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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
public policy, design, and sustainability for The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Economist, Wired, Metropolis, FastCompany, and other publications. He has written case studies for a number of institutions, including View Details
- 30 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: A Look into the Future of Waste Incineration
because the whole city relies on district heating. Direct connection to the district heating system also enabled the plant to include design features that boost the incinerator’s energy efficiency. For...
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- July 2002 (Revised August 2002)
- Case
Washington Hospital Center (B): The Power of Insight
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Michelle Heskett
Dr. Craig Feied considers how to take a major technical innovation beyond his own department into a large hospital system. Reviews how proprietary information systems became indispensable in the department of emergency medicine and what it took to introduce the change...
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- November 2022 (Revised April 2024)
- Case
Martine Rothblatt and United Therapeutics: A Series of Implausible Dreams
By: Debora L. Spar and Julia M. Comeau
In 1990, satellite expert and Sirius XM founder Martine Rothblatt was determined to save the life of her seven-year-old daughter, Jenesis, who was diagnosed with a terminal illness called Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH). At the time, there was little medication...
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Pharmaceutical Companies;
Technological And Scientific Innovation;
Organ Donation;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Disorders;
Innovation and Invention;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
United States;
District of Columbia
Spar, Debora L., and Julia M. Comeau. "Martine Rothblatt and United Therapeutics: A Series of Implausible Dreams." Harvard Business School Case 323-039, November 2022. (Revised April 2024.)
- January 2018 (Revised February 2023)
- Teaching Note
The Future of Patent Examination at the USPTO
This teaching note pairs with the case entitled: “The Future of Patent Examination at the USPTO” (case no. 617-027).
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- 06 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact
of the 75 percent of his classmates who did not go on to college after high school. Ameen has spent much of his time in college working to change the social status quo. While...
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- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Promoting a Management Revolution in Public Education
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Ph.D. Students
By: Sunil Gupta
Thesis Chair
- Carl Mela, Columbia University, 1993; T. Austin Finch Foundation Professor, Duke University.
- Sangman Han, Columbia University, 1993; Professor, SungKyunKwan University,... View Details
- June 2003 (Revised July 2003)
- Case
Union City Schools: Sustaining The Turnaround
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ryan Raffaelli
Under the leadership of Superintendent Thomas Highton, Union City Schools, New Jersey, underwent a 14-year turnaround. In 1989, the Union City School District was the second-worst-performing district in New Jersey. As Mr. Highton prepared to retire, 2002 student test...
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- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
and the deans of both schools and the president of the university have enthusiastically supported us all along," says PELP co-founder and HBS lecturer Stacey Childress. The nine participating school...
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Jeff Gortmaker
Jeff Gortmaker is a doctoral student in the Business Economics program. Previously, he studied at Columbia University and worked as a research analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. His research interests include industrial organization, finance, and...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni Connections: Photos of Recent Alumni Events
Recent HBS Alumni Events on Campus and Beyond 1 Members of the Classes of 2003 to 2017 gathered for a Young Alumni Reception at Joy District Chicago in September. 2 The MBA...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Directors of Research Centers Share Global Perspectives
also play a key role for the centers by helping to identify and facilitate research opportunities worldwide. In related news, Masako Egawa has announced that as of September, the Japan Research Office has a new home, having relocated to...
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Hanne Collins
Hanne is a PhD student in Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School. She is interested in understanding how people navigate the complexities of conversation. She is especially interested in how people express and perceive listening in conversation, and...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Breaking the cycle of poverty in urban areas
Massachusetts. Currently, the foundation is partnering with school districts to provide universal free breakfast, after the bell rings, in schools that serve a large proportion of low-income children....
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- 21 Nov 2014
- News
Making It Easier for Retirees to Give to Charity
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing
Boston predict which places might be violating public health regulations. And it is working with an education nonprofit in Watertown, Mass., Education Resource Strategies, to study how school districts spend money. "The outcome is that...
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- 08 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Writing the Case for Public School Reform
working with leadership teams from nine urban school districts over the course of three annual sessions to coordinate research and create coherent, scalable systems for education reform. Two cases written...
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