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W.R. Grace & Co: Dealing with Asbestos Torts (HBS Case #213046)
A manufacturer of building products and specialty chemicals, W. R. Grace & Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in response to a flood of lawsuits alleging that its products contained asbestos, and had caused hundreds of thousands of people to contract... View Details
- 2022
- Case
Marathon Petroleum and Southwest Detroit: The Intersection of Community and Environment
By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Environmental racism describes the unequal burden of environmental hazards placed on disadvantaged communities through systems, policies, and practices. In such a situation, these people disproportionately live close to sources of toxic waste-what are referred to as... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Regulation; Pollutants; Pollution; Equality and Inequality; Social Issues; Poverty; Race; Health Disorders; Ethics
Hoffman, Andrew J. "Marathon Petroleum and Southwest Detroit: The Intersection of Community and Environment." William Davidson Institute Case 2-652-482, 2022.
- 05 Sep 2023
- Book
Failing Well: How Your ‘Intelligent Failure’ Unlocks Your Full Potential
In the 1990s, after drugmaker Eli Lilly spent more than a decade and millions of dollars developing the new drug Alimta to treat lung cancer, the medication came up short in effectively treating cancer in expanded trials. While the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care
Vaccines, bluebird bio, and Beam Therapeutics, where he led in vitro biology for their clinical CAR-T program for T cell leukemias (BEAM-201), Aaron is dedicated to spending his year as a fellow advancing KiraGen's lead initiatives against non-small cell View Details
- 29 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Do Disasters Rally Support for Climate Action? It's Complicated.
Environmental disasters like wildfires can ignite awareness of climate change and boost eco-friendly politicians’ careers. But do voters perceive a tradeoff between environmental policies and local economic growth? In Brazil, home to a majority of the Amazon tropical... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
Runner-Up X-COR Therapeutics is the lower-flow CO2 removal cartridge that saves lung failure patients, treating COPD and other acute respiratory failures in critical care and outpatient settings. Business Track, 2018 hour72+ Andrew... View Details
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
responsibility for cleanup onto the polluters, which should continue to raise funding for cleanup. The IRA also includes permanent tax funding for the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund ($1.1 billion over ten years).[21] This condition... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly
tubes to treat patients with emphysema and other lung ailments; many prosthetic limbs, joints, and digits; intraocular implants to correct seeing impairments; and breast implants for reconstructive surgery for patients after undergoing... View Details
- Portrait Project
Shelby Colby
that came with a cancer diagnosis, something else happened. Time froze. I savored the saltiness of my mom’s chicken and wild rice soup. I squealed with my little niece during our games of tickle-thief. My lungs slowly expanded with air,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Natasha Pereira-Kamath
lungfuls of oily smoke from diesel generators. In search of causes, I find consequences: chronic asthma, lost productivity, and infrastructure instability. As an adult, I refuse to accept intermittent darkness. My new adventure is to... View Details
- 16 Sep 2016
- News
Gaining Ground on ALS
Bucket Challenge to support the Phase 3 trial of a promising investigational drug that is designed to slow the loss of lung function and muscle strength in patients with ALS. “Clinical trials cost tens to hundreds of millions of dollars,”... View Details
- Portrait Project
Shaan Gandhi
Every physician and medical student remembers the first patient who died on his or her watch. I remember mine. Her name was Sarah, and she came to us in respiratory distress. After running some tests, we concluded that she likely had a pulmonary embolism, a potentially... View Details
- 24 Apr 2019
- News
And the Winner Is…
the idea here is to really take over your home—and we have innovative, patent-pending form factors to do it.” The $25,000 runner-up prize in the alumni track went to X-Cor Therapeutics, represented by Jayon Wang (MBA 2018), which has developed a medical device to help... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
HBS Clubs Help Nonprofits Succeed
become financially self-reliant, created a business plan for the Rainforest Action Network, evaluated public television station KQED's external communications, and are devising a long-term strategic plan for the American Lung Association,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Racial Bias Pervades Health Care
cites a library full of studies (some his own) as well as his own personal experiences to document that minorities receive a lower standard of health care than do white men. For example, he writes, African Americans receive fewer operations than whites for View Details
- 28 Apr 2016
- News
New Venture Competition Winners Announced
the $2,000 crowd favorite prize. It was a big night for big ideas in the health care field. In the student competition, Astraeus Technologies, a faster lung cancer screening, and UrSure, Inc., which is focused on HIV prevention drug... View Details
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
low and moderate income non-savers—and discusses the laws and regulations in the United States that largely prohibit their issuance. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16433 Cases & Course MaterialsHang Lung... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Whale Wars
fleet quit midway through the season, catching only 170 whales versus its much larger target catch of around 1,035. Through it all, Antarctica was breathtakingly beautiful, with icebergs framed in turquoise and air so clean your lungs... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sea of Dreams
employees. A skilled shipfitter named Gale Tribble had been crouching and crawling in cramped spaces for 43 of his 62 years. His body was falling apart, but he could not afford to retire. Osly Heinandez, just 21 years old, knew the work he was doing would cause... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
Benvenuti Photo courtesy Janet Simpson Benvenuti Although I didn’t realize it until much later, my life changed the day I agreed to become legally responsible for my 78-year-old father and my 77-year-old mother, who suffered from lung... View Details