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- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
so what is the mission? What is the tactical plan to get this done? It’s in four phases. The first phase is the analytical phase. This is where we take a blood sample, a muscle biopsy from my brother to dive into the details of what is... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
members were unwilling to find, and upload, their DD 214, the Department of Defense form that verifies military service, in order to prove their service. They were also reluctant to share their DD 214 because it includes their social security number, birthday, and... View Details
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
particular ailment. A patient would visit a primary care physician in one location, an outpatient specialist in another, an imaging center in another, a blood lab in another, a surgeon in another, and so on. "The patient was a ping pong... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
COVID-19, there has been such a need—who wants to go to the hospital for a sore throat in a pandemic? In addition, what hospital wants to see them? The acceptance of telemedicine has also led to a boom in wearable sensors. Apple came out with an app that measures how... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
with multiple myeloma, a rare and incurable blood cancer, Kathy Giusti cofounded the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, which has helped thousands of other patients with the cancer and has accelerated drug discovery and development for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
Africa; its importance to the country is as great as the threat to its existence. Illegal logging fueled Liberia’s recent civil war: “Blood timber” financed the violence, just as blood diamonds have in other African conflicts. The civil... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
says he “wanted to warn other members of the family whom I knew, and those I had yet to find” about their chance of inheriting the serious blood disorder. Diamond had been retired only a few years after a successful career in the global... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
discovered that the error was made a year before when it had reconfigured a scanner to improve doctors’ ability to see blood flow in the brain. More than 200 patients had suffered the same fate, receiving up to eight times the normal dose... View Details
- 20 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics
closest to me.” The feelings of stress exhibited themselves in a very physical way as they often can, and Dozie’s doctor explained to her that she had severe hypertension. Unless she found ways to de-stress and bring her blood pressure... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
says, “I was living a dream every time I put on that helmet. And none of my teammates, from high school All-Americans to the last guys on the bench, needed any extra motivation to leave their guts, heart, and blood on the practice field... View Details
- 15 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Health is Wealth | The Path to Creating a Venture
her sleep patterns – to try to improve her performance. It was during this time that she connected with Wallerstofer, who had a PhD in biotechnology and had spent the previous decade building consumer facing nutrition products based on health data, starting with... View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
it. "We have the medical knowledge to do it. And it's not being done. Just under one-half of identified diabetics in this country don't have their blood sugar under control," she said. Diabetes manifests as Type I or Type II... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
owe their life's blood to PARC—Adobe, SynOptics, VLSI, and 3Com, for example—together recorded a market value last year five or six times greater than that of mother Xerox. "By focusing too narrowly on its core, vertically-integrated... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 15 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Health Is Wealth | The Path To Creating A Venture
her sleep patterns – to try to improve her performance. It was during this time that she connected with Wallerstofer, who had a PhD in biotechnology and had spent the previous decade building consumer facing nutrition products based on health data, starting with... View Details
- 25 May 2021
- Blog Post
Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics
closest to me.” The feelings of stress exhibited themselves in a very physical way as they often can, and Dozie’s doctor explained to her that she had severe hypertension. Unless she found ways to de-stress and bring her blood pressure... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
Business School Case 817-060 RubiconMD No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817060-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 517-127 Theranos: Small Volume Blood Testing (A) No abstract available.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
When Johnson was born, social norms and her government-issued birth certificate said she was Negro, nullifying her mother’s white blood in her identity. Later, as a Harvard-educated business executive feeling too far from her black roots,... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
Medicine program allows patients to record their blood pressure at home and share readings with their medical providers in real time. A year and a half after launching the program, the health system’s internal startup, innovationOchsner,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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,... View Details
- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
yielding better results in particular decisions has been by running experiments that alter blood glucose levels. Could you tell us more about that? A: We ran experiments where we manipulated the amount of sugar people ingested in a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace