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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
developed at Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic. Kevin Bennet (MBA 1980) chairs the hospital’s 102-year-old engineering department, where some of the first machines designed to keep patients alive during open-heart surgery were developed. Today,... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Christina Ehrenberg: The Examined Life
Papua New Guinea. “The focus of medical practice and the attitudes of practitioners in those places were so different than in the West,” notes Ehrenberg. “In Israel, doctors felt they could never go home because there were always more View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
that Susan had inoperable brain cancer. She was given three years to live. Nothing had prepared Sontag for the experience of being a caregiver to a terminal oncology patient and making the life-or-death decisions he and his wife faced,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Students Reach Out to Haiti
Medicine Institute, Seth Moulton (HBS ’11) collaborated on the development of an iPhone electronic health record application that doctors can use to track patients in the field. And Haiti native Jules Walter and Jean-Claude Homawoo (both... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Sun Dress
and microfibers with embedded UVA and UVB titanium dioxide blockers,” explained the Sydney Morning Herald (December 7, 2011). “The range is designed to look and feel like everyday clothing while shielding people from cancer-causing UV rays.” Dermatologists treating... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
late 2010. He was satisfied with the quality of his care until, hovering above the spittoon, he spotted black fungal algae encircling the drain. Something about the entire business struck Singh, an entrepreneur with experience in... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Faculty Research Online
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants Because of an organ shortage, thousands of people miss out on needed organ transplants each year. Business researchers at Harvard and MIT are rethinking how kidney transplants are allocated to give View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Ascent of Money
legislation to revive the ailing middle class as business groups dig in for a fight on Capitol Hill. Model Patient The Massachusetts approach to health-care reform, enacted under former governor Mitt Romney (MBA ’74), is often cited as a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Pedal Mettle
look to Lance and see that there are no limits.” An investor-relations manager at Moore Capital Management, based in New York City, Berté also helps lead an orientation group for patients preparing for stem-cell transplants. “I love my... View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
You are healthy now, thankfully. I wondered, how do you see your work at Silver Linings evolving in the future? Somani: When I first launched Silver Linings, a lot of the work was still focused on the health care side and sharing my... 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 medical... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
state of the world—while working toward milestones that put patient safety first.” Laura Kelley (MBA 2019) (photo by Len Rubenstein) Laura Kelley (MBA 2019) (photo by Len Rubenstein) Lee and Kelley are both leading firms at the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
who motivates patients to take better care of themselves is often overlooked,” he notes. In the fall, Jain plans to begin his final year of medical school while also spending time at HBS working with Porter.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 15 Apr 2022
- News
Funding His Purpose
patient served—would have access to the more flexible capital of a loan. Letelier started with his own money and began to attract grantors to fund SITAWI when he had a track record of successful projects. “My pitch to the donor was, ‘If... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fixing What Ails the Drug Industry
medicine, which targets individuals with shared traits. Identifying such traits would be good for both patients and the pharmaceutical industry. —Sarah Auerbach View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Books
ensure that alignment is sustained. Redefining Health Care by Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg (HBS Press) Professor Porter and his colleague argue that health plans, networks, and hospitals have competed to shift costs,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The Power of Philanthropy
announced its approval of Kalydeco, a drug produced by Vertex that will immediately help some 1,200 cystic fibrosis patients and is viewed as a breakthrough precursor drug to forthcoming products that will help all other CF sufferers.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Richard Edelman (MBA 1978)
what’s going on in the world through our purchasing decisions. Our research shows that two-thirds of people, across all age groups and incomes, now buy or boycott a brand based on where it stands on the political or social issues they View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- News
A Fearless Force for Change
Jennifer Goodman Linn (MBA '99) left a legacy of hope to patients who battle rare cancers. Jennifer Goodman Linn (MBA '99) left a legacy of hope, love, and laughter to those who knew her and to the thousands who have been and will... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
help address urgent priorities that the public cares about and bring communities together for the common good. An early slogan for AmeriCorps, the lead program of America's Corporation for National and Community Service, was "getting... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance