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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Innovation as Antidote
ails the industry ("Curing Health Care"), including Halle Tecco's (MBA 2011) focus on incubating new ideas and Gregory Stock's (MBA 1987) push to make medicine more personalized. WILLIAMS The energy behind these ideas originates in the... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived
starting to catch up. It’s a state-by-state issue—you aren’t allowed to practice medicine across state lines, which makes it difficult for telemedicine to scale—but some states are beginning to ease restrictions. Telemedicine is not going... View Details
- Profile
Evan Rachlin
the science. For better or worse, you have to account for the economics." Improving relationships Evan hasn't selected his specialty yet, but knows he's interested in combining medicine with business. "One of the beauties of the... View Details
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1.20 Joint Degree Programs | MBA
information (login required) . Refer to the program handbook . DMD/MBA Program with Harvard School of Dental Medicine Find EC course credit information (login required) . Refer to the program handbook . MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences... View Details
- 07 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.
annoyed, and it distracts them from dealing with the patient.” The study, published in the February 20 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, looked at five types of visits: primary care visits, ER visits resulting in a patient discharge, general... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
illustration by Marcos Chin illustration by Marcos Chin It’s hard to overstate the impact that antibiotics had on medicine after they became widely available in the 1940s. In the United States, the leading causes of death shifted from... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
biofuels project should eventually permit researchers to turn algae into microscopic factories for the manufacture of virtually any organic compound, leading to what Enriquez describes as a full-blown algal revolution. “You can make vaccines in the stuff, you can make... View Details
Uncovering the roots of innovation
access to archival resources, including the Henri A. Termeer Papers at the Baker Library. This access was transformative, offering a deeper historical perspective on life science innovation in the area. Additionally, the proximity to the Center for the History of View Details
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
world's premier regulator of food, drugs, cosmetics, and other products and also of helping to lead the transformation of medicine to a molecular level. Current logistical challenges include ever-more rapid movement of products across... View Details
- 20 Aug 2016
- News
The Business of Improving Health Care Delivery
Josue Zapata (MD/MBA 2012) is chief resident in internal medicine at the University of California in San Francisco. In this interview he discusses how he is utilizing his business training to make a difference in patient treatment and... View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?
it passes in Congress. About the Authors John A. Quelch is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He also holds a joint appointment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as Professor in Health Policy and... View Details
- 02 Sep 2010
- What Do You Think?
How Transparent Should Boards Be?
his way. In John Caddell's words, "The CEO made mistakes. The board did as well-the hired the wrong guy Both need to take their medicine So, the answer is: pay the man now. Move on." In Guishan Longani's words, " avoid the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Profile
Raymond Hwang
KishHealth Spine Center? “It’s remarkable how often I use HBS-derived knowledge, particularly since medicine is not a traditional MBA career track. From assessing the financial status of a medical practice to negotiating strategic... View Details
- 10 Aug 2021
- News
Moving Education Within Reach
out of the cycle of poverty. At least 11 of his students have gone on to become doctors, according to family records, including his very first student: Dr. Malarkodi opted to became an internal medicine specialist rather than a... View Details
- 20 Jan 2011
- News
A Precursor from the 1930s
in 2007. And the five-year DMD/MBA with the Harvard School of Dental Medicine began in 2009. I was surprised to have found some evidence that already in the 1930s, HBS was offering a joint degree (or a joint course of study) with the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
unique training.” That same philosophy, Gardner offers, informs how he runs the company. “We work hard to create an inclusive culture that embraces everyone’s individual contribution. We then try to help them develop their skills. View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Profile
Zihan Lin
Zihan Lin's interest in medical devices is the natural consequence of his background. "My mom was an entrepreneur in China. My father was a medical doctor there," Zi says. "I had an affinity for medicine but not the... 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 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
profitable, while areas such as emergency medicine and burn care are undervalued. In a consumer-driven system, market forces would operate to correct these disparities and create greater incentives for physicians to customize therapies... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Mark Tatum
East Flatbush section of Brooklyn, where he learned early on to love baseball and to get along with all kinds of people. The decision to bypass medicine proved only a momentary redirection in an impressive college career: he went on to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; photograph by Webb Chappell