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24 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost

outcomes. This can be done with a clear eye towards return on investment, particularly when the return includes less traditional measures like observable improvements in public View Details

31 May 2017
News

Father Agribusiness

Agribusiness, he explains, “..[i]s not just agriculture and business, it’s people from the medical school and government and the school for public health all working together.” For Goldberg, observing those... View Details

19 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

company and a publicly-traded company. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507001 Arizona Department of Public Health: The Challenges of Preparing for a Public... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2019
News

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

01 Jun 2018
News

June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

Innovation in Health Care: How to Make Value-Based Delivery Work by Vijay Govindarajan (DBA 1978) and Ravi Ramamurti (DBA 1982) HBR Press Though still a pipe dream in the US, value-based competition (value as View Details

05 Mar 2025
News

Uncertain Terms

After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details

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Niki Patel Archives | Social Enterprise

Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services View Details

October 2004 (Revised July 2005)
Case

Kinetic Concepts, Inc.

By: Jay W. Lorsch, Dwight B. Crane and Ashley Robertson

Raises issues about how the nature and function of a board changes as a company moves from ownership by its employees, including the founder, to ownership by a private equity firm, Fremont Partners, culminating in a highly successful IPO. Gives students the opportunity... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Governing and Advisory Boards; Initial Public Offering; Behavior; Organizations; Employee Ownership; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States

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31 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

believed that measurement was as fundamental to managers as it was for scientists. If companies were to improve the management of their intangible assets, they had to integrate the measurement of intangible... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

Publications August 2013 California Management Review What Impact? A Framework for Measuring the Scale & Scope of Social Performance By: Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi Rangan Abstract—Organizations... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?

enough money to prosper, low-income families' access to health benefits, their civic participation, family stability, and mental wellbeing are all diminished by their low success rate in building assets. Peter Tufano, Sylvan C. Coleman... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

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Insurance industry: companies and analysis

Health and Property - Casualty sectors. Click on the drop-down arrow for Industry Surveys under S&P Publication Search. Insurance Fact Book (print only): from the Insurance Information Institute is a... View Details

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Eligibility | New Venture Competition

(HBS) Field Course: Innovating in Health Care (HBS) Field Course: Investing for Impact (HBS) Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation (HBS) Field Course: Scaling Minority Businesses (HBS) Field Course: Startup Operations (HBS) Impact... View Details

11 Aug 2014
HBS Case

The Business of Behavioral Economics

economics and pop culture, particularly since the recent publication of popular books such as Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein's Nudge, Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational, and Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow. Even so,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Health

Robert T. B. Stevens

In response to the changing nature of the textile industry and to the growing inefficiencies in the company, Stevens merged the manufacturing and selling sides of the business and took the new entity public to raise much needed funds. The... View Details

Keywords: Fabric & Apparel

01 Sep 2010
News

Fair Trade

from the book follow. An Affront to Public Morality The beauty business began modestly with the sale of products widely deemed an affront to public morality. Today, consumers around the world spend $330... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores

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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

involved in numerous regional and national health policy initiatives, including the American Joint Replacement Registry, where he serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors; the Yale Center for Outcomes Research & Evaluation (CORE)... View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

The Long Run

everyone from a Morehouse School of Medicine professor to an entrepreneur offering nonaddictive alternatives for pain relief to Georgia’s public health commissioner. Langford runs the meeting with a light... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

19 May 2015
News

Getting Ready for Success

social impact, measured by such factors as higher tax contributions and lower health care costs. “Moreover, what people might not quantify,” she says, “is that our alumni’s success stories create positive... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Educational Services

01 Jun 2009
News

Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support

SCHARPF: Seeking cost-effective raw materials in Rwanda. Elizabeth Scharpf (MBA ’07) is on a roll. Determined to put her MBA skills to work addressing socioeconomic and public health problems in developing... View Details

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

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