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27 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care

for a period as medical residents turn over in teaching hospitals. Who Drives Digital Innovation? Evidence from the US Medical Device IndustryDoes large-scale technological... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Medical Devices & Supplies; Medical Devices & Supplies

December 2013 (Revised February 2014)
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Reinventing Brainlab (B)

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Karol Misztal

The management of Germany's Brainlab AG, a leading provider of software-driven oncology and surgery solutions, needs to evaluate strategic options for proceeding without an exclusive hardware partner in its most profitable business segment. View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Medical Specialties; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Germany

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15 Nov 2016
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Enabling the Dream of Building A Healthy Future for India

Surabhi Bhandari (photo by Susan Young) Surabhi Bhandari (photo by Susan Young) Surabhi Bhandari (MBA 2017) wants to launch a medical technology startup in India that will help revolutionize health care in... View Details

10 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups

More entrepreneurs are receiving initial funding from VCs thanks to technologies such as the cloud. Source: PeopleImages As cloud technologies allow startups to build companies faster and cheaper than ever... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology; Information Technology; Information Technology

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Presentation Round-Up

end-users as the basis for high-speed, digital, interactive, multimedia services." The scenarios, said moderator Scott Bradner, senior technical consultant at Harvard, were not so much predictions as a means to evaluate the next generation of View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Technology; Technology; Technology

01 Oct 2000
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Lumry Chair Supports IT and Entrepreneurship

A generous gift from Rufus W. Lumry III (MBA 1974) will establish a new chair at HBS and support teaching and learning in the field of information technology as it relates to the Internet and entrepreneurial studies at Harvard University.... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

16 Feb 2011
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Healthy Growth

has been chairman and CEO of IDEXX, a Maine-based firm that develops diagnostics and information technology for veterinarians, as well as testing technologies that ensure safe water, milk, and livestock... View Details

Keywords: veterinary medicine; Health, Social Assistance

08 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care

lower-cost venues of care more capable that health care becomes affordable, not by expecting large hospitals to charge less. Q: Could you give an example of a technological innovation that you think will have great impact? A: The... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Health

01 Dec 2018
News

Collaborative Cures

scientific and technological foundations of medical invention are already straining our existing institutions. By thoughtfully approaching business model innovation, we will be more successful in navigating... View Details

01 Feb 2002
News

Health Industry Alumni Convene for Conference

and CEO of Mediconsulting, Inc., spoke about creating a better model for business collaborations between biotech and pharmaceutical firms. Said Klietmann, the conference's biotechnology chair and a lecturer in pathology at Harvard Medical... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

Career Coach

Alan Braly

included launching a startup to commercialize an interventional oncology medical device. He was previously at Health Advances, a boutique healthcare strategy consulting firm, where he led engagements in diagnostics, therapeutics, View Details

01 Jun 2017
News

Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving

platform, Lakhani developed the NASA Tournament Lab to create contests that improve computer codes and data analytics solutions. With Harvard Medical School researchers, he designed a competition to break data bottlenecks and speed up DNA... View Details

26 Apr 2011
News

BioMine Strikes Gold

Contest. BioMine uses existing scaled-up mining industry technologies to capture value from the 40 million tons of "e-waste" that is landfilled or incinerated annually around the world. (Watch Bradoo explain the concept behind BioMine.)... View Details

Keywords: Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Eva Cai | MBA

Eva Cai Bioengineering (SB) Quincy 2021 Cohort 3 As a perpetual learner and bioengineer, I am excited to explore how business perspectives can shape and improve the effectiveness of engineering solutions. Tech areas of interest: Drug Delivery and Tissue Regeneration,... View Details

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Esther Koh | MBA

Esther Koh Bioengineering (SB), Secondary in Global Health & Health Policy Kirkland 2022 Cohort 3 Bridging experiments in the lab with commercialization strategies in industry fuels my drive to turn innovative delivery medical device... View Details

01 Mar 2003
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Inside the Revolution

plant’s seeds contains its entire genetic code. The plant develops according to that code, with leaves of a certain shape and flowers of specific colors. To his rapt audience, Enriquez declares, “You’re lucky to be in Cambridge. You’ve got a front-row seat for a View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Eileen McCluskey; Jonathan West; Life Sciences Project; LSP; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

05 Aug 2016
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Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier

Medical Center, in Myrtle Beach, SC—became the first students admitted to the MD/MBA program directly from undergraduate school. Amadio’s own interest in technology, however, led him to the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

19 Mar 2019
News

A Quick Study

Shiv Gaglani (AB 2010, MBA 2016) was a medical student, trying to keep up with his gross anatomy coursework, when the realization struck him that there must be a better way to learn the material. Inspired, he and classmate Ryan Haynes... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Road to Recovery

in 2016, with Gastfriend as CEO and his father as chief medical officer. A 2014 study estimated that 12.5 million Americans had substance use disorders, and that number was rising, largely due to opioid use. In addition to the human toll,... View Details

Keywords: April White; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2010
News

Health IT at the Bedside

Jain (MBA '07) Courtesy Sachin Jain As a physician, I’m a great believer in health IT. So I’m always confused by how slowly and unevenly it has been adopted in medicine, a field where new technologies and techniques are often embraced... View Details

Keywords: Sachin H. Jain; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

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