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Systems Integration - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

matter where the care is being provided. Care for chronic conditions may be delivered in both types of settings depending on the needs of the patient. For example, in cancer care, initial assessments and initiation of treatment may best... View Details

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

2025 | Case | Faculty Research Founded in 2017, Niramai developed Thermalytix, a breast cancer screening tool. Thermalytix used a high-resolution thermal sensing device and machine learning algorithms to analyze thermal images and detect... View Details

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Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Notes June 2019 HBS Case Collection Martini Klinik Prostate Cancer Care 2019 by Michael E. Porter, Jens Deerberg-Wittram, and Thomas W. Feeley Since its establishment in 2005, Hamburg's Martini Klinik had single-mindedly focused on... View Details

Research Summary

Health-care Applications

Active postmarketing drug surveillance. There is substantial interest within the U.S. health community and among health policymakers in developing a surveillance system that scans public health databases in order to proactively detect potential drug safety... View Details

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Chicago Press, 2021. IBM Watson at MD Anderson Cancer Center , Harvard Business School case, 2020. With Mel Martin and Sarkis Agaian. How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network ,... View Details

22 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

How to Learn from the Big Mistake You Almost Make

For example, providers must check cancer patients undergoing radiation for pacemakers, which can malfunction during the treatment. Employees were asked to rank the likelihood that they would report the following near-miss scenarios, which... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Health

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Fostering Innovation in Life Sciences - Health Care

Evidence from Europe By: Fiona M. Scott Morton, Ariel Dora Stern and Scott Stern 15 Mar 2019 Science Targeting cancer and careers: Precision Medicine Re: Richard Hamermesh 21 Mar 2019 Working Knowledge Advancing Computational Biology and... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Hands-on Learning About Global Markets

A certificate of appreciation was presented to Ellie Care representatives Francisco Garcia Zavaleta (COO) and Gervasio Videla Dorna (cofounder and CEO), at left, and to Patricio Alba (cofounder and CIO), far right, by HBS students Maxwell Nii Laryea, third from left,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Golden Age of Black Business

needs of Black grocers. A close friend of Justice Thurgood Marshall, Dowling served in managerial roles for the U.S. Department of Internal Revenue, the American Cancer Society, and the New Jersey Urban League. Howard Naylor Fitzhugh, MBA... View Details

14 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Its 2023-2024 Blavatnik Fellows

industries, including: a novel enzymatic RNA synthesis platform, an immune system-driven dendritic cell therapy to combat cancer, new molecular technologies for the delivery of transdermal formulations, a lipid-targeting drug to treat View Details

17 Feb 2022
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When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

worth living, while others took the opportunity to divulge very personal information. In one case, a female employee shocked her colleagues by relating that she had breast cancer and had been having treatments for months. On that... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

Portrait Project

Jamie Gong

Wild daisies. Hidden ice cream. Waves lapping against our little island. These memories of childhood summers with my grandmother remain, even as her own memory fades. Seven years ago, my indomitable grandma¬—a cancer survivor—was... View Details

29 Oct 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Robots in the Boardroom

effective targets. Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer ToolRadiation oncologists are few in number, especially if you are nowhere near a cancer facility. Could artificial intelligence be used... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Claire Zeng Business Track Runner-Up DoriVac (DNA Origami Vaccine) is a biotech startup for improving cancer treatment using a novel DNA nanoparticle platform. We develop treatments that teach patients' immune systems to recognize and... View Details

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Health Care Curriculum - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Cancer Center are the subject of cases, but there are cases on smaller providers and community hospitals as well. Cases include not only U.S. organizations, but also providers in Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and a growing number... View Details

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, The Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, Harvard Business School, and The Healthcare Initiative Advisory Board (HBS). Terry received a MBA from Harvard Business School, a MS in engineering... View Details

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Building Entrepreneurial Organizations - Health Care

Consumer-Driven Health Care.” Her work was key to introducing consumer-driven health plans and “focused health factories,” such as centers for orthopedics, cardiology, or cancer care. MBA Courses Lab to Market: Field Course This course is... View Details

30 Jun 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations

A Happier Ending In an "alternate ending" to the story, Kate apologizes for how the negotiation has gotten out of control, and asks if they can start over. She shares her own anxieties and frustrations about an important conference call regarding FDA approval... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports

26 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

National Health Costs Could Decrease if Managers Reduce Work Stress

to examine such issues as adverse drug interactions and cost-effectiveness of cancer screening. "Structuring the world mathematically can lead to insights and ideas that might not be obvious," he says. Sources Of Stress For... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

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Affiliated Organizations & Institutions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network Affiliated Organizations &... View Details

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