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- 18 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020
Africa to watching the sunrise over ancient temples in Cambodia. Never could we have imagined handling long-distance from the United States’ East Coast to Australia’s West Coast for nearly three years. Never... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
Clayton Christensen: The Survivor
- Web
Rigorous research, rooted in practice | About
in industries and organizations where economic models and operations are being disrupted from every angle. Faculty Case Studies Initiatives & Projects Bold ideas that become a powerful catalyst for change. Business & Environment Business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
Tanzania. Now based in Kigali, Rwanda, Ngoyi finds her global experience is a good fit with her current role. In May 2022, she was named CEO of the Fund for Export Development View Details
- March 2010 (Revised February 2014)
- Case
Community Health Workers in Zambia: Incentive Design and Management
By: Nava Ashraf and Natalie Kindred
This case examines the various considerations relevant to selecting and compensating workers in a context where their work involves a pro-social component. This is relevant to not only health care in Zambia, but to NGO and public sector workers who are both motivated... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Training; Health Care and Treatment; Compensation and Benefits; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Mission and Purpose; Non-Governmental Organizations; Motivation and Incentives; Health Industry; Zambia
Ashraf, Nava, and Natalie Kindred. "Community Health Workers in Zambia: Incentive Design and Management." Harvard Business School Case 910-030, March 2010. (Revised February 2014.) (Request a courtesy copy.)
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
What Precision Medicine Can Learn from the NFL
- June 2022
- Article
A New Initiative to Track HIV Resource Allocation and Costs
By: Ryan McBain, AK Nandakumar, Michael Ruffner, Carlyn Mann, Mai Hijazi, Susanna Baker, Linden Morrison, Kalipso Chalkidou, Shufang Zhang, Iris Semini, Fern Terris-Prestholt, Steven Forsythe, Sarah Byakika, Joshua Musinguzi and Robert S. Kaplan
In early 2020, several global health institutions – including the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS); United States Agency for International Development; and Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator at... View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing; HIV; Cost; Health Care; Healthcare; Health Care and Treatment; Activity Based Costing and Management; Resource Allocation; Health Industry; Africa
McBain, Ryan, AK Nandakumar, Michael Ruffner, Carlyn Mann, Mai Hijazi, Susanna Baker, Linden Morrison, Kalipso Chalkidou, Shufang Zhang, Iris Semini, Fern Terris-Prestholt, Steven Forsythe, Sarah Byakika, Joshua Musinguzi, and Robert S. Kaplan. "A New Initiative to Track HIV Resource Allocation and Costs." Bulletin of the World Health Organization 100, no. 6 (June 2022): 358–358A.
- November 2024
- Background Note
Social Enterprise in the MENA Region
By: Brian Trelstad and Ahmed Dahawy
This research note provides an overview of the socio-economic landscape of social enterprise in the Middle East and North Africa. It highlights the diversity of players in the region including social enterprise organizations (in their many forms) and supporting... View Details
Keywords: MENA; Non-Governmental Organizations; Nonprofit Organizations; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Diasporas; Social Entrepreneurship; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Geographic Scope; Health Care and Treatment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Social and Collaborative Networks; Demographics; Health Industry; Service Industry; Tourism Industry; Egypt; Morocco; North Africa; Tunisia; Jordan; Lebanon; Saudi Arabia; United Arab Emirates; Dubai; Middle East
- 21 Feb 2013
- News
HBS Professor Frank Aguilar Dies at 80
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research Incentives versus Reciprocity: Insights from a Field Experiment By: Chung, Doug J., and Das Narayandas Abstract—We conduct a field experiment in which we vary the sales force compensation scheme... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Honing an Interest in Healthcare at HBS
few other operations and finance courses. My only healthcare work was an independent study that extended some interesting research on cancer treatment access with an HBS professor, and helping another professor write a biotechnology case.... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Applying HBS Lessons in an African Context
HBS, I was concerned that our classes might not be relevant to the African context – and that I would need to find some other way of learning more about the continent and issues I cared about. Thankfully, I could apply the lessons from... View Details
- 27 Feb 2009
- News
Switzerland has the medical bills covered
- 01 Jun 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation
she adds, with the development of a vaccine against cervical cancer (Gardasil) and the launch of successful new drugs to combat diabetes and HIV/AIDS. Sato acknowledges that different situations will require different business... View Details
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
Cognitive trust is grounded in the belief that your co-workers and leaders are reliable and dependable. It’s a resume-like competency, and you can confer it right away; it is typically referred to as “swift trust.” But emotional trust is... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
of pages of regulations. Time and again the regulatory status quo blocks entrepreneurship. No wonder the twenty or so doctors enrolled in my Innovating in Health Care course at... View Details
- 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
- 20 Apr 2020
- News
To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
of social distancing, says Carrolo. “This happened to be very timely – especially now,” she says. “So we spent some time in the VRT talking about how to prepare digital healthcare systems for a pandemic. Our alumni View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Profile
Mira Mehta
offers much more than a purely academic learning experience. I came to school with a clear vision of what I cared about, but without a strong sense of what path I should or could take to achieve my goals. My friends from the HBS View Details
- Web
Year in Review | Annual Report 2024
Ohnouna, Rebecca Sichel, and Daniel Silberwasser) and Middle East and North Africa Club (Loujaine AlMoallim, Line Hachem, and Abdullah Mahomed), along with Teresa Danso-Danquah—all members of the MBA Class of 2024—as well as to Martin... View Details