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- 09 Feb 2016
- News
Providing the Care That Seniors Need
out of Harvard Business School, I became a real estate developer with a specialty on medical campuses. Almost simultaneously, my mother-in-law developed what we know today to be early-stage Alzheimer’s disease and I found myself caught... View Details
- 20 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
What is the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program? A Q&A with Bill Anderson, Senior Lecturer on Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
this field. Furthermore, these advances raise a host of ethical issues in terms of diseases targeted, types of therapies, and accessibility. Given the rich experience of translational science in the Harvard system (Cambridge, Longwood,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
High Yields
or disease before they could spot them with their naked eye. “We call this precision farming,” says Gould. “The operator can see a problem and nip it in the bud, rather than wait until the end of the year and say, ‘I wonder why that... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
health care, inequities in female-specific disease areas, and the role of FemTech startups in disrupting women's health care and empowering women. Linda Greub (MBA 1987) Stasia Obremskey (MBA 1987) Alice Zheng (MBA 2014) Linda Greub (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Web
Patients - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
and health care Manage health through lifestyle choices, obtaining routine care and testing, complying with treatments, and active participation in disease management and prevention Gather information on provider results and experience in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
In the Driver's Seat
toyed with the notion for Fanz before. But in 1999, when one of his newborn twin sons, Jackson Roscoe, died shortly after birth due to congenital heart disease complications, the idea took on a new reality for Hitchcock and his wife,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Check Is in the Mail
of credit has been around as long as commerce itself. “Credit is often portrayed as the new disease of the 20th century, yet people have been buying on credit for centuries,” says Caitlin Anderson, the exhibit’s curator and a visiting... View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
Medical School. In its early years, the Sontag Foundation also launched the Northeast Florida Brain Tumor Support Group. It was the resource Rick and Susan needed as they coped with her disease and its aftereffects. Once a month for the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Merck’s Gilmartin on Vaccines, Global Health
that policymakers concerned with global public health must pay “dramatically greater” attention to vaccine-related issues. He pointed out that 3 million children worldwide die each year from diseases for which vaccines already exist. Even... View Details
- Fast Answer
Hospitals: statistics (US)
style="line-height: 20.8px;"> by AHA) Incidence & Prevalence Database - world's epidemiology data including some surgical patient volumes Centers... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
integration doesn't guarantee that you can do everything well simultaneously. Focus, we've discovered, is critical. What does "focus" mean in terms of the health-care industry? It means more integrated facilities that center on providing all the care for one View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
cross subsidies and charity. The cost of moving to universal insurance will be less than sometimes supposed because much is already being spent on care for the uninsured, and there will be savings from providing preventive care and View Details
Charles A. Heimbold, Jr.
Heimbold focused on Bristol-Myers Squibb’s growth and created a scientific-based, world-leading pharmaceutical company with very strong consumer franchises. Sixty-two percent of its sales come from pharmaceuticals (where it holds leadership positions in anticancer... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Ticked Off
The HBS Club of Connecticut Community Partners recently partnered with Time for Lyme (TFL), a nonprofit dedicated to eliminating the devastating effects of Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses. Founded in 1998, TFL has raised... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
doctorate in biomedical engineering and readily admits he still identifies as a scientist, is equally excited about the big-picture impact of receiving orphan drug and rare pediatric disease designations. “Disabling hearing loss affects... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Books
compete in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of specific health conditions. The book lays out a framework for redefining health-care competition based on patient value: from prevention and diagnosis through recovery or long-term View Details
- Portrait Project
Smriti Jayaraman
diminishes both the carbon footprint and utility bill of an American household, or a rural Internet kiosk that provides market prices to Brazilian fisherman by day and disease diagnoses by night. If technology can be an enabler for good,... View Details
- 03 Jun 2014
- Blog Post
Springing Forward on Social Enterprise Career Paths
plans including, a unique approach to addressing cardiovascular diseases Mexico, a model connecting smallholder farmers to formerly inaccessible markets, and several other plans are rethinking education in the U.S. and around the world.... View Details
- Profile
Jordan Amadio
physician/scientists. Jordan is conducting lab investigations into neurogenetics — the ways genes contribute to normal brain development and to disease states. Turning research into practical benefits "Science has always been my... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Pedal Mettle
player who was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease in 1995, Berté saw the cancer return six months after she completed her initial treatment. She then enrolled in a clinical trial including chemotherapy, radiation, and a stem-cell... View Details