Health Care Education - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2016
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3-Minute Briefing: Katherine Switz (MBA 2000)

normalcy and finish my degree. My professors knew I had a health condition, but that was all. During case discussions, I thought everyone was talking about me, not the CEO. I only told two friends. The shame and stigma keeps you from... View Details

01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

of the inner city (lack of health care and substandard housing, for example) are important, they do not get at all the root causes. "To build healthy and sustainable inner-city communities, it is necessary... View Details

Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate

27 Nov 2012
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The Beauty of the Network

Pao: A beauty business veteran leverages the HBS network to launch her own skincare line. Photo courtesy Patti Pao Patti Pao (MBA 1987) describes her two years at HBS as “spectacularly unsuccessful,” thanks in part to a culture clash with the section-enforced structure... View Details

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

01 Dec 1999
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The Way You See It

similarly strong margin across both groups saw two other dominant issues at century's end - health care and education - as getting better. Teaching tomorrow's leaders As for... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.

01 Jun 2012
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Attention, HBS Entrepreneurs!

Venture capitalists Patrick Chung (MBA 2004) and Harry Weller (MBA 1998) are prime movers behind the Experiment Fund, launched to support innovators or current students who are leading Cambridge, Massachusetts tech start-ups in health... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

15 Nov 2024
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Driving Change

thought were well behind us as well as some brand-new ones we may never have imagined: laws that limit women’s right to access reproductive health care and brazen attacks on principals of equity, equality,... View Details

01 Dec 2012
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50 Years & Counting

stages. In the second-year MBA elective Building Business in the Context of a Life, she works with women (and men) in their late 20s "for whom the 'future' is their first job." The course challenges students to look further ahead and contemplate life issues such as... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Educational Services; Educational Services

11 May 2020
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Better Than Cash

in sanitation or health or education, it starts with a payment system everyone can use.” Goodwin-Groen offers the example of a mother who has to pay for her children’s schooling once each semester. She needs to save money for several... View Details

13 Jan 2021
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Stress Test

lock, but the company soon expanded its focus to B2B sales in the health care sector. Its clients now include sites responsible for COVID-19 testing and vaccine distribution, which require both security and... View Details

01 Mar 2017
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Expanding Horizons

his country, India, and more broadly, the world at large. “HBS changed my career direction and broadened my horizons,” he says. “I was going into the health care sector, but a summer in equity capital... View Details

01 Jun 2014
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Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses

ferocious during the summer when the city turns into a concrete sauna. Outside my former office at Gulag Sachs, if you tilted your head at just the right angle and paid careful attention, you'd get a strong whiff of anxiety from desperate... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

26 Mar 2025
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Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore

all rose to the challenge. Many guests told me this was very thought-provoking and insightful with today’s geopolitical environment and Hong Kong’s historical position as ‘East meets West’ and as a trading port.” The final discussion of the day, Positioning Hong Kong... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2005
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One-on-One with Grover Norquist

meaning they want to spend less. Democrats say they’re against the deficit, meaning they want to tax more. And neither one cares a whit about the deficit nor should they. It’s the size of government that is the cost of government. So what... View Details

Keywords: Government

28 May 2019
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Turning Point: Into the Wild

Zimbabwe, Botswana, and South Africa. I’ve served on the board of WildCare, an education and advocacy nonprofit based in San Rafael, California, that cares for injured and orphaned animals, which is how I... View Details

11 Oct 2022
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On Balance

know that changes the dynamic of who does what in the home, in terms of unpaid labor, and facilitates women returning to the workforce,” Wooldridge adds. There are also even bigger topics Wooldridge wants to address, such as desegregating Australia’s feminized and... View Details

Keywords: April White

12 Apr 2023
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Step Change

across the e-commerce, health care, transportation, edtech, and fintech sectors. Ayman Ismail, assistant professor of entrepreneurship and founding director of the American University in Cairo's (AUC) Venture Lab, pegs the earliest... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

01 Dec 2004
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Class of 2004 Gives Fellowship

graduate of Princeton, Shariff is committed to international development. Prior to HBS, she worked with CARE International in Rwanda, primarily on HIV prevention and microfinance targeted at households run by children. “Because of the... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

08 Mar 2018
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HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact

HBSAAA. This is a rallying point. We’ve got so many energized, committed alumni who care about the association, the school and the community. We see them becoming more active beyond HBS, and having a much larger impact on our community... View Details