Public Health Projects - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2011
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Faculty IXP Taps into Cooperation, Innovation

included visits to projects in areas such as nanotechnology, health care, energy, the environment, and culture. “Breakthrough research demands interdisciplinary and cross-sector collaborations,” said... View Details

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

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Getting Involved - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Health Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG... View Details

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In The Community | About

to the public Harvard Innovation Labs The Harvard Innovation Labs provide a multitude of in-kind support for local entrepreneurship, health and life sciences, and offer a variety of partner programming and... View Details

01 Dec 2013
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Climate Change as Must-See TV

reached their highest point in some 3 million years, many people concluded that climate change was unstoppable. But Dan Abbasi (MBA 1998), for one, isn't giving up. "Human-caused climate change is already killing 150,000 people annually, according to the World View Details

Keywords: videos; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Broadcasting (except Internet); Information; Arts, Entertainment

07 Sep 2021
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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

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

three years at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Yoonjin Min, MBA 2020, made the shift fr... Beyond Business as Usual: My MBA Summer Internship in Global Health Kaleigh Killoran 30 Jul 2019 Before HBS, I moved to Kenya so that I could work... View Details

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

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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

managing organizational risk and, in a joint project with Michael Porter, measuring the cost of delivering health care and linking patient costs to outcomes. Learn more about Professor Kaplan’s work Learn... View Details

09 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 9, 2015

allowed by health authorities. Yet caries remained a significant threat to public health in many countries, both developing and developed. As Suzan Harrison, Colgate's... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2017
News

@Soldiers Field

told the Burden crowd. The HBS Student Association—headed by its first female copresidents, Libby Leffler and LaToya Marc (both MBA 2017)—offered an unconscious bias training session facilitated by Harvard’s Project Implicit and... View Details

01 Jun 2015
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Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness

example, the HBSCNY Skills Gap Project has placed more than 30 interns with tech firms and helped LaGuardia Community College develop a new health care curriculum designed to meet the skills needs of a... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson; Walmart; Health, Social Assistance; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2019
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The Race Against Resistance

resistance, we will fall back to a time when simple infections killed people.” “We are approaching a cliff. If we don’t take steps to slow down or stop drug resistance, we will fall back to a time when simple infections killed people.” The World View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

20 Feb 2025
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IFC India 2025: Building Resilience - Mumbai’s Journey to Sustainable Water Management

infrastructure to informal settlements can enhance public health outcomes and ensure more inclusive access to services. Additionally, testing wastewater for infectious diseases could provide valuable data... View Details

November 2005 (Revised January 2006)
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Commercialization at the Garvan Institute for Medical Research (A)

A large and successful not-for-profit medical research institute must decide strategy to commercialize its discoveries. In the process, it must balance multiple conflicting demands from its stakeholders. View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Public Sector; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Nonprofit Organizations; Conflict and Resolution; Commercialization; Balance and Stability; Health Industry

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Entrepreneurial Management) Lauren Cohen Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management and General Management) John Dionne Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: View Details

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Maya Babu

Government policy changed the way Maya Babu thinks about health care. For a summer internship, she worked in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of View Details

10 Nov 2020
News

Learning to Fight

faculty member at Harvard Medical School when he received the grant. “The Sontag Foundation was pivotal in helping me design and sustain a research career,” says Johnson, who is now chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery at UMass Memorial View Details

Keywords: April White

20 Jan 2017
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Teaching a Solutions-Oriented Take on the News

We combine that curriculum, if you will, with a set of tools that really bring this into practice and help to engage audiences. And we invest in high-impact reporting projects on violence, health care, and... 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

09 Jul 2019
News

The Road to Impact

When he turned 50, David Offensend (MBA 1977) decided to make a change. He’d had a successful career in finance, but ever since his undergraduate days of studying public and international affairs at Princeton, Offensend planned that, one... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

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