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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
to World Problems Professor Emeritus William Sahlman (MBA 1975) No additional materials available + More Info – Less Info The world has a seemingly infinite supply of problems. Fortunately, entrepreneurs view problems as opportunities. In this talk, Baker Foundation... View Details
- 11 Oct 2012
- News
Answering the Doctor's Call
Downing: From business analysis to bedside diagnosis. Photo courtesy Bill Downing When Bill Downing (MBA 1995) started his first semester as a medical student in August, he... View Details
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
to Choice. Under positive-sum competition, all restrictions to choice at the disease or treatment level would disappear, including network restrictions and approvals of referrals. Reasonable co-pays and large deductibles combined with View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A View from the Top
Relations Bill Sahlman, who quizzed each recipient at a late September event held for the benefit of hundreds of first-year MBA students packing Burden Auditorium. Sahlman opened the discussion with this stumper: What is your greatest... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
in 2016, with Gastfriend as CEO and his father as chief medical officer. A 2014 study estimated that 12.5 million Americans had substance use disorders, and that number was rising, largely due to opioid use. In addition to the human toll,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Thumbs Up Down Under
It was with mixed emotions that Rich Wilson (MBA '82) and his coskipper Bill Biewenga set sail from New York Harbor last September aboard their 53-foot trimaran Great American II, heading south on a long-planned voyage to Melbourne,... View Details
- 18 Mar 2021
- News
Authentically Leading with Blind Ambition
In a recent virtual fireside chat, HBS Senior Fellow Bill George spoke with Chad E. Foster (PLDA 21, 2016), who learned that, though he lost his vision in his early 20s, blindness was a “gift” from which he developed the mental stamina... View Details
- 30 Jan 2018
- News
Four Alumni Named as Presidential Leadership Scholars
Four HBS alumni are among 59 individuals selected as Presidential Leadership Scholars (PLS) in the program’s fourth year. PLS brings a diverse group of leaders together to collaborate as they learn about leadership through the presidential experiences of George W.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Health Care’s New Frontier
1999, the nascent success of that program, called athenaNet, and the interest it attracted from investors and other medical practices convinced Bush and Park to shift the company’s focus from clinical care to Internet View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Cash flow struggles can take down a company or spark ideas that transform an industry
hospitals, and patients were hurting athenahealth’s bottom line. Bush shifted the company’s focus from clinical care to Internet billing and information processing, and athenahealth now provides cloud-based practice management, billing,... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- News
Providing the Care That Seniors Need
that I would want to be. “Ultimately I bought the first piece of land to create a best-in-class senior-housing community about a mile from the Texas Medical Center. We looked for companies to buy and/or manage our community. We couldn’t... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
William K. Bowes Jr., MBA 1952
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Bill Bowes has been a force in the US venture capital industry for more than 50 years. As a founder of the Silicon Valley–based U.S. Venture Partners, he helped launch a stellar list of View Details
- 12 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions
Christopher Poliquin. “It would take approximately 66 people dying in individual gun homicide incidents to have as much impact on bills introduced as each person who dies in a mass shooting” The researchers constructed a dataset of all... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices
the prices of more than 100 medications by 32 percent, on average, in June and early July. The Senate has been debating a bipartisan proposal to limit seniors’ out-of-pocket costs and curb price increases, while House leaders finalize a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Delivering Trust
Illustration by Marcos Chin Illustration by Marcos Chin When they married, Deborah and Jake Anderson (MBA 2010) knew that they might have difficulty starting a family due to a preexisting medical condition. They began consulting with... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 06 Mar 2018
- News
A Voice for Diversity and Impact at Scale
scaling local knowledge. Back in the United States, that realization led Hunt to explore other aspects of the health care industry’s value chain, from billing to insurance to product development. “I loved the sense that I was working in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
The Next Lessons
serving some 10 million students a month, and used in more than 300,000 classrooms around the world to teach math, science, arts, economics, and more. Khan, who now leads a team of 60 at the non-profit, counts Microsoft’s Bill and Melinda... View Details
Keywords: William Weber
- 08 Mar 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?
also stand to benefit, largely due to the legislation’s proposed tax cuts. In addition, the plan also advocates for expanded use of Health Savings Accounts, tax-advantaged savings accounts for medical expenses, which are currently only... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Touch Down
Gannon: After flying his own plane to 155 countries, feeling more like a global citizen. Other Newsmakers Diana ("Dido") Harding (MBA ’92) David Miller (MBA ’03) Allison O’Kelly (MBA ’99) Amos Schocken (MBA ’70) Mike Stone (MBA ’88) Tom Tiller (MBA ’91) View Details
Keywords: world records
- 28 Feb 2011
- News
Rebooting the Human Condition
“futurist,” Enriquez has received, along with Bill Gates, an unprecedented invitation to be a guest curator at the 2011 TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) conference, which kicks off today (February 28) in California. TED, whose... View Details