Filter Results:
(529)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,522)
- People (6)
- News (529)
- Research (1,761)
- Events (11)
- Multimedia (14)
- Faculty Publications (1,392)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,522)
- People (6)
- News (529)
- Research (1,761)
- Events (11)
- Multimedia (14)
- Faculty Publications (1,392)
Sort by
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
Frustrated by the slow pace and poor success rate of entrepreneurial startups bringing innovation from bench to bedside in his field, Jordan Amadio (MD/MBA 2010) and two partners founded NeuroLaunch, the world’s first neuroscience-focused... View Details
- 16 Nov 2020
- News
Moderna Announces Promising Vaccine Trial Results
Moderna released promising news on the progress of their coronavirus vaccine this morning, noting that trials showed it to be 94.5% effective. “In this pandemic, what has been awful from a public health standpoint, an economic standpoint,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
Scharfman’s case, that help came recently in the form of $2.8 million in public funds to upgrade the municipal treatment plant both for Reeseville’s purposes and to treat Specialty Cheese’s effluent.... View Details
- 06 Dec 2012
- News
New Thinking on Healthcare Reform
HBS heavy-hitters Clay Christensen and Michael Porter closed out a recent conference organized by HBS and Harvard Medical School. Held on the HBS campus November 14 and 15, "Healing Ourselves: Addressing Healthcare's Innovation Challenge" brought together some View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
MBA 101: HBS Commencements Pass the Century Mark
A Time To Celebrate: As with every year, Class Day and Commencement were filled with many memorable moments. Among the general scenes of pomp and pageantry were (middle) the faculty recipients of the Class... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
and the difficulty of gaining access to treatment appear to be the two chief failings of the reform. Says HBS professor Regina Herzlinger, “The rise in costs is partially... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Clubs Hopping
Reaching Out The first annual HBS Latino Alumni Association Southern Dinner, held in Dallas last fall, was more than a social occasion for outgoing club president Al Suarez (MBA 2005) and event organizer Eric Calderon (MBA 2013)—it was also a successful trial View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
thirties, restructuring the marketing organization for a large regional bank, and my husband, Ray Benvenuti (MBA 1986), and I had two children under seven. At that time, I had no inkling of what would be required to juggle the needs View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
that described why competition in health care had failed. Some health-care experts, he feared, would take offense at any critique written by mere management professors. To the surprise of Porter and coauthor Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Giving New Ventures a Boost
proposed a plan for Judicial Intelligence, a suite of computer-based tools that will help litigators strategically analyze the opinions of judges they will face in court. In the social enterprise track, a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
Image by John Ritter Back in January, the leadership at Massachusetts General Hospital, including President Dr. Peter Slavin (MBA 1990) (pictured above, right), took note of a virus that was spreading in China. They decided to activate... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Tracking a Turnaround
The newly hired president and CEO of a local medical center faces a daunting task: Under intense public scrutiny, he must save a complex, rapidly failing organization whose culture is marred by indecision and distrust — and do so in an... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
social-enterprise track to complement its traditional business competition. Houghton was joined by Ashley Magargee and Naomi Weinberg (both MBA '01), along with Marcel Acosta, a Loeb Fellow at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, and... View Details
Keywords: eyeglasses
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
conclusion by manually going through the data,” the lead doctor told the Japan Times, “but Watson’s speed is crucial in the treatment of leukemia, which progresses rapidly and can cause complications.” This... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
A revolution in healing
Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000) is president and CEO of Moderna Therapeutics, which is producing a new drug application that could revolutionize the biotech world. It hinges on messenger RNA, or mRNA, the molecules responsible for transporting... View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Kathryn E. Giusti, MBA 1985
legal expertise of her identical twin sister, Karen, could be used to make a difference. Together they founded the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation in 1998 with the goal of speeding the development 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... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Mission in Motion
fellowships that support students and alumni who want to use their business skills to create social good. As you'll notice in this issue of the Bulletin, that drive can take many forms. In "Making Change", we check in with alumni honored... View Details
Keywords: summary
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
BY PERMISSION OF JOHN DEERING AND CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC. Nowadays, mighty Wal-Mart’s headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, must feel less like a hotbed of retailing and more like a war room. There is a... View Details