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- 04 Jan 2016
- News
Taking Time Out for a Challenge
After living in Sierra Leone from 2006 to 2010, where she worked as a founding board member of the Welbodi Partnership, which supports the country’s health system in delivering essential services to women and children, HBS doctoral... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Making a Statement
Getting Behind Health Care Andrew M. Paul (MBA 1983) sees a powerful connection between the business side of health care and the benefits of better service delivery to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
Benvenuti Photo courtesy Janet Simpson Benvenuti Although I didn’t realize it until much later, my life changed the day I agreed to become legally responsible for my 78-year-old father and my 77-year-old mother, who suffered from lung View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Rena Xu (MBA 2014, MD 2014)
of the job? “The best parts have been the relationships—with patients, and with peers. As residents we rotate onto different services each month, but the bonds that we form with our patients are real, and the sense of investment in their... View Details
- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
part thanks to Smyth, who joined the volunteer board of the fledgling Breast Cancer Foundation NZ in the mid-1990s and became its chair in 2009. Her work with the charity has been informed by her business career, she says. A partner at... View Details
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Brittani Rettig
Your Twitter bio reads like that of a superhero ("Management consultant by day, fitness instructor & wellness blogger by night"). Can you tell us about your day and evening jobs? "By day I'm a manager at Deloitte Consulting. I work with clients in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
also has developed partnerships with more than 850 hospitals across Andhra Pradesh that will provide 108 patients with 24 hours of free medical care. Hospitals that had been initially reluctant to sign on to the service quickly came... View Details
- 06 Dec 2012
- News
New Thinking on Healthcare Reform
of minicomputers created more of a midpoint (clinics) before desktop PCs became prevalent (home healthcare and services such as MinuteClinic). "We need to bring technology to outpatient clinics and patients' homes so they can provide more... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
level of creatine kinase—an enzyme indicative of muscle damage—in a normal person's blood is around 50 units per liter, maybe as high as 100 after a workout. Charley's was 20,000. It suggested muscular dystrophy. Related Links Curing Health View Details
- 02 Sep 2022
- News
Strength in Numbers
ineffective.” Their solution? The Goodness Web, a nonprofit that finds its strength in connection, in “a web of people who can aggregate resources—whether that is philanthropic dollars or contacts—to do good, better,” Swartz explains. The Goodness Web aspires to be a... View Details
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
business of providing services to patients. (Those who are uncomfortable with the notion of businesses in health care can substitute the term service lines.) The question... View Details
- 11 Jun 2020
- In Practice
Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?
provided but to augment and expand their offerings. Telemedicine is a terrific example of this. Many health care providers have already moved to virtual visits and ramped up new types of services such as... View Details
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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Health Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Vital Signs
Halle Tecco (MBA 2011) Halle Tecco (MBA 2011) Halle Tecco (MBA 2011) has been a health care investor since she graduated from HBS. Her fascination with the massive disruptions underway in the industry led her to found the Rock Health... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Spin Cycle
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. “Cancer has not forced me to change my life,” says Linn. “The irony is that cancer has been one of the best things that ever happened to me.” View Details
- 18 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows
immune system-driven dendritic cell therapy to combat cancer, new molecular technologies for the delivery of transdermal formulations, a lipid-targeting drug to treat cancer and neurodegenerative disorders, and AI-driven medical... View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- News
A Fearless Force for Change
founded with her husband Dave Linn (MBA '00) to fund research and clinical trials at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Linn died July 20 at the age of 40. Diagnosed with a soft-tissue sarcoma (a relatively rare cancer) in December... View Details
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Nabihah Sachedina
Tactically, the Partnership is responsible for thirteen priority programs, ranging from mental health and cancer to childhood obesity and diabetes. But strategically, it's changing the very way health care... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Get Well Soon
first-year required Technology and Operations Management course (TOM), the case offers valuable takeaways for future managers of any complex service organization. “It’s a good TOM case in that it includes hard numbers and rigorous... View Details
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
care costs? Quelch noted that in the cases of the grocery retail market and the financial services market, higher empowerment typically leads to lower costs because more of the work is shifted to the... View Details