Cancer - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 May 2016
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Meet the HBS Sound Society

Battle of the Bands event with MIT Sloan that will again feature COLDCALL against MIT’s band “The Rolling Sloans.” This event is particularly special because it is co-sponsored with the Student Association and is a charity event with proceeds going to View Details

17 Nov 2022
News

Blockchain for Good

charity sector, volunteering for a national breast cancer foundation and within her local community, often with her son in tow. She returned to finance in 2015, but her heart wasn’t in it. That’s when businessman and philanthropist Robert... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

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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

Keywords: Regina E. Herzlinger; Health, Social Assistance; Management

01 Jan 2008
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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

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

01 Feb 1998
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Not Your Typical Business Conference

moving story about her own bout with cancer, an experience that led her to switch from a fast-track investment-banking job to the nonprofit world as head of the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations. On Being There Excerpts... View Details

19 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature

Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. By... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Manufacturing

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FAQs - 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

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Finalists | New Venture Competition

DoriVac (DNA Origami Vaccine) is a biotech startup for improving cancer treatment using a novel DNA nanoparticle platform. We develop treatments that teach patients' immune systems to recognize and fight cancer. Earthbond Chidalu Onyenso... View Details

01 Jan 2006
News

Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976

with the University of Illinois and Carnegie Mellon, the University of Dundee and Imperial College in Great Britain, and Sweden's Karolinska Institute. And he is attracting superstar scientists from around the world such as Dr. Edison Liu, formerly of the U.S. National... View Details

18 Dec 2019
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Thinking Smart About Numbers

Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, will talk about recent advances in cancer research and what challenges lie ahead. Review of 2020 Super Bowl Ads Alumni can join the discussion on February 5, 2020 as Tim... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation

she adds, with the development of a vaccine against cervical cancer (Gardasil) and the launch of successful new drugs to combat diabetes and HIV/AIDS. Sato acknowledges that different situations will require different business... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Auto; Pharmaceutical

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women

people," said Cynthia Fisher (HBS MBA '90). In 1993, using her own capital, Fisher founded ViaCord, a business that allows customers to bank cord blood stem cells for possible future use in the treatment of cancer and autoimmune... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

04 Dec 2014
News

Hacking Health Care

in Montreal and Toronto on graduating in 1997, and then in 2002 cofounding Resonant Medical, a medical company that developed 3D ultrasound technology that finds and tracks cancer masses. “Our tool allowed for taking a picture every day,... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

20 Apr 2020
News

To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual

featured speakers Clause Jensen, Chief Digital Officer and Head of Technology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and information technology author and thought leader Dan Roberts, CEO and President of Ouellette & Associates... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

03 Mar 2017
News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

myeloid leukemia, a blood cancer in which abnormal white blood cells grow quickly. They comforted her by saying that the chemotherapy they were prescribing would attack the abnormal cells. And it did. But her recovery from post-remission... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

01 Jan 2005
News

Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992

cancer survivor, she says the determination, energy, and perseverance she showed in the workplace were crucial in her successful fight against the illness. "I decided from the beginning that I was going to be upfront about it—look my... View Details

09 Feb 2018
Research & Ideas

Big Hits: The Best of the 2018 Super Bowl Ads

partisanship, and/or conscious neglect, as they presented their brands as heroic substitutes stepping in to provide services (e.g., clean water, cancer research funding) traditionally provided by nations, states, and/or NGOs. Click to... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Telecommunications

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