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Ashley McCray
of college, I conducted my own medical research in rural Tanzania. While there, I realized my passion for helping people was not in medicine but food, specifically food insecurity. I came back from that trip and decided to not apply to... View Details
- 28 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation
Defensive medicine spurs innovation They found, ultimately—and perhaps counterintuitively—that far from being an inhibitor to innovation, the practice of defensive medicine might have actually encouraged it.... View Details
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
Intermountain Healthcare: Pursuing Precision Medicine Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Intermountain Healthcare operates 23 hospitals and hundreds of clinics in Utah and Idaho and provides insurance to approximately 850,000 patients... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Academic Experience | MBA
Medicine The Section Experience Sections of 90 students take their first-year classes together, sharing case discussions, experiences, and a classroom. More on the Section Experience Faculty & Research Harvard Business School professors... View Details
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Student Spotlight: From Nigeria to HBS: Reigniting My Passion for Healthcare Innovation - Blog: Health Supplement
Practitioners Topics Topics Biotech/pharma Care Delivery Clinical Trials Digital Health Global Health Health Care Entrepreneurship Health Care Innovation Health Care Investment Health Care at HBS Insurance/payor Medical devices/diagnostics Precision View Details
- 19 Jun 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
product was obvious. “Medicine has made unprecedented advancements over the last decades,” says Schucht, who is available for consultation with brain cancer patients through the Trustedoctor platform. “However, the way a patient accesses View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 May 2012
- News
Finally Finding the Right Fit
pursued a variety of career aspirations. Heffernan trained as a doctor (graduating first in his class), practiced briefly, and decided that medicine was not the right fit. He tried investment banking with Goldman Sachs for a few years,... View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
entrepreneurial spirit from my mother.” Amadio became interested in medicine as a boy. He felt a calling to help other people and it led him to pursue a mix of science and computer classes and activities. When he was a teenager, his... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
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Jonathan Arena
important to design, while encouraging experimentation,” says Jonathan. “We posed the conference as a question: What does the conversation between design and any other discipline look or sound like? For example, if you put design and View Details
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Statement on Supreme Court Decision | About
Government William V. Giannobile Dean, Harvard School of Dental Medicine David N. Hempton Dean, Harvard Divinity School Rakesh Khurana Dean, Harvard College Bridget Terry Long Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education John F. Manning... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Case Study: Your Data, Your Health
the cost of paying for health insurance subscribers, which will bring higher returns for the insurance company. We have seen this in the drug Angiomax by the Medicines Company. —Suleiman Yakasai (PLDA 22, 2016) Got a case? To take part in... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
School of Public Health, Project Antares aims to create a system for devising commercial incentives that provide affordable public health initiatives, or "interventions" in healthcare parlance. Examples of commercial high-impact interventions might be... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: That’s Classic
you realize he’s writing to the best version of Nero—and that if you do that with everyone, they’ll be that version of themselves more often. Were there any surprise favorites with the students? ED: Cato’s On Agriculture. It’s a back-to-the-land handbook, very... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
reproductive medicine have indeed created a market for babies, a market in which parents choose traits, clinics woo clients, and specialized providers earn millions of dollars a year. In this market, moreover, commerce often runs without... View Details
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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Commerce and the High Level Reflection Group on Health Statistics of the OECD. Jens studied medicine at the Universities of Hannover, Bonn, Athens, Patras, and Kiel and received his doctoral degree from Christian-Albrechts-University... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
INK: Taking Care
“Your first step should be to take a deep breath,” writes Giusti, who is cofounder of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF), where she was CEO and president for nearly two decades. She also co-chaired the HBS Kraft Precision View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
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Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19
globe,” notes Sanchay Gupta (MD/MBA 2022), who cofounded Umbulizer in 2017 and serves as chief medical officer. Before the pandemic developed, Umbulizer’s affordable device was already in use in hospitals and mobile medicine settings in... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Scientific Discovery
day, where it is the focus of Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. “The world is now very excited about the possibility of curative medicines originating from CRISPR-Cas9 technologies invented at the Broad Institute,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 25 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
Making a Broader Impact with Multiple Disciplines: Santosh Iyer (MBA 2020)
beyond human capability. I focus on commercializing science and building businesses around these transformative technologies to democratize access to high-quality surgical care for billions worldwide. My fascination with robotics and View Details
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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