Mobile Health Technologies - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2015
News

Clubs Hopping

technology that included Sequoia Capital partner Todd Cozzens (PMD 60, 1990), who invests in digital health companies. What trends does Carter see disrupting health care? View Details

Keywords: April White; Health, Social Assistance

21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

of local leadership: An individual manager can be an authentic communicator even if their organization is not. Jennifer Petriglieri’s colleague and husband, Gianpiero Petriglieri, recommends that leaders “tell your people what will happen to their salaries, View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

25 Aug 2022
News

Up on the Corner

housing in the next few years, and Dlodlo is currently looking to assume control of a large portfolio of vacant properties presented to her by community leaders, in which she intends to house frontline health care workers. The program... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
Background Note

Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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23 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier

people with health insurance often are saddled with medical debt. Policymakers have taken notice, and in an election year amid an uncertain economy, health care, debt, and economic View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

01 Feb 2002
News

It's academic. (Not!)

business administration (DBA) in accounting and control, marketing, policy and management, or technology and operations management. Another option is a joint program with Harvard University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences that... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

sitting on a rare opportunity, and they must be systematic in how they take advantage of it if they want to make positive changes," says George, a Professor of Management Practice at HBS and the former chairman and CEO of Medtronic, which develops medical View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Jan 2017
First Look

January 3, 2017

research and technological innovation, this approach is misguided and potentially risky. This article argues that researchers need to pay close attention to issues such as biases in data collection and spurious correlation. Publisher's... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

27 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 27

of technology. It reviews some opportunities for innovation that will solve the pain points and bottlenecks facing the system and outlines high-priority policy areas. It becomes clear that individual airlines have often been managed back to View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

conducted over twice as many community mobilization meetings, while seeing approximately the same number of patients at the health posts. Both groups spent the same amount of time at each household, meaning... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health; Health

01 Jun 2012
News

Social Enterprise Start-Ups Recognized for Bold Ideas

pilot with 100 patients under way and aims to reach 5,000 diabetes sufferers over the next year—and many thousands more in the future. In recognition of Jana Care’s innovative use of technology to deliver low-cost View Details

Keywords: contests; awards

07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

that?' I have found that many people who come into this industry do so for a combination of professional and personal factors," Williams says, adding that he left his job at a technology consulting firm and joined a biotech start-up... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Health; Health

25 Apr 2014
News

Bringing a new funding model to the life sciences industry

Andrew Farquharson (MBA 1999) wants to change the landscape for biomedical financing. The cofounder of VentureHealth, an online funding platform based in Silicon Valley, Farquharson leverages deals with investors who want access to biomedical startups. "If we can View Details

01 Mar 2010
News

Noted & Quoted

“Unfortunately, the technology for growing flu viruses to make vaccines is fifty years old — it’s chicken eggs.” — HBS Professor of Management Practice and former Merck CEO Raymond Gilmartin, at a November HBS panel discussion on drug... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Information

07 Sep 2021
News

Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania

heart of public services decision making.” That’s why DeBere and Helga Mutasingwa, a doctor and public health professional based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, cofounded Afya Pamoja in that country in 2020 with Patrick Anyanga and Robert... View Details

Keywords: April White

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

show that politicians use school ties as a mechanism to engage in vote trading ("logrolling"), and that alumni networks help facilitate the procurement of discretionary earmarks. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lcohen/pdffiles/malco.pdf 2006 pub... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

01 Dec 2022
News

Road to Recovery

digital therapeutics (app-based programs designed to improve health outcomes), he did not fully appreciate the bureaucratic hurdles the company would face. Developing the technology and processes to... View Details

Keywords: April White; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

26 Apr 2011
News

BioMine Strikes Gold

Rohit Dev Thakwani, OPM 37 2008 SpendWisor.com consumer electronics marketplace Watch their pitch. Midwest/Central U.S. Marc Hoecker, MBA '08 vinsnap mobile automotive marketing Watch their pitch. New England Marco Bitran, MBA '03 AI... View Details

Keywords: Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

03 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry

Conference, led by the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association, presented two days of provocative lectures, panel discussions, and case studies surrounding questions like: What's next for healthcare? And how should smart businesses... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

01 Mar 2009
News

A New Approach to Health-Care Reform

to merge with information from other facilities. There’s a new disruptive technology in the works, personal electronic health records (PEHRs), an open-source tool that collects data from all providers and... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance

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