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- August 2017
- Case
Hacking Heroin
By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah Mehta
"Hacking Heroin" was the first hackathon that Annie Rittgers, founder of Cincinnati-based 17a, had organized or even attended. "There will continue to be a lot of preventable overdose deaths and wasted potential if the opioid crisis continues unabated," she said.... View Details
Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Hackathon; Heroin; Opioids; Crowdsourcing; Public Sector; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Health Pandemics; Public Administration Industry; Health Industry; Ohio; Cincinnati
Weiss, Mitchell, and Sarah Mehta. "Hacking Heroin." Harvard Business School Case 818-010, August 2017.
- November 2019
- Teaching Note
Hacking Heroin
By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah Mehta
This teaching note pairs with a case that is used in a course on Public Entrepreneurship, for a first module on "ideas." The case is designed to help students work through the question: where do new ideas to stubborn problems come from? And, in particular, the question... View Details
- 21 Apr 2004 - 23 Apr 2004
- Conference Presentation
Becoming a Heroine
By: C. G. Brush, N. M. Carter, E. J. Gatewood, P. G. Greene and Myra M. Hart
- 02 Nov 2017
- Cold Call Podcast
Could a Hackathon Help Solve the Heroin Crisis?
- August 2024
- Case
Pioneering Pain Management: CWC Alliance Combats the Opioid Epidemic
By: Susanna Gallani, Karen L. Sedatole and Sarah Mehta
Set in March 2024, this case is about CWC Alliance (CWC), a nonprofit working to prevent opioid addiction in the U.S. Founder Cammie Wolf Rice launched CWC in 2018 after her son, Christopher Wolf, died of a heroin overdose. Wolf’s dependence on opioids stemmed from a... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Jobs and Positions; Nonprofit Organizations; Expansion; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Delivery; Mission and Purpose; Health Industry; United States; Georgia (state, US); Atlanta
Gallani, Susanna, Karen L. Sedatole, and Sarah Mehta. "Pioneering Pain Management: CWC Alliance Combats the Opioid Epidemic." Harvard Business School Case 125-012, August 2024.
- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
using drugs, prospective employers found drug users hireable 62 percent of the time, versus only 45 percent of the time for those who chose not to answer that question. Of course, such honesty has its limits, John hastens to add. "You might not want to say you are... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
1970, he saw that heroin had taken hold of his hometown, and many of his friends had overdosed and died. Feeling lost, Miller fell back into a life of crime, sold drugs, and committed a string of armed robberies, which landed him back in... View Details
- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
- 03 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The State of Customer Service Leadership
between customers and their barista, technology was being used to the detriment of service. High tech works best in the service sector when it helps frontline people become heroes and heroines in the eyes of their customers. Technology... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/617058-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 818-010 Hacking Heroin “Hacking Heroin” was the first hackathon that Annie Rittgers, founder of Cincinnati-based 17a, had organized or even attended.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2002
- Book
Bringing the Master Passions to Work
in mind-space what Alexander the Great, Napoleon I, and Adolf Hitler tried to conquer in world-space—"the world." "I want the world," we hear sexy heroines declare to their anxious lovers in popular movies. "The... View Details
Keywords: by Mihnea C. Moldoveanu & Nitin Nohria
- 02 Jul 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?
appears to be a trail of former executives of Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft. (I specifically referred to heroes in my question, because potential heroines like Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer have just recently risen to high levels in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett