cancer - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Apr 2014
News

A 'reluctant entrepreneur' draws on the HBS network

Cancer survivor Kathryn Giusti (MBA 1985) gives a talk about being a "reluctant entrepreneur" in founding the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. (Published April 2014) View Details

Robert P. Luciano

Luciano generated top-level financial performance while streamlining Schering’s business operations. He divested Schering’s non-healthcare related business lines and was one of the first pharmaceutical executives to recognize the potential for biotechnology. His early... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

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

01 Oct 1999
News

HBS Mourns Professors Christensen and Vernon

of the founders of the field of business strategy and was long regarded as the world's leading authority on case-method teaching. On August 26, Raymond Vernon, the Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Business Management, Emeritus, died of View Details

Career Coach

Tricia Peralta

to help navigate US immigration concerns and provide a sounding board for folks trying to decide if they want to work in the US or elsewhere. Dana Farber Cancer Institute (Internship), The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis, and... View Details

10 Nov 2020
News

Learning to Fight

Electric and used a portion of the proceeds to establish the Sontag Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting brain cancer research and brain cancer patients and caregivers. The foundation’s signature... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2013
News

Faculty Opinion: Making It Better

communication—is widely used, and cancer care is now delivered in a hub-and-spoke model, a system that is much cheaper and more convenient for patients because it is built around local treatment. At the hub, expensive advanced... View Details

Keywords: Herzlinger, Regina; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

Portrait Project

Amy MacBeath

calm and smiling, he encouraged me to raise my hand in class when I was apprehensive, cheered me up when I became frustrated, and inspired me to keep everything in perspective. I am not sure how I would have made it through the first year of the MBA program without... View Details

23 May 2018
News

Winning Bid

$90,000 for breast cancer research), as well as its ability to connect people with similar interests: “That’s fascinating both in its simplicity and its complexity,” he says. “It’s not just commerce, it’s commerce and purpose.” READ MORE View Details

01 Dec 2005
News

Pedal Mettle

The Tour of Hope is a bicycle relay from San Diego to Washington, D.C., a 3,300-mile journey intended to raise awareness about cancer research, prevention, and detection. One of the 25 participants in the October ride was cancer-survivor... View Details

Keywords: Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

Portrait Project

Elizabeth Bruyere

I was not surprised by my mother's soft, patient knock at 4 AM to tell me that my father had died. It was a moment I had been anticipating each day for five years after his Stage IV cancer diagnosis, and with even more certainty after he... 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

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,... View Details

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U.S. Competitiveness Project - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network U.S. Competitiveness Project U.S.... View Details

11 Dec 2014
News

Defining the field of cause-related marketing

After being diagnosed with breast cancer at age 30, Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA 1977) left a career in investment banking to launch the National Breast Cancer Coalition and changed the way organizations raise... View Details

Portrait Project

Matthew Naunheim

hand. I, too, have begun to leave scars on the people and things I care about. In health care, the wounds are many, and they need fixing: An elderly Haitian immigrant without insurance. A smoker with throat cancer who refuses to quit. A... View Details

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?

predict a new world where drug treatments are customized to an individual's genetic makeup, and gene-based therapy can root out cancer and other diseases before they take hold in the body. The new science will "revolutionize the way... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Oct 2021
News

Bringing Light to the Fight

part thanks to Smyth, who joined the volunteer board of the fledgling Breast Cancer Foundation NZ in the mid-1990s and became its chair in 2009. Her work with the charity has been informed by her business career, she says. A partner at... View Details

Portrait Project

Matthew Puglisi

the uncensored story of his transition to life in America as a poor, English-challenged Sicilian immigrant shouldering the load of his widowed mother and four siblings. It wasn't the last time Dad's strength was required to hold a family together. In 2005, breast View Details

06 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows

noted, “I’m excited to learn from other fellows and explore opportunities for collaboration across other systems, including policy, healthcare, and criminal justice.” Keemia Azvine. Keemia, who is pursuing a MS/MBA in Biotechnology Life Sciences, comes to HBS after... View Details

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