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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Geisha Secrets
TSAI: A luxury skin-care line based on ancient Japanese rituals. Years of work-related testing of beauty products had left Victoria Tsai (MBA 2006) with acute dermatitis. After trying various medications to no avail, she turned to Japan... View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
A Steady Voice in Difficult Times
Denise Welsh (MBA 1981) is a pediatric chaplain at Mount Sinai Medical Center, a second career after having spent many years in the finance field. In this video, she talks about her role in the intensive View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
MD/MBA Program Launched
will produce “a new generation of leaders in health care.” Graduates of the program, whose enrollment will increase over time, will be encouraged to practice medicine before becoming senior executives in hospitals, health-care organizations, and private-sector firms... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Wyss Celebrated for Career, Conservation
Hansjörg Wyss (MBA 1965) has been unusually public of late, celebrated for his visionary accomplishments in health care and conservation. Wyss, 75, founded Synthes USA, a Swiss-American firm, in 1974 and led it to global prominence as a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Origin Story: Ricky Cordova (MS/MBA 2025)
me—and, at the other end of the spectrum, people I know who had to seek abortion care for unplanned pregnancies. In both cases, having access to care provided agency.” Why HBS: “I worked in a lab after... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 19 Jun 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
facilitates digital consultations, reducing the cost and travel demands on ill patients. And it allows doctors and other medical experts to collaborate on complex cases in a virtual clinical environment. Jarzabek had seen the value of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 Feb 2016
- News
Challenge Aims to Speed Drug Trials Process
The HBS Health Care Initiative is seeking innovative ideas from the science, patient, business, and medical communities on how to transform trials for precision medicine. Through the HBS Precision Trials... View Details
- 23 Mar 2016
- News
Curing Parkinson’s Disease
properties of a virus known as M13—properties first recognized by Solomon’s mother, a leading Alzheimer’s researcher—and produce a medication to treat diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimers’s. As Solomon tells Palreman: “A single... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
of pharmaceuticals and medical devices work in a more coordinated way? —Rebecca Leung (MBA 1996) HASSAN: Smaller, highly advanced countries with long-term industrial strategies, such as Singapore, have a relatively well-coordinated system... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard Medical School. The son of immigrants from Central America, he grew up in a low-income community in Southern California, and both his older brothers had foregone higher education to get jobs and help... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues It was no doubt the first time in HBS history that those who gathered for a community event at Burden Auditorium were provided with lifesaving medical supplies. As they filed... View Details
- 11 Oct 2012
- News
Answering the Doctor's Call
Downing: From business analysis to bedside diagnosis. Photo courtesy Bill Downing When Bill Downing (MBA 1995) started his first semester as a medical student in August, he finally closed the loop on a dream he’s had since childhood. “If... View Details
- 24 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni New Venture Competition Finalists Named
industries, such as transportation, 3D printing, food, biotechnology, and more. The final four are: Apli: A Mexican talent agency that delivers qualified on-demand workers in 24 hours. Alumna: Vera Makarov, MBA 2010 Region: Latin America FreeFlow View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
their start-up pitches to a panel of judges in late April. To his surprise, Mahesh, representing the HBS Club of India, took top honors and was awarded a $25,000 cash prize for his plan to manufacture low-cost medical beds for Indian... View Details
- 06 Feb 2020
- News
HBS Alumni Join Forces on Virus Outbreak in China
In response to the widening coronavirus outbreak in China and globally, HBS alumni are launching efforts intent on supporting the crisis relief efforts to Wuhan and other parts of China. One alumni group, calling itself the Wuhan Task Force, aims to rapidly provide... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
complex, society-wide issues behind the problems in our education system, and it will require strong leadership and a smart investment of resources — not just setting standards — to turn them around. You write extensively about the way we handle View Details
- 07 Jan 2022
- News
Learning to Fight
Mark Johnson, one of the early recipients of the foundation’s signature Distinguished Scientist Award. Johnson is now chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery at UMass Memorial Health and a professor at the University of Massachusetts View Details
- 08 Jun 2021
- News
New Funding for Female Founders
Boost VC, SV Angel, Village Global, and Threshold Ventures, according to the Wall Street Journal. Coravos is co-founder and CEO of the startup, formerly known as Elektra Labs, which helps hospitals and pharmaceutical companies employ sensor technologies to move View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Covering All Corners
patients. Fortunately, I am a member of an MBA alumni association that has addressed the problem of providing the Egyptian health care system with ventilators, which are prohibitively expensive and have been in short supply since the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Wyss Gift Supports HBS Doctoral Programs
thousands of students they eventually teach and the millions more who benefit from the research and new ideas they generate,” Wyss said. “I am proud to support this effort.” Currently chairman and CEO of Synthes, Inc., Wyss has had a distinguished career as a pioneer... View Details