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16 Sep 2024
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Life Preserver

problem,” Giwa says. In Sylvatica and Harvard/Mass General Hospital partners’ laboratories, they’ve demonstrated success with human livers, frozen, thawed and, when hooked up to a simulated transplant model, fully functioning. “This could... View Details

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Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

joint venture with a community hospital to establish Hoag Orthopedic Institute, a for-profit hospital and two ambulatory service centers. By controlling and integrating all aspects of the patients' medical... View Details

04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

Herzlinger: I've had it. [Laughs.] Just had it! You know, I did my doctoral thesis really by accident in a hospital. That was in 1971, 36 years ago. And at the time, I was astonished at how mismanaged that hospital was and how the most... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008

and Efficiency of Hospital Work Systems Authors:Anita L. Tucker, Sara J. Singer, Jennifer E. Hayes, and Alyson Falwell Publication:Health Services Research (forthcoming) Abstract To link safety-related concerns raised by frontline staff... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2004
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Zanzibar: Something for Everyone

The Zanzibar portion of the trip allowed us to slow our pace and take advantage of the seaside resort as well as a series of optional side trips. Given the legendary lure of Zanzibar as one of the Spice Islands, many of us elected to take a tour that explored the... View Details

Keywords: Hospitality; Hospitality; Hospitality; Hospitality

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Social Enterprise Track | New Venture Competition

model. By pioneering Africa’s foremost medical equipment-sharing marketplace, the platform ensures hospitals can access critical devices when and where they need them most. Team: Ejiro Maroh (MBA 2026), David Bunn (MBA 2026), Toritse... View Details

01 Oct 1998
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New HBS Alumni Board Members

director of the Irish Seafood Producers Group. Born and raised in Ireland, Garvey studied chemical engineering and earned a BS from University College Dublin in 1976 and an MS from the University of New Brunswick in 1978. He has served on the board of Portiuncula View Details

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Tony Perez

applying management skills to challenges." This summer, Tony will go deeper into the clinical practice part of his profession by entering a medical rotation at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston. His ultimate goal, however, is... View Details

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Sophia Virani

Even as she worked in investment banking and hedge funds, Sophia Virani felt drawn to science and medicine. "I really wanted to be in a career that was more service-oriented, that allowed me to interact with people," she says. Sophia volunteered in View Details

01 Dec 2008
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A Force for Good

was seriously injured in a car accident was astonished to receive a visit from McArthur in the hospital even before his frantic wife could get there. It is rumored — but not confirmed — that he welcomed premature babies into the world... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank; Hospitals; Hospitals; Hospitals; Hospitals; Hospitals; Hospitals; Hospitals; Hospitals; Hospitals; Hospitals; Hospitals; Hospitals

01 Dec 2019
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The Race Against Resistance

Waltham, Massachusetts, suggests two main reasons why so few new antibiotics are in the pipeline. First, antibiotics are used for relatively short courses and, as a result, aren’t as profitable as chronic-care medicines. Second, in the United States, View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

01 Oct 2001
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Q&A: Orin Smith

A native of rural Chehalis, Washington, Orin C. Smith (MBA '67) was an EVP for Danzas, an international freight shipping company, when Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz approached him in 1990 to join the fledgling company. Schultz, Smith recalls, was "personable, creative,... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Hospitality; Hospitality; Hospitality

Henry J. Kaiser

the first integrated steel mill on the West Coast and a major aluminum company. His most enduring achievements were the employee health plan and 19 hospitals he established, which were the first health maintenance organizations in the... View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Incentives and Operational Excellence

Whether you're running a major medical supply company or a hole-in-the-wall video store, chances are you know how common operational problems are. If you are the medical supplier, for instance, you probably deal with a hospital group that... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2017
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Starting Lineup: No Reservations

$1.5 billion in sales last year. There are also rumors of an IPO. Chorus Hospitality Founder and CEO Michael Tisch (MBA 2014) Founded 2015 “A service-focused management partner,” Chorus Hospitality invests... View Details

20 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 20

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_16/b4174076731775.htm?chan=magazine+channel_business+views Cases & Course Materials Foxwoods: Turning Data into Insights in the Hospitality Industry Lynda M. Applegate and Deborah... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Apr 2023
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Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition

hospitals with its nursing workforce management platform. “We’re building the technological layer that hospitals and health systems need to adapt to the expectations of modern nurses in a post-Covid world,”... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

30 Jun 2019
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Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo

years ago after a serious bike accident landed him in the hospital for a year. From his hospital room, he laid the groundwork and developed the team that would eventually launch alltricks.com in 2008,... View Details