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- 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
- 17 Aug 2011
- News
Breath of Life
parts will be used to replace diseased internal organs such as coronary arteries, the esophagus, and the ureter. Playing a key role in this landmark moment for regenerative medicine was Harvard Bioscience, Inc. of Holliston,... View Details
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
have come. Progress has been astonishing, and the data show continued economic growth for most of the world. Incomes are rising, the poor are getting richer, diseases are being conquered, and we seem to be avoiding global wars. Overall,... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- Web
Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows - 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
- 12 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions
considering that in 1996, the US government froze, in large part, federally-funded research on gun violence. That year, Congress pushed through a rider in an annual appropriations bill that prohibited the Center for Disease Control from... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Innovation as Antidote
inspiration typically comes from a very human place. DART Therapeutics CEO Gene Williams (MBA 1987) ("Your Own Medicine"), for instance, told us about a revelation he had during a 2002 trip to Rotterdam to observe clinical trials for the first-ever Pompe View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
In a world devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Republic of Korea (South Korea) has been able to effectively combat the disease without ever imposing a full lockdown of its economy. How did the country accomplish its success, and what... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
Challenges and Trends The World Health Organization defines health as "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity." For many Americans, the World Health... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
become destinations for “medical tourists” from the West. Meanwhile, the country’s infant and maternal death rates are high, and diseases such as cholera, dysentery, and malaria are still far too prevalent. Chidambaram concluded by... View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- News
Getting Back Together for Global Networking Night; Healthcare Conference Draws New Interest
venture/philanthropy in biotech, the future of telehealth in disease management, overcoming inequality in the US health care system, and a conversation about how one startup—Denali Therapeutics—became a $6.4 billion company. The HBSHAA... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
unparalleled engine of growth. Amid concerns, we must not lose sight of how far we have come. Progress has been astonishing, and the data show continued economic growth for most of the world. Incomes are rising, the poor are getting richer, View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
The blind man depicted in the sculpture suffers from river blindness, a disease that ravaged countless lives in the developing world until Merck researchers discovered the breakthrough drug Mectizan. The company's decision to donate the... View Details
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
by specialty and discrete interventions. Third, prevention and screening can dramatically improve value, as does ongoing disease management to prevent recurrences and setbacks. Fourth, the only way truly to drive value is to measure... View Details
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3 Technologies that Will Change the World in the Next Decade - Course Catalog
the Woolly mammoth from ancient DNA), extending health lifespans – ‘curing the disease of aging’. We also look at feeder technologies that act as accelerants to the core technologies. These include ubiquitous networks that collect data on... View Details
- Web
VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
kidney disease Diabetes Congestive heart failure Care transition patients to reduce frequency of readmission Primary and psychiatric care for patients with intellectual and behavioral disabilities Behavioral health for post-traumatic... View Details
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
resulted in a breast cancer diagnosis, and Langer's battle against the disease led her to volunteer at the then-pioneering National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO) in 1988. "We had the first extensive, disease-specific... View Details
- 11 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
John Bracaglia, MBA 2020: “I Want to Find the Machine Learning Strategy That Avoids the Pitfalls While Fulfilling the Promise.”
baseline health, making it easier to detect signals of disease before they fully manifest themselves. It’s a proactive versus reactive approach.” Applying a general management perspective to machine learning possibilities “I applied to... View Details
- 30 Jun 2017
- News
Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, had a brand problem: the disease it addressed was no longer known as juvenile diabetes, as children and adults were being diagnosed in equal numbers. Pitter-Armand was charged with repositioning the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela
perfect places to transfer and share not only information, but disease as well. From Harvard Business School, I am here to discover what the Kumbh Mela can teach me about real estate, urbanization, sustainability, and infrastructure. We... View Details