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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
Above: photo by Len Rubenstein No disease can be slowed or stopped until it is diagnosed. For diseases with available treatments, the facts are simple: The earlier they are detected, the higher the survival... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Fast Answer
India - Industry specific research
site of the World Health Organization office in India, includes information on diseases and agency activities. Information Technology View Details
- Web
Kraft Accelerator
advancements? The Kraft Foundation turned to Harvard Business School for an answer, and finding one has been our mission ever since. We began by pulling in more than 300 business leaders—people from different disease states, industries,... View Details
- Web
Entrepreneurs Promise Signers - Alumni
Rare Disease Zachary Hoyt (MBA 2020) Jinfeng Huang (MBA 2012), Yatsen Global Andreas Jaegle (MBA 2014) Zameer Kassam (MBA 2007), Zameer Kassam Fine Jewelry Mr. Kavikrut (MBA 2013), OYO Mike Kayamori (MBA 2003), ORO Bank Sam Koch (MBA... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
How to Close the Health Gap
companies largely ignored the world’s poor: few new drugs were created to combat tropical diseases and TB. The needs of the developing world also were neglected by the Human Genome Project, one of the great health-care breakthroughs in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Racial Bias Pervades Health Care
kidney and liver transplants, and less pain medication when they are operated on. Furthermore, women with heart disease receive less angioplasty than men; Hispanics have a lower rate of recommended health-care services such as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
symptoms of diseases like diabetes or congestive heart failure. Before the implantable congestive heart failure monitor, for example, we had very poor diagnostic tools to alert the need for ASAP therapy, but these sensors can now alert... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Web
Bringing the Next Pandemic Vaccine to Your Doorstep with MIMIX - Blog: Health Supplement
M.B.A. from Harvard University. You Might Want to Read 24 May 2023 Student Spotlight: 2023 HCC Co-Presidents Reflect on Their Time at HBS and the Current Health Care Systems Morgan Moncada & Hannah Truong 28 Feb 2023 Rare Disease Day –... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Collaborative Cures
Photo courtesy of Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship Harvard University is ripe with new advances in science and technology. But developing those findings into breakthrough therapies and cures for disease is a complex... View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
physiological state of the human body. A much better method is to get information about the DNA, RNA, and proteins. Understanding that information will help us detect a disease before it becomes symptomatic." Genzyme: Gail Maderis... 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
- 24 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
My Journey to Joining the first MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Cohort
explore the biopharma world, so I joined L.E.K. Consulting after graduation and made my way to their Life Sciences practice. At L.E.K., I learned a tremendous amount about various pharma and biotech companies and their therapies. I worked on problems ranging from... View Details
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Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator - Health Care
It pulled in more than 300 business leaders from different disease states, industries, and networks to analyze what was working well in the generation of cures—and what wasn’t. This new community that was formed found new ways to engage... View Details
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
technology's impact becomes evident. "Essentially, there are more people dying from curable diseases than either of these other two global menaces." Schrader hopes Vaxess can start chipping away at that stat. "Ultimately, our goal is to... View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
understand why there are so many diarrhea-related fatalities in developing countries. (Diarrheal diseases account for one in nine child deaths worldwide, according to the Center for Disease Control.) This,... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
New weather patterns brought on by climate change will require updated farming practices, effective water management, and innovative pest and disease management in the Midwest and around the globe. Increasingly, the business community is... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
effective solution. In the past, business model innovation was common in health care. When the technological enablers for the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases emerged, most patient care was transferred away from hospitals to... View Details
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
But what's more interesting—and this is a function of operating in an environment such as India where heart disease is endemic—it's a genetic trait among Indians, and also there are so many people, so there are more heart ailments—is that... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- News
Finding a Fix for Food Allergies
and provide incentives for scientists to work together within food allergy and across disease states to solve specific problems such as diagnostics and reducing the allergic response.” The couple hopes their advances can offset the... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 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