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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Bold Idea Takes Off
when she won the Social Enterprise Pitch for Change business plan competition for Global Citizen Year (GCY), a nonprofit she envisioned to provide American teens with a “bridge year” between high school and college to work abroad. Ready... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
Vasella Illustration by Dennis Balogh Twenty years ago a young doctor with a hankering for business experience gave up his clinical practice in Bern, Switzerland, and moved to East Hanover, New Jersey, to try his hand at drug sales with the Swiss conglomerate Sandoz.... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
high school years, but I had put it off twice to pursue other career options. I realized then that medicine required the same skill sets, and it also represented a return to service—a very personal form of service.” Cooper took a job as a research View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Students Reach Out to Haiti
Several student relief efforts sprang up in the wake of February’s earthquake in Haiti. Partners In Health, which has been working in the country for over twenty years, was the beneficiary of choice for many of the first-year section charity auctions. As part of his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
SCHARPF: Seeking cost-effective raw materials in Rwanda. Elizabeth Scharpf (MBA ’07) is on a roll. Determined to put her MBA skills to work addressing socioeconomic and public health problems in developing nations, she has launched a View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
organizations with which Antares has partnered). The goal is to significantly improve the delivery of such products and services by achieving a commercially robust, self-sustaining footing, thereby ensuring lasting social and economic... View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
presence did, too. Today the PRIDE group is an association of 190 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ+) students and partners. It serves as a social and professional network, as well as a place to promote... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Vets Support Homeless Comrades
hours by AFAA members seeking to call attention to the plight of homeless veterans and to raise funds for a local shelter that assists them. “We thought this would be an effective way to raise awareness about the New England Shelter for... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 06 Oct 2022
- News
On the Road to Recovery
Alejandro Moreno (MBA 1988) didn’t know much about travel nursing when he met a fellow entrepreneur by chance at a child’s birthday party in 2003. The man was considering starting a new business providing staffing assistance to hospitals... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Student Trio Advance Health Payment Reform
Related Links Read about other efforts in healthcare delivery Three HBS students spent much of the last academic year helping a leading Boston hospital answer one of the most important questions in health-care management: how to create a new payment system that saves... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
by Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Takashi Yasui Sato-san’s hospital bed is wedged diagonally across his living room, relics of regular life pushed to the perimeter. For four years the retired accountant traveled back and forth to a Tokyo hospital for outpatient... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Health care article stats
p. 29 “47 million Americans who are currently uninsured” (U.S. Census Bureau) p. 30 “outlines of plan are simple” paragraph (Massachusetts Health Care Connector Authority) p. 30 “Health Care” sidebar (Cara Sterling, HBS Healthcare Initiative) p. 30 “There can be no... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
appointed Representative of the WHO Director-General for Pandemic Influenza last year. She also serves as Assistant Director-General for the Communicable Diseases Cluster. With so much at stake, what keeps Chan focused? “A sheer passion... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
Program in response to last fall's terrorist attacks, was cosponsored by the HBS Social Enterprise and International Business and Development Clubs. In his dramatic introductory remarks, moderator Reynold Levy, president and CEO of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
social sharing platform to help older adults live independently longer and provide tighter connection to family. CareSolver is a startup run by two current HBS students. It activate, educates, and supports the nation's $450... View Details
- 12 May 2021
- News
Aid from Afar
As HBS student Shyamli Badgaiyan watched the COVID-19 crisis surge in India in recent weeks, the Delhi native felt anxious and helpless. “I found myself thinking of ways to help from afar—an instinct I would later learn many students across the country were also... View Details
- 08 Apr 2011
- News
Management Matters In Health Care, Too
field. Although they come from very different backgrounds, the three panel members presented a unified view of why management really matters. HBS assistant professor Raffaella Sadun described her groundbreaking research on the impact of... View Details
- 11 Oct 2012
- News
Answering the Doctor's Call
take it to heart. Says Downing, a married father of three who has spent more than a decade volunteering in the poor urban neighborhoods of nearby Akron, “My true heroes are the pastors, social workers, doctors, and nurses who volunteer in... View Details