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- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
into ALS research, and removed some critical barriers to the development of treatments. “Our focus, from the start, was to get drug companies to invest money in ALS,” says Kremer, who was diagnosed with the disease in 2004, just weeks... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Pedal Mettle
player who was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease in 1995, Berté saw the cancer return six months after she completed her initial treatment. She then enrolled in a clinical trial including chemotherapy, radiation, and a stem-cell... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
result. Now, if that same equipment were used in a focused factory, only equipment relevant to that disease would be purchased, and it would be used efficiently. But should health care be market-driven, particularly when one result is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Your Keyboard Is Listening
want to know if I have one of these diseases?’” “Researchers think there are subtle signs that precede the known symptoms of diseases like Huntington’s and Alzheimer’s,” explains Robi Blumenstein (MBA 1984), president of the CHDI... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
cardiovascular disease. In addition, apart from any possible therapeutic benefits, embryonic stem-cell research could play a central role in helping to understand the nature and development of disease generally. Spar, the Spangler Family... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups "R" Us
which enables Web sites to protect themselves from online attacks; Diagnostics For All, a nonprofit that develops low-cost disease diagnostics for the developing world; and Finale, a Boston-area chain of upscale restaurants specializing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
system because there will be fewer obstacles standing in the way of physician innovations, and because — if markets follow money, which we teach in business school — the successful management of chronic View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Books
The Last Tycoon, and other stories, he addresses issues leaders face, such as the soundness of their vision, their readiness to take on responsibility, the depth of their compassion, and their ability to manage success. Institutions,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
1,500-person division is a leader in the emerging field of personalized medicine, which treats cancer and other diseases with customized therapies that take into account the patient’s specific genetic traits. With HBS professor Richard... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Optimizing search technology
Olivier Dumon (MBA 1998) is managing director of academic and government markets for global publishing giant Elsevier, where he’s working on optimizing online search protocols. He believes that the more the technology is improved, the... 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 (NABCO) in 1988. "We had the first extensive, disease-specific... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
appointment as director general of Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission. MORE The Amazing Life of One of America’s Earliest Black, Female Entrepreneurs MORE The Amazing Life of One of America’s Earliest Black, Female Entrepreneurs Today, Oteh and her World Bank... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
corporate wellness market by partnering with health plans and employers, and has expanded into more general health and wellness areas, with apps for people who want to eat better, for instance, or be more fit. After discovering that their technology could help... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
New Biotech Joint Degree Program Kicks Off
Frontiers in Therapeutics is an ethics and management course on the world’s most pressing unsolved medical challenges. The impetus for the program came from recognizing that the biotech sector needs strong, ethical leaders who can break... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
those diseases. “These people have no voice in the marketplace,” Gates said. As a result, ten times as much funding is devoted to research on the prevention of male baldness as malaria, a disease that kills more than 1 million people each... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
in 1969. Ginny’s eyes teared up. “He was our father,” she said, and explained that he had developed Alzheimer’s disease in his 50s and died in 1996. Dick Vancil played an enormous role in my life. He was a master of the case method, as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
investment strategy. Stolen Memories: A Journey Through Alzheimer’s By Maria L. Ellis (OPM 32, 2003) Independently Published Stolen Memories: A Journey Through Alzheimer’s is a deeply moving and insightful exploration of one of the most challenging View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
president and had attended Georgetown, that’s where I set my sights.” Brown soon established herself as a student leader at Georgetown. One of the university’s board members, Lloyd Campbell, then a managing director at Credit Suisse First... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
that described why competition in health care had failed. Some health-care experts, he feared, would take offense at any critique written by mere management professors. To the surprise of Porter and coauthor Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, an... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
New weather patterns brought on by climate change will require updated farming practices, effective water management, and innovative pest and disease management in the Midwest and around the globe.... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture