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01 Jun 2017
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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
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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

01 Feb 2002
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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

01 Mar 2017
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How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine

engineers to tweak preexisting medical instruments or develop entirely new medical devices. The general deep brain stimulation procedure is now established practice: For over a decade, neurosurgeons have... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos

25 Aug 2022
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Labs Enable Large-scale Research

(SEAS), and Harvard Medical School (HMS) will generate a range of output that will influence academia and practice. The labs will also help establish Harvard as a center for groundbreaking research on digital-, data-, and design-related... View Details

December 2007 (Revised July 2009)
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Given Imaging Ltd. - First We Take Manhattan, Then We Take Berlin?

GI has developed a revolutionary video pill for imaging the small bowel in the gastro-intestinal tract. The development has required the integration of wide variety of technologies. GI founder and CEO Gabriel Meron must determine GI's marketing strategy and prioritize... View Details

Keywords: Medical Specialties; Globalized Markets and Industries; Decisions; Technological Innovation; Marketing Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Corporate Finance; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Japan; United States; Europe

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24 Oct 2013
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Searching for a Better Society

to search, he firmly believes that the more search technology is improved, the faster researchers can find cures for diseases and a host of other societal problems. In brief, search can change the world—and for the better. Born in Paris,... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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

20 Jul 2017
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Life Lab Nurtures Early Stage Startup Day Zero Diagnostics

and machine learning (Dougal Maclaurin), and Jong Lee (MBA 1999), a former consultant and startup executive with extensive experience in the medical technology space. “There is a huge unmet clinical need for... View Details

Keywords: Scientific Research and Development 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

01 Mar 2009
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A New Approach to Health-Care Reform

CHRISTENSEN: “By some estimates, 50 percent of all health care is driven by physician and hospital supply, not by patients’ needs.” An acclaimed author and expert on the development and commercialization of technological and business... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance

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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

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

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

23 Mar 2016
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Building a Biotech Business from Farmed Fish

plasma. “Now, what could you create out of that? So many medical products, which really could make a difference. “The thing that we’re trying to do is, on the margins, take a commodity business—growing salmon—and interact with... View Details

19 Mar 2019
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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 Jun 2002
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Up to the Challenge: Tony Sanchez - Team Builder

egoless.” Describing himself as a “quiet professional” whose strength lies in facilitating teamwork, Sanchez hopes someday to be the CEO of a medical engineering company. His interest in medical View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Dec 2020
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AI Enhances Diagnostic Care

Tomography) scanner at MRC helps doctors diagnose diseases and abnormalities. Augmented Intelligence The American Medical Association uses the term “augmented intelligence” as a conceptualization of artificial intelligence that focuses on... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jun 2017
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The New Venture Competition Crowns a New Crop

platform, delivering qualified workers in 24 hours. Alumna: Vera Makarov, MBA 2010 Region: Latin America FreeFlow Medical Devices LLC: Maker of medical devices that solve clotting, infection, and clogging... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Dec 2004
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The Future of Stem Cells

medical advances. The effect of the ban, experts say, has been to slow research and drive it into areas where it is supported in patchwork fashion by academic institutions, individual states, private firms, and foundations. Stem cells... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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