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- 20 Mar 2018
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
Daphne Leger (MBA 2012), director of continuous improvement for Mexico-based social enterprise salauno, uses her business savvy to bring affordable eye care to those who most need it. “I firmly believe that business has a key role to play... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
social-enterprise track to complement its traditional business competition. Houghton was joined by Ashley Magargee and Naomi Weinberg (both MBA '01), along with Marcel Acosta, a Loeb Fellow at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, and... View Details
Keywords: eyeglasses
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
New Biotech Joint Degree Program Kicks Off
sides of companies, says Amitabh Chandra, the program’s faculty co-chair and the Henry and Allison McCance Professor of Business Administration. The program also seeks to reframe the industry’s goals: to... View Details
- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
diagnose patients by comparing their symptoms to millions of similar cases stored in a database. One can imagine, for example, a health worker in a remote area of a developing country where there are no... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 30 Jun 2017
- News
Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand
seeking treatments for all stages of what is now known as Type 1 diabetes. The task presented the new challenge Pitter-Armand was seeking. “PepsiCo is a brand-centric organization,” she explains. “There... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Crucible: Give It Up
at random times, and uncertainty and anxiety around not knowing the path forward. There were setbacks and choices to be made around treatment as we figured out what kind of cancer she had and what would... View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Kathryn E. Giusti, MBA 1985
legal expertise of her identical twin sister, Karen, could be used to make a difference. Together they founded the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation in 1998 with the goal of speeding the development View Details
- 27 Apr 2018
- News
Placing Nurses Where They Are Needed
Alejandro Moreno (MBA 1988) is CEO of Nightingale Nurses, a service that provides traveling nurses to hospitals and health care facilities across the United States. In this interview, he talks about the advantages View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Publishing Platform) An autobiographical story of a boy whose life was radically changed in the prison camps on Java during World War II. After the Japanese surrender in 1945, a violent Indonesia revolution... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
Horse-Powered Healing
Finance strategist Elizabeth Coit (MBA 1991) took her career in an unexpected direction six years ago, when she became executive director of the Morning Dove Therapeutic Riding Center in Zionsville, Indiana. “At some point, I decided I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
transplant, or a joint replacement in the United States, here's the key to getting the very best medical care: be a straight, white, middle-class male. White, a pioneering black surgeon, and his coauthor make sense of the unconscious bias... View Details
- 09 Apr 2020
- News
“Raise the Line”
photo by Douglas Barnes In 2011, Shiv Gaglani (MBA 2016) was a medical student at Johns Hopkins facing the same problem that confronts many medical students: staid, time-consuming lectures. Gaglani knew that the fundamental medical concepts that formed the core View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Vital Signs
and CEO of Natalist, a direct-to-consumer fertility company. We talked with Tecco about how the pandemic has impacted the health care startup and venture capital ecosystem. What ideas and companies have seen an increase in funding during... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Announces 2021-22 Blavatnik Fellows
Entrepreneurship is part of a gift to Harvard University from the Blavatnik Family Foundation, headed by Len Blavatnik (MBA 1989). This unique program supports HBS alumni and Harvard-affiliated postdocs in their new ventures around... View Details
- 15 Apr 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
underwent a mastectomy and survived, and Smyth kept the family secret for more than a decade. That’s all changed now—in part thanks to Smyth, who joined the volunteer board of the fledgling Breast Cancer Foundation NZ in the mid-1990s.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Elevator Pitch: Common Knowledge
Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Matthew Ross (MBA 2022) Cofounder and CEO, Trove Health 2022–2023 Blavatnik Fellow Concept: Trove is building the world’s largest longitudinal database of patients and their health... View Details
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
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 View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Fighting the diabetes epidemic using mobile phones
people worldwide who suffer from this often-fatal disease. With a goal of reversing “diabesity”—the twin epidemic of diabetes and obesity that is engulfing the developing world—Jana Care is building... View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- News
Improving health care delivery
Elaine Goodman (MBA 2015) will combine her business and medical skills to improve health care — and avoid the mistakes she witnessed when her mother died of cancer. (Published January 2015) View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping: A Healthy Dialogue
This past November, the HBS Healthcare Alumni Association held its 14th annual conference at the Charles Hotel in Boston, with more than 300 alumni coming to connect and hear from industry leaders. We asked HBSHAA president Tom Robinson (MBA 1989), managing partner... View Details