cancer - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Sep 2014
News

Life Lessons on the Open Seas

program started by teaching sailing skills to children with spinal cord injuries, it now serves children and adults with a variety of physical and emotional challenges as well as cancer patients and veterans. “I thought the best path to... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

02 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Finding My Focus in Health care Amidst a Global Pandemic

enough to find myself at Flatiron Health, a health-tech company focused on oncology. For the next three years, I worked on building strategic partnerships between Flatiron and biopharma companies developing the next generation of cancer... View Details

10 Aug 2022
News

Generosity Multiplied

multiplies the gifts’ impact. The Reed Foundation launched the Big Give in 2007, and since then, it has raised nearly £200 million for 10,000 charities that address a range of causes, from climate change and cancer research to food... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

10 Mar 2021
News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

landing on an aircraft carrier in darkness, flying combat missions over Korea, breaking the sound barrier, and then teaching others to do the same. This is the story of that journey. The Big Ordeal: Understanding and Managing the Psychological Turmoil of View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

27 Apr 2023
News

Life Preserver

led to the creation of the Organ Preservation Alliance, a nonprofit established to advocate for additional funding for research into cryopreservation and connect scientists in the field. Giwa served as founding CEO of what he calls a "mini American View Details

Keywords: April White

14 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 14

cancer patients with a high risk of clinical progression and death. DiagnoFirst had applied for patents, in both the U.S. and EU, for the sequence of 40 genes, the new methodology for gene amplification, and the specific mechanics of the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2009
News

Model Patient

world in life expectancy, at 77.9 years. Half the U.S. population does not receive standard preventive care such as cancer screening, blood pressure checks, or vaccinations. A 2007 McKinsey study found that compared with the average for... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

07 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity

terms of specimens' sex, marital status, educational levels, and estimated incomes. However, donors to the entrepreneurial venture were younger (65 years old on average, vs. 76 years old) and more likely to have died of cancer (71 percent... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

27 Mar 2019
News

Fulfilling Their Promise

staff to help her temper her corporate mentality, which she admits at times lacked empathy. “At the age of 50, I had never once cried in my life,” she says. “By then, I'd had breast cancer three times and my mother was dead—I hadn't cried... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; mentoring

23 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-005.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAmerican Cancer Society: Access to Care Harvard Business School Case 109-015 CEO John Seffrin decides to radically change the strategy of the American View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Nov 2021
News

Strength in Numbers

American Cancer Society for the mental health field—an organization that can increase awareness, reduce the stigma, and rally donors to make large, multiyear funding commitments to the most promising care and research in the field. While... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2002
News

Bad Times for Business

There are over three million corporations in the United States today. From my experience working with a range of businesses, I am sure there is no cancer of immorality among them. The vast majority of our alumni and business leaders are... View Details

19 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature

government is already trying to retire smoking as a cultural currency, driven by the fact that lung cancer increased by almost 500 percent in China between 1980 and 2010, and that air pollution is at an all-time high. A more robust... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Manufacturing

29 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

people imagining imminent death. Study 1 revealed that blog posts of near-death patients with cancer and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis were more positive and less negative than the simulated blog posts of nonpatients—and also that the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

Morse and Polaroid’s Creative Ethos | Baker Library

Society of Photographic Scientists and Engineers for her contributions to the field of photography. Two months later, on July 29, Morse died from cancer at age 46. In August of that year, James Harnett, a researcher in Morse’s lab, wrote... View Details

24 Jul 2018
Op-Ed

4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World

agency, if allowed to fester, is the cancer of leadership, bringing with it a cynicism about others’ efforts to do well and do good that in turn reinforces a sense of impotence in improving the world around us. In the face of today’s many... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

01 Jan 2012
News

Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977

up to the ideals instilled in him by his forebears. Several months after their father died of cancer eight years ago, the Tisch brothers split his office into two, each taking half. “Sometimes when I’m struggling with an issue—whether it... View Details

01 Dec 2013
News

Your Own Medicine

million to have the biotech develop it as a potential cancer drug, eventually giving up when even low doses resulted in severe nausea during clinical trials. Still, the drug became a focal point for the Secklers. "Here was this drug that... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; biomedicine; biopharmaceutical company; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

10 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

Foundation, was preparing to launch a new type of clinical trial—an adaptive platform trial—to study potential therapies for glioblastoma (GBM), an aggressive form of brain cancer. Alexander believed that the standard way in which new View Details