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E. Gifford Upjohn
Upjohn played an instrumental role in supporting legislation requiring pharmaceutical companies to prove a drug’s effectiveness in clinical trials prior to its general release. A physician by training, Upjohn established the Medical... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- Student-Profile
Celia Stafford
how feedback loops can be either reinforcing or balancing. “In a healthcare setting, there is a clear feedback loop between patient and physician satisfaction, which can be either vicious or virtuous,” she explains. “When View Details
- 13 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Women Heart Patients Have Better Survival Odds with Women Doctors
matter who that person is? And yes, it sort of does. Here we find that who you are and who is advocating for you, who is treating you, is making a difference.” Results don’t show exactly why male physicians don’t do as well with women, in... View Details
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Jordan Amadio
school—it's the best training for using science to help society." To be most productive, however, Jordan believed he needed to take an additional step. "We need physician researchers who can commercialize lab advances; who can... View Details
- Profile
Andrew Dervan
introduction to areas where physicians with clinical perspectives and business people with an economic perspective can cooperate to do great things for health care." Inspired, Andrew became one of the first candidates in the joint... View Details
- Portrait Project
Ginger Jiang
country. I was several months away from graduating medical school, but I already had a professional and ethical responsibility to help this man as best as I could. When I began the MD/MBA program five years ago, I couldn’t have foreseen how much being a View Details
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Evan Rachlin
experienced as a medical student, business issues are an inescapable reality for any physician. While shadowing a pediatrician in private practice, he noticed the tension between the busy physician and a pharmaceutical representative... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Health IT at the Bedside
surprisingly personal twist when my mother phoned to say that my father had been admitted to our local ER with unexplained fevers and chest discomfort. We soon learned that my dad’s past records — from care that took place across several doctors’ offices and hospitals... View Details
- 27 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care
Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers Shifting demographics are causing an increasing number of people to act as caregivers for family and friends—but employers seem hardly to notice the trend. The Economic Cost of View Details
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
practice. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52649 Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending By: Cutler, David, Jonathan Skinner, Ariel Dora... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Cooper Elected Alumni Board President
president last year. Cooper, a native of South Africa, moved to Canada 24 years ago. He and a physician partner founded Scienta Health in 2004 to focus on preventive health care. View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Cardiac Kid
allows physicians to get inside blood vessels to view obstruction-causing plaques, as opposed to the external, X-ray sort of image provided by an angiogram. Furthermore, explained Huennekens, “We’re now developing innovative technologies... View Details
Henry M. Flagler
Flagler originally moved to Florida at the suggestion of a physician who believed the temperate climate would be beneficial for his ailing wife. Though his wife died shortly after the move, Flagler was enamored with the then remote state.... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
place them in a readily available collective. Paramedics are a telling example given the costly implications of malpractice in the United States. Paramedics are supposed to bring patients to attending physicians (most often in emergency... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
plan or lose control of Medco to Temasek. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207021 Mount Auburn Hospital: Physician Order Entry Harvard Business School Case 603-060 Mount Auburn Hospital is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
Meet the 2018-2019 Blavatnik Fellows in Life Science Entrepreneurship
care and is the CEO and co-founder of InfiniteMD, a telemedicine company connecting Chinese patients with US physicians for second opinions. She is a practicing Preventive Care and Occupational Medicine 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... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Founding a bone marrow donor bank that saves thousands of lives
chance at life through bone marrow donations, and has registered more than 4 million bone marrow donors worldwide. After losing his first wife to blood cancer, Harf and his wife’s physician launched DKMS. With his daughter, Katharina,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Teens and Magazines: Where There's Smoke, There's Advertising
According to their 1998 agreement with the attorneys general of 46 states, the four largest U.S. tobacco companies are prohibited from using advertising that targets people younger than 18. But HBS assistant professor Charles King (with View Details
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Tomasz Cienkowski | MBA
Tomasz Cienkowski Computer Science Winthrop 2022 Cohort 3 Although research labs and physician offices are often located on the same floor in the hospital, it takes years or even decades for innovation to cross from the labs to the... View Details