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- 2022
- Case
Marathon Petroleum and Southwest Detroit: The Intersection of Community and Environment
Environmental racism describes the unequal burden of environmental hazards placed on disadvantaged communities through systems, policies, and practices. In such a situation, these people disproportionately live close to sources of toxic waste-what are referred to as...
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Environmental Regulation;
Pollutants;
Pollution;
Equality and Inequality;
Social Issues;
Poverty;
Race;
Health Disorders;
Ethics
Hoffman, Andrew J. "Marathon Petroleum and Southwest Detroit: The Intersection of Community and Environment." William Davidson Institute Case 2-652-482, 2022.
W.R. Grace & Co: Dealing with Asbestos Torts (HBS Case #213046)
A manufacturer of building products and specialty chemicals, W. R. Grace & Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in response to a flood of lawsuits alleging that its products contained asbestos, and had caused hundreds of thousands of people to contract... View Details
- 05 Sep 2023
- Book
Failing Well: How Your ‘Intelligent Failure’ Unlocks Your Full Potential
In the 1990s, after drugmaker Eli Lilly spent more than a decade and millions of dollars developing the new drug Alimta to treat lung cancer, the medication came up short in effectively treating cancer in expanded trials. While the...
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by Michael Blanding
- 29 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Do Disasters Rally Support for Climate Action? It's Complicated.
Environmental disasters like wildfires can ignite awareness of climate change and boost eco-friendly politicians’ careers. But do voters perceive a tradeoff between environmental policies and local economic growth? In Brazil, home to a majority of the Amazon tropical...
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by Rachel Layne
- Web
Winners & Runners-up - New Venture Competition
removal cartridge that saves lung failure patients, treating COPD and other acute respiratory failures in critical care and outpatient settings. 2018 Business Track hour72+ Andrew Rothaus HBS'18; Abraar Karan HSPH'17 Business Track Winner...
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- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
responsibility for cleanup onto the polluters, which should continue to raise funding for cleanup. The IRA also includes permanent tax funding for the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund ($1.1 billion over ten years).[21] This condition...
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- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly
tubes to treat patients with emphysema and other lung ailments; many prosthetic limbs, joints, and digits; intraocular implants to correct seeing impairments; and breast implants for reconstructive surgery for patients after undergoing...
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- Portrait Project
Shelby Colby
that came with a cancer diagnosis, something else happened. Time froze. I savored the saltiness of my mom’s chicken and wild rice soup. I squealed with my little niece during our games of tickle-thief. My lungs slowly expanded with air,...
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- 16 Sep 2016
- News
Gaining Ground on ALS
Bucket Challenge to support the Phase 3 trial of a promising investigational drug that is designed to slow the loss of lung function and muscle strength in patients with ALS. “Clinical trials cost tens to hundreds of millions of dollars,”...
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- Portrait Project
Shaan Gandhi
Every physician and medical student remembers the first patient who died on his or her watch. I remember mine. Her name was Sarah, and she came to us in respiratory distress. After running some tests, we concluded that she likely had a pulmonary embolism, a potentially...
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- 24 Apr 2019
- News
And the Winner Is…
the idea here is to really take over your home—and we have innovative, patent-pending form factors to do it.” The $25,000 runner-up prize in the alumni track went to X-Cor Therapeutics, represented by Jayon Wang (MBA 2018), which has developed a medical device to help...
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- 28 Apr 2016
- News
New Venture Competition Winners Announced
the $2,000 crowd favorite prize. It was a big night for big ideas in the health care field. In the student competition, Astraeus Technologies, a faster lung cancer screening, and UrSure, Inc., which is focused on HIV prevention drug...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Whale Wars
fleet quit midway through the season, catching only 170 whales versus its much larger target catch of around 1,035. Through it all, Antarctica was breathtakingly beautiful, with icebergs framed in turquoise and air so clean your lungs...
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Natasha Pereira-Kamath
lungfuls of oily smoke from diesel generators. In search of causes, I find consequences: chronic asthma, lost productivity, and infrastructure instability. As an adult, I refuse to accept intermittent darkness. My new adventure is to...
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- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
low and moderate income non-savers—and discusses the laws and regulations in the United States that largely prohibit their issuance. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16433 Cases & Course MaterialsHang Lung...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
Benvenuti Photo courtesy Janet Simpson Benvenuti Although I didn’t realize it until much later, my life changed the day I agreed to become legally responsible for my 78-year-old father and my 77-year-old mother, who suffered from lung...
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- 19 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature
Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. By...
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- 16 Dec 2021
- News
A Global Alumni Response to the Pandemic
COVID 19 infection in the first and second waves experienced in Mumbai, with the second wave associated with the initiation of vaccination and the emergence of variants. The study has been selected for poster presentation at the 52nd Union World Conference on View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
HBS Clubs Help Nonprofits Succeed
become financially self-reliant, created a business plan for the Rainforest Action Network, evaluated public television station KQED's external communications, and are devising a long-term strategic plan for the American Lung Association,...
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- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
in the diabetic space, became MannKind’s marketing partner and helped launch Afrezza in February, 2015. Although the drug had a black box warning and required doctors to perform a lung test on patients, expectations were high, with some...
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Sean Silverthorne