business School are thinking about the people of Turkey and Syria who were impacted by the recent earthquake. We have all been touched by the loss of life, the hopeful stories of survival, and the rapid View Details