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- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
the standards that people use in making judgments. The authors employed a novel method to test for, and rule out, such scale recalibration in self-reports of well-being. Design: The authors asked patients with chronic illness (either lung View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
appointed Representative of the WHO Director-General for Pandemic Influenza last year. She also serves as Assistant Director-General for the Communicable Diseases Cluster. With so much at stake, what keeps Chan focused? “A sheer passion... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Books
compete in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of specific health conditions. The book lays out a framework for redefining health-care competition based on patient value: from prevention and diagnosis through recovery or long-term View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
illustration by Marcos Chin illustration by Marcos Chin It’s hard to overstate the impact that antibiotics had on medicine after they became widely available in the 1940s. In the United States, the leading causes of death shifted from infectious to noncommunicable... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- Web
THE VALUE OF THE PHYSICIAN SHADOW PROGRAM: Witnessing The Front Lines of Care Delivery - Blog: Health Supplement
Systems Morgan Moncada & Hannah Truong 28 Feb 2023 Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges and Big Opportunities Gabby Choi 07 Feb 2025 Student Spotlight: From Nigeria to HBS: Reigniting My Passion for Healthcare Innovation... View Details
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
School Case 813-169 Excel Entertainment No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/813169-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-507 Texas Children's Hospital: Congenital Heart Disease Care In... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Collaborative Cures
Photo courtesy of Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship Harvard University is ripe with new advances in science and technology. But developing those findings into breakthrough therapies and cures for disease is a complex... View Details
- Portrait Project
Elizabeth Bruyere
and strong, had finally succumbed to the disease he had so desperately tried to defeat. I had years to wonder how I would feel at this moment. Discouraged? Emboldened? Relieved? Instead, I felt nothing. I searched hopelessly for meaning... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Muhammad Yunus Visits HBS
where diseases gain entry to the body through bare feet. To combat malnutrition, Yunus worked with Groupe Danone to manufacture a low-cost, fortified yogurt that is sold door-to-door. Ventures such as these, whose only goal is to solve... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading a community of health care providers
organized in the form of a company.” Among its many philanthropic and outreach activities under Thiry—who was the focus of a 2010 HBS case study—DaVita provided $1.75 million to charities in 1,000 communities in 2012–2013, sponsors free kidney View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
AI Enhances Diagnostic Care
Tomography) scanner at MRC helps doctors diagnose diseases and abnormalities. Augmented Intelligence The American Medical Association uses the term “augmented intelligence” as a conceptualization of artificial intelligence that focuses on... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- Portrait Project
CiCi Barrett
Thank you, cancer. You’ve brought love and happiness into my life. I didn’t always feel grateful. I was only 6 when my mom was first diagnosed. Back then, I was too young to understand, but when her cancer returned 7 years later, my toxic relationship with the View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Things Everyone Should Know How to Do
Oh, I discovered many things. For example, I learned that refrigerating coffee beans makes them lose their flavor, so I’ve stopped doing that. And now, I wash my hands for the length of time it takes to sing “Happy Birthday” twice through, as recommended by the... View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
understand why there are so many diarrhea-related fatalities in developing countries. (Diarrheal diseases account for one in nine child deaths worldwide, according to the Center for Disease Control.) This,... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
New weather patterns brought on by climate change will require updated farming practices, effective water management, and innovative pest and disease management in the Midwest and around the globe. Increasingly, the business community is... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 20 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
What is the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program? A Q&A with Bill Anderson, Senior Lecturer on Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
this field. Furthermore, these advances raise a host of ethical issues in terms of diseases targeted, types of therapies, and accessibility. Given the rich experience of translational science in the Harvard system (Cambridge, Longwood,... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
Above: photo by Len Rubenstein No disease can be slowed or stopped until it is diagnosed. For diseases with available treatments, the facts are simple: The earlier they are detected, the higher the survival... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
High Yields
or disease before they could spot them with their naked eye. “We call this precision farming,” says Gould. “The operator can see a problem and nip it in the bud, rather than wait until the end of the year and say, ‘I wonder why that... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
health care, inequities in female-specific disease areas, and the role of FemTech startups in disrupting women's health care and empowering women. Linda Greub (MBA 1987) Stasia Obremskey (MBA 1987) Alice Zheng (MBA 2014) Linda Greub (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
who wrote, "... legislative and regulatory response treats the symptoms (means) rather than the disease (motivation). Transparency is only as successful as the least creative obscurantist." He recommends, among other things,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett