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Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care

biomedical engineering from the University of Michigan (summa cum laude), a PhD in biophysics from Harvard University, and an MD from Harvard Medical School. Christina Vosbikian MBA 2025 Christina Vosbikian is the founder and CEO of Coord... View Details

July 2020
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Instabeat—Crossing the Finish Line

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Nicole Tempest Keller and Alpana Thapar

Lebanese entrepreneur Hind Hobeika was just 21 years old when she launched her startup, Instabeat, which had developed the first real-time bio-feedback device for swimmers to monitor and improve their performance. It had been an extremely testing 10-year journey to... View Details

Keywords: Start-up; Wearables; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Strategy; Operations; Management; United States; Lebanon

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17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009

care services are internationally renowned for quality. In 2008, The Clinic is restructuring the organization into teams defined around patient needs, rather than traditional medical specialties. "Patients First!" takes shape as... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Jan 2015
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higher charity care and medical education. After observing regulator leniency, beneficent hospitals demonstrate higher upcoding. Our results suggest that lenient enforcement assists beneficent nonprofits to obtain higher revenues in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2023
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There were three critical events that led John Rodakis (MBA 1997) to form the nonprofit N of One in 2014 and ultimately dedicate his life to surfacing breakthrough autism research. The first occurred on Thanksgiving of 2012. He had driven about four hours with his wife... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson

May 2021
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Inclusive Innovation at Mass General Brigham

By: Katherine Baldiga Coffman and Olivia Hull

Massachusetts General Brigham (MGB) Chief Innovation Officer Christopher Coburn had overseen a period of exciting transformation and growth in healthcare innovation at MGB. In November 2019, the health system was the largest recipient of National Institutes of Health... View Details

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Mongolia Mongolia Mining Services Cluster (2010) Morocco Morocco Automotive Cluster (2015) Morocco Aeronautics Cluster (2013) Morocco Tourism (2008) Nepal Nepal Tourism Cluster (2015) Nepal Tourism (2011) Netherlands Netherlands Medical... View Details

12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016

medical devices after they are approved by the appropriate regulatory authorities. Historically, such surveillance was based on voluntary reports by medical practitioners, but... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Mar 2013
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use of limited malaria medications and preventing increased resistance to first-line malaria treatment. However, despite the evident potential benefits of RDTs, many clinicians in Zambia do not use them or simply ignore their results. Why... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Dec 2022
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How Would Jack Welch’s Leadership Style Fare in Today’s World?

(iStockphoto/josefkubes) Jack Welch’s leadership practices and accomplishments as CEO of General Electric for 20 years have once again come under scrutiny. He is the subject of two recent books. Their titles—David Gelles’ The Man Who Broke Capitalism and William... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Medical Devices & Supplies; Medical Devices & Supplies; Medical Devices & Supplies; Medical Devices & Supplies

12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

Devices: Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. Regulators and Innovators By: Gordon, William J., and Ariel Dora Stern Abstract— Software has become an increasingly important component of medical device... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

13 May 2014
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founder and Medical Director, was considering how to respond. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/martini-klinik-prostate-cancer-care/an/714471-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-088 Advising Families on Estate Planning Sean... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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interests in organizations that provide health care (e.g., hospitals, medical groups, retail clinics) or in firms that partner with, supply, consult to, or invest in such organizations (e.g., payers, biopharmaceutical and View Details

11 Nov 2014
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Sustainable cost reduction is best achieved by optimizing the quantity and mix of all the resources needed to produce excellent outcomes for a patient's medical condition, not by across-the-board reductions in line-item expenses.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 May 2022
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Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay

the number of jobs held by independent contractors has remained steady, fewer entrepreneurs are choosing to start ventures that require significant startup capital—and those are the same businesses that are typically rewarded with higher... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

23 Apr 2013
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MIT Sloan Management Review Experiments in Open Innovation at Harvard Medical School By: Guinan, Eva C., Kevin J. Boudreau, and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract—Harvard Medical School seems an unlikely organization... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Nov 2014
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nondiscriminatory basis. The CEO has transformed Indus from a struggling startup with a monopolistic mindset into a customer-centric organization. He now wants to grow Indus. To achieve this, however, he needs to reconcile conflicting... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Dec 2023
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Bridging Science and Business: My Summer Internship at Eli Lilly

forecasting the future landscape of gene editing—a field close to my heart. The goal? To pinpoint where Eli Lilly could judiciously invest today to be at the forefront of tomorrow's medical breakthroughs. It wasn't a simple trend-spotting... View Details

William A. Sahlman

William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business... View Details

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2023) Heung Kim Business Track Runner-Up & Crowd Favorite Winner A medical device company founded by surgeons to identify and solve problems that practicing surgeons face every day. Social Enterprise Track,... View Details

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Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care

Instabeat—Crossing the Finish Line

First Look: March 17, 2009

First Look: January 20

Wide Horizon

Inclusive Innovation at Mass General Brigham

Sample Student Projects - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

January 12, 2016

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How Would Jack Welch’s Leadership Style Fare in Today’s World?

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

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Academics - Health Care

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Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay

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Bridging Science and Business: My Summer Internship at Eli Lilly

William A. Sahlman

Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition