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- 06 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact
University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard. She later worked with leadership at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the World Health Organization on a high-impact effort to improve access to View Details
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4 Things You Need to Know About Independent Projects - MBA
transition from fee-for-service to a value-based payment model. It helped me understand how to talk the language of premier cancer hospital leadership, and help them identify metrics to help them measure patient access. Independent... View Details
- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
know how to land a human on Mars. The sobering reality of health care is that terrible things—Alzheimer’s or cancer or an accident—can happen to anyone, including very healthy people. And that’s the bulk of health care spending. The... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
to remove a cancerous tumor in his throat. Stripped of his voice box and vocal cords, he had to learn to speak using his esophagus. Batten, an entrepreneur who thrives on difficult challenges, says that coping with View Details
- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
the notion that hate speech had no place on the site, Wojcicki rejected the idea that sites containing conspiracy theories or other borderline content such as “Every Cancer Can Be Cured in Weeks” should be barred from the site. Instead,... View Details
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
found. He's also faced a series of powerful setbacks. So far in his life, Christensen has lived with Type I diabetes, survived a massive heart attack, endured lymphoma (the same type of cancer that killed his father), and, 18 months ago,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Hands-on Learning About Global Markets - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
of meeting the climate imperative? This is Your Time Be at Your Best to Enjoy it the Most Meredith Oppenheim (MBA 2001) , Founder and CEO of Vitality Society Josie Gardiner, Vitality Society Coach/Advisor, and Co-Author of Harvard Medical School Breast View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making
writer based in the Boston area. [Image: CasarsaGuru] Related Reading: Related Reading Black Business Leaders Series: Franklin Leonard, 'Black List' Mastermind Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products? Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based View Details
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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education
Black grocers. A close friend of Justice Thurgood Marshall, Dowling served in managerial roles for the U.S. Department of Internal Revenue, the American Cancer Society, and the New Jersey Urban League. Howard Naylor Fitzhugh HBS MBA 1933... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
news hook, although it may not be as obvious as, say, a breakthrough in cancer research. Remember the aforementioned research by Bazerman et al., which explained the unconscious biases that cause auditors to do a bad job of auditing?... View Details
- 15 Apr 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
underwent a mastectomy and survived, and Smyth kept the family secret for more than a decade. That’s all changed now—in part thanks to Smyth, who joined the volunteer board of the fledgling Breast Cancer Foundation NZ in the mid-1990s.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Amy S. Langer
More than fifty thousand women die from breast cancer every year in the United States. Another two hundred thousand are diagnosed with the disease — the most common form of cancer among women. Sitting in her... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain
"I never intended to write a book," says Deborah A. Cohen (MBA '87). Nor did she expect to be diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 35. The author of Just Get Me Through This! The Practical Guide to Breast View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)
named executive director of the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO), where she had signed on as a volunteer three years earlier. When she joined NABCO, the New York City-based organization's annual budget was $17,000;... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Personal crises inform a life’s work
One of the youngest women to attend HBS, Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA 1977) was building a successful investment banking career when a cancer diagnosis at age 29 spurred her to volunteer at the National Alliance of Breast View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
INK: Taking Care
The sad and unfortunate fact is that one in every two people will develop cancer in their lifetime, Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) writes in her new book, Fatal to Fearless: 12 Steps to Beating Cancer in a Broken... View Details
- 07 Jan 2022
- News
Learning to Fight
establish the Sontag Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting brain cancer research and brain cancer patients and caregivers. In the last 18 years, the foundation has awarded more than $35 million to... View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Kathryn E. Giusti, MBA 1985
as an entrepreneur have dramatically changed the lives of many cancer patients, including her own. By expediting research on multiple myeloma, a rare and incurable blood cancer with one of the lowest... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
The sci-fi future for cancer treatment has become a reality, with breakthrough therapies that can use a cancer patient’s genetic information to create personalized treatments or employ the body’s immune... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li