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08 Nov 2024
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Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection

and stewardship of those programs. During dinner, Neil Ashe (MBA 1996), Chairman and CEO of Acuity Brands, presented the club’s Social Impact Award to Dean Crowe, Founder of the Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research. In 2014,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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AllWorld Network - 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 AllWorld Network AllWorld Network... View Details

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Fellows Program enables students to apply their classroom training as they explore... Strategy in Cancer Care: SE Summer Fellow Tricia Peralta (MBA 2024) Tricia Peralta 27 Jun 2023 The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to apply... View Details

03 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 3

this proposal, and what other options may be available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/school-specialty-inc/an/214084-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-003 Cancer Treatment Centers of America (B) This case provides... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

Oncology Value-Based Breast Cancer Care: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Defining Patient-Centered Outcomes By: Feeley, Thomas W., Fayanju M. Oluwadamilola, Tinisha L. Mayo, Tracy E. Spinks, Seohyun Lee, Carlos H. Barcenas, Benjamin D.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Sep 2022
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Strength in Numbers

ineffective.” Their solution? The Goodness Web, a nonprofit that finds its strength in connection, in “a web of people who can aggregate resources—whether that is philanthropic dollars or contacts—to do good, better,” Swartz explains. The Goodness Web aspires to be a... View Details

17 Apr 2014
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Striking a Balance

1989. “She saw the tension between being mothers, wives, and professional managers.” It was a passion for Wilson, who had planned a research project on these issues before succumbing to cancer in 2003. Wilson took the HBS field study... View Details

01 Sep 2004
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Salter New Head of External Relations

elective curriculum in the MBA Program, and chairman of the Advanced Management Program and the Inter-national Senior Managers Program. Salter is a trustee and director of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where he serves on the Finance... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9

policies that maintain a low level of average inflation. Cases & Course MaterialsNovoCure Ltd. William A. Sahlman and Sarah Greene FlahertyHarvard Business School Case 810-045 Venture capitalist William Doyle must raise $35 million for a portfolio company with a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jan 2011
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Robert Kraft, MBA 1965

to mourn the loss of Myra Kraft, who succumbed to cancer in July. While Bob Kraft's remarkable successes in the paper and packaging business, as a sports team owner, and as a philanthropist have made him a beloved figure in the Boston... View Details

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Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator - Health Care

Faculty & Research Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator About the Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator From 2015–2020, the Harvard Business School Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator (KPMA) worked to create business solutions which would help solve View Details

01 Mar 2025
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Venture: Time Heals All

everyone. Borkenstein knows this from experience: As a registered nurse at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, she witnessed the difficult balancing act up close. At HBS, she teamed up with sectionmate Eric Gruskin... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford; Illustration by Klaus Kremmerz; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2016
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Off Script

are following their own business models—whether they are for-profit or not-for-profit. The additional spend on health care is due to increased utilization of health-care services as the population gets older. Costlier innovations and longer patient lives in areas such... View Details

Keywords: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

01 Jun 2000
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The Business of Biotech

With the sequencing of the human genome running ahead of schedule (see sidebar), the American Stock Exchange's "BTK" biotech index registered an annual increase of 232 percent in February, prompting exuberant headlines ("Move Over, Dot-Coms: Biotech Is Back") and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2014
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Research Brief: The Power of Could

Say you’re in a bind, a tough one. You’ve got cancer and your only hope is chemo—the problem is, it’s wildly expensive and you’re flat broke. Do you follow your moral compass, even if it means dying? Or do you leverage your knack for... View Details

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A Jay Holmgren

A Jay Holmgren (he/him) hadn’t yet developed a strong interest in health policy when he graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in History in 2011. But when his father was diagnosed with cancer in 2014, A Jay found himself... View Details

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Getting Involved - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Health 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 VBHCD Initiative VBHCD... View Details

01 Sep 2011
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MBA 101: HBS Commencements Pass the Century Mark

sometimes glacial pace and antiquated norms of cancer research; doubled patients’ lifespans; and raised in excess of $165 million for research. Giusti urged graduates to set goals and build a plan around their passion; choose colleagues... View Details

Keywords: commencement; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2010
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The Father of Modern Advertising

scandal, Lasker pushed for the creation of a baseball commissioner. He was also an influential philanthropist behind the success of Planned Parenthood and the American Cancer Society. The Lasker that pops from these pages is driven,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

18 Jul 2024
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Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows

immune system-driven dendritic cell therapy to combat cancer, new molecular technologies for the delivery of transdermal formulations, a lipid-targeting drug to treat cancer and neurodegenerative disorders, and AI-driven medical... View Details

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