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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
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Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL Re: Can the NFL win the long game? It is a game for only certain types of individuals, physically and mentally tough, coached up and properly conditioned in season and off season. There is no finer game in a culture that could use... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Personal crises inform a life’s work
director from 1990 through its closure in 2004, and an internationally recognized advocate. “Our efforts started a movement that vastly escalated breast cancer research funding and gave patients and survivors a permanent voice in medical... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
Santiago Ocejo (MPH 2010/MBA 2014) wants to improve health care in Mexico. He always thought he would do that, one patient at a time, as a surgeon. But, today, the medical school graduate is a social entrepreneur, working with the Mexican... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
Contest were Boss Medical and Baby.com.br, while SANA Care won in the social enterprise track. More than 90 teams submitted entries as part of this year's Alumni New Venture Contest. Clubs in Boston, Brazil, Chicago, Germany, India, New... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
Kilimanjaro, in 2004, Petzel's climbing party included Lisa Lee, MBA 2000.) The third goal was to use the Everest climb to raise money that would help fund the construction of a permanent shelter and medical facility for the porters who... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
shelters, Shumway talked to homeless residents about their circumstances. “These are good people,” he says. “They may have started to self-medicate with drugs or alcohol because they didn’t have access to the psychiatric or medical... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fixing What Ails the Drug Industry
presentation to upwards of 280 HBS alumni who gathered on the Harvard Medical School campus, is better regulatory science. That translates into faster decision-making and a better balance between safety and innovation with respect to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care by Richard M.J. Bohmer (Harvard Business Press) In this book, Senior Lecturer Bohmer, a medical doctor, explains that health-care professionals provide two different types... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
him to do so, and the more she answered his questions and talked about her money, the more she straightened up in her chair and the more confident she became. It was wonderful to see — a moment of empowerment happening right there. Now Suchismita — who has a... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Thomas S. Murphy (MBA 1949)
for $19-billion. “Building a company with a great culture and doing it with integrity is something that I look back on with satisfaction,” says Murphy. While known for his business acumen, Murphy is equally recognized for his public service. He is active with many... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care
BRAILER: Aiming to give every American an electronic health-care record by 2014. American health-care providers may use the best technology in the world, but when it comes to patient records, the system is an inefficient maze responsible for unacceptably high numbers... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
profit, decently” inspired him to consider what he really wanted to do with the next chapter in life. He also credits the curriculum with integrating corporate ethics and values throughout, and challenging various ways of thinking and styles of leadership. At HBS,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Porter Helps Jerusalem Mayor with Economic Development
a press briefing, Barkat explained that he has adopted Porter’s cluster-based development approach to focus on three existing areas of strength: culture and tourism, health care and life sciences, and outsourced medical and financial... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward
more likely to have an entrepreneur in the family. There are a couple of reasons why that might be, but most of the evidence seems to point to the fact that it’s not about people having the funds to start a business, it’s about the risk in their lives. When you’re... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
concerns regarding the medical sector of the industry. Privacy is an issue for those who worry that complete knowledge of an individual's genetic makeup could have negative effects. If employers know an individual has a predisposition for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Richard Kondo (MBA 1999)
“My most rewarding mission.” —Blending military leadership and private industry best practices Richard Kondo (MBA 1999) served as a US Navy Submarine Officer in Japan and later pursued a medical device career in marketing and business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
had done well for themselves and enjoyed sharing their good fortune. Recognizing McArthur’s potential, the Koerners offered to help finance his college education — an unusual next step for members of his high-school class. He and Natty... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
Karacesme (MBA 2021) and Süleyman Onay (MBA 2016) are working with the Turkish Education Foundation to raise awareness about a unique fund designed to support students called “Keep Them in School.” “The foundation initially had plans and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
strictures, the lack of schools, and her poverty, her education almost certainly will end there. Her family will be reluctant to let her go away to school because they will not be able to prot ect her.” The eldest of five children, Van... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
are notably aggressive in their pursuit of research, therapies, and cures. These organizations apply results-oriented business approaches to medical and academic research that in the past would typically move at a stately pace. (Brad... View Details