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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Corn likes people. It benefits from human contact, when it’s thinned out and hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997). Corn thrives when sung to and spoken to—something Keen does in the language of his mother’s Omaha Tribe, where he is known as Bison...
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- 31 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
times more likely to experience work-related problems than employees with chronic physical illnesses like diabetes or heart disease. So why do many companies fail to help their workers battle mental health disorders? “There’s a silence...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Social Enterprise Start-Ups Recognized for Bold Ideas
Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and disability in the developing world, affecting nearly 250 million people worldwide. Yet most can’t afford the blood glucose monitoring needed to manage their condition. For a target group...
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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
repairs Tonsillectomies and adenoidectomies Observations room patients after ED care Chronic & Primary Care End-stage kidney disease Diabetes Congestive heart failure Audiology Dementia Degenerative neurological diseases Care transition...
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Alfred E. Mann
Mann was a prolific inventor who developed many lifesaving medical devices including the rechargeable pacemaker which formed the basis of the successful Pacesetter company. Mann continued to perfect the pacemaker and developed other biomedical devices. Though he sold...
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- 20 Mar 2018
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
and 7 percent of diabetics in Mexico are unnecessarily blind. Since 2011 salauno has treated more than 150,000 patients and performed more than 18,000 surgeries, 40 percent of which were free of charge. In her role, Leger works to make...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
recovery costs weren’t borne by the hospitals, they had not been motivated to find the low total cost alternative. After Kaplan pointed out the discrepancy, some hospitals switched to the lower-cost pre-surgical consultations. Kaplan cites View Details
- 18 Jul 2018
- News
Ensuring HBS Remains a Dynamic Community
organizations in her community. Currently director of strategic philanthropy for Congregation Rodef Sholom, she has also served on the boards of the Marin Horizon School and the Greater Bay Area Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research...
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- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
Christensen asks. In "Patterns in the Evolution of Product Competition," his 1996 study of four industries - hydraulic excavators, disk drives, diabetes care, and executive education - Christensen found that when new product innovations...
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Judith Ross
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Pharma Suits a Farm Gal
GRAHAM: From rodeo to CEO. Amylin Pharmaceuticals CEO Ginger Graham (MBA ’86) had a good year in 2006, with Amylin stock up as much as 45 percent, with Byetta and Symlin, its two innovative diabetes drugs, performing well, and with the...
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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
kidney disease Diabetes Congestive heart failure Care transition patients to reduce frequency of readmission Primary and psychiatric care for patients with intellectual and behavioral disabilities Behavioral health for post-traumatic...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
John C. Sawhill Remembered
John Sawhill, a senior lecturer at HBS and president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy, died of complications from diabetes in May at the age of 63. Sawhill, whose research focused on the nonprofit sector, joined the HBS faculty in 1997...
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- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/818067-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-105 From mHealth Hackathon to Reality: Diabetes Care This case explores the development of a business plan for a mobile health application for View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
there be strategic returns down the line? Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710016-PDF-ENG The Joslin Diabetes Center Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, and Scott WallaceHarvard Business School Case...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
Center for Community & Population Health Improvement to facilitate the sharing of information and impact data about health improvement efforts among community stakeholders. General Dynamics subsidiary Bath Iron Works and L.L. Bean in Maine are working together to...
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- 28 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Novo Nordisk
learned details of how Novo Nordisk manufactures within its 1,200,000 square meter facility high-quality active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) that tackle not only diabetes but also hemophilia, growth disorders, and obesity. At their...
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- 18 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Honing an Interest in Healthcare at HBS
development at American Well, a Boston-based telehealth startup. We checked in with Laura to learn more about how she honed her interest in the healthcare space at HBS. How did you pursue your interest in healthcare at HBS? I spent the summer between first and second...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
In Brief
global strategy, a new position. More Social Enterprise Start-Ups Recognized for Bold Ideas Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and disability in the developing world, affecting nearly 250 million people. Yet most can't afford...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
diabetes and obesity that is engulfing the developing world. Jana Care aims to do so by building sensors and apps that can transform a mobile phone into a personal lab and lifestyle coach. The mobile phone as a key to diagnostics and...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: Frozen Assets
want healthy meals for their late-night employees. Day says the best evidence that she’s a believer in her product can be found in her mother’s freezer. Since stepping into her CEO role, she’s stocked it with Luvo meals, knowing they will provide her View Details
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Janelle Nanos