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- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
explains the process to his two young children: Think of your body as needing a recipe book, with each page detailing the directions to produce specific proteins. When a protein goes haywire—as might be the case with diabetes, when insulin needs to be produced to keep... View Details
- 13 Jul 2023
- News
The Network Effect
Karan Mathur (left) and Dina Model (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Karan Mathur (left) and Dina Model (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Dina Model and Karan Mathur (both MBA 2015) met through mutual friends during their first year at HBS, neither was envisioning a... View Details
- 04 Apr 2024
- News
The Making of a Medical Milestone
On March 16, doctors at the Massachusetts General Hospital made history when they successfully transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig to a living human. The groundbreaking procedure marked a significant milestone in animal-to-human transplant, or... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 23 May 2019
- News
Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997
She launched the nonprofit consulting practice at the Parthenon Group. Then in 2010, her friend Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969), who had built Social Finance UK with David Blood (MBA 1985), was looking to expand the organization. “Tracy had... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
trillion in assets in 2008. One such member of PRI is Generation Investment Management, a company founded by David Blood (MBA ’85) and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, with offices in New York, London, and Sydney. Generation considers... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
middle-skill career fields,” he says. Respiratory therapist Michelle Powell (above) trains Howard School students Rudy Vasquez and Junior Juan in how to take a blood pressure reading; below, Shakaya Finley and Jamesha Owens practice those... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
Enfants du Paradis (1945). “The dialogue, the acting, the cinematography are all sublime. I also love The Last King of Scotland with Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin and Blood Diamond with Leonardo DiCaprio. I’ve met similar mercenary-type... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
noteworthy cases from HBS faculty about companies that are balancing blood ties and balance sheets. hbsp.harvard.edu CP Group Balancing the Needs of a Family Business with the Needs of a Family of Businesses How a second-generation leader... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
Launches DKMS, the cure blood cancer bank 1993 Becomes CEO, Coty Inc. 2001 Appointed Chairman, Coty Inc. 2006 Appointed Chairman, Anheuser-Busch InBev With entrepreneurial energy, Peter Harf has left a mark on consumer goods industries... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
our respective losses. So turns out that Peter lost the love of his life, his wife, to a blood disorder. She also needed a bone marrow transplant. He couldn't get her a bone marrow transplant. When he shared that with me, I was so... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
intentions, including the potential for chilling or punitive legislation.” Fisher is the founder of Viacord and ViaCell, two Massachusetts companies that, respectively, are involved in the storing of individuals’ umbilical-cord blood and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 27 Oct 2022
- News
John Middleton’s Big Swing
the dedication of the local supporters. “I know this fan base,” Middleton told the Press. “I said to a lot of the guys here, ‘When we start to prove to these fans that we’re real, they will come out.’ I expected this, and they were still spectacular. These guys are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Audit: War & Peace
QUESTION: “How did you ensure the talks didn’t fail because of internal strife?” —Alexandra Baranowski (MBA 2025) “I had to handle that with a lot of cold blood and not engage the opposition in every argument. I had to maintain the course, explain why we were doing... View Details
- 24 Jan 2025
- News
The Network Effect
Karan Mathur (left) and Dina Model (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Dina Model and Karan Mathur (both MBA 2015) met through mutual friends during their first year at HBS, neither was envisioning a future business deal. “We didn’t realize that we had shared... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Health IT at the Bedside
occurred when a CT scan of Dad’s belly showed a “spot” on his liver. “It’s probably a benign collection of blood vessels,” his doctor told me. “But it is something we’ll watch closely.” I was able to tell her of a similar, earlier... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Classmates Rally to Help Family Stricken with Rare Disease
those with the infantile/ juvenile form can live a few years longer.) Told that their son Patrick had a 25 percent chance of having the disease as well, the Crowleys waited a few months to have an initial blood test. "He seemed so much... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
accordingly. In several areas of oncology, particularly blood cancers, we have also moved close to full acceptance. Is there a role for the FDA to play in bringing personalized medicine more into the mainstream? The FDA is essential to... View Details
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
you see that, maybe in the natural world. Rothrock: Oh, my gosh. The natural—our human body is naturally resilient. We have this thing called a skin, that’s like a firewall. But if you cut yourself, bad stuff gets in, what happens? The white View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
Joel Bines (MBA 1999) spent his high school summers wearing a tricorn hat and waiting for tour buses to disgorge visitors at the Battle Green in his hometown of Lexington, Massachusetts, where the first blood of the American Revolutionary... View Details