Public Health Projects - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Sep 2022
Blog Post

6 Things to Know About Sustainability at HBS

through a number of projects and sustainability campaigns held throughout the year. Past SSA projects have ranged from the beehives (see below!) to assessing how well sustainability concepts are integrated... View Details

20 Sep 2016
First Look

September 20, 2016

currently under discussion. Academics, regulators, and public officials have proposed many of these measures. At the same time, banks have been implementing their own company-tailored culture change programs. This View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Affiliated Organizations & Institutions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress... View Details

31 Oct 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

developed new product categories such as organic food and wind and solar energy, which explicitly focused on sustainability. Again this process has been traced back to the nineteenth century. With the rise in green consumerism and public... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2023
News

Case Study: The Home Team

Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate

29 Mar 2016
First Look

March 29, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50648 2016 New York: Oxford University Press Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health: A Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Business By: Quelch, John A. Abstract—The View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jul 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior

Milkman, among others, the group settled on four areas of particular interest to nudge units in the United States and United Kingdom—retirement savings, college enrollment, public health interventions, and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

28 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination

discrimination among users, most recently through Project Lighthouse. Poor design invites discrimination Airbnb's early design choices were aimed at facilitating a user's trust both in the platform and fellow users, but some of those... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Travel; Entertainment & Recreation; Service

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McCollum Center | About

Health Foundation, whose floating hospital ship HOPE gave free medical treatment around the world. He also spearheaded Project Orbis, a flying eye-care facility that brings medical treatment and education to... View Details

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Key Stakeholders - 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

18 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas, April 18

organizational behavior as a field of study. He was a pioneer in creating a body of work on organization design, leadership, and change in both the private and public sectors. Lawrence’s professional work was rooted in an aspiration to do... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Jun 2009
What Do You Think?

What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?

Other activities included in GDP, such as health care costs, do not reflect the fact that spending more on health care is, in John Caddell's opinion, "in general not good for the country." How... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

study there. The two-year project included the creation of the Bloomberg Center, an extension of the building’s southern footprint and new south-facing entrance named to honor William Henry Bloomberg, the late father of New York City... View Details

28 Feb 2019
News

New Program Will Develop Leaders of Innovative Ventures

firm based in Boston, where he served in a wide range of roles, including managing partner and Executive Committee member. He also served as board director of more than 30 public and private companies. He recently retired from Summit and... View Details

18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18

development, fluid teams of individuals with different sets of experience are tasked with projects that are critical to the success of their organizations. Although building teams from individuals with diverse prior experience is... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7

Reinsurance developed at the fringe of financial services and, for most of its existence, was largely unnoticed outside the expert community. However more recently public and professional sensitivity towards managing risks has increased.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Oct 2021
In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

COVID-19 variants snuffed out the brief period of vaccination-injected optimism earlier this year, as childcare and school disruptions lingered. Despite such resistance and health concerns, some employees have joyfully returned to their... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

26 Apr 2016
First Look

April 26

workers without an agency affiliation. This advantage declines after high-quality non-affiliated workers receive good public feedback scores. The results indicate that intermediaries have arisen endogenously to permit a more efficient... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2010
News

John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures

sixth grades in Princeton, New Jersey, public schools, aided by ventilators and wheelchairs and accompanied by nurses. Pompe doesn’t affect their minds. “They’re bright, precocious, and very happy kids,” says Crowley. —Sarah Auerbach View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

September 2008 (Revised June 2013)
Case

Odyssey Healthcare

By: Robert F. Higgins, Virginia Fuller and Umer Raffat

In January 2001, Dick Burnham, CEO of Odyssey Healthcare, and Odyssey's Board of Directors were considering selling the hospice care company to a larger provider or making an initial public offering (IPO). With 38 hospice locations in 21 states, Odyssey had been... View Details