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22 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

and electronic payment technology to assess the health of a business. Traditional lenders generally focus on both the small business owners' personal credit history and key metrics about the borrower's business, such as industry-specific... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

01 Sep 2005
News

WATER Ltd.

at the turn of a faucet. Not so for 1 billion other residents of planet Earth, whose day begins quite differently. With their basic health already compromised for lack of water-based sanitation, those less fortunate must also worry that... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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Teams | New Venture Competition

Gaitan (EdM 2025) Husain Rasheed Engaging kids in Kazakhstan with an AI-driven simulation game that makes learning English fun Remarcation Hannah Wong (MArch 2025) Jia Wen Goh Fostering the autonomy of disabled users in public space... View Details

March 2024 (Revised July 2024)
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AMC: The Zero Revenue Case

By: C. Fritz Foley and Donal O'Cofaigh

The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic put theatre company AMC’s already perilous financial situation under even further strain. The company’s high levels of debt resulted in a monthly cash-burn which left it facing an imminent Chapter-11 filing in the absence of... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Public Equity; Stock Shares; Health Pandemics; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

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01 Dec 2019
News

The Race Against Resistance

resistance, we will fall back to a time when simple infections killed people.” “We are approaching a cliff. If we don’t take steps to slow down or stop drug resistance, we will fall back to a time when simple infections killed people.” The World View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

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Patients - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Value-Based Health Care... View Details

16 Oct 2013
Op-Ed

Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

deaths due to severe smog (estimated between 3,000 to more recently 10,000 in London between December 1952 and March 1953) now officially acknowledged and seemingly routine in China today as well as coal burning's lingering cardiovascular and lung disease impacts that... View Details

Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

09 Aug 2016

HBS, HKS, and HSPH Information Session in Dakar

Organized by the HBS Africa Business Club, this event is designed for prospective students to learn about Harvard Business School, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard School of Public Health from a student... View Details

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Employers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

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27 Apr 2023
News

Life Preserver

because they lack access to an organ transplant. Worldwide, the World Health Organization estimates only 10 percent of the need for organ transplantation is being met. And the gap between the demand and supply is even greater in some... View Details

Keywords: April White

Mar 2012
Article

Macroeconomic Policy and U.S. Competitiveness

as education and infrastructure, contributes directly to one or more of them, whereas spending on health care and entitlements does little to enhance competitiveness directly. Taxes are needed to fund public... View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

Fair Trade

from the book follow. An Affront to Public Morality The beauty business began modestly with the sale of products widely deemed an affront to public morality. Today, consumers around the world spend $330... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores

01 Jun 2018
News

The Long Run

everyone from a Morehouse School of Medicine professor to an entrepreneur offering nonaddictive alternatives for pain relief to Georgia’s public health commissioner. Langford runs the meeting with a light... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

11 May 2017
News

Going with the Flow

1971, JD/MBA 1978). Now Fisher is also on the board of Easterly Government Properties, and she’s launching two additional businesses: FitMoney, a nonprofit K–12 financial literacy program, and a health IT company that is still in the... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

11 Jun 2021
News

The Power of Resilience

team, and through that experience had the opportunity to also share my own personal story at health care conferences and public settings, really advocating for the power of genetic information. I was there... View Details

15 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding the Design of Livable Cities

urban sustainability initiatives and to create highly efficient and livable spaces. "The challenges of global urban redevelopment are an ideal opportunity for collaboration between the fields of design, finance, public View Details

Keywords: by Lisa Chase; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

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Newsletter - Research Computing Services

Harvard Kennedy School Harvard Law School Harvard Medical School Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study School of Engineering and Applied Sciences School of Public Health Other Department Role Select one... View Details

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Alice Yang

in numerous public service initiatives, including leading an adult ESL program that served six-hundred people in Boston’s Chinatown. In her senior year, Alice was inspired by a guest speaker in a health care... View Details

11 Aug 2014
HBS Case

The Business of Behavioral Economics

economics and pop culture, particularly since the recent publication of popular books such as Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein's Nudge, Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational, and Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow. Even so,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Health

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

say, "Look, I'm just running a company. I'm here to produce widgets." The conference was the third in a four-part series addressing HIV/AIDS and business. The series was organized by Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Business School,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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