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- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
early in our marriage, we lost our first daughter. She was just eight months old. Her name was Tanya. She was born with an immune disease that had no cure. And that was a very hard thing to comprehend and cope with. And then we had... View Details
- Web
HBS - The year in Review
exceeding Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) standards. Innovation in Executive Education Executive Education was able... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
these redlined areas form the shape of a so-called Black butterfly, and they suffer the highest rates of poverty, crime, and chronic disease in the city. Studies show that investment is far lower in predominantly Black neighborhoods than... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
A revolution in healing
formerly was CEO of bioMérieux. He joined the company in 2011 after seeing impressive data indicating Moderna had found an entirely new way to treat rare diseases and cancer—using technology that was inexpensive to produce. The company is... View Details
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
First of all, many more Americans will die of heart attacks than will ever die of Ebola. This is not like smallpox, whose spread can only be controlled with great difficulty. The nature of the disease is that, because it can only pass... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Your Keyboard Is Listening
potential to change how doctors diagnose and treat neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, and Alzheimer’s. Samzelius and his team at NeuraMetrix, based in the Bay Area, had been studying typing cadence, measuring how... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?
predict a new world where drug treatments are customized to an individual's genetic makeup, and gene-based therapy can root out cancer and other diseases before they take hold in the body. The new science will "revolutionize the way... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Fast Answer
Health care: consumer expenditure
Where can I find data on health care consumer expenditure? You may browse or search the following resource by using keywords: health care consumer spending: United States: Statista CMS National Health Expenditure Data Centers for View Details
Charles A. Heimbold, Jr.
Heimbold focused on Bristol-Myers Squibb’s growth and created a scientific-based, world-leading pharmaceutical company with very strong consumer franchises. Sixty-two percent of its sales come from pharmaceuticals (where it holds leadership positions in anticancer... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- Portrait Project
Allison Kotzin
like my father. Although he was given a death sentence at age 42, my Dad remained positive and focused on his passion for life. My Dad's own motto was: "This disease may ultimately kill me, but it will never defeat me." Dad was... View Details
- 15 Aug 2019
- News
Finding a Fix for Food Allergies
accelerate discoveries. “We built an organization we would want to invest in ourselves,” observes Greg. “We need to broaden the net and provide incentives for scientists to work together within food allergies and across disease states to... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
newly opened facility to accommodate its vaccine development work, and CEO Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000, AMP 170) welcomed input on the design from the government’s infectious disease experts. For two years, Moderna had been working closely... View Details
- 10 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative
donation." In "Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative," Barrett, Austin and McCarthy examine one such collaboration, a joint effort of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation and Pfizer, Inc. to combat the devastating... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
The Last Frontier
state for people with debilitating but nonterminal diseases like his to receive, with a doctor’s assistance, drugs with which they may take their own lives. Explained Gardner, “Why do this? I want to be involved in public life. I was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Business Plan Contest Winners
The 12th annual HBS Business Plan Contest winner in the social enterprise track was Diagnostics-For-All (DFA), a nonprofit launched to develop a disposable, low-cost, paper-based “lab-on-a-chip” for use in diagnosing liver, kidney, and metabolic View Details
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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
repairs Tonsillectomies and adenoidectomies Observations room patients after ED care Chronic & Primary Care End-stage kidney disease Diabetes Congestive heart failure Audiology Dementia Degenerative neurological View Details
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Hospitals: statistics (US)
style="line-height: 20.8px;"> by AHA) Incidence & Prevalence Database - world's epidemiology data including some surgical patient volumes Centers... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
New Biotech Joint Degree Program Kicks Off
investing, and policy, but I didn’t want to move too far from the hard science. I couldn’t have handcrafted a more perfect program.” — Elisa MacColl (MS/MBA 2022) The ultimate goal of biotech innovation should be ambitious, says Chandra. “We don’t just want to treat... View Details
- 15 May 2023
- News
From Scientist to Business Leader
emigrated from Korea. After graduating from the University of Virginia with a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering, Kim went to work for a biotech startup, Ceres Nanosciences. The company makes nanoparticles that improve early and accurate detection for View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Ticked Off
The HBS Club of Connecticut Community Partners recently partnered with Time for Lyme (TFL), a nonprofit dedicated to eliminating the devastating effects of Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses. Founded in 1998, TFL has raised... View Details