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- 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
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
appointed Representative of the WHO Director-General for Pandemic Influenza last year. She also serves as Assistant Director-General for the Communicable Diseases Cluster. With so much at stake, what keeps Chan focused? “A sheer passion... 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
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
illustration by Marcos Chin illustration by Marcos Chin It’s hard to overstate the impact that antibiotics had on medicine after they became widely available in the 1940s. In the United States, the leading causes of death shifted from infectious to noncommunicable... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading a community of health care providers
organized in the form of a company.” Among its many philanthropic and outreach activities under Thiry—who was the focus of a 2010 HBS case study—DaVita provided $1.75 million to charities in 1,000 communities in 2012–2013, sponsors free kidney View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Things Everyone Should Know How to Do
Oh, I discovered many things. For example, I learned that refrigerating coffee beans makes them lose their flavor, so I’ve stopped doing that. And now, I wash my hands for the length of time it takes to sing “Happy Birthday” twice through, as recommended by the... 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
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
and people.” Hamermesh notes that only one or two disease foundations currently have a venture philanthropy fund. In addition, more and more private-sector companies are focusing their efforts on a single disease. “Those are both areas of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
the 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." "It's a way of thinking... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
The Network Effect
introduced him to Clara Health, a startup specializing in making that connection for all disease types. Within two weeks the team had published a website using Clara’s software (gratis) to match those conducting clinical trials with... View Details
- 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
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Social Enterprise Celebrates Tenth Year, Looks Ahead
increase its impact on the world by a factor of ten” — and suggested a focus on developing leaders and adding value to nonprofits by working with other business schools to nurture and strengthen similar initiatives. Noting that we live in a world where people die of... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
to search, he firmly believes that the more search technology is improved, the faster researchers can find cures for diseases and a host of other societal problems. In brief, search can change the world—and for the better. Born in Paris,... 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 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
best hospitals in Boston,” recalls McCance, chairman and president of the Boston-based venture-capital firm Greylock Partners. “It was nearly 100 years after the disease was first identified, and yet the best physicians in town could only... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
would provide the specialists and the full range of necessary care for patients suffering from chronic diseases or disabilities such as diabetes or bad backs. Rather than leaving it to the patient to search for a specialist in one area,... 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 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