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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
medical education and recredentialing programs. Finally, in order to understand the potential for change, it is necessary to look at reimbursement issues. Diagnosis is the critical and time-consuming element in personalized medicine, but... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
of sick people coming in,” to “Oh my God, are we going to run out of ventilators?” Our volume of cases doubled, with the number of critically ill people requiring a ventilator increasing over tenfold. At the peak, that meant every 20... 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 delivery, consumer-driven... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived
The technology behind telemedicine—health care delivered remotely and asynchronously—has been improving for years, but in 2017, the United States hit a tipping point. This year, Kaiser Permanente’s CEO announced that of the company’s 100... View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
Until the close of the last decade, health consumers received much of their knowledge and advice about prescription drugs from their physicians or other health care professionals. Today, pharmaceutical companies are spending several... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
more of a realization around how important post-acute care is.” It is critical for hospitals to quickly and seamlessly find facilities and services to care for these recovering... 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 his training as a cardiologist,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19
COVID-19, there was a critical shortage of ventilators in health care settings across the globe . . . we knew we had a proven product that could help.” — Sanchay Gupta MD/MBA 2022 Cofounder, Umbulizer “Even... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
staffing business should be cash-flow positive quickly in a given market, so focus on building critical mass dynamics in the top 25 health care markets. —Paul Sims (MBA 2002) Much to my surprise, Lyft’s... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Profile
Avi Kremer
millions of dollars into research, and removed critical barriers to the development of treatments. “Our focus was to get drug companies to invest money in ALS,” says Kremer, who was diagnosed in 2004, just weeks into his first year at... View Details
- 17 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance
overwhelmingly reported they would pay wages first, but health care premiums were the second-most critical bill overall, and clearly ahead of rent,” the researchers write. “As one respondent put it,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
the test as he methodically refashioned the two old-line chemical companies with disparate corporate cultures into a single entity focused on health care and powered by an innovative approach to R&D. Today, Novartis is one of the world’s... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
to changing,” he says. The organization’s mission, to elevate the standard of care for families and women, applies equally to its partners and clients but also starts from within. That focus on representation also leads to stronger... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Christina Ehrenberg: The Examined Life
by excesses in diet and lifestyle.” Lessons also emerged from “failure.” After weeks of training for a climb to the top of Papua New Guinea’s 14,800-foot Mount Wilhelm, Ehrenberg abandoned her quest within sight of the summit to care for... View Details
Wayne Hicklin
Hicklin played a critical role in the international expansion of Avon and its diversification into new product lines, most notably apparel for men and women. Capping off his 43-year career, Hicklin doubled Avon’s sales and earnings... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- 16 May 2017
- Blog Post
Making the Move into Digital Health and Software Engineering
at Instacart, a same-day grocery delivery service. My team’s job was to handle everything that related to the ordering process: we worked with Stripe, our payments API, built the discounts infrastructure, and created an infrastructure to deal with fraud and debt.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Wyss Celebrated for Career, Conservation
Hansjörg Wyss (MBA 1965) has been unusually public of late, celebrated for his visionary accomplishments in health care and conservation. Wyss, 75, founded Synthes USA, a Swiss-American firm, in 1974 and led it to global prominence as a... View Details
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Enabling a Transformational Educational Experience
is inspiring him to think bigger about his role in the health care landscape. “Without a fellowship, I would feel constrained in the breadth of career opportunities I could consider,” he notes. Patyal explains that the financial... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
pharmaceuticals and software, and far above the average of all industries. Many apparent paradoxes add to the puzzle posed by the industry. While rarely considered fundamentally “bad,” such as the trade in narcotics or tobacco, the beauty industry has attracted a... View Details
- 02 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Uncovering the Virtual Advantage at Humana
presentations have always been a critical opportunity for students to showcase their work. In the virtual environment, senior leaders across the organization were able to view presentations from anywhere giving students more visibility.... View Details