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- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
Children) continues to be designed based on the best health research. “At the state level, our researchers and staff have worked to ensure states adopt policies that allow maximum food and other basic needs assistance to reach families....
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Carla Small
son's childcare - all while launching a new company!" After graduation, Small plans to move into another family-related field: health care. "It's a complicated industry that increasingly appreciates a business perspective," she says. She...
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Linda Goodspeed
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Get Well Soon
to be among the best hospitals in the country, even though it had scant evidence to benchmark its performance against others. But data co-collected by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation instead showed that the outcome for the clinic’s...
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- 07 May 2020
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Ensuring Student Equity
learning programs, food and other basic resources, and health services for more than 1,200 children each week in this underserved community. “We had to rethink the operation of our food pantry. We had to develop learning materials that...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 24 Feb 2011
- News
Show Time
in 2010 when, at peace and surrounded by her family, she took her own life under Oregon’s assisted-suicide law. Curtis, who had a modeling career before attending HBS, worked for many years as an administrator and lecturer at Oregon View Details
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Garry Emmons
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
itself. Already the country registers 400,000 more deaths than births every year. Most of those deaths—about 80 percent, according to data from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare—take place in hospitals, exerting tremendous...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 2020
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Prognosis
patients than any other hospital in the state—to bend without breaking under the pressure of the pandemic. Professor Robert Huckman is an economist and health care researcher who serves as unit head for Technology and Operations...
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- 26 May 2022
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Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
sleep are all important. We are humans, not machines. We realized it must be a holistic approach.” Today, Noom is one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing, consumer-first digital health platforms, empowering users to achieve...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
would receive comprehensive treatment from a team designed to deliver it. Insurers would require that hospitals set fixed and transparent prices covering various ailments and their treatment. This approach, Herzlinger says, would produce better View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Lisandra Rickards (MBA 2010)
States. I didn’t want to just take a job. I wanted to have tangible outcomes to my endeavors. Jamaica is the largest English-speaking country in the Caribbean, with a relatively high number of universities. Recently, we’ve seen government...
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Julia Hanna
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Private capital, public good
private capital to fund preventative social programs that address various challenges, such as recidivism, health disparities, and homelessness. If pre-specified program outcomes are achieved, government...
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- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
efficiently; and Watson was to translate all that into outcomes that reduced morbidity. The reality is that subtle biases or a lack of full information lead doctors to the wrong decision, which in turn leads to bad View Details
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 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 measured by patient View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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Karmic Kickstart
Bhutan, a tiny South Asian country located high in the Himalayas with a population of under a million people, which has undergone incredible advances in infrastructure and education since the 1960s, when the king abolished serfdom and instituted sweeping reforms,...
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- 03 Jun 2020
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Keeping a Community Connected
other. That gives me hope. In the midst of crisis, sometimes we can give birth to better ways of doing things—figuring out how to control housing costs, provide better education and childcare, improve healthcare. We are working on...
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Susan Young
- 07 Sep 2021
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Embracing Activism for Social Change
Co-Response Partnership, a pilot program implemented with the county’s mental health authority, Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network (DWIHN), designed to create better View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 16 Mar 2017
- News
Making Rapid Progress in the Fight Against Cancer
outcomes in the coming years. “I lead an organization called Cancer Research UK, which is, outside the US government, the largest cancer research organization in the world. And what that requires us to do is to think about every aspect of...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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A Healthy Profit
lowest-income countries," he explains, "76 percent of health spending is private, and 70 percent is out of pocket." Furthermore, the health services and products that poor people pay for are all too often...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change
table, a tray of sandwiches nearby. Two more join via videoconference. The pesky buzz of BlackBerries punctuates the lengthy and sometimes contentious discussion. It’s a familiar scene in the modern business world, but not one normally associated with a hospital. The...
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- 21 Jun 2020
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Rooting out Racism
basic practices, such as acknowledging what constitutes third-degree racism so there is no hiding behind a lack of understanding; committing to diversity plans that meet a carefully considered standard of rigor; and delivering outcomes in...
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