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Kraft Accelerator

The Harvard Business School Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator convenes best-in-class leaders from the business, medical, scientific, and technological communities to identify and solve challenges slowing the advancement of precision medicine,... View Details

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Characterizing the Drug Development Pipeline for Precision Medicines

By: Amitabh Chandra, Craig Garthwaite and Ariel Dora Stern

BOOK ABSTRACT: Personalized and precision medicine (PPM)—the targeting of therapies according to an individual’s genetic, environmental, or lifestyle characteristics—is becoming an increasingly important approach in health care treatment and prevention. The advancement... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare; Precision Medicine

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September 2017 (Revised February 2023)
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Intermountain Healthcare: Pursuing Precision Medicine

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Kathy E. Giusti, Robert S. Huckman and Julia Kelley

Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Intermountain Healthcare operates 23 hospitals and hundreds of clinics in Utah and Idaho and provides insurance to approximately 850,000 patients through its insurance arm, SelectHealth. In 2013, Intermountain, known for its commitment... View Details

Keywords: Precision Medicine; Healthcare; Innovation; Cancer; Cancer Research; Health Care; Technology; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation Leadership; Disruptive Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Industry; Insurance Industry; Utah; United States; North America

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01 May 2019
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Getting Personal With Precision Medicine

June 2020
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Breakthroughs at Blueprint Medicines

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Kathy Giusti and Susie L. Ma

Precision medicine company Blueprint Medicines was building a successful track record for bringing drug therapies to market 40% faster than average. The company had spent $40 million dollars and two years building a compound library that became its drug development... View Details

Keywords: Precision Medicine; Cancer; Biotechnology; Drug Development; Strategy; Expansion; Science; Genetics; Information Technology; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Culture; Management; Growth and Development; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; Cambridge; Massachusetts

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17 Oct 2018
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Unlocking the Potential of Precision Medicine

March 17, 2017
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How Economics Can Shape Precision Medicines

By: Ariel Dora Stern, Brian M. Alexander and Amitabh Chandra

Many public and private efforts in coming years will focus on research in precision medicine, developing biomarkers to indicate which patients are likely to benefit from a certain treatment so that others can be spared the cost—financial and physical—of being treated... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Research; Economics; Motivation and Incentives

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15 Mar 2019
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Targeting cancer and careers: Precision Medicine

14 May 2018
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HBS Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator Brings Together Five Leading Cancer Organizations to Engage Patients and Accelerate Precision Medicine across Cancers

July 2019 (Revised July 2019)
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Intermountain Healthcare: Pursuing Precision Medicine

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Robert S. Huckman and Julia Kelley

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Introducing the Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator at Harvard Business School

16 Mar 2017
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Three Harvard Experts Explain How Economics Can Shape Precision Medicines

08 Nov 2018
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Unlocking the Potential of Precision Medicine

28 Feb 2019
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Pursuing Precision Medicine at Intermountain Healthcare

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Brian Kenny

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Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator - Health Care

Faculty & Research Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator About the Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator From 2015–2020, the Harvard Business... View Details