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- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thai Lee, MBA 1985
hospice care, but Lee refused to give up. Researching treatment options, she found doctors at Johns Hopkins who performed complicated surgeries. Today, Margaret is cancer-free, and much of Lee's philanthropy... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
tries, and fails, to convince yet another cancer patient to opt for the less risky course of treatment. In Supercommunicators, Charles Duhigg blends deep research and his trademark storytelling skills to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
come at night. The spokes are community cancer centers where chemotherapy, radiation, and rehabilitation take place. As America struggles with its fee-for-service model, Amil,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain
"I never intended to write a book," says Deborah A. Cohen (MBA '87). Nor did she expect to be diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 35. The author of Just Get Me Through... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
to remove a cancerous tumor in his throat. Stripped of his voice box and vocal cords, he had to learn to speak using his esophagus. Batten, an entrepreneur who thrives on difficult challenges, says that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Making a Statement
treatment centers in the country. Paul’s experience led him to make a gift during his 25th Reunion to endow a fund to benefit the School’s Health Care Initiative. Given the fund’s initial success, he... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
pharmaceutical companies focused their R&D on treatments for common illnesses — such as diabetes and high cholesterol — an approach that resulted in the development of blockbuster drugs. We now recognize... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Amy S. Langer
America today are far more knowledgeable about the disease, which has led to earlier detection and treatment, and higher survival rates. Declares Langer, who has become a national advocate and spokesperson for breast View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
WILLIAMS CHARLEY SECKLER in the midst of the first-ever trial for a DMD treatment at Johns Hopkins University. Photo courtesy the Seckler Family by Dan Morrell There's this picture View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
line and on improving the quality of patient care. In 2005, Porter developed a multiyear learning partnership with MD Anderson, regularly ranked as the top cancer treatment... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Pedal Mettle
The Tour of Hope is a bicycle relay from San Diego to Washington, D.C., a 3,300-mile journey intended to raise awareness about cancer research, prevention, and detection. One View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A 'reluctant entrepreneur' draws on the HBS network
Cancer survivor Kathryn Giusti (MBA 1985) gives a talk about being a "reluctant entrepreneur" in founding the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
6.4 million residents, 440,000 who were previously uninsured have become covered, with 191,000 of those securing private, nongovernment insurance. At 2.6 percent, Massachusetts now has the lowest rate of... View Details
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
resulted in a breast cancer diagnosis, and Langer's battle against the disease led her to volunteer at the then-pioneering National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations... View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- News
A Fearless Force for Change
during the initial phase of her treatment, a regimen that would have flattened most patients. Instead, Linn regularly attended indoor cycling sessions at Equinox Fitness Center in New York City. "I may have... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Tracking a Turnaround
The newly hired president and CEO of a local medical center faces a daunting task: Under intense public scrutiny, he must save a complex, rapidly failing organization whose culture is marred by indecision... View Details
- 04 Dec 2014
- News
Hacking Health Care
The health care industry needs so much improvement, it will take a whole movement to fix it. “The more leaders, the better,” says Luc Sirois (MBA 1997), who sees progress coming not through a single organization, but rather from groups of... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
June, HBS hosted over sixty representatives from business, government, and NGOs in September. A final workshop was held in Beijing in November. Barrett cochaired the series with John Ruggie, director of the KSG’s View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
conclusion by manually going through the data,” the lead doctor told the Japan Times, “but Watson’s speed is crucial in the treatment of leukemia, which progresses rapidly and can cause complications.” This... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Class Day/Commencement 2013
moments? Being part of the HBS Show production team, drinking Coke Zero, and writing the script in the i-lab. What's next? Back to Oklahoma! I'll be working in marketing at the Stephenson Cancer View Details