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Shivangi Goel
the care they need in their most vulnerable moments. I want to reimagine how we bring innovative healthcare tools to the right patients so that in times of crisis we can adapt quickly and prevent unnecessary... View Details
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
effective treatment to prevent Osteoporosis. Kudos CEO: Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) Alumni Track Runner-Up & Crowd Favorite Winner Cotton cush for baby’s tush. Business Track, 2020 Alife Health, Inc. Paxton Maeder-York, MBA 2020 Business... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
legacy labor and health care costs-is seriously incomplete and that GM's share collapsed for many of the same reasons that many of the other highly successful American firms of the 50s, 60s, and 70s were forced from the market, including... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
David Grabowski, and David Cutler Abstract— Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) has been credited with lowering risk-adjusted readmission rates for targeted conditions at general acute care hospitals. However, these... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
work ethic—“they didn’t care what we did, but everyone had to work hard,” she says—and her mother offered a model of public service, serving as chancellor of the Board of Regents, New York State’s governing body for education. But when... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711033-PDF-ENG Primedic—Providing Primary Care in Mexico Richard G. Hamermesh, Regina Garcia Cuellar, and Lauren MarguliesHarvard Business School Case 811-040 Primedic is a Mexican start-up... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Meet the Student Academic Services Support Team at HBS!
situation created by COVID-19, there is an essential need for our community to prioritize taking care of ourselves and each other. SAS staff offer a number of customized programs throughout the year to respond to student stressors and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
to police its trademark by preventing others from using it to refer to something other than the Real Thing. Shareholder value is enhanced when a firm chooses an appropriate form of business organization, ranging from a limited liability... View Details
- 24 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti
Medical records at a healthcare clinic in Lascahobas, Haiti. Ryan McBain A few years ago, the Boston-based nonprofit health care organization Partners in Health (PIH) set out to quantify the cost of primary View Details
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
profitable market provided the motivation to solve the technological hurdles preventing them from producing higher-quality steel. The integrated mills were happy to leave these markets because the lower tiers in their product mix were... View Details
- 18 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech
jobs with competitors. They can often even prevent them from working in the same industry, especially when employers are intentionally vague in defining the competition in non-compete agreements. As Professor Matt Marx of Cornell... View Details
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
Appex provided centralized services that enabled independent mobile carriers to operate as a single seamless network. Appex’s services included call forwarding across carriers, fraud prevention services, billing and customer service.... View Details
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
were not strong enough to prevent the growth of private labels in Europe, but they were sufficient to maintain Unilever's strong position in higher margin products. It was able to leverage knowledge of brands and products between... View Details
- 02 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When Goal Setting Goes Bad
organization, goals are failing. This is what Staw and Boettger found many years ago. When employees care exclusively about reaching a goal, and bad things can happen if they fail, cheating goes up. This is the most important result in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation
and effective in preventing severe disease, and their accelerated review will go down in history as having saved millions of lives. But COVID vaccines weren’t the first medical products to be brought to market through an expedited... View Details
- 08 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate
“Restricting women’s access to this important health care seems to be a means, at least partly, to disincentivize them from being promiscuous.” “The gender gaps in labor market participation, micro-entrepreneurship, or business ownership... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
On the Radar
Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Our planet is teeming with trillions of viruses and bacteria, most of which are innocuous or even helpful, but some pose a significant risk to public health, animals, and crops. In recent decades,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Ikenna Okezie
and the Harvard Medical School. He plans to combine his two loves - medicine and entrepreneurship - in a way that will improve health care for all. Born in Nigeria, Okezie came to the United States at the age of two and was raised in... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 2023
- Article
Building the Business Case for an Inclusive Approach to Digital Health Measurement with a Web App (Market Opportunity Calculator): Instrument Development Study
By: Mitchell Tang, Yashoda Sharma, Jennifer C. Goldsack and Ariel Dora Stern
Background: The use of digital health measurement tools has grown substantially in recent years. However, there are concerns that the promised benefits from these products will not be shared equitably. Underserved populations, such as those with lower education and... View Details
Keywords: Demographics; Product Development; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Tang, Mitchell, Yashoda Sharma, Jennifer C. Goldsack, and Ariel Dora Stern. "Building the Business Case for an Inclusive Approach to Digital Health Measurement with a Web App (Market Opportunity Calculator): Instrument Development Study." JMIR Formative Research 7 (2023).