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01 Sep 2007
News

Stem Cell Man

activist Christopher Reeve, previously had worked in strategy, marketing, and management with several firms that were involved in IT, health care, and life sciences. “In the business world, a lot of what I did was getting people to work... View Details

Keywords: biology; stem cell science; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

27 Apr 2017
News

Enabling a Transformational Educational Experience

impact people’s lives on a large scale,” he explains. “I’m excited about improving access to affordable health care globally and especially in South Asia, where I’m from.” As an undergraduate at the Birla Institute of Technology and... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope

Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter In the wake of the Snowden leaks in 2015, the New York Times dropped the bombshell news that one company had played a unique role in enabling the National Security Agency’s domestic spy program. The report, “AT&T Helped US Spy... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

2020
Working Paper

Venture Capitalists and COVID-19

By: Paul A. Gompers, Will Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan and Ilya A. Strebulaev

We survey over 1,000 institutional and corporate venture capitalists (VCs) at more than 900 different firms to learn how their decisions and investments have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We compare their survey answers to those provided by a large sample of... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Health Pandemics; Investment; Decision Making; Surveys

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01 Jun 2008
News

“Where can we find such a person?”

for managing a complex organization. Where can we find such a person?” It turns out that an HBS graduate filled the bill. Brock Reeve (MBA ’88), a nonscientist, was hired in 2006 as HSCI’s executive director in large measure because of his broad experience in IT, View Details

Keywords: stem cell; Management

01 Dec 2013
News

Your Own Medicine

level of creatine kinase—an enzyme indicative of muscle damage—in a normal person's blood is around 50 units per liter, maybe as high as 100 after a workout. Charley's was 20,000. It suggested muscular dystrophy. Related Links Curing View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; biomedicine; biopharmaceutical company; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

03 Aug 2022
News

Hungry for Change

Management consulting doesn’t lend itself to a balanced diet. Always on the go for her projects at Kurt Salmon, Kate Flynn (MBA 2012) would grab whatever packaged food appeared healthiest to her. For a long time, she sought low-calorie and low-carbohydrate options but... View Details

Keywords: April White

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

01 Jun 2012
News

In Brief

Cambridge, Massachusetts tech start-ups in health care, energy, or information. More A Better World, One Idea at a Time A dozen budding social entrepreneurs pitched their ideas for innovative products and services during the annual Social... View Details

Keywords: meta; contests; awards

11 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

consistent with boardroom connections mattering most for firms that stand to benefit most from the information communicated and resources exchanged through the network of board members. Overall, our results... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 1998
News

Short Takes

and not 12- to 17-year-olds, the study clearly shows that cigarette advertising is significantly related to youth, but not young adult, readership. King and his colleagues conclude that the study can be used as an important tool in the public View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

06 Jan 2012
Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing

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Value-based Healthcare: Implications for Thyroid Cancer

By: A.K. Ying, T.W. Feeley and M. E. Porter

Today's delivery of care to thyroid cancer patients is complex, and costly, with uneven outcomes that can be improved. The incidence of thyroid cancer is rising and requires coordinated, multidisciplinary care with high volume centers that is not always available in... View Details

Keywords: Bundled Reimbursement; Healthcare Reform; Integrated Practice Units; Outcomes; Patient-reported Outcomes; Thyroid Cancer; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Information Technology; Value

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08 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform

availability of high quality information on corporate performance is critical to the effective functioning of the exchanges and maintaining their reputations for listing reliable securities. In this e-mail... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

Career Coach

Doug Lester

Doug’s approach to career and executive coaching is informed by over ten years in marketing, digital, and general management roles at Johnson & Johnson and other Fortune 500 companies. He offers perspective as a former executive recruiter... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care; Health Care; Health Care; Health Care; Health Care; Health Care; Health Care; Health Care; Health Care; Health Care; Health Care; Health Care; Health Care; Health Care

08 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp

Even as citizens generate more data than ever before, most cities haven’t taken full advantage of that information flow to improve services and become more efficient. “Historically, cities have been moving in analog, trying to measure... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

01 Mar 2023
News

Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions

Southern California (USC) changed Velasquez’s trajectory, making it possible for him to become the first person in his family to attend college. But that was just the initial step toward Velasquez’s ultimate goal: to become a doctor and create a more “accessible,... View Details

Keywords: April White

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 health care to poor... View Details

Keywords: contests; awards

01 Feb 1998
News

Women at the Top

the new program, "women executives long for the same kind of camaraderie and exchange that men can find with their peers in more informal settings." Among those in attendance was Jessie d'E. Bourneuf (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young

01 Apr 1997
News

A Conversation with Dean Clark

of lively conversations before I took this job - mostly about ideas, rather than mechanics - and those discussions have continued. Neil and I share similar views on the School and its opportunities, so our relationship is on a sound footing. Our students have to... View Details

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