Blood Donation - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Dec 2022
News

HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

cofounded by Regina Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, and her husband, Dr. George Herzlinger, recently announced that it has donated 100 portable blood and fluid... View Details

12 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them

20 percent more likely to say the drug in question would work “as well for them” if the panel testing it was more representative. They also were more likely to view the new drug as “significantly more relevant for their own blood pressure... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Pharmaceutical; Health

08 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Fix a Broken Marketplace

An economic handyman of sorts, Alvin E. Roth fixes broken markets. As a Nobel Prize-winning pioneer in the field of market design, the Harvard Business School professor cofounded a kidney donation matching system for New England,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

01 Sep 2011
News

Extraordinary People

role that is most important to Harf is being the cofounder and chariman of DKMS, the blood cancer cure bank. Now the most successful organization of its kind in the world, he launched it in 1991 after losing his first wife to View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2001
News

September 11: A Community Reflects

it is easy to forget the importance of family and friends." Alumni Take Action Once they began to recover from the initial shock of the events of September 11, HBS alumni started putting their skills to work. Whether donating money,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

wanted to advance clinical trials and facilitate blood plasma donations to help fight the pandemic. He recently helped launch WorldWithoutCovid.org, a free public health service for patients and researchers... View Details

23 May 2019
Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

with multiple myeloma, a rare and incurable blood cancer, Kathy Giusti cofounded the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, which has helped thousands of other patients with the cancer and has accelerated drug discovery and development for... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology

26 May 2015
First Look

First Look: May 26

2015, Chris Godfrey, founder and CEO of Bloodbuy, has to consider the best path to growth for his young company, which is attempting to disrupt the blood donation industry. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 12, 2009

this situation, donations are likely to decline, investment surplus has declined and biotech partners are challenged to finance joint projects as well as their own operations. Beall is striving to find a cure for cystic fibrosis while... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 21, 2006

during our study period. Efficient Kidney Exchange: Coincidence of Wants in a Structured Market Authors:A. E. Roth, Tayfun Sonmez, and M. Utku Unver Periodical:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract Patients needing kidney transplants may have willing donors... View Details