We are all perfect, and we could all use a little work. Is this you? Do you sense an aura of stress and anxiety hovering in the air, a bit of shiftlessness as you race through your day, or wander about the world? Are you so used to running that you long for a chance…
[Editor’s note: On January 30, the HBS community received an email from Angela Crispi and Nitin Nohria announcing that Harvard University Health Services’ Business School Clinic, located in Cumnock, will close at the end of this semester. Harvard University Group Health Plan patients at HBS need a new primary care physician effective June 1.] Harvard…
With the healthcare budget continuously swelling, digitization seems to be a promising remedy to an exponentially growing problem. As Joseph Kvedar highlights in his Harvard Business Review article “Telemedicine is Vital to Reforming Healthcare,” one of the primary challenges within healthcare around the globe is the requirement for high levels of skill across the chain,…
On a brisk January day in San Francisco, California, 10,000 attendees from more than 450 companies spanning medical devices, healthcare service providers, and pharmaceuticals piled into the heart of the city to attend the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. The days were filled by a rapid fire of ideas in innovation and investing—from how to…
A turbulent year for healthcare policy, 2017 was capped off with a spree of healthcare mega-mergers. Some transgressed traditional industry boundaries, reflecting the evolving dynamics of a sector in dramatic flux since the 2010 implementation of the Affordable Care Act. CVS’ $69bn acquisition of Aetna, the nation’s third largest insurer, introduced the possibility of converting…
How the mission of one EC student sets an example for us all Why did you come to HBS? To switch careers, build your resume, or simply to push yourself outside of your comfort zone? For Rich Horgan (HBS ‘18) the answer is more complex: to further his goal of advancing research to commercialize treatments…
The Harbus joins Lauren Cohen, world record powerlifter, HBS professor, and father of four for his morning work out Lauren Cohen flicks on the downstairs lights of his stately white Belmont home at 4:15am. The sun won’t rise for another two hours but it’s time to lift 500 pounds. Twenty-four hours ago, Cohen finished a…
MBA Student and Academic Services Harvard Business School has a MBA Disability Services program, which is part of the office of Student and Academic Services. Students in the MBA program who have any form of learning difference, hearing, mobility, psychiatric disability, chronic medical condition, or short term injury can meet with the Disability Service Coordinator…
As the cold New England wind begins to blow, we can all start to see some changes across campus. The leaves turn beautiful warm colors and begin to fall. The annual HBS plague begins sweeping through classrooms in coughing fits. Those from warm climates rush to buy extra Canada Goose jackets to survive. And things…
Diabetes is a global pandemic. Characterized by chronic high blood glucose levels (hyperglycemia) due to the body’s failure to produce enough insulin, diabetes affects over 9% of the population in the US alone, and of those people, approximately 25% are undiagnosed. More alarmingly so, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) estimates that 415 million people have…