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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
On the Radar
Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Our planet is teeming with trillions of viruses and bacteria, most of which are innocuous or even helpful, but some pose a significant risk to public health, animals, and crops. In recent decades,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
York’s Finest from paper logs to digital apps and implemented tools like ShotSpotter, an audio gunshot-detection system, and the Domain Awareness System, a video surveillance platform that uses machine learning to detect potential... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
cautions that it’s definitely a lower-bound estimate: First, the count includes only the instances that have been documented by a regulator who visited a facility, detected a problem, then imposed a fine—the very tip of the misconduct... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
the gang symbology that’s so visible to potential employers, so provocative to other gang members, and such a strong reminder of one’s troubled past,” says Henry H. (“Kurt”) Timken II (MBA 1992). A police detective and anti-gang... View Details
- 16 Mar 2017
- News
Making Rapid Progress in the Fight Against Cancer
detect cancer earlier. We know that for the majority of people who develop cancer, the earlier we can detect it, the greater the chances of successful treatment. “I don’t think we will ever eradicate cancer.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Cardiac Kid
has more than 1,000 workers and expects revenues of about $280 million this year. “The company was founded basically to prevent heart attacks,” Huennekens told the San Diego Union-Tribune (January 25, 2010). To that end, Volcano makes systems to View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
AI Enhances Diagnostic Care
performing pattern recognition, and planning and executing a course of action. At Misr Radiology Center (MRC) in Cairo, Egypt, where Doha Tantawy (MBA 2019) serves as chief operating officer (COO), AI has been fully integrated into all of the company’s new diagnostic... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 03 Mar 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)
identities, so there’s a fractured sense of self out there. And the moral bar has lowered. We no longer trust the media to be a fair watchdog, nor our elected officials to act with integrity. Detecting deception is not a parlor trick;... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
facilities detect and control outbreaks of health care–associated infections. Lee notes that services like epiXact are not DZD’s primary objective, but they are critical to “developing customer instincts and building commercial muscle”... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Rating Better
associate professor Joshua Coval, and Lubos Pastor of the University of Chicago’s business school, conclude that a manager’s ability can best be detected by comparing his or her portfolio with those of other fund managers with stellar... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
High Yields
from inspecting bridges to tracking energy usage. But the biggest vertical of all—one expected to account for 80 percent of the commercial market—is in agriculture. Using a Hawk Aerial drone and some high-tech spectral analysis, farmers can View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 21 Aug 2008
- News
Stylin’ at Gallatin
(double-glazed, insulated) windows wired into the heating and cooling system that detect when windows are open and adjust the room’s temperature accordingly. “It’s not in-your-face green,” says Terri Evans, communications manager for... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Multiple generations of computing
computer-memory system modeled after the human neocortex. The first product, Grok, detects anomalies in IT systems by automatically finding complex patterns in streams of data. In reflecting on her career trajectory, Dubinsky says: “It’s... View Details
- 14 Dec 2017
- News
Making Movies Is a Class Act
Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple, it had both a freshness and an edge to it, which fortunately translated to the screen,” Abrams observes. Crooked House tells the story of a young detective called by his former lover to solve the murder of... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
mission — doing something difficult but important.” Nobody's Perfect. Now What? We all make mistakes. But when slipups have life-or-death implications — as is often the case with health-care professionals — the stakes are obviously much higher. In her research on the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Ian Walsh
through the Adriatic Sea ninety miles from Bosnia. Their mission was to rescue U.S. Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady, who had been shot down by Serbs. The helicopters reached the coast around dawn, flying low to avoid radar detection and... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
country by 34 percent, says Smyth, but she and the foundation are not finished yet. She has set an ambitious goal for New Zealand, one she believes can be achieved through early detection and ever-improving breast cancer treatment: zero... View Details
- 06 Feb 2020
- News
HBS Alumni Join Forces on Virus Outbreak in China
items to hospital and response personnel, while another seeks to raise funds from HBS alumni to support the families of victims of the virus. The Wuhan Task Force, aims to quickly source and distribute medical protection items, including surgical masks, disposable... View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
- News
Network Effect
its grant, Tanzi has discovered dozens of new genes related to Alzheimer’s and found new causes of the disease’s mind-robbing effects. Inflammation within the brain appears to play a key role, opening new treatment possibilities if the disease can be View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Case Study: Your Data, Your Health
early detection of gynecological diseases. The Oakland-based company completed its second clinical trial and is now raising Series A funding. Its initial indications focus on identifying conditions that contribute to infertility, such as... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint