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- 12 May 2015
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A Flash of Insight
high school years, but I had put it off twice to pursue other career options. I realized then that medicine required the same skill sets, and it also represented a return to service—a very personal form of...
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- 25 Jun 2020
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Covering All Corners
battle must be fought on three fronts: preventing the spread among the general population, relieving hospitals running at full capacity wherever possible, and ensuring the availability of life-saving medicine in the face of threats to...
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- 01 Jun 2001
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Christina Ehrenberg: The Examined Life
Ehrenberg decided at an early age that she wanted to be a doctor. “I was very concerned about sick people,” she says, “and I thought medicine was the greatest job in the world.” In 1997, she graduated from medical school in Munich and...
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- 03 Oct 2019
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Clubs Convene to Focus on Health Care
public health care, skyrocketing costs of prescription medications, and how AI-assisted personal medicine is coming in the future.” Ahmed says the Cleveland Clinic Canada (CCC) represents one of the growing...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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The Business of Biotech
"blockbusters" will disappear. Recent developments suggest that doctors will eventually be able to treat patients more effectively with medicine tailored to their genetic makeup, including, in some cases, gene replacement therapies. "The...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 2001
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The Doctor Is In
academic and practice leaders, and advance medicine through excellence in biomedical research. A native of Malden, Massachusetts, and a 1984 graduate of Harvard Medical School, Slavin knows exactly when he first became interested in...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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INK: Taking Care
“Your first step should be to take a deep breath,” writes Giusti, who is cofounder of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF), where she was CEO and president for nearly two decades. She also co-chaired the HBS Kraft Precision View Details
- 10 Aug 2021
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Moving Education Within Reach
scholarships and government loans. Ramalingam personally funded whatever expenses the loans and scholarships didn’t cover, according to his widow, Hildegard Scheel. Ramalingam repeated the pattern with scores of students—perhaps as many...
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- 20 Jan 2011
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A Precursor from the 1930s
in 2007. And the five-year DMD/MBA with the Harvard School of Dental Medicine began in 2009. I was surprised to have found some evidence that already in the 1930s, HBS was offering a joint degree (or a joint course of study) with the...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door
month, reviewing the numbers. I learned a lot about medicine that way. Wasn't your husband also in the health-care industry at the time? Yes. Under a push for funding from President Nixon, there had started to be more research and...
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- 01 Jun 2001
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"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
business, women as professionals, and women’s personal lives. Included are materials as diverse as the diaries of whaling captains’ wives, wills that show how 18th-century property laws affected women, advertisements for “female...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care
Prescriptions: Free the Data! Build a Killer App Measure Health Care's Real Costs Make Medicine Personal Leverage Human Nature Integrate Preventive Care and Payment BUSH: A passionate advocate for improving...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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Disrupting India’s Dental Market
opening a hospital. “I didn’t want to get into real estate,” he says. “I wanted to get into a service business.” Perhaps even more appealingly, dentistry did not depend on referrals from other doctors, which turned Indian medicine into “a...
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Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Sep 2007
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To The Rescue
intersections and pass the information along to local governments to encourage better traffic management. They review 108 hang-ups, study best practices of emergency medicine in other countries, evaluate the level of care available at...
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- 17 Jun 2020
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Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
intermittent fasting—but for your brain.” Citing a recent study linking the COVID-19 crisis to exacerbated mental health issues in Canada, Boris Tsimerinov (PLDA16, 2017), says “cultivating calm is important at a personal and organization...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2015
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Ink
around your personal anchor. These were not well-rounded executives, but each played to their own strengths and hired to fill their weaknesses. Jobs, for example, was passionate about product design, so that is where he focused much of...
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- 14 May 2014
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(Re)moving the Needle
injector, which uses a "liquid needle" only 100 micrometers in diameter, delivers drugs through the skin at any location, at any desired depth and volume. "We believe our patented technology will transform the delivery of medicines and...
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- 11 May 2017
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Going with the Flow
In 2000, Fisher founded ViaCell, a cellular medicines company that became the parent of ViaCord and the subject of an HBS case study. She took ViaCell public in 2005 and sold it to Perkin Elmer in 2007 for $300 million. Water and Beer Her...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change
Emory Healthcare sent a team of managers and clinicians to the Managing Healthcare Delivery program. From left, Dane Peterson, Dallis Howard-Crow, Bryce Gartland, and Susan Grant at Emory University’s School of Medicine in Atlanta,...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs
Brenda Bence (MBA '91) ((Global Insight Communications)) For the Best, You Need Nothing: All You Need Is You by Gian Carlo Bina (PMD 23, 1972) ((Bryce Cullen Publishing)) Good People Bad Credit: Understanding Personality and the Credit...
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