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- 01 Oct 2021
- News
From Scholarship to Life-Saving Impact
ending up with huge medical bills we couldn’t pay.” Inspired by this personal experience, Rabah chose to build a career in health care. She studied biology as an undergraduate at Cornell, where she developed a strong interest in drug... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
digging deep into planning, strategy, and available resources. It’s work that doesn’t come naturally, but the future of Chattanooga—and other US cities—depends on it. The realization that better cross-sector collaboration would be key to View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
really are shooting for zero defects, but if you don't have some failures, you're probably not taking enough risk." When asked to share his proudest achievement, Kennedy looks instead to the career of his wife, Karen, who enrolled in View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 16 Aug 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
small robotic aircraft to deliver essential medical products, first asked Ayala to help her assemble and vet the board for Endeavor Philippines, and he happily agreed. “That then turned into, ‘Well, can you help me find somebody to run... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
to name the building Madikizela, in honor of the late South African political activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, a symbol of Black female resilience.) The upper floors will contain well-appointed rentals, whose target market includes single moms working low-wage jobs... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Outside-the-box innovation for off-the-grid energy
Jaegle, an MBA candidate who co-leads HBS’s rowing team, met with a Harvard College strategist who surfs, a brilliant inventor at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Harvard Medical School physician-in-training with United Nations... View Details
- 09 Apr 2020
- News
“Raise the Line”
photo by Douglas Barnes In 2011, Shiv Gaglani (MBA 2016) was a medical student at Johns Hopkins facing the same problem that confronts many medical students: staid, time-consuming lectures. Gaglani knew that... View Details
- 13 Feb 2023
- News
Alumnus Gift Will Nurture Basic, Therapeutic Science
Swiss biotech executive, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Ernesto Bertarelli (MBA 1993) has pledged $75 million to advance basic scientific discovery, therapeutic science, and a culture of entrepreneurship at Harvard Medical School. The... View Details
- 27 Apr 2023
- News
Life Preserver
Summit in 2016 Subzero human liver biostasis experiment at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital as part of a Sylvatica-funded project. (Photo: Jeffrey Andree, Reinier de Vries and Korkut... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
Vertex Appoints First Female CEO
Boston-based Vertex announced in July that Reshma Kewalramani (GMP 18, 2015), currently the company’s chief medical officer, would take on the role of president and CEO in April. Jeffrey Leiden, after seven years in the role, will stay on... View Details
- 06 Nov 2009
- News
Health Reform Paths Not Taken
No issues in the ongoing Congressional health-care debate have generated more heat than the so-called public option and proposed taxes on “gold-plated” health insurance plans. Conservatives view a new government-run health insurance... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
Authentic Leadership by William W. (“Bill”) George (MBA ’66) (Jossey-Bass) Drawing from a decade of experience as CEO and chairman of medical technology company Medtronic, George analyzes the causes of the current crisis in corporate... View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- News
Breath of Life
Green: Participating in the stem-cell revolution. Courtesy David Green It was the kind of medical miracle that experts say will one day be commonplace. In June, an artificial trachea (windpipe), infused with a tracheal cancer patient’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
@Soldiers Field
Last month, health care executives and clinicians gathered to brainstorm strategies for navigating payment reform for providers, payers, and pharma. Speakers included HBS faculty Leemore Dafny and Robert Huckman, as well as Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Chief View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Tracking a Turnaround
Levy, CEO of Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, if he would serve as the subject for a multimedia case study currently taught in the MBA Program’s General Management elective and in the AMP... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
and commercialize medical diagnostic tools that will, ultimately, improve health outcomes. Lee’s DZD was one of the inaugural startups in 2016 at the Life Lab, a state-of-the-art wet lab and coworking space in Allston for Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Feb 2021
- News
Building Hope
double the general population and has “increased substantially” for veterans, ages 18 to 34, since 2005. For Mike Zapolin (OPM 33, 2004), this was a seemingly intractable problem that deserved a radical solution. Zapolin, who goes by... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Morrell
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
coordinated with local agencies. In roughly 10 percent of the medical emergencies, EMTs save a patient’s life. Ambulances generally arrive on the scene in under 15 minutes, and the mean service time from a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Silent Killers: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Learning
uncovered these obstacles using a process they refined more than a decade ago called Organizational Fitness Profiling (OFP). OFP helps CEOs or business unit general managers and their top teams assess how well an operation fits their... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
an invitation-only workshop for top management and senior physician leaders. The School also launched a joint-degree program with Harvard Medical School in 2005, with the first full cohort of students graduating this past May. Left out... View Details