Military Health System - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

system to speed delivery of targeted therapies to the marketplace. “Early on, people would ask us why the (Harvard) business school, and not the medical school, was the recipient of this gift,” says accelerator co-chair and HBS senior... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Health

16 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?

technologies, industries, and organizations. He has also conducted extensive research on the watch industry. Raffaelli weighs in below on everything from battery life to the Apple Watch's implications for the health care industry. Read an... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ryan L. Raffaelli; Health; Health; Health

02 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Fast-track to Better Outcomes: Yoonjin Min and RapidSOS

number of projects for hospital systems and pharmacies, then, inspired by the opportunity to explore health in a larger context, joined Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. An international organization affiliated... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care

20 Feb 2013
News

Thanking Veterans Online

U.S. Army Captain Blake Hall (MBA 2010), right, in Afghanistan in 2007 with members of his unit Photo Credit: Tony Overman Blake Hall (MBA 2010) knows from personal experience that US military veterans can easily miss out on the benefits... View Details

Keywords: veterans; identity; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2020
News

AI Enhances Diagnostic Care

changing the field of medicine. In the past several decades, the growing use of artificial intelligence in the health care sector has made it possible for computer systems and diagnostic machines to learn... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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1.11 Leaves of Absence | MBA

ordinarily will consult with Harvard University Health Services (which may consider information from the student’s current and/or former health care providers, if made available by the student). Students who... View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

Model Patient

health-care system is in critical condition: The cost of U.S. health care not only hampers its citizens’ well-being and the country’s ability to compete globally, but it also draws funding away from other... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

03 Mar 2017
News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

she had a different type of leukemia. They ran more tests but saw no sign of one. The hospital was affiliated with the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Medical Science, which had partnered with IBM Watson, a cloud-based cognitive-computing View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

01 Sep 2014
News

Making a Statement

the global health care system by fostering more effective leadership in health-related organizations. “My two years at HBS shaped my career,” he says. “I want to provide that opportunity to others, and it... View Details

2020
Working Paper

EMEs and COVID-19: Shutting Down in a World of Informal and Tiny Firms

By: Laura Alfaro, Oscar Becerra and Marcela Eslava

Emerging economies are characterized by an extremely high prevalence of informality, small-firm employment and jobs not fit for working from home. These features factor into how the COVID-19 crisis has affected the economy. We develop a framework that, based on... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Emerging Economies; Informality; Firm-size Distribution; Health Pandemics; Developing Countries and Economies; Economy; System Shocks; Latin America

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01 Jun 2009
News

Porter Helps Jerusalem Mayor with Economic Development

a press briefing, Barkat explained that he has adopted Porter’s cluster-based development approach to focus on three existing areas of strength: culture and tourism, health care and life sciences, and outsourced medical and financial... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

11 Jul 2025
News

Utah Club Dives into Great Salt Lake’s Challenges; Colorado Alumni Talk Defense Over Breakfast

Utah Alumni Explore Future of Great Salt Lake The HBS Club of Utah recently got an insider’s look at the economic and ecological health of the Great Salt Lake (GSL) with a presentation by Utah’s first GSL commissioner, Brian Steed, at the headquarters of Traeger Grills... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Naiyya Saggi

strong systems of support and learning for me. The Social Enterprise Fellowship supported me in my internship with the UNICEF Headquarters in New York over the summer. Organizing the Harvard India Conference helped me establish contact... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care

Profile

Maya Babu

contractors and service providers." Encouraged by her mentor at the Administration, Maya applied for the joint MD/MBA degree. Understanding both sides of the health care system To prepare for... View Details

15 Dec 2024
News

On The Case

Professor Linda Hill first met Tom Mihaljevic (GMP 15, 2013) when he came to campus to participate in a fireside chat that Hill unexpectedly wound up facilitating. At that time, he was the CEO of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, and the pair found they had a lot to talk... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

Father of Modern Management by Bob Buford (OPM 2, 1977) (Worthy Publishing) Where Does It Hurt?: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Fixing Health Care by Jonathan Bush (MBA 1997) and Stephen Baker (Portfolio) Bush, the cofounder and CEO of... View Details

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Expansion of the Case Method | Baker Library

system that would more precisely predict the immediate availability of planes for combat. Quartermaster Advanced ROTC, 1942. HBS Archives Photograph Collection. Building off the success of the wartime schools, HBS established the Advanced... View Details

13 Sep 2019
Blog Post

An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit

This article is a repost from the Social Enterprise Initiative blog. Prior to Harvard Business School, I spent eight years on active duty military service as an Aviation officer and helicopter pilot in the United States Army. My career... View Details

03 Aug 2022
News

Hungry for Change

damaged the health of the planet, with single-use plastic from food packaging clogging landfills. Flynn had never imagined herself as an entrepreneur, but she quickly recognized that the food system was not... View Details

Keywords: April White

21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

Drawing on lessons from the battlefield is common practice for business leaders seeking tested strategies to succeed against adversity. Today, the battle against COVID-19, an invisible enemy, feels to many observers like a military... View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

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