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Stanford Social Innovation Review: Spring 2009

By 1998, thousands of people had contracted HIV and hepatitis C from Canada’s tainted blood supply. To restore the supply and the public’s trust, the federal, provincial, and territorial governments of Canada created a new organization, Canadian Blood Services. Despite the public health tragedy that it inherited, Canadian Blood Services rebuilt Canadians’ faith in the nation’s blood supply by infusing transparency into its structure, culture, and operations. —By Moe Abecassis, David Benjamin, & Lorna Tessier

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Healthcare

What’s Next: Texting It In

Stanford Social Innovation Review: Spring 2009

Health care workers can now collect medical data on their cell phones and better track deadly diseases.

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Healthcare, Social Entrepreneurship

What’s Next: The New Frontier

Stanford Social Innovation Review: Spring 2009

LeapFrog helps bring insurance to the world's poor.

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Healthcare

What’s Next: Paying for Safe Sex

Stanford Social Innovation Review: Winter 2009

Paying people to practice safe sex.

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Healthcare, Social Entrepreneurship

What’s Next: LivingGoods Calling

Stanford Social Innovation Review: Fall 2008

LivingGoods sends its version of Avon ladies—white-uniformed “health promoters"—knocking on doors in hundreds of Ugandan communities.

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Corporate Social Responsibility, Healthcare, Social Entrepreneurship

Offshore Drug Development May be Necessary to Control Cost

In order to control rising costs of drug developments, pharmeceutical companies may have to begin looking overseas, where a strong emphasis on life science research is held. In addition, drug companies must begin to look to devote more of their R&D budgets to treating more common diseases. Victoria Hale, founder, CEO, and chairwoman of OneWorld Health, has created a nonprofit pharmaceutical company to address the needs of 90 percent of the world's people, many who do not receive treatment for preventable diseases because of the high costs of medicine.

Resource: News Article

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Healthcare

Why Your Appendectomy Costs More than Mine

Stanford GSB Associate Professor Alan Sorenson researched why certain insurance companies get better rates for hospital services than others. His findings suggest that it is not the size of the insurance company that is most important, but rather its ability to take their business elsewhere.

Resource: News Article

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Healthcare

Conference Highlights Critical Role of Consumer Choice in Health-Related Businesses

The Stanford GSB's fourth-annual health care and biotech conference addressed issues of healthcare affordability. Speaker Ken Dollens, CEO of Guidant, professed the need for transparency and consumer choice in the health and health insurance industries to ensure customers are getting the best quality services and products. Mike Kaplan, MBA '92, partner at Three Arch Partners, echoed the need to publish information on medical outcomes, advocating the concerns of the consumer as a driving force behind innovation and equality.

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Healthcare

Biotech Innovators and Investors Assess Challenges, Opportunities

The question "Will biotechnology create value?" was explored in-depth at the Stanford GSB's biotechnology conference. It often takes even large biotechnology firms years to bring a successful product to market, leaving smaller firms struggling to survive. Speakers suggest strategies such as mergers and simple patience as counteractions to the long waiting period for biotech development.

Resource: News Article

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Healthcare

Health Policy Expert Offers New Health Insurance Proposal

Three Stanford health policy experts tackle the challenge of making healthcare affordable; they suggest creating a health care "exchange" that offers a variety of plans, as well as the creation of a federal agency to monitor these exchanges and the rates offered. The planners believe that a variety of options will allow consumers to choose the plan that tailors best to their medical and financial needs.

Resource: News Article

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Environment, Healthcare, Social Entrepreneurship

Creating Social Change: 10 Innovative Technologies

Stanford Social Innovation Review: Summer 2006

Social entrepreneurs are inventing new technologies to solve the world’s problems – disease, malnutrition, pollution, and illiteracy – to name just a few. But it takes more than a fancy new gadget to make life better. That’s why the organizations profiled here are working with businesses, NGOs, and governments to get their inventions into the hands of those who need them most. —By John Voelcker

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Healthcare, Nonprofit Management

Tainted Love

Stanford Social Innovation Review: Summer 2006

Tough love programs hurt addicts and adolescents. —By Maia Szalavitz

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Government, Healthcare, Nonprofit Management

With Vigor and VIM

Stanford Social Innovation Review: Summer 2006

How retired healthcare professionals are taking care of the uninsured. —By Leslie Berger

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Healthcare, Nonprofit Management

Choosing Mission Over Money

Stanford Social Innovation Review: Spring 2006

Giving for the long term. —By Keith Epstein

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Healthcare, Nonprofit Management

Research Rules

Stanford Social Innovation Review: Winter 2005

As the branding process of the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation shows, nonprofits should do their homework before communicating with the public. —By R. Christine Hershey & Andrew Posey

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article

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Healthcare

Clout-Sourcing

Social media is helping people self-assemble for social action.

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Healthcare

Community Advisory Committees in Health Foundations

A look at how community advisory committees are faring in the health field.

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Economic Development, Healthcare

Bringing Vision to the Masses

In the United States, at least 60% of the population wears corrective lenses. Worldwide, in contrast, only 5% of the population does. Such statistics have led Josh Silver, Oxford atomic physicist, to conclude that more than half the world needs vision correction but doesn't have access to it. In this audio lecture, host of the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford, Silver shares how he decided to "do something useful for the world" by creating specialized, liquid-filled corrective lenses that are now worn by some 26,000 people in developing countries.

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Economic Development, Healthcare

Bringing Mobility to the Disabled

In remote rural areas in India, 18 million people suffer isolation and poverty due to their inability to work. In this audio interview, Jennifer Roberts, associate editor of the Stanford Social Innovation Review, converses with D.R. Mehta, whose NGO gives mobility to 20,000 people a year through the fitting of a high-tech prosthetic limb known as the Jaipur Foot. Mehta discusses the genesis of his organization, which makes the prosthesis freely available to the poor.

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Healthcare, Social Entrepreneurship

Improved Disease Tests for the Developing World

In developing countries, many tests for infectious diseases never reach the market because there is little financial incentive to pharmaceutical companies to get them there. In this audio interveiw, Alana Conner, senior editor at the Stanford Social Innovation Review, converses with Helen Lee, whose research department at the University of Cambridge has developed tests that allow for the rapid detection--and thus treatment--of diseases in rural settings around the world.

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Economic Development, Environment, Healthcare

Reflections from a Pioneer in Social Innovation

Should we be optimistic or pessimistic about the future of humanity and its ability to use social enterprise for productive purposes? In this University podcast, Larry Brilliant cites megatrends that are indeed cause for alarm. Yet his focus is the shining examples of altruism and philanthropy that inspire him ultimately to maintain faith in the ability of the human species to do good and overcome adversity.

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Economic Development, Healthcare, Human Rights

Innovator for the Poor

The beginnings of the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) were fraught with uncertainty. Initially surviving entirely on donations, it has since earned back two pennies for every one it has spent on welfare activities, and is today the largest, self-reliant international NGO, employing more than 97,000 people. In this audio lecture, Fazle Hasan Abed reminisces about the organization's humble beginnings and shares the organization's achievements.

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Healthcare

Conversations in Global Health with Chid Liberty

Liberty and Justice, a for-profit, socially minded company, is creating jobs and improving health care for Liberian women

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Healthcare, Leadership

Solutions for Extreme Need

What if visiting the doctor to get a CT scan was as fun as sailing on a pirate ship? asked Doug Dietz, veteran designer of MRI and CT scan machines. Dietz had seen the widespread anxiety of children who came into the hospital and wanted to change that negative experience.

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Healthcare

Capital for Early Stage Innovation

Investors provide insight on early-stage startup fundraising and advice to those interested in starting their own ventures in healthcare.

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Healthcare

The Global Tobacco Epidemic: Robert Proctor

How did the global tobacco epidemic start? And what can we learn from it?

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Government, Healthcare

Pharmaceutical Innovation

What can pharmaceutical companies do to contribute to global health?

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Healthcare

Biotechnology, Diagnostics, and Genomics: Panel Discussion

What are five individuals in biotechnology doing to make the sector more efficient?

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Healthcare

The Future of the Healthcare Sector: John Capek

At the 2011 GSB Healthcare Summit, John Capek, Executive Vice President of Abbott's Medical Devices business, shares his thoughts on the future of the healthcare sector.

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Healthcare

Changing Behavior and Changing Policies: BJ Fogg

At the 2011 GSB Healthcare Summit, Director of the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab BJ Fogg spoke about changing behavior to build new habits.

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Healthcare

Changing Behavior and Changing Policies: Todd Park

At the 2011 GSB Healthcare Summit, Todd Park, Chief Technology Officer of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, argued that now is the best time in history to be in the healthcare entrepreneur business.

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Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic Development, Healthcare

Disaster Response: Lessons Learned from Haiti

When disaster strikes somewhere in the world, what kind of leadership, nonprofit management, and supply chain expertise are needed? In this university podcast, Stanford professor of surgery, Paul Auerbach, shares lessons learned from the Stanford Emergency Medicine rapid response team's deployment in Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake. His experiences provide a glimpse in to how relevant groups may prepare themselves to better assist in future global catastrophes.

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Case Studies : All | Academic Cases

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Canary Fund and the San Jose Grand Prix (B): Results of the First Race

The Canary Fund supports the development of methods for early cancer detection. This second case presents the results of the sponsorship created to raise funding and awareness.

Resource: Academic Case

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Healthcare, Philanthropy, Responsible Investing

The Kinetics and Michael J. Fox Foundations (B): New Directions

The Kinetics and Michael J. Fox Foundations both support research on Parkinson’s disease. This second case explores how these two organizations collaborate toward a common mission.

Resource: Academic Case

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Healthcare

VaxGen Inc., Fighting the AIDS Epidemic

VaxGen is working to obtain approvals for phase III clinical trials in Thailand for an experimental vaccine against HIV. The company must cope with a host of ethical questions.

Resource: Academic Case

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Corporate Social Responsibility, Healthcare

Exubera and NICE

This case details the 2006 decision by the United Kingdom to deny coverage for a new form of inhaled insulin. In doing so, it highlights the challenges to innovators in managing conflicts over the costs, benefits, and risks of new technology.

Resource: Academic Case

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Healthcare, Nonprofit Management

Institute for Healthcare Improvement: The Campaign to Save 100,000 Lives

In December 2004, the president of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement challenged U.S. hospitals to reduce unnecessary deaths by 100,000 in the next 18 months. The case describes a campaign that incorporated lessons from politics and social activism.

Resource: Academic Case

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Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic Development, Healthcare

Gilead Sciences (A): The Gilead Access Program for HIV Drugs

Gilead Sciences designs a strategy for delivering an AIDS drug to developing nations in Africa. This first part of the case describes the organization's initial considerations.

Resource: Academic Case

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Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic Development, Healthcare

Gilead Sciences (B): Implementing the Gilead Access Program for HIV Drugs

Gilead Sciences designs a strategy for delivering an AIDS drug to developing nations in Africa. This second part of the case explores the company’s experience with a distribution program.

Resource: Academic Case

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Environment, Healthcare, Social Entrepreneurship

IDEAAS and PSA: Replication in the Amazon

Two social ventures collaborated with each other to help expand one’s solar energy services from southern Brazil into the Amazon region. The case highlights the core factors that led to the project’s ultimate outcome.

Resource: Academic Case

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Economic Development, Healthcare, Nonprofit Management

Riders for Health: Health Care Distribution Solutions in Sub-Saharan Africa

Riders for Health is a U.K.-based nonprofit dedicated to the improvement of transportation systems for health workers in Africa. In 2007, after 11 years in existence, the organization was at a critical point and had to decide what strategies were necessary to expand.

Resource: Academic Case

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Healthcare, Philanthropy, Responsible Investing

The Kinetics and Michael J. Fox Foundations (A): Partnering with a Purpose

The Kinetics and Michael J. Fox Foundations both support research on Parkinson’s disease. This first case describes the creation, mission, and strategy of the two organizations.

Resource: Academic Case

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Corporate Social Responsibility, Healthcare

Adiana, Inc., and the Development of a Female Sterilization Device

Adiana’s new female sterilization catheter had proven to be successful in preliminary trials in Mexico. The company president had to make decisions about subject consent and Adiana’s responsibility to participants in further trials.

Resource: Academic Case

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Corporate Social Responsibility, Healthcare

Merck's US. Managed Distribution Program for the HIV Drug Crixivan

Merck was grappling with how to distribute an HIV drug in limited supply. The decision team had chosen to manage distribution from one source, and was meeting to review the progress and success of its plan.

Resource: Academic Case

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Economic Development, Healthcare, Nonprofit Management

Interplast

Interplast was the first international humanitarian organization to send U.S. doctors overseas to provide free reconstructive surgery in developing countries. This case and its campanion videocase chronicle the debates that arose as the organization began to shift its focus from direct service to education.

Resource: Academic Case

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Corporate Social Responsibility, Healthcare

GlaxoSmithKline and AIDS Drugs Policy

In Africa, GlaxoSmithKline had to determine how to address the AIDS crisis while maintaining business viability. The case details the interventions of Stanford business alumnus Jean-Pierre Garnier to set the public tone for the company and its worldwide operations.

Resource: Academic Case

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Corporate Social Responsibility, Healthcare

Notes on AIDS and the Pharmaceutical Industry

These notes discuss the AIDS epidemic including history, treatment, drug pricing, and economics.

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Research Papers : All

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Healthcare

Shared Decision Making in Deceased Donor Transplantation

This paper discusses the implications of shared decision-making between the transplant candidate and the transplant surgeon. The authors recommend that prospective shared decision-making should become standard practice for all transplant procedures.

Resource: Research Paper

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Healthcare

Making Markets Work: Five Steps To A Better Health Care System

To make health care markets work, this paper recommends changes in five areas of public policy: tax reform, insurance reform, improved provision of information, enhanced competition, and malpractice reform. Such policy reforms will improve health care productivity, make insurance more affordable, reduce the numbers of uninsured, and increase tax fairness and progressivity.

Resource: Research Paper

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Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic Development, Education, Healthcare

The G8 Debt Relief Plan May Not Help

The 2005 G8 debt relief plan certainly sounds generous, but researchers caution it is unlikely to result in large benefits for struggling countries.

Resource: Research Paper

Courses : All

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Healthcare

Biodesign Innovation: OIT 581/3

The two-quarter Elective Course series provides lectures from a diverse group of faculty that expose students to the practical aspects of technology invention and development. The class features a presentation or discussion from one of the guest speakers or faculty. Students work in small project teams in the Biodesign prototyping lab or bench space, collaborating with the fellows of the program.

Resource: MBA Course

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Government, Healthcare

Political Economy of Health Care in the U.S.: MGTECON 331

The purpose of this class is to provide students with the economic tools and the institutional and legal background to understand how markets for health care products and services work. The class utilizes case studies, lectures, and visits from individuals in the industry.

Resource: MBA Course

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Healthcare, Social Entrepreneurship

Health Care Technology: From Innovators to Providers to Patients: GSBGEN 351

This course examines health care businesses and how they use technology (primarily biotechnology, medical technology, and information technology) to improve patient outcomes and manage costs. Through case studies, students gain an in-depth understanding of how new technologies get developed and commercialized in health care, and of how the whole health care value chain adapts to new technologies.

Resource: MBA Course

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Healthcare

Analysis of Costs, Risks & Benefits of Health Care: MGTECON 332

This course examines the application of cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis, along with other evaluation techniques, to products and services such as medical care, whose "output" is difficult to measure. It critically reviews studies that apply cost analysis techniques to specific clinical problems.

Resource: MBA Course

Innovators : All

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Economic Development, Healthcare

Cross-Sector Effort Helps People See Better

Vision care is something that is practically taken for granted in the United States, but that’s not the case throughout much of the world. Some 300 million around the globe suffer from correctable vision loss, leading, as Ashanthi Mathai, MBA '04, says, “to people accepting their vision impairment and adjusting their lives around it.” The result? A lower quality of life, restricted job options, and even further economic distress.

Resource: Alumni

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Healthcare, Social Entrepreneurship

Jane Chen (MBA '08)

Jane Chen's passion for helping others has taken her on an incredible journey from doing social work in China to founding Embrace, a company that sells premature infant incubators.

Resource: Alumni

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Healthcare

Karen Routt (MBA '83)

Caring for aging parents is a challenge many face, yet there is no clear path or pattern for how to manage this stage of life. Karen Routt shares her expertise at the nexus between technology and caring for the elderly.

Resource: Alumni

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Board Governance, Health Care, Education, Healthcare

An interview with Patty Einarson (MBA '86, MD '01)

With a high-tech background, an MBA, and an M.D., Dr. Patty Einarson has a unique perspective on the intersection of technology, business and medicine. She leverages this knowledge by contributing to math/science education in the public schools, encouraging the kids of today to become future innovators.

Resource: Alumni

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Economic Development, Education, Government, Healthcare, Philanthropy, Responsible Investing, Social Entrepreneurship

An interview with Mark Cafferty (EPNL '07)

Mark Cafferty is passionate about empowering individuals to be all they can be. He channels funds to employment and youth service programs.

Resource: CSI Affiliates

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Board Governance, Health Care, Education, Healthcare

An interview with Patty Einarson (MBA '86, MD '01)

With a high-tech background, an MBA, and an M.D., Dr. Patty Einarson has a unique perspective on the intersection of technology, business and medicine. She leverages this knowledge by contributing to math/science education in the public schools, encouraging the kids of today to become future innovators.

Resource: Alumni

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Government, Healthcare

Changing Behavior and Changing Policies

The Veteran's Administration, Medicare, and Medicaid make up the largest repository of public health data in the world, and now it's being made available in appropriate forms for the use of patients and innovators alike. Todd Parks, CTO of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, wants to change the fee structure of healthcare from "Fee for Service" to something more efficient, and he's freeing up information on public health so everyone can see and help design better health systems.

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Resource: Audio

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Healthcare, Philanthropy, Responsible Investing

Venture Capital Should Invest in Improving the Health Care Safety Net

Young companies trying to enter parts of the health care industry by focusing on helping patients stay healthy and allowing safety net providers to use their resources have a hard time attracting venture capital funds that focus more on traditional profit. A recent article by two Stanford Graduate School of Business researchers argues that it's time to change this pattern.

Resource: Research Paper

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Arts, Culture, and Religion, Healthcare

2011 Stanford Healthcare Summit

How do we get individuals to practice healthier habits and influence positive behavior change? The "Behavior Wizard" offers technology-based solutions in this audio lecture from the 2011 Stanford Graduate School of Business Healthcare Summit. B.J. Fogg, Director of the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University, bring his insights from the tech world. In decades studying how computers and mobile apps can be used to bring about behavior change, Fogg found new applications for the health sector in promoting positive habits.

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Healthcare, Social Entrepreneurship

Solving Infant Mortality with Social Entrepreneurship

Of the twenty million premature or underweight babies born every year, four million will die in their first month of life. In this audio lecture from the 2011 Women in Management banquet at Stanford, Jane Chen discusses her recent efforts to change these numbers, and the personal journey that took her there. Chen is the co-founder and CEO of Embrace, a nonprofit company that has developed a new low-cost, portable incubator for use in India and other parts of the developing world.

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