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Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator - Health Care
Faculty & Research Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator About the Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator From 2015–2020, the Harvard Business School Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator (KPMA) worked to create business solutions which would help solve View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing
sciences and bioengineering. "In the next generation, we will know the genetic and molecular mechanisms of disease," Yeo declares. "Biomedical science will control and eradicate cancer and AIDS, and individualized medicine will be the... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Patricia ("Tosh") Rapoport Barron
Xerox as manager of multinational projects in 1979. Six years later, fate intervened again. Practically en route to the hospital to deliver her long-awaited first child, she received a telephone call: Rukia had been diagnosed with cancer... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
MaterialsCancer Treatment Centers of America®: Scaling the Mother Standard® of Care Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Matthew BirdHarvard Business School Case 312-073 The CEO of a private and growing national network of specialty care hospitals focusing on advanced-stage and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life
answer to that indefatigable voyager into the unconscious, Sigmund Freud. In 1923 Freud, an inveterate cigar smoker, was diagnosed with cancer of the jaw. But for the next sixteen years, up until his death, he did not give up smoking,... View Details
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Ullman? Can J.C. Penney get back on its feet? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/j-c-penney-s-fair-and-square-strategy-c-back-to-the-future/an/514073-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-057 Cancer Screening in Japan: Market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Health Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network VBHCD Initiative VBHCD... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)
'76), have developed an astounding array of community outreach services -- from elaborate food pantries to job assistance programs; from tutoring, mentoring, and counseling services for children and young mothers to retirement planning courses for the elderly; from... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
Merck, Gillette, and Searle, Kathy Giusti was diagnosed in 1996 with multiple myeloma, a rare and incurable blood cancer. She then founded the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and the Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium, organizations that have revolutionized... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
favorites” online and at the April finals on campus. Here, we check in with three previous NVC winners to find out what’s new. Krishna Mahesh (MBA 2005) became aware of the low quality (and low supply) of hospital beds in India when his mother was diagnosed with View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 28 Apr 2016
- News
New Venture Competition Winners Announced
the $2,000 crowd favorite prize. It was a big night for big ideas in the health care field. In the student competition, Astraeus Technologies, a faster lung cancer screening, and UrSure, Inc., which is focused on HIV prevention drug... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Fellowship Campaign Approaching Goal
has helped support over 100 HBS students. He asked those present to “develop a personal philosophy on philanthropy” and “do what’s right for humankind.” Fellowship recipient Andrew Parry (MBA ’05) then discussed what he had learned from his struggle with View Details
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Malory Mclemore
her cat Robby, and she would tell me stories of my grandfather Bo, who had been an aircraft mechanic and owner of a local Wendy’s franchise. Bo died of cancer just before I was born. Mimi would tell me stories of her time in Huntsville,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
through an innovation-killing “peer review” process. The history of medicine is filled with shameful stories of “peers” who used their powers to suppress innovations: Judah Folkman, the brilliant scientist whose antiangiogenesis theory forms the basis for many... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
family has grown. When his wife, Ann, was diagnosed with cancer eight years ago, he reshuffled his priorities, cut down on travel, and pledged to be home for dinner at least twenty nights a month. Asked about his biggest personal... View Details
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
the work doesn't need to involve curing cancer in order to be meaningful. It simply must matter to the person doing it. The actions that set in motion the positive feedback loop between progress and inner work life may sound like... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Founding a Company at the Intersection of Medicine and Technology
and Engineering (CSE). I deferred my EC year to attend the program at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). The summer before my CSE master’s program started, I participated in the Rock Summer Fellowship, where I explored the idea of using AI to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
Benvenuti Photo courtesy Janet Simpson Benvenuti Although I didn’t realize it until much later, my life changed the day I agreed to become legally responsible for my 78-year-old father and my 77-year-old mother, who suffered from lung View Details
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
multidisciplinary treatment of head and neck cancers. Methods: Four prospective treatment-based bundles were developed for patients with selected head and neck cancers. These risk-adjusted bundles covered 1 year of care that began with primary View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation What do you do when your rising professional career is cut short by an unexpected cancer diagnosis? Kathy Giusti shifted careers, built a new organization that transformed how View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne