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- 17 Feb 2015
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The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
reminded me of how effective film can be at sharing a complex topic with large audiences. “But a particular and obvious question puzzled me: Why haven’t films like Chasing Ice, The Island President, and An Inconvenient Truth, to name a...
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- 27 Jul 2016
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Breaking the Cycle of Poverty
abilities are often delayed, and through counseling programs, through mental health services, we address those issues. We work not only to fix schools but also to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty. “When I get to see the effect...
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- 20 Apr 2020
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To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
organizations face in designing and implementing effective digital platforms that support a range of functions and stakeholders. “We talked about what it really means to transition to digital operations,” says Carrolo, the General Manager...
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Margie Kelley
- 29 Sep 2022
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Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
patient treatment and contact tracing, including procurement of all supplies of oxygen and medical equipment; support for the private sector and employment; distribution of food kits and food stamps to more than 1 million households; and...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2007
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Mission Possible
best thinking to the task of building stronger and more effective nonprofit organizations,” says Tierney. “Think of it as a Bain & Company for the nonprofit sector.” Bridgespan’s services focus on three main objectives: to increase social...
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- 07 Sep 2021
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Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
alone do not account for these outcomes of the country’s public health system. There are also disparities in how effectively resources are allocated and managed, says Simon DeBere (MBA/MPA-ID 2022), a 2021 HBS Social Enterprise Summer...
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April White
- 01 Jan 2003
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Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
partnership with the World Health Organization, and contributes tuberculosis treatments to developing countries. "That said," observes Vasella, "our entire industry has a problem, since we continue to be seen as a cost factor rather than...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Noted & Quoted
computing and mobility. That has the potential to change the economics of the Internet business and to redistribute profits yet again.” — HBS professor David Yoffie talking about the potential economic effects of people increasingly...
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- 09 Apr 2020
- News
“Raise the Line”
wrong was the timing. That change isn’t going to happen over the next decade. It is going to happen over the next year. HBS: How can online health education ease the medical effects of this pandemic? Gaglani: You’ve probably heard the...
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- 01 Feb 1999
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Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
into a variety of conflict resolution and collaboration models. Business and political leadership is transitioning from a family or clan-based structure to one of greater heterogeneity and professionalization. It is also transitioning...
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- 17 Oct 2019
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Venturing Away from Venture Capital
startup financing. To be sure, venture capital offers many benefits, including the networks and insights that experienced investors bring to the table. But all of that comes at a price. Most obviously, a founder who takes venture capital gives up equity, View Details
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Alexander Gelfand
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Beyond Case Writing
nothing. To uncover the effect of disagreements between spouses about the number of children to have — women generally want fewer than men — half of the women chosen to receive vouchers got them without their husbands present, and the...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care
line and on improving the quality of patient care. In 2005, Porter developed a multiyear learning partnership with MD Anderson, regularly ranked as the top cancer treatment center in the United States. The organization radically...
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- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
observation that for patients who do not need to be intubated, proning—i.e. resting on the stomach—offers a gentler and effective treatment when paired with oxygen delivery. "We believe that improving access...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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Daniel Vasella
fundamental problem. The Medicare prescription drug program that went into effect last year bars the federal government from negotiating with drug companies over the prices seniors pay. The new Democratic majority in Congress has vowed to...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
I understand the dilemma. The answer depends on where revenue comes from, how your buyers and sellers are structured (regional, national, or stand-alone), and how strong the network effects are. In this case, staffing doesn’t have as much...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2011
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New Program Helps Restless Alums Answer the Question, ‘What’s Next?’
self-sustaining and replicable model of health-care delivery for rural villages. The new Crossroads program, like its predecessor, aims to attract alumni who are searching for greater personal or professional satisfaction, or who are seeking View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
introduces a “physician compact” that specifies the responsibilities of the organization and its employee doctors and ties those principles into the incentive compensation plan. The physician compact is a particularly effective way to...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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A Mission in Motion
progress they've made with their ventures. These include Abigail Falik's (MBA 2008) Global Citizen Year (pictured above), which she founded after she discovered, as a recent high school graduate, that the Peace Corps was effectively...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
able to bridge science and business,” says HBS Dean Nitin Nohria. “We aim to provide graduates of this new program with tools to understand the most modern biomedical science issues, as well as knowledge of scientific methodologies and time frames, so they can be View Details
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Susan Young