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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Joint (knee and hip) replacements Cancer: Head and neck, breast, prostate – surgery and radiation treatments Heart valve replacements and repairs Neurosurgical procedures – cervical spine, brain Child birth – vaginal and caesarian... View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
Cancer research, it has been said, is not unlike a group of blind men studying an elephant. One man feels the elephant's tail and says it is a rope. Another blind man handles its tusk and calls it a spear, and yet another declares its... View Details
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
multidisciplinary treatment of head and neck cancers. Methods: Four prospective treatment-based bundles were developed for patients with selected head and neck cancers. These risk-adjusted bundles covered 1 year of care that began with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Venture: Time Heals All
everyone. Borkenstein knows this from experience: As a registered nurse at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, she witnessed the difficult balancing act up close. At HBS, she teamed up with sectionmate Eric Gruskin... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
myeloid leukemia, a blood cancer in which abnormal white blood cells grow quickly. They comforted her by saying that the chemotherapy they were prescribing would attack the abnormal cells. And it did. But her recovery from post-remission... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
MBA 101: HBS Commencements Pass the Century Mark
sometimes glacial pace and antiquated norms of cancer research; doubled patients’ lifespans; and raised in excess of $165 million for research. Giusti urged graduates to set goals and build a plan around their passion; choose colleagues... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
then have to think about the prospects for commercialization. They have to communicate back and forth extensively. What were some of the projects? As an example, one of last year’s teams was looking at an application of quantum dots for View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Crucible: Give It Up
at random times, and uncertainty and anxiety around not knowing the path forward. There were setbacks and choices to be made around treatment as we figured out what kind of cancer she had and what would... View Details
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Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Health Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network VBHCD Initiative VBHCD... View Details
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
dynamic capture of these metrics via our new electronic health record (EHR) was developed at our institution. Methods. Contemporary breast cancer literature on treatment options, expected outcomes, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Finalists | New Venture Competition
DoriVac (DNA Origami Vaccine) is a biotech startup for improving cancer treatment using a novel DNA nanoparticle platform. We develop treatments that teach patients' immune... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
December). Amgen's Epogen (a treatment for anemia in kidney dialysis patients) and Neupogen (which restores white blood cells in cancer patients) generated more than $2 billion in sales last year. As the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women
people," said Cynthia Fisher (HBS MBA '90). In 1993, using her own capital, Fisher founded ViaCord, a business that allows customers to bank cord blood stem cells for possible future use in the treatment of View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
treatments of the antiviral drug Tamiflu we have ready to dispatch on an emergency basis to contain a pandemic may not be deployed in time. In the case of H5N1, is enough being done to destroy infected poultry stocks? As of December, more... 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 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
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
engaging the patient to the point that she may take action that is not in her best interest?” (The American Cancer Society in October pushed back its age for recommended mammograms in part because they can lead to false positives and... 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
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
just as global capital markets are imploding in the fall of 2008. NovoCure, Ltd., has developed an electrical-field-based therapy, called Tumor Treating fields, for the treatment of cancerous tumors. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
cancer still progressing, he and his wife decided it was time to stop treatment. At the age of 74, Sato-san settled in for his final stages in the heart of his home—the altar to his ancestors to his left, oxygen machine to his... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance