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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
job but can’t make ends meet? —Rick Holliday (MBA 1963) OAKES: Yes, their needs are quite different. For individuals with mental illness or disabilities or who have experienced homelessness, we have learned that just providing an... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
Dr. Abraar Karan took the stage in custom-made ties adorned with cartoon mosquitos. With Hour 72+, they hope to minimize deaths caused by mosquito-borne illnesses like malaria, dengue fever, and zika virus. “For us it’s exciting, but for... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 12 May 2016
- News
Food Rescue Is on a Mission
fill their own cars with fruits, vegetables, meat, and bread from Coles or other supermarkets and drive to their churches, where they cook a meal for neighbors in need. “A lot of the people in shelters have had mental illness and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
serious illness and its attendant financial insecurity could one day focus instead on a brighter, healthier future. A Cornell graduate who holds an MBA from Boston College, Rhenisch was for years well employed and enjoyed excellent... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
of sick people coming in,” to “Oh my God, are we going to run out of ventilators?” Our volume of cases doubled, with the number of critically ill people requiring a ventilator increasing over tenfold. At the peak, that meant every 20... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
can take you a long way.” The following year, at the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf (AG Bell) in Washington, D.C., after illness and death struck top executives there, Sommer managed key tasks and projects so well that she... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
students began to attack these cases by working together. The goal was threefold, says Dr. James Young, executive dean of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine: Watson was to help doctors get better at diagnosing illnesses and... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
also titled “The Globalization of Markets”— recalled these and other ideas and developments first discerned by Levitt, now universally hailed as a “marketing guru.” Although he was unable to attend the conference due to ill health, his... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
sort of drug addiction, my mother who suffered from mental illness had started to disappear. And I guess, if I was a psychologist, I'd say, I, at 11, decided that I would be perfect in everything that I could control. I remember when my... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
as a way of going into the Airbnb business are going to get crushed. I don’t wish Airbnb any ill will. I think it’s a good, well-run business, but I think they’re going to have some significant challenges in the short term, maybe in the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
Heart to Heart, a group of California doctors who volunteer their time to perform heart surgery on Russian infants and children. “When they began their work in 1991,” she reports, “the situation was so dire that there were hundreds of people in line outside the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
firm. But when her father fell ill in 1986, the Brownells decided to return to Detroit to help with the family enterprise founded by her great-grandfather. As things turned out, Brownell’s father recovered and was able to continue with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
opportunities for tech in helping solve social problems as well as identifying the ills from it and how we mitigate them. JB: It strikes me as one of these questions for which we would want to have people from Harvard Business School and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
examples of the kinds of questions the sector faces. “Public education is always going to present some difficult challenges,” he asserts, “because schools inherit all of society’s ills and have to deal with them. What I think we can... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
weeks (the man does not let up!), the students come to appreciate the intensity and rapid-fire humor of their teacher. Clearly, he cares. A lot. And by the end of the semester, something transformative has happened: They are better thinkers. When HBS professor Ted... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
responsibilities of business for the well-being of society. University of Illinois professor Hiram T. Scovill noted that “the best way for schools of business to justify their existence in view of the apparent ills and evils in business... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
drives; and how to manage the disease and vaccinations in the villages of developing countries. The book also explores how governments across the world can work closely with private-sector companies to fight the illness and accelerate... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
hard drinker and that didn't help his music. But number three is there's an underlying ... It's risky to diagnose someone from 125 years later, but some kind of depression or manic depression that he was subject to, some kind of underlying mental View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
frustrated that they aren’t able to contribute more. Our chief of orthopedics is serving as a scribe in one of our respiratory illness clinics. We have radiology residents who were medical interns a year ago working again as medical... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
spirit-ual advances might overtake the forces of materialism. Throughout the 1930s, Bulletin articles dealt gamely with a dark side of business barely imaginable to most of the magazine's current readership - bank runs, depression, New Deal programs, and the... View Details