Health Acceleration Challenge - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Disruption: The Art of Framing

When we perceive a competitor's groundbreaking innovation as a threat, we may act defensively and hastily. But if we see that same event as an opportunity, our response might be more deliberate and unhurried. As a leader, how you frame that View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower

01 Dec 2022
News

Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

building a more sustainable economy. She focuses particularly on how firms can safeguard economic growth and long-term profitability by addressing challenges like climate change and inequality, actively contributing to the View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Apr 2025
Blog Post

Alumni in Climate Networking Series: Miami

Are you interested in connecting with other alumni leveraging their careers to confront climate change? BEI invites HBS Alumni to join our Alumni in Climate Networking Series for a chance to connect with local alumni to discuss ideas, trends, opportunities, and... View Details

06 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine

enjoyable it is, it’s a separate issue.” Overcoming the initial hurdles that stand in the way of a good habit often requires people to challenge seemingly innocuous behaviors, says Beshears, who has been studying how people make financial... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

13 Feb 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Students Reflect on COP28

the end, we were granted the opportunity to pitch live at COP as one of the finalists of the IRENA NewGen Accelerator Program. I also spoke on a panel about women’s entrepreneurship and participated in another pitching event organized by... View Details

18 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

Dream Challenge (involving experts as solvers), we believe this work is unique in that it specifically recruited non-domain experts via the Topcoder platform. Lagace: How did you design and carry out the study? Why Topcoder? LISH team:... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Health

02 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act

at coping with industry change is not just due to such commonly cited barriers as insufficient resources, he says. "Managers get trapped by success, a condition that I call active inertia, or management's tendency to respond to the most disruptive changes by View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Kevin Barenblat Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Tech Accelerator for Nonprofits Supports Impact that Scales Kevin Barenblat 27 Jul 2017... View Details

13 Jun 2017
News

Finding Common Ground

devices were.” CollaborateUp specializes in bringing corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, and other organizations together to take on big, complex issues, such as endangered species trafficking, international food security, and access to View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

10 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

the vendor of outsourced services can improve the efficiency and perhaps the quality of services delivered—particularly in health care, where outsourcing is on the rise. In research recently published in the journal Organization Science,... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health

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Jonathan Godfrey Archives | Social Enterprise

designed to accelerate the impact of social entrepreneurs moving their organ... INITIATIVES focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or industry to solve alone. View Details

June 2000
Case

Lifeline Systems, Inc. (A)

By: H. Kent Bowen and Marilyn Matis

Lifeline Systems provides emergency response equipment to the elderly who live at home. The company uses local hospitals to market, sell, and install these units in homes, while the hospital monitors and calls for aid to respond to emergency calls from the elderly... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Product Marketing; Sales; Problems and Challenges; Growth and Development Strategy; Managerial Roles; Service Operations; Information Infrastructure; Age; Service Delivery; Restructuring; Crisis Management; Health Industry; Health Industry

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03 Aug 2022
News

Hungry for Change

says. Yet maintaining that healthy lifestyle was a challenge when Flynn was traveling. And she knew she wasn’t the only one facing this problem. As a consultant within the food industry, she observed that many consumers were asking for... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2013
News

A Mission in Motion

agency Millennium Challenge Corporation, where alumnus Jonathan Bloom (MBA 1972) has firsthand experience with largescale training and infrastructure efforts in Ghana ("Sizing Up Social Impact"). "A Healthy Profit" tells the story of... View Details

Keywords: summary

01 Jun 2017
News

Boosting Boardroom Diversity

accelerate that trend. In addition to helping senior women executives develop the knowledge and skills sought by boards, the weeklong program (next offered in November) demystifies board selection and offers the opportunity to explore... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

2002
Article

Managing Routine Exceptions: A Model of Nurse Problem Solving Behavior

By: A. L. Tucker and Amy C. Edmondson

Keywords: Management; Health; Problems and Challenges; Behavior

Citation

07 Sep 2021
News

Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania

it needs to make more effective public health decisions, an issue that became all the more apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic. “While working in East Africa before HBS, I saw the challenges of delivering... View Details

Keywords: April White

26 May 2022
News

Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories

Clubs News Clubs News Digital health platform Noom awarded Entrepreneurial Company of the Year In a virtual award celebration held on April 6, the HBS Association of Northern California (HBSANC) honored the digital View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2008
News

India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"

overcome them, as Chidambaram outlined in his talk, “Poor Rich Countries: The Challenges of Development.” Having gained its independence from Great Britain in 1947, India is a “young nation but an old civilization,” Chidambaram said, with... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government

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Risa Komatsu Archives | Social Enterprise

Fellows Program, the Social Enterprise Accelerator is offered to studen... INITIATIVES focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or industry to solve alone. View Details

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