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- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
interdisciplinary team—doctors, nurses, optometrists, and administrative staff—from across the organization, to represent our different clinics and areas,” she says. “We then run projects to tackle the improvement opportunity using Lean,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
into two categories: 1) Epidemiology, which reviews information on infections throughout the world and 2) clinical and business-related issues related to reopening. By leveraging her health care network and... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
college diploma automatically screens out about two-thirds of American workers. Ovia Health, which was bought by the clinical laboratory network Labcorp in August, offers fertility, pregnancy, and parenting programs on a mobile-first... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Scientific Discovery
we now have the idea that this is possible, and companies around the world are working hard on it.” To help senior executives and scientists at life science companies and related health care organizations advance cutting-edge medicines,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
Vasella Illustration by Dennis Balogh Twenty years ago a young doctor with a hankering for business experience gave up his clinical practice in Bern, Switzerland, and moved to East Hanover, New Jersey, to try his hand at drug sales with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
The Network Effect
didn’t even work—and sent him digging into the larger challenges posed by the pandemic. He soon discovered a gap he knew he could fill: While there was a good deal of clinical research underway, 85 percent of testing, drug, and vaccine... View Details
- 08 Jun 2021
- News
New Funding for Female Founders
Boost VC, SV Angel, Village Global, and Threshold Ventures, according to the Wall Street Journal. Coravos is co-founder and CEO of the startup, formerly known as Elektra Labs, which helps hospitals and pharmaceutical companies employ sensor technologies to move medical... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Elevator Pitch: Good Vibrations
fractures and subsequent complications kill 20 percent of their victims, and debilitating spine fractures represent a health care cost of $19 billion annually. “There are a number of medications to treat osteoporosis, but they’re... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System
Experience," HBS professor Clay Christensen analogized that just as the computer industry evolved from massive mainframes to customer-friendly personal devices, "We need to bring technology to outpatient clinics and patients' homes so... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Case Study: Your Data, Your Health
potential fertility with her ob-gyn, Tariyal was told that she could come back for a clinical workup after she had tried and failed to conceive for a year. Determined to give women more agency over their health, Tariyal cofounded NextGen... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
You are healthy now, thankfully. I wondered, how do you see your work at Silver Linings evolving in the future? Somani: When I first launched Silver Linings, a lot of the work was still focused on the health care side and sharing my View Details
- 18 Feb 2016
- News
Challenge Aims to Speed Drug Trials Process
The HBS Health Care Initiative is seeking innovative ideas from the science, patient, business, and medical communities on how to transform trials for precision medicine. Through the HBS Precision Trials Challenge, it aims to bring... View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
Eventually, he found a treatment trial at the Mayo Clinic that was testing a new combination of chemotherapy and high-dose radiation. Slowly, Susan’s tumor began to shrink, until there was nothing left but scar tissue. Although she would... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Innovation as Antidote
leaders and academics, the forum identified a number of important challenges, and offered five "key imperatives" for progress—from making value the central objective to decentralizing care delivery. Several HBS alumni and faculty members... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
to be a doctor, but over time I became interested in larger health-care systems issues, too.” After graduating from Harvard College, where he started a health clinic for homeless people in Harvard Square, Jain completed three years at... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
times as many Ph.D.’s as India. Basic education and technical and vocational training languish despite renewed government commitments. The rich-poor gap in education is mirrored in health care — India boasts hospitals and View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
only one to ask that question. At the time, Sean Hogan (MBA 1993), a VP in IBM’s health care unit, was tasked with finding the major trends in the health and life sciences sectors that could lead to billion-dollar businesses. “We saw an... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
antibiotic susceptibility profiles. The expertise DZD has developed along its three-year journey is already being deployed in clinical settings. “Our goal has always been to be commercially relevant, even during our R&D phase,” notes Lee.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
Amar Singh (MBA 1998) traces his curiosity about the Indian dental marketplace to the type of experience that might scare most people away for good. Lured in by the $20 price—roughly equal to Singh’s insurance copay when he lived in San Francisco—he visited a View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
passion. It’s just my passion is the technology, not the problem. That’s a great way of doing things. Many really good businesses have been built up on that. The other way, that’s more familiar to me, is saying, I have a problem and I need to fix it. I don’t really... View Details