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THE VALUE OF THE PHYSICIAN SHADOW PROGRAM: Witnessing The Front Lines of Care Delivery - Blog: Health Supplement
wanted to participate in the program. “I studied biology for my undergraduate degree and also worked as a researcher at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston,” stated Erika. “However, I’ve always been... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- News
Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection
HBS Latino Alumni Association Banquet Marks 20 Years The HBS Latino Alumni Association (HBSLAA) held its 20th Annual Banquet on October 5, bringing together 80 alumni, guests, and current HBS students for dinner and a panel discussion at the New England Aquarium in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
responsibility to put the patient at the center of care," explains Dr. Thomas Feeley, head of MD Anderson's Institute for Cancer Care Innovation. That approach fit well with Porter's research on value-based... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- Op-Ed
4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World
previously underserved parts of the population. So, how does a person—whether the newly employed graduate or the experienced executive—exercise his or her latent agency to bring profit-making and social good together in a company? In my View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 02 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Finding My Focus in Health care Amidst a Global Pandemic
enough to find myself at Flatiron Health, a health-tech company focused on oncology. For the next three years, I worked on building strategic partnerships between Flatiron and biopharma companies developing the next generation of cancer... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Generosity Multiplied
multiplies the gifts’ impact. The Reed Foundation launched the Big Give in 2007, and since then, it has raised nearly £200 million for 10,000 charities that address a range of causes, from climate change and cancer View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
Lassiter, whose research focuses on developing carbon-neutral energy supplies, efforts to produce algal crude cheaply and efficiently have met with nothing but failure. The reason: basic biology. One can easily persuade algae to produce... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
myeloid leukemia, a blood cancer in which abnormal white blood cells grow quickly. They comforted her by saying that the chemotherapy they were prescribing would attack the abnormal cells. And it did. But her recovery from post-remission... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-005.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAmerican Cancer Society: Access to Care Harvard Business School Case 109-015 CEO John Seffrin decides to radically change the strategy of the American View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
through an innovation-killing “peer review” process. The history of medicine is filled with shameful stories of “peers” who used their powers to suppress innovations: Judah Folkman, the brilliant scientist whose antiangiogenesis theory forms the basis for many... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
then helped pass a California proposition that resulted in the allocation of an additional $23 billion for the state’s public schools. He also co-chaired a successful effort to pass a bill in California that funded $3 billion worth of View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
American Cancer Society for the mental health field—an organization that can increase awareness, reduce the stigma, and rally donors to make large, multiyear funding commitments to the most promising care and View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Below are outtakes from the faculty roundtable discussion on the crisis in corporate America (“Bad Times for Business,” December 2002). For more information about the research and academic activities of the roundtable participants, or any... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
of HBS alums who are leading personal crusades against rare diseases. Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) cofounded the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation soon after being diagnosed with the blood cancer in 1996.... View Details
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Morse and Polaroid’s Creative Ethos | Baker Library
Society of Photographic Scientists and Engineers for her contributions to the field of photography. Two months later, on July 29, Morse died from cancer at age 46. In August of that year, James Harnett, a View Details
- 09 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
Big Hits: The Best of the 2018 Super Bowl Ads
partisanship, and/or conscious neglect, as they presented their brands as heroic substitutes stepping in to provide services (e.g., clean water, cancer research funding) traditionally provided by nations,... View Details
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
facilities each year, an increasing number of which are on foreign soil. "Without the FDA, each of us would individually spend a lot more time researching where products come from and what ingredients they contain," says Harvard Business... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
been collaborating for three years to increase the number of African American biologists and chemists. In 1995, they launched the UNCF Merck Science Internships. The undergraduates, doctoral students, and postdoctoral scientists who receive these internships are... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
with cancer and passed away a couple of years later,” Dzodan shared. “After he passed, I had to start working on the company because it was a small business and there were no managers.” Their father’s passing took an emotional toll on the... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details