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- 25 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Raymond Hwang (MBA 2010)
unfiltered data: history, symptoms, test results, examination findings, and patient preferences. The surgeon’s job is essentially to distill this diverse information into a diagnosis and treatment plan. In the operating room, the process... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
tone quality, it was nothing short of a nightmare. After exhausting other treatment options, Frisch chose a radical alternative: having tiny, needle-like electrodes placed inside his brain. Those electrodes are part of a device called... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
until we make sure that the treatments and services consumers are getting are effective and affordable, changing the way we consumers pay for the services doesn’t fix anything. What we need is a system of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
months, as 108 began to cover areas outside of Andhra Pradesh’s cities, the ambulances had to be outfitted to deal with snake bites, which turn out to be common in rural villages. Treatment and transportation in EMRI’s ambulances are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Collaborative Cures
Business Administration “When I looked at the health care system through a systems engineering lens, I could see it as a network of multiple parts that needed to be optimized and restraints that had to be removed. Everyone wants the best View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
"Taxation, meet Representation." Following up on his pledge to provide greater support for manufacturing, President Obama has announced a proposal to cut the effective tax rate for manufacturers to 25 percent. A number of economists... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
The sci-fi future for cancer treatment has become a reality, with breakthrough therapies that can use a cancer patient’s genetic information to create personalized treatments or employ the body’s immune... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 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 recently made a significant additional... View Details
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
making decisions that could advance treatment options for patients with rare cancers. Neither of the Linns worked in science or medicine. A few years earlier, rare cancers had not even been on their radar. Now it was possible their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
HBS Student Battles ALS
people every year, is not a high priority for either the public or pharmaceutical companies. To stimulate novel treatment ideas and to raise the venture funding needed to get those ideas to market, he launched two organizations. One is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived
drug and the FDA says it is safe and effective and doctors prescribe it, insurance generally will pay for it. But everyone is getting fed up with that approach—the ‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli did not help—and we’ve reached a critical mass... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
In an age of global scarcity, water has become a valuable commodity in both the industrialized and developing worlds. With governments and communities increasingly unable to manage the complexities and expense of water treatment and... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
advertising and marketing filled with stark depictions of the harsh realities of drug use. On this episode of Skydeck, Langford speaks with associate editor Julia Hanna about how they’ll craft these messages, how effective they can be—and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
best thinking to the task of building stronger and more effective nonprofit organizations,” says Tierney. “Think of it as a Bain & Company for the nonprofit sector.” Bridgespan’s services focus on three main objectives: to increase social... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
efficiency and effectiveness lie. The 20 percent have chronic diseases or disabilities, such as bad backs, heart disease, AIDS, diabetes, or asthma. These patients need the care of many different specialists: A diabetic, for instance,... View Details
- 09 Apr 2020
- News
“Raise the Line”
wrong was the timing. That change isn’t going to happen over the next decade. It is going to happen over the next year. HBS: How can online health education ease the medical effects of this pandemic? Gaglani: You’ve probably heard the... View Details
- 27 Jul 2016
- News
Breaking the Cycle of Poverty
abilities are often delayed, and through counseling programs, through mental health services, we address those issues. We work not only to fix schools but also to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty. “When I get to see the effect... 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 center in the United States. The organization radically... View Details
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
Julia Cole, Tina Keshani, and Sophia Richter (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Tina Keshani (MBA 2020), Julia Cole (MBA 2020), and Sophia Richter (MBA 2020) met at Startup Boot Camp in their first year at HBS, they quickly discovered they shared a vision to create a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
$10 million, the ALS landscape has radically changed. Most of the big drug companies are setting up ALS research programs and the number of ALS research publications is skyrocketing.” While effective View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley