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15 Nov 2016
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Enabling the Dream of Building A Healthy Future for India

Surabhi Bhandari (photo by Susan Young) Surabhi Bhandari (photo by Susan Young) Surabhi Bhandari (MBA 2017) wants to launch a medical technology startup in India that will help revolutionize health care in her native country.... View Details

14 Oct 2020
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Sewn with Love

first time Hanazawa has wrestled with the ways she could urge her industry to focus on social impact. In 2011, an earthquake and tsunami leveled towns and cities in her home country of Japan, and she struggled with how to help. She... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Sep 2012
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A Silent Workplace Crisis

pharmaceuticals, the gap between the medical and the mental health systems, and the time required to find community resources and quality home care. My previous experience as a pharmaceutical executive and... View Details

Keywords: Janet Simpson Benvenuti; caregiving; aging; Nursing and Residential Care Facilities; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jan 2008
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Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982

x-ray machines. Today, under Immelt’s leadership, GE is a $173 billion organization that still has roots in its past, even as it rides a wave of 21st-century innovation in clean energy, water treatment, and medical technology that will... View Details

01 Mar 2011
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Alumni Books

This book tells the story of Kamila Sidiqi in Kabul, Afghanistan, who overcame the Taliban's ban on women leaving their homes alone by making clothes in her living room to help support her family. This venture was the beginning of a... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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HBS Fellowship Furthers Entrepreneurial Dreams

would afford me the opportunity to make an impact on a global scale,” says Okeke. The biology major entered college with the intent of becoming a doctor, and stints working at the University of Minnesota Medical School and Johns Hopkins... View Details

01 Mar 2013
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Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System

Shape up, people! That was the message for both the health-care industry and the public at a November forum of more than 150 medical practitioners, health-industry executives, academics, and others who gathered at HBS. Titled "Healing... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2018
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More Than a Game

part of the TV show Undercover Boss ; in his first year as SeaWolves owner, he served as a color commentator for the home radio broad casts and sometimes helped the grounds crew pull the tarp on the field. Another is focusing on just a... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

12 May 2015
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A Flash of Insight

garden, offered picture-postcard views of the World Trade Center less than a mile away. Cooper, who has a strong artistic bent, spent many of his off hours working in glass and teaching novice glassblowers. Leaving home that morning, he... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; 9/11; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

13 Nov 2020
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Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19

globe,” notes Sanchay Gupta (MD/MBA 2022), who cofounded Umbulizer in 2017 and serves as chief medical officer. Before the pandemic developed, Umbulizer’s affordable device was already in use in hospitals and mobile medicine settings in... View Details

29 Sep 2022
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Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal

patient treatment and contact tracing, including procurement of all supplies of oxygen and medical equipment; support for the private sector and employment; distribution of food kits and food stamps to more than 1 million households; and... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

26 Apr 2011
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BioMine Strikes Gold

international regions, presented business plans for their start-ups to judges on Monday, April 25, during the final round of competition. On Tuesday, Rakhi Mehra (MBA '09), founder of micro Home Solutions, a social housing initiative for... View Details

Keywords: Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

27 Apr 2023
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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 Uygun.) Giwa speaking at the White... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2010
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MBAs on a Mission

he notes, “but I’m in a place where I can influence really important decisions every day, and that’s just where I’ve always wanted to be.” — DB Pushing the Ball Forward: As director of strategic initiatives, Jennifer Houston is overseeing construction of a new $185... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach;Deborah Blagg;Julia Hanna; Corporate Services; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2017
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Case Study: Moment in the Sun

hospitality. Offices and health care facilities could both offer the company access to huge sectors of the $80 billion lighting market. The Question: Hoskins describes the competitive landscape as “a land grab.” He’d love to do some pilot projects in hospitals and... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Jun 2009
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Faculty Books

Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care by Richard M.J. Bohmer (Harvard Business Press) In this book, Senior Lecturer Bohmer, a medical doctor, explains that health-care professionals provide two different types... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

25 Feb 2021
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Building Hope

gained attention in recent years as an off-label medication for treatment-resistant depression. Zapolin says that unlike plant medicines that involve intense psychedelic explorations, ketamine has a short period of onset lasting about an... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Morrell

01 Mar 2023
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Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions

Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard Medical School. The son of immigrants from Central America, he grew up in a low-income community in Southern California, and both his older brothers had foregone higher education to get jobs and help... View Details