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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
world in life expectancy, at 77.9 years. Half the U.S. population does not receive standard preventive care such as cancer screening, blood pressure checks, or vaccinations. A 2007 McKinsey study found that compared with the average for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
fundraising, IP, patent law, and the ins and outs of FDA and HIPAA regulations. Tecco and Gross refined their vision for Rock Health in a field study with HBS senior lecturer Bob Higgins. But first, Tecco had the experience of founding Yoga Bear, a nonprofit that... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Patricia ("Tosh") Rapoport Barron
Xerox as manager of multinational projects in 1979. Six years later, fate intervened again. Practically en route to the hospital to deliver her long-awaited first child, she received a telephone call: Rukia had been diagnosed with cancer... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
Merck, Gillette, and Searle, Kathy Giusti was diagnosed in 1996 with multiple myeloma, a rare and incurable blood cancer. She then founded the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and the Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium, organizations that have revolutionized... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
are following their own business models—whether they are for-profit or not-for-profit. The additional spend on health care is due to increased utilization of health-care services as the population gets older. Costlier innovations and longer patient lives in areas such... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
Benvenuti Photo courtesy Janet Simpson Benvenuti Although I didn’t realize it until much later, my life changed the day I agreed to become legally responsible for my 78-year-old father and my 77-year-old mother, who suffered from lung View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
role that is most important to Harf is being the cofounder and chariman of DKMS, the blood cancer cure bank. Now the most successful organization of its kind in the world, he launched it in 1991 after losing his first wife to blood... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
injuries, novice mistakes, and the heartbreaking loss of a best friend. When breast cancer threatens her own life, she seeks solace and recovery in the wild. Her quest takes 10 years. Regardless of the need since childhood to feel... View Details
- 28 Apr 2016
- News
New Venture Competition Winners Announced
the $2,000 crowd favorite prize. It was a big night for big ideas in the health care field. In the student competition, Astraeus Technologies, a faster lung cancer screening, and UrSure, Inc., which is focused on HIV prevention drug... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Fellowship Campaign Approaching Goal
has helped support over 100 HBS students. He asked those present to “develop a personal philosophy on philanthropy” and “do what’s right for humankind.” Fellowship recipient Andrew Parry (MBA ’05) then discussed what he had learned from his struggle with View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
American Cancer Society for the mental health field—an organization that can increase awareness, reduce the stigma, and rally donors to make large, multiyear funding commitments to the most promising care and research in the field. While... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
There are over three million corporations in the United States today. From my experience working with a range of businesses, I am sure there is no cancer of immorality among them. The vast majority of our alumni and business leaders are... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Making a Difference
the globe to put their skills to work on issues related to the environment, education, the arts, health care, poverty, and economic development. In the United States, fellows worked in diverse organizations such as the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
cancer at age 87 on June 2, 1987), all of the strands of Doriot’s life connect to form something quite profound. In the second half of the 20th century, the United States experienced a historic transformation, in which a society dominated... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977
up to the ideals instilled in him by his forebears. Several months after their father died of cancer eight years ago, the Tisch brothers split his office into two, each taking half. “Sometimes when I’m struggling with an issue—whether it... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
authentic self. Bladder Cancer: A Patient-Friendly Guide to Understanding Your Diagnosis and Treatment Options by David Pulver (MBA 1965), Mark Schoenberg, and Fran Pulver Patient-Friendly Publishing After David Pulver was diagnosed with bladder View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Generosity Multiplied
multiplies the gifts’ impact. The Reed Foundation launched the Big Give in 2007, and since then, it has raised nearly £200 million for 10,000 charities that address a range of causes, from climate change and cancer research to food... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
with the University of Illinois and Carnegie Mellon, the University of Dundee and Imperial College in Great Britain, and Sweden's Karolinska Institute. And he is attracting superstar scientists from around the world such as Dr. Edison Liu, formerly of the U.S. National... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- News
To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
featured speakers Clause Jensen, Chief Digital Officer and Head of Technology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and information technology author and thought leader Dan Roberts, CEO and President of Ouellette & Associates... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
going. We want the region to move forward, not just any one hospital.” “What’s begun here is the core for collaboration among competing health-care providers,” says Dr. Judy Smith of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo. “It won’t... View Details