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HBS Working Knowledge April 4, 2007 Garry Emmons |
The Business of Global Poverty What role should business play as the world confronts what may be the most explosive socioeconomic challenge of the new century? |
HBS Working Knowledge June 28, 2004 Martha Lagace |
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor Microfinance is not a magic ticket out of poverty, but it can help both the loan receiver as well as the loan giver, says Harvard Business School's Michael Chu. |
HBS Working Knowledge May 30, 2007 Sean Silverthorne |
Health Care Under a Research Microscope The $2 trillion American health care system has grown bloated and overly expensive, and it delivers poor service to many patients. Harvard Business School faculty are looking at the system through a business management perspective to recommend changes. |
HBS Working Knowledge July 12, 2006 Roger Thompson |
Competition the Cure for Healthcare Michael Porter is considered by many the world's foremost authority on competition and strategy. So when he discusses the need for fundamental reform in the way the United States delivers healthcare, people listen. |
HBS Working Knowledge February 5, 2007 Sean Silverthorne |
Business and the Global Poor Both business and societal interests can be served at the base of the economic pyramid. |
HBS Working Knowledge March 13, 2006 Cynthia D. Churchwell |
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer In this interview, Harvard Business School professor emeritus explains why nonprofits aren't the answer to ending poverty and asks that executives look beyond philanthropy to make lasting positive change. |
HBS Working Knowledge October 18, 2006 Roger Thompson |
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light Harvard Business School Dean Jay Light discusses the opportunities brought by globalism, challenges in recruiting and developing faculty, and program innovation needed to meet the needs of 21st-century business leaders. |
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2005 Wolfgang Klietmann |
Thought Leader: (Eco)systemic Change The author discusses how various players within the healthcare system interact. |
Nursing Management April 2011 Deborah E. Trautman |
Healthcare Reform: 1 Year Later A year after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law, the nation remains divided. |
HBS Working Knowledge October 28, 2009 Roger Thompson |
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance Professor Peter Tufano talks about the course and his determination to make consumer finance a broadly accepted academic pursuit. |
BusinessWeek November 27, 2006 Jay Greene |
Taking Tiny Loans To The Next Level An idea, not a person, was the most powerful force in philanthropy in 2006. |
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2014 William Looney |
A Mission to Transform Mid-career students at Brown University's new Executive Masters in Healthcare Leadership program are challenging the status quo with workplace projects focused on one thing: removing the organizational silos. |
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2011 |
Are You Ready for the New China? The ability to act as a good corporate citizen and assert a useful role in national industrial policy on health is going to be essential to success in the new China. |
HBS Working Knowledge October 25, 2004 Cynthia D. Churchwell |
Trends in Latin American Business Harvard's Latin America Research Center, in Buenos Aires, has been charting the region's volatile business conditions for four years--and sees opportunities. This Q&A with Executive Director Gustavo A. Herrero explains why 2004 should be Latin America's strongest since 1997 |
Nursing Management October 2011 Edna Cadmus |
Your role in redesigning healthcare We need to rethink how we provide care and to understand the interconnectedness and the structure of healthcare by looking at it as a whole vs. the sum of its parts. As leaders we need to view the evidence as we rethink healthcare together. |
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2012 Pascheles & Bogan |
The Ultimate Business Model: Planning that Thousand Year Future In an era where success is monitored and measured in microseconds, planning for the long term is increasingly seen as an abstract absurdity. Yet the principles of natural selection, when applied to the pharmaceutical business, suggest that a lasting business model is still possible. |
HBS Working Knowledge September 15, 2008 Roger Thompson |
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise Social enterprise as an entity is primarily in the business of creating social value, regardless of whether it's for-profit or nonprofit. |
Financial Planning April 1, 2010 Rick Kahler |
Healthcare on the Critical List Even if Congress does enact a new law, it seems that the same old problems will remain, at least for the next few years. So let's take a careful look at what's at stake. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2005 Saavedra & Arias |
Stuck in a Rut Avenues for combating persistent poverty and inequality in Latin America. |
Knowledge@Wharton August 27, 2003 |
Code Blue: Combating Rising Healthcare Costs Calls for Strong Medicine It's been said many times over that the U.S. healthcare industry is a sick patient in search of a cure. The metaphor is a grim reflection of how the country is coping with an aging population, rising costs and an inefficient healthcare delivery system. |
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2008 Sarah Houlton |
Cash Flow Woes in EU In Europe, the wildly different attitudes toward healthcare across the different member states make for a complex pharmaceutical marketplace. |
HBS Working Knowledge April 26, 2004 Manda Salls |
The Next Ten Years of Social Enterprise Harvard Business School hears suggestions on how to direct the efforts of its Social Enterprise Initiative over the next ten years. |
HBS Working Knowledge January 3, 2011 |
Most Popular Articles of 2010 Judging by the most-read articles and faculty working papers over the last year, our readers continue to be fascinated by the emergence of social networks and their potential impacts on business and management. |
Nursing Management September 2010 Richard Hader |
The evidence that isn't... Interpreting research When patients seek a healthcare practitioner for services, they believe that the delivered care is based on proven science. But reality is far from patient perception. In fact, most care is still based on anecdote, not evidence. |
HBS Working Knowledge March 2, 2007 Jim Heskett |
What Is the Government's Role in U.S. Healthcare? Are we addressing healthcare cost issues with the creativity they deserve? |
HBS Working Knowledge February 21, 2007 Lodge & Wilson |
What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish Countries most successful in reducing poverty have focused on creating profitable businesses. They provide the jobs, income, and motivation for education and individual development that raise standards of living. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2010 Ron Cordes |
Making an Impact An overview of the impact investment landscape and discussion of specific types of impact investments that advisors can review and potentially begin offering to their clients. |
Nursing Management April 2012 Gloria Kersey-Matusiak |
Culturally competent care: Are we there yet? What exactly is culturally competent care, and how can you use it to lessen healthcare disparities among your patients? |
Finance & Development December 1, 2001 Seyni N'Diaye |
The Role of Institutional Reforms ...It is precisely from this restrictive regulatory framework that African countries must extricate themselves if they are to realize their true potential in the global economy... |
Financial Planning October 1, 2009 Ron Cordes |
Good Deeds, Done Well The changes social entrepreneurship and microfinance are bringing to Buyobo, Africa are obvious and tangible |
Nursing Management September 2008 Richard Hader |
Strategies for profitable growth Experience has demonstrated that a focus on expense reduction alone won't sustain or improve financial stability in health care services. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2008 Justin Yifu Lin |
Straight Talk: Shifting Perceptions of Poverty Revised poverty statistics may improve understanding of the economic development process. |
Financial Planning April 1, 2008 David E. Adler |
Your Retiring Clients' Biggest Fear How to pay for healthcare is the single biggest concern that people have approaching retirement. It's important for planners to understand this as well; not only for clients, but for themselves. |