Emergency Medical Response - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2013
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Faculty Opinion: Making It Better

costs. A variety of coverage plans have emerged in response to a desire for lower-cost insurance, as would be expected in a consumer-driven market. BRIC countries are home to many health-service innovations,... View Details

Keywords: Herzlinger, Regina; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

03 Jun 2016
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Again in a Great City

bankruptcy. But when the city emerged from bankruptcy 17 months later, investors took another look. “Now the uncertainty has been removed.” Add to that the business-minded political changes: Democratic mayor Mike Duggan came to city hall... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly

01 Sep 2009
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Of Value and Values

On the Horns of an Investment Dilemma Financial management firms that focus on sustainable investing have been gaining ground for twenty years now. As an example, Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), a global association of nearly... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

15 Dec 2024
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After Ozempic

Back before Ozempic, when Kate Mulroney (MBA 1984) spoke at technical conferences about her work at Novo Nordisk, people often assumed she was talking about Novartis. “I’d have to explain that’s a Swiss company; we’re Danish,” says Mulroney, now head of advanced... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Pete Ryan; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Oct 1999
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The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change

turning our considerable energies more and more to giving back. Typically, much effort is original and entrepreneurial: starting film schools for inner-city youth or tackling the problem of what to do with eighteen-year-olds emerging from... View Details

Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer

01 Dec 2020
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AI Enhances Diagnostic Care

Tomography) scanner at MRC helps doctors diagnose diseases and abnormalities. Augmented Intelligence The American Medical Association uses the term “augmented intelligence” as a conceptualization of artificial intelligence that focuses on... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care

EHR system. The scan might as well be stuck in a manila folder. “The biggest problem with health care today is not how expensive it is. It's that we're held down by force, our money is taken, and then we're shoved into a medical system... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2000
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The Business of Biotech

approval process can add years to a drug's development. "My biggest source of frustration is the inability to move candidates into products more quickly," re-marks Mara Aspinall (MBA '87), president of Genzyme Emerging Technologies at... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2001
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Christina Ehrenberg: The Examined Life

Ehrenberg decided at an early age that she wanted to be a doctor. “I was very concerned about sick people,” she says, “and I thought medicine was the greatest job in the world.” In 1997, she graduated from medical school in Munich and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

08 Jun 2023
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Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner

Baker Foundation Professor, Emeritus William A. Sahlman presented the Entrepreneurship Award to Michael Martin (MBA 2015), founder and CEO of RapidSOS, an advanced emergency technology company that powers safety, security, health, and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2018
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Disrupting India’s Dental Market

economies of scale or scope. Dental practices were typically a single office run by the same person who wielded the mirror and probe. Chains usually topped out around a dozen locations, which Singh concluded was the most a medical... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

01 Jun 2007
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Mission Possible

tap the best minds in genetic research. Fresh out of HBS, Cindy Ko (MBA ’05) joined a nonprofit economic-development organization dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs in emerging markets. Although their missions are different, these... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Margie Kelley; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

22 Feb 2022
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An Rx for Small Business Recovery

business-focused products and broaden access to lending,” says Mills. Research suggests that fintechs were responsible for some 50 percent of PPP loans to Black-owned businesses. “As the recovery evolves, adopting new technologies will... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

within the confines society imposed. Integral Advantage: Revisiting Emerging Markets and Societies by Ronnie Lessem (MBA 1968) (Routledge) The BRIC countries are heralded for their double-digit economic growth rates, and yet, significant... View Details

01 Jun 2015
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Leadership on a Global Stage

League graduate school and then working internationally in a senior leadership role.” But as Jefferson lay in a bed at Tripler Medical Center in Hawaii, where he was flown for emergency surgery, those... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Apr 2002
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Back in Business

driver, "I was at the building three minutes later," says Lhota, who started directing traffic, knowing that emergency vehicles would soon be arriving at the scene. "At this point, I assumed it was an accident." Lhota was spotted by... View Details

Keywords: 9/11; NYC; New York City; Government

13 Jun 2017
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Finding Common Ground

serial entrepreneur, the New Mexico native ran his first business as an undergrad at George Washington University in Washington, DC, in the early 1990s. Selling medical lab tools from his dorm room and making deals using an old-school,... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Jun 2022
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'Rooted' In Innovation

early-stage challenges with an eye toward scaling operations after graduation. “The cases in Globalization and Emerging Markets were about business realities I’ve been living every day,” he notes. “Finance was the subject where I had the... View Details