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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

players? Drawing upon examples of entrant moves into health care—at Walmart, Best Buy, and Amazon—this session will help participants understand the landscape of current efforts to embrace consumerism in health care and the significant challenges that remain in... View Details

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

workspaces, airports, health care, education, auditoriums, and conferences. During the pandemic, the company decided to leverage its network of clients to collectively understand how to face the crisis. In collaboration with the HR association of Turkey, it formed a... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

01 Jun 2020
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Prognosis

deployed after the Boston Marathon bombing, as well as during world wars, previous pandemics, and other disasters. With that structure in place, the hospital was able to make the “crisp decisions that are required in warlike times,” says... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Hospitals

01 Jun 2020
News

Check In

group, Depatie oversaw Kimpton’s $430 million sale to the InterContinental Hotels Group in 2015 before stepping down to co-lead KHP Capital Partners, a real estate private equity firm focused on boutique and independent hotels. Spun out... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; hotels; COVID-19; real estate; Hospitality; Hospitality

12 May 2015
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A Flash of Insight

to lose faith in the rationality of the market and closed his fund. Next-step options, such as a CFO or director of corporate development position, filled his head as he left the top-floor co-op of the Brooklyn Heights town house where he and his wife lived. The home,... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; 9/11; Hospitals; Hospitals

06 Oct 2022
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On the Road to Recovery

Alejandro Moreno (MBA 1988) didn’t know much about travel nursing when he met a fellow entrepreneur by chance at a child’s birthday party in 2003. The man was considering starting a new business providing staffing assistance to hospitals... View Details

Keywords: Hospitals; Hospitals; Hospitals; Hospitals

02 Jan 2020
Op-Ed

Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?

allow people to choose Medicare or private insurance. The Republicans, for their part, have focused on dismantling Obamacare and making hospital prices more transparent. Which, if any of these, can solve... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace; Health; Public Administration

04 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon

at the data, you'll see that improvement is possible," she said. "The clinical training of managers really matters for management practices." The data also showed higher quality of management in private View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

30 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 30, 2008

contracting intensity in privately governed organizations, whereas we expect no such association for publicly governed organizations. We analyze data from California hospitals to determine differences in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2018
News

Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out

Raffaella Sadun (photo by Russ Campbell) Raffaella Sadun (photo by Russ Campbell) In the face of economic challenges, hospitals in the English National Health Service have turned to a strategy that has proven effective for small View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

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1.12 Clearance for Return | MBA

1.12 Clearance for Return 1.0 Academic Information & Policies After a hospitalization or emergency room visit by one of its students that raises serious concerns about the student’s health or well-being, or in other circumstances that... View Details

Portrait Project

Lorrayne Ward

align incentives across the public and private sectors by distributing medicine to rural areas via the existing network of drugstores. Profits for shopkeepers, more lives saved for society – a perfect plan, I had naively thought. But I... View Details

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Club Conferences | MBA

19, 2024 Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition Retail & Luxury Goods Club Conference October 20, 2024 Retail & Luxury Goods Climate Symposium November 2, 2024 Energy & Environment Club Food & Agriculture Club Sustainability Club View Details

26 Apr 2016
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April 26

do. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/316042-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 315-006 La Ribera Health Department La Ribera was a privately managed, publicly funded health department in the Valencia region... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Apr 2014
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Fighting the diabetes epidemic using mobile phones

The company has raised $500,000 through private funding and government grants. “Diabetes is not just a medical problem, it’s a lifestyle and a social problem rooted in rapid urbanization, sedentary lives, and bad diets. It requires a... View Details

Career Coach

Laurie Matthews

Advertising. She also works with private clients as an executive leadership coach. By asking questions, listening, and sharing observations, she brings clients an open heart, keen rigor, and honest support. Coaching is a partnership, so... View Details

Keywords: Hospitality; Hospitality; Hospitality; Hospitality

19 Jun 2019
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Connecting Patients and Providers

tried to contact medical specialists on his mother’s behalf. Trustedoctor estimates that only 2 percent of emails to doctors are returned and a full 46 percent of inquiries to United States hospitals via any method are lost. And even if... View Details

Keywords: April White

15 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808087 Two Brattle Center: A Mental-Health Clinic in Search of a Viable Operating Model Harvard Business School Case 408-103 Two Brattle Center (TBC) is a struggling for-profit View Details