Health and Personal Care Stores - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Feb 2014
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The First Five Years: Omowale Casselle (MBA 2009)

success. However, the personal relationships with family and friends are what make life truly worth living. "As I graduated from business school in 2009, my mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.... View Details

Keywords: General Merchandise Stores; General Merchandise Stores

01 Mar 2015
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Clubs Hopping

small, in California, Florida, and Texas, where most HBS Latino alumni live. Dallas was the proving ground for this strategy. “We want to collect and build our networks more regionally,” says Calderon, who... View Details

Keywords: April White; Health, Social Assistance

07 Dec 2022
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Putting Patients First

"So we're going to take [patients] from end-to-end instead of a point-to-point solution—which I believe to be part of the problem with health care." Asked about his personal thoughts on leadership, Rodriguez... View Details

26 Nov 2013
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Care.com, a Site for Caregivers, Aims at Wall Street

Keywords: Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores

01 Sep 2007
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To The Rescue

government and other institutions” to expand the service. Like any good businessman, Raju saw in emergency care an untapped market. The need was clear enough: Every day some 200,000 Indians face a medical... View Details

Keywords: Garrett M. Graff; emergency response networks; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

26 Aug 2020
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What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic

beauty care routines, using fewer plastic items in our own beauty care routines or buying more from farmer's markets or local stores that don't use as much plastic. It's... View Details

01 Sep 2010
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Start-Ups Make Their Pitch

help consumers locate a business or person to handle local service needs, get price quotes, and book appointments. Southern California: Kiwilimón (Deborah Dana Beyda, MBA ’08, cofounder) is a food View Details

Keywords: awards; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing

24 Jan 2025
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The Network Effect

Karan Mathur (left) and Dina Model (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Dina Model and Karan Mathur (both MBA 2015) met through mutual friends during their first year at HBS, neither was envisioning a future business deal. “We didn’t realize that we had shared... View Details

17 Feb 2015
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The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)

more significant improvements in their health and development than we can through any amount of additional health care investment alone.... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door

1981. The School's Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, Herzlinger is the author of seven best-selling books, including her landmark volume Market-Driven Health Care (1997), which... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

health justice, and social justice. Ultimately, we need to create a new decision-making paradigm, where our business strategies and choices fully consider the short- View Details

18 Nov 2021
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Strength in Numbers

American Cancer Society for the mental health field—an organization that can increase awareness, reduce the stigma, and rally donors to make large, multiyear funding commitments to the most promising View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2009
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Faculty Books

Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care by Richard M.J. Bohmer (Harvard Business Press) In this book, Senior Lecturer Bohmer, a medical doctor,... View Details

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

11 Jun 2014
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Improving conditions for climbers' guides in Nepal

After scaling Mount Everest in 2013, Jan Petzel (MBA 2003) transformed his personal triumph into an opportunity to raise funds for the construction of a permanent shelter and medical facility in the Gokyu... View Details

11 May 2017
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Going with the Flow

last person who has control of their health information and their own destiny is the patient. You would never run a business the way health View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

24 Apr 2014
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Fighting the diabetes epidemic using mobile phones

people worldwide who suffer from this often-fatal disease. With a goal of reversing “diabesity”—the twin epidemic of diabetes and obesity that is engulfing the developing world—Jana Care is building... View Details

01 Mar 2004
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High Brow

You could be forgiven for not knowing it by the look of the average bloke on the street, but American men annually drop $19.5 billion on “hair services” and $5 billion on grooming products, the New York Times (December 25, 2003) reported.... View Details

Keywords: men's grooming; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores

01 Mar 2013
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A Healthy Profit

Nair, who received his medical training in India and a master's degree from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), Gita's case demonstrates not only the importance of getting good primary View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

17 Aug 2011
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How Birchbox Is Disrupting Beauty