reproductive rights - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Jul 2022
News

Alumna-Led Reproductive Health Startup Raises $4.7 Million

for each distinct stage of a woman’s reproductive life cycle,” the article notes, which was developed in partnership with Thain Gioia’s OBGYN. Thain Gioia also notes that the company is dedicated to ensuring the products can have a wide... View Details

15 Dec 2024
News

Agenda: Amanda E/J Morrison (MBA 2014)

RIPPLE EFFECT “A woman gets a period around age 12 to 14, and then we tell her to go off in the world and not get pregnant.” “A woman gets a period around age 12 to 14, and then we tell her to go off in the world and not get pregnant.” For 15 years, the morning-after... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; reproductive rights; health care; leadership; marketing

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Market for Babies

Meanwhile, those who are outside the market generally don't even know what's going on. Q: Are you worried that regulation could stifle innovation in reproductive medicines? A: Actually, I'm more worried about regulation in the stem cell... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

January 2020 (Revised March 2020)
Case

LOLA: Do You Know What's in Your Tampon?

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Aldo Sesia

LOLA is a direct-to-consumer (DTC) business launched in 2015. What started as a company to provide women with organic and transparent material-labeled tampons via a subscription model, had, by 2019 evolved to include additional menstrual and sexual wellness products.... View Details

Keywords: Direct-to-consumer; Channels; Disruption; Business Model; Brands and Branding; Internet and the Web; Strategy; Retail Industry; United States; Canada

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Chip Bergh is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School. Prior to joining HBS, Chip served as president and chief executive officer of Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) from September 2011 until January 2024. He also served on the Company’s Board of Directors... View Details

20 Aug 2020
Book

From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives

For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Doubling Down on Women’s Health Innovation and Leveraging the Private Sector in a Post-Roe v. Wade Era - Blog: Health Supplement

right to determine if and when to have children. No matter what one’s personal or religious views are, the impact will be felt by all - health systems and payors bearing costs from pregnancies now forced to continue, employers with more... View Details

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

embryo(s) for assisted reproductive therapy. Darza Yazan Halwani, MBA 2020 Business Track Runner-Up DARZA is a new e-commerce fashion brand that provides the best online shopping fashion experience at the lowest prices in the Middle East.... View Details

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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

industry,” he asserted, “has any moral right to allow itself to be unexplained, misunderstood or publicly distrusted, for by its unpopularity it poisons the pond in which we all must fish.” 17 While many companies hired outside PR... View Details

01 Jun 2006
News

The Baby Business

involved here, and we need to take care of that. We also need to decide whether reproduction is some sort of human right or whether infertility is a medical condition. If the answer is yes to either of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Government; Health, Social Assistance

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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

has been published in multiple top academic journals. Dr. Livingston has also done executive education, speaking engagements, and consulting for companies and non-profits such as Accenture, John Deere, Yves Saint Laurent Beauty, HNI/Allsteel, and Hollaback! (now View Details

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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity

used as punishment for a crime 1662 Partus Sequitur Ventrem (or, literally, “offspring follows belly”) law ensures multigenerational bondage Jennifer Morgan, 'Partus Sequitur Ventrem’ Law, Race, and Reproduction in Colonial Slavery 1664... View Details

15 Nov 2024
News

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

26 Jan 2021
News

Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response

financial terms.” Obremskey’s firm, RHIA, on the other hand, is a social impact fund focusing on reproductive health to improve maternal care and combat rising maternal mortality in the U.S. Avestria invested with RHIA to develop a fetal... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2020
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020

Enriquez (MBA 1986) The MIT Press Most people have a strong sense of right and wrong, and many of us are not reluctant to argue with someone who disagrees. But when we take an unyielding stand on something we regard as an eternal truth,... View Details

19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

Lakhani said the question comes down to this: Do we have the right labor force? His research team recently held a three-weeklong contest that looked to improve the accuracy and processing speed of an algorithm designed to analyze genomic... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

09 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

dialogue with Michel about selling the company or expanding their relationship. Michel wondered if the time was right to sell or if he should grow Affinity Labs further with the hope of creating a company that could command the high... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Feb 2020
News

Teachable Moments

just those who are mini-Toms. While it sounds comforting to have ninety reflections of myself all focused on me, I can’t do my work as a teacher if the outcome is a reproduction of me. The class works when each student makes a choice to... View Details

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

encouraged his whole executive team to become leaders, and it was that large cadre that vowed to continue Dyke's programs after he left. The reproduction process involves finding and empowering natural leaders, regardless of their titles... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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