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- 30 Sep 2022
- News
Scaling Hope
son’s life and D’Antonio’s. Today, both men work in the addiction treatment industry. D’Antonio’s son, now with more than six years continuous sobriety, is trained as a peer recovery coach, supporting others struggling with addiction.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
tone quality, it was nothing short of a nightmare. After exhausting other treatment options, Frisch chose a radical alternative: having tiny, needle-like electrodes placed inside his brain. Those electrodes are part of a device called... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
commercialization of important new drugs to the detriment of consumers. Interestingly, though, at public hearings, the AstraZeneca chief executive championed the interests of patients in opposing the proposed merger. Consumers worldwide... View Details
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
iPhoto With billions of dollars spent on the development of precision medicine and related cancer research over the last decade, a recent partnership seeks a new way to bring these treatments to patients more quickly: through a better... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
development and realized two things: First, without industry involvement there can’t be a treatment for ALS, because developing a single drug costs hundreds of millions of dollars. Second, that View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Profile
Henry McCance
drug development, exponentially increasing the chances of finding effective treatment and prevention. In 2004, the three families founded the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund (CAF) to support Tanzi’s work and other... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
delivery systems of both developing and advanced countries: fragmentation, inefficiency, and organization around discrete interventions (such as delivering drugs or screening) rather than integrated care. Porter and his colleagues aim to... View Details
- 11 May 2021
- News
Pitching to Win
the five grand-prize winners. Goble is co-founder of Karivez Bio, a platform for transforming chronic disease treatment through improved drug delivery. Okrah is founder and CEO of Chaku Foods, a fast-moving... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
The coronavirus crisis forced health care providers to mobilize in ways few could have predicted six months ago, revealing not only the system’s weaknesses but its profound ingenuity. Within weeks, providers worldwide set up drive-through testing sites, makeshift View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
The sci-fi future for cancer treatment has become a reality, with breakthrough therapies that can use a cancer patient’s genetic information to create personalized treatments or employ the body’s immune... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
until we make sure that the treatments and services consumers are getting are effective and affordable, changing the way we consumers pay for the services doesn’t fix anything. What we need is a system of new value networks that will... View Details
- 16 Sep 2016
- News
Gaining Ground on ALS
president and CEO of Cytokinetics, Inc., a California-based company that focuses on biology-driven treatments for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other debilitating diseases associated with muscle weakness. In 2015, the ALS... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived
telemedicine services available next year to employees in states that allow it. We’re going to see a lot more investment in this area, from both established health care companies and startups. What’s next in health care? “More constraints on View Details
- Web
HBS Magazine - Alumni
Career-Retirement Psychology-Behavior Career-Career Changes After Ozempic How a game-changing drug is reshaping Novo Nordisk, disrupting the pharma industry, and setting up a once-in-a-generation windfall for philanthropy View Story... 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 ability to analyze a patient's... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
and nephrologist. In a focused factory, all these resources are integrated. These diabetic specialists jointly develop treatment protocols and pricing. Together, they offer a full range of services customized for this disease. Research... View Details
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Finalists | New Venture Competition
operating system built to modernize chemical manufacturing. Sanso Narek Dshkhunyan (MBA 2024) Daniel Erdosy We help drug manufacturers produce life-saving biologics more efficiently, in order to deliver cheaper View Details
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
You wouldn't think that the lowly, annoying mosquito would have anything to teach researchers working on the cutting edge of drug delivery methodology, but you would be wrong. Have you ever noticed that you don't become aware of a... View Details
- Profile
Arjun Goyal
a scientific eye for identifying precise populations in which therapies are effective, with a commercial appetite for successful drugs that need more time and money to prove their potential.” As part of a four-person clinical development... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Bill Dunaway (MBA 1964)
A self-described SOB — son of the boss — Bill Dunaway grew up working in his father’s pharmacy in Marietta, Georgia, a town of 61,000 outside Atlanta. After expanding the business to a chain of 18 drug stores, Dunaway sold the operation... View Details