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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Booth Gardner’s Night at the Oscars
leaving office. Although his own condition is not considered life-threatening, in 2006 he took on what has become known as the Death with Dignity campaign, believing that terminally ill people should have the right to make the choice of... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Scientific Discovery
development of a course that could enhance decision making by providing participants with the knowledge and skills to better manage, fund, and commercialize scientific discoveries that could potentially cure illnesses ranging from... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Apr 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
outcomes. Public interest in the illness could also drive funding toward breast cancer research. Breast Cancer Foundation NZ launched a media campaign to spotlight the disease, and Smyth’s mother gave her daughter permission to talk about... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Fellowship Campaign Approaching Goal
that his illness dramatically altered his MBA experience by showing him the compassion of the HBS community. “I hope the challenges and experiences of the last two years have made me a better friend, father, husband, and person,” he said,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting those with debilitating chronic illnesses and the dependent elderly.” —Professor Lynda Applegate, on Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, by Atul Gawande Excerpt... View Details
- 13 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
Advancing Health Care Innovation and Impact with Anita Gupta (GMP 29, 2020)
from treating critically ill patients to advising global health organizations. But at HBS, I realized that leadership wasn’t just about what we do, it’s about how we empower others to drive change. Some of my most valuable lessons came... View Details
- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
Dr. Abraar Karan took the stage in custom-made ties adorned with cartoon mosquitos. With Hour 72+, they hope to minimize deaths caused by mosquito-borne illnesses like malaria, dengue fever, and zika virus. “For us it’s exciting, but for... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 11 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
From Britain to Boston: Two Years at HBS
with personal illness and a family tragedy and having support from the friends I made at HBS got me through. I will always appreciate and love them for that. Academically, what part of your HBS experience has been the most meaningful?... View Details
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Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry - Course Catalog
crisis management implications when a foodborne illness strikes. Disruption/Technology. We will examine how restaurants are assessing, adopting, affording and maximizing the utility of technological changes such as mobile ordering,... View Details
- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
(that is, reduced by 100%), the increase in inspectors’ detection rates would result in their citing an average of 9.9% more violations. Scaled nationwide, this would yield 19 million fewer foodborne illness cases per year, reducing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2016
- News
Food Rescue Is on a Mission
fill their own cars with fruits, vegetables, meat, and bread from Coles or other supermarkets and drive to their churches, where they cook a meal for neighbors in need. “A lot of the people in shelters have had mental illness and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 04 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Restructure Conglomerates in Emerging Markets
and international technology. Rushing to dismantle the business groups that now fill these institutional voids could do more harm than good. It would simply reinforce the inefficiency of the private sector and may intensify social distress, which emerging economies are... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu
- 07 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat
of information among doctors, hospitals, patients, and providers; standardization of that information; evaluation of adjustments for the severity of illness of the patient; changes in the tax system to avoid discrimination against the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
both in and out of clinical settings, with the goal of trying to understand the patients’ life and relationship with their illness as completely as possible. They go to appointments with them, have coffee, visit their homes, meet their... View Details
- 14 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Embracing Activism for Social Change
In 2020, the city of Detroit logged some 7,000 calls involving mental health emergencies—a critical issue, notes Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who says, “When the mentally ill turn to the police for a response, the system is broken.” To fix... View Details
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
her own physician. Reflecting on his background, Shetty wrote on his Web site that he became a doctor because of the recurrent illnesses of his parents. As a child he lived in fear that he would lose his mother; his father, a diabetic,... View Details
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1.4.5 Required Internship & Internship Courses | MBA
requirement include the following: Medical reasons, including for mental health. Birth or adoption of one’s own child. Death or serious illness in the student's immediate family. A court summons. A military order. To apply for a waiver... View Details
- 26 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?
others will receive a call the day their efforts are needed. Hussam’s team piloted the study with 300 households last spring, and the preliminary findings were promising. Refugees who worked had significantly lower rates of depression and View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)
diabetes to support services for those with catastrophic illnesses such as AIDS. Through the church's efforts, hundreds of residents in Riverhead and beyond have been able to climb out of poverty, drug abuse, and crime to create lives of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
or deeply satisfying one. One test of the seriousness of an illness is the severity of the treatment it requires. For Tony, the bribe, with all its dangerous risks, is strong, self-prescribed medication. The flow of success had masked and... View Details