Filter Results:
(4,896)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(4,896)
- People (17)
- News (1,945)
- Research (2,373)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (221)
- Faculty Publications (1,860)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(4,896)
- People (17)
- News (1,945)
- Research (2,373)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (221)
- Faculty Publications (1,860)
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
level of creatine kinase—an enzyme indicative of muscle damage—in a normal person's blood is around 50 units per liter, maybe as high as 100 after a workout. Charley's was 20,000. It suggested muscular dystrophy. Related Links Curing View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
Kyruus’s search engine enables consumers to find the best providers for their health care needs. Since he was eight years old, Graham Gardner, MD (MBA 2007) knew he wanted to be a doctor. Once he completed... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Profile
Naiyya Saggi
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I am passionate about creating social impact (specifically improving healthcare outcomes in emerging economies). At HBS, leadership is not interpreted narrowly: it is not sectoral, geographic or time bound. That is what... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Health-Care Initiative to Leverage Ongoing Efforts
Dean Kim B. Clark has announced the formation of a faculty initiative in health care, with HBS professor of management practice Richard G. Hamermesh serving as chair. Technology strategy, the design of care... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Elevator Pitch: Common Knowledge
health care information digitally, provided they have access to the right technology and tools. Heard: “My brother has a chronic neurological condition and has spent decades navigating the complexity and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
In Search of Innovation
Many of the innovations needed to increase the quality of health care in the United States while reducing its cost already exist, says Professor Richard Hamermesh, faculty cochair of the Forum on View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
as supermarkets and health clubs, could offer products alongside the more established sources like HMOs and pharmacies. Genzyme: Mara Aspinall (photo: courtesy Genzyme) A Healthy Controversy All this "cross-pollination"—whether... View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
could have been prevented if parents and local health care workers had been involved in designing a solution. Indeed, oral rehydration therapy was successful in countries like Bangladesh, where cooperation... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Clubs Hopping
small, in California, Florida, and Texas, where most HBS Latino alumni live. Dallas was the proving ground for this strategy. “We want to collect and build our networks more regionally,” says Calderon, who sits on the club’s board. “There’s a demand and an appetite for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
for her innovative research and teaching on the business of health care, Herzlinger has long predicted the unraveling of managed care in the United States, along with the rise of consumer-driven View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
pharmaceutical companies. Avon bought health care companies and nursing homes. It turned out, however, that beauty and health had diverged too much from their common origin in... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
With a yearly price tag of roughly $87 billion in lost productivity and adverse health consequences, the flu is nothing to sneeze at. It’s no surprise that workplace flu vaccination clinics have gained popularity as employers try to keep... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
president of the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association, and was named a 40 under 40 Health Care Innovator by MedTech Boston. After recovering from COVID-19 in early March, he returned to practicing... View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
Conference, led by the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association, presented two days of provocative lectures, panel discussions, and case studies surrounding questions like: What's next for healthcare? And how should smart businesses... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Elevator Pitch: Good Vibrations
fractures and subsequent complications kill 20 percent of their victims, and debilitating spine fractures represent a health care cost of $19 billion annually. “There are a number of medications to treat... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Collaborative Cures
Business Administration “When I looked at the health care system through a systems engineering lens, I could see it as a network of multiple parts that needed to be optimized and restraints that had to be... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
innovation. Visit http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5799.html. The Rise of Medical Tourism Medical tourism — traveling far and wide for health care that is often better and certainly cheaper than at home — appeals... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Building a better India through business and philanthropy
delivering long-term value for shareholders, Piramal is concerned about social issues. “The disparities in Indian society are increasing, and we cannot call ourselves developed until we provide access to basic amenities like health View Details
- Career Coach
Lindsay Muller
Lindsay is particularly passionate about working with students in health care. She has experience in healthcare startups and public companies, specifically in insurance, care delivery, and digital health.... View Details