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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Courage and Hope in Africa
the country's economy and infrastructure in shambles and with its enormous social problems (Sierra Leone has the highest infant mortality rate in the world), Van Gerpen is seeking aid for UNICEF from Western governments and international... View Details
- Portrait Project
Matthew Mahoney
failure and invite them along for endless adventures. The Dalai Lama's right of course. When we create, we grow. When we grow, we're happy. I want to take growing further, push it beyond me. Chances are I won't be the one who invents the new thing that reduces child... View Details
- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
Zealand government instituted free breast cancer screenings for women ages 50 to 64, later extended to 45 to 69. The foundation is currently working to extend those screenings to women up to the age of 74. Data shows that access to these free screenings has reduced the... View Details
- Profile
Maxeme Tuchman
throughout her college career. After college, and multiple roles in various local issues and political causes, Max joined Teach For America for the "two best and hardest years of my life." In that time, Max lost a student who was View Details
- Profile
Mallika Ahluwalia
value chain, from large hospital systems to medical device companies and retail pharmacies, on strategy and operations. Recently, she returned to her hometown, Delhi, as a Program Officer at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation where she is working on a series of... View Details
- 15 Apr 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
that access to these free screenings has reduced the breast cancer mortality rate in the country by 34 percent, says Smyth, who was awarded a Companion of the NZ Order of Merit by Queen Elizabeth for services to Women and Governance, in... View Details
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
socioeconomic disparities in health and mortality is a well-established fact. Many pathways have been adduced to explain inequality in life spans. In this article we examine one factor that has been somewhat neglected: people with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Tools | New Venture Competition
mortality in South Asia. Executive Summary (pdf) Presentation (pdf) Business Plan (pdf) FOCUS Foods 2015 Winner Urban aquaponics farm that will be a self-sustaining symbiotic fish and produce system. Executive Summary (pdf) Presentation... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
women’s health in the United States, which has the worst rate of maternal mortality of any industrialized nation. Women of color are four times more likely to die in the delivery room. “People theorize that 50 percent to 75 percent of... View Details
- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
Watson’s superhuman powers can send mixed messages. Technology, once welcomed for freeing people from drudgery and backbreaking labor, is so powerful and its innovations so swift and relentless that mere mortals have a hard time keeping... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: That’s Classic
obituary and Sheryl’s reflections on his unexpected death. That comes close to Marcus Aurelius thinking about his own mortality in Meditations; Augustine’s account of his mother’s death in Confessions; an extract from the historian... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
Improving Infant Mortality Rates: The Impact of Front-line Staff Collaboration on Neonatal Care (revised) Authors:Ingrid M. Nembhard, Anita L. Tucker, Richard M.J. Bohmer, Jeffrey D. Horbar, and Joseph H. Carpenter Abstract Front-line... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jun 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
That's Classic: Modern-Day Business Lessons from Ancient Rome
Sandberg’s [MBA 1995] chapter in Lean In about her husband, Dave Goldberg, then his obituary and Sheryl’s reflections on his unexpected death. That comes close to Marcus Aurelius thinking about his own mortality in Meditations;... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
evidence has shown that social behavior—including helping others—improves our mental and physical health and extends life expectancy. One study on mortality following 7,000 people found that the risk of death among men and women with the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
"Dehydration is the leading cause of death among refugees. Before this panel ends, nearly eight hundred children will die of dehydration caused by diarrhea." Noting that the mortality rate for Afghan children under the age of five is 25... View Details
- 12 Nov 2014
- Op-Ed
A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform
conservatorship, experts from public, private, and academic worlds concurred: housing finance in the United States was mortally flawed. The private sector reaped the gains while the public sector absorbed the risk. In the aftermath of the... View Details
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
average length of hospital stay and mortality rate in teaching hospitals relative to a control group of non-teaching hospitals. Despite the anticipated nature of the cohort turnover and the supervisory structures that exist in teaching... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
pulled from the data, Sadun says, can extend beyond private firms. She wants to see if her research can help decrease mortality rates in neonatal intensive care units by increasing accountability and communication and teaching doctors to... View Details
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
presentation, "Management Matters in Health Care," which proved, using data from randomly selected hospitals in seven countries, including the United States, that it absolutely does. Her research showed a definitive link between high heart attack View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
racial divide in cancer mortality rates. “We as a society have the capability to provide much greater care,” he says. “It’s a matter of marshaling focus and resources. There is an enormous amount of good that can be done.” O’Neal is still... View Details