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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
in 1969. Ginny’s eyes teared up. “He was our father,” she said, and explained that he had developed Alzheimer’s disease in his 50s and died in 1996. Dick Vancil played an enormous role in my life. He was a master of the case method, as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
schools, and homes. It features a concise explanation of disease transmission indoors, and provides tips for making buildings the first line of defense. At the center of the great convergence of green, smart, and safe buildings, healthy... View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Case provides an opportunity to discuss the challenges of non-profit management, medical research and to debate appropriate strategy for the Miami Project in 2007. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
Thinking Authors:Richard S. Tedlow and David Ruben Periodical:The American (January-February 2008) Abstract Too many U.S. businesses (including tires, super-markets, and information technology) have been infected with the disease of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
excessive risk-taking (or, at a minimum, didn’t respond with increased prudential regulation), stockholder demands for ever higher returns grew still further. It was a vicious cycle.... “The stockholder-centric view of the current Schumer bill simply cannot be the cure... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
disease William A. Sahlman: New treatment options for the next pandemic The crisis reveals the remarkable progress over the past 20 years in health science. There are hundreds of companies, big and small, working on better tests, better... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
describe the enormous changes in the markets for therapies for rare diseases that have emerged over recent decades. The most prominent example is the fact that the profit-maximizing price of new orphan drugs appears to be greater today... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
cultural psyche. The war served further to diffuse hygienic habits, as the need to keep millions of soldiers free of disease resulted in soap, razors, and other toiletries becoming required elements of soldiers’ equipment. Soap companies... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
Fristrom (MBA 2008), managing partner, TerraNova Capital Advisors “Much like parenting your own children, an aging parent makes you realize how much is out of your control. Often plans must be altered to adapt to the changing environment of View Details
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
therapies for a given disease and promised a number of efficiency improvements. They also used statistical techniques to allow more patients access to promising therapies. As such, they had the potential to fundamentally change the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
information regarding diagnosis and prognosis, predict treatment efficacy or toxicity, serve as markers of disease progression, and serve as auxiliary endpoints for clinical trials. Some have multiple uses, while others have a specialized... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
Brain cancer is almost always fatal. There are no cures for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, or ALS. And mental health remains a global burden.” Worse yet, despite all of medical science’s efforts, most of... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
Life was hard enough for the one-third of Americans who had wrestled with anxiety prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the disease that has killed almost 100,000 in the United States, left millions unemployed, and socially distanced many... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
disease fighting. There are just a million areas where, you know, they're still looking for help on solving problems with a lot of data and we think we can help there. You know, we've had these infrastructure things, bad things happen,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
a jumper in 1997. A rider since the age of 10 (“I blame my mother for getting me into it”), Minard saw great potential in Westley. But the horse suffered from a degenerative eye disease that could lead to blindness. The vet advised Minard... View Details
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
emergency medical workers, and medical researchers all demand cadavers or cadaver parts. As an illustration, orthopedic surgeons use human joints to fine-tune their skills to learn new procedures. Similarly, some researchers studying Alzheimer's View Details
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
planned to pursue an aggressive schedule, moving the firm's Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease imaging compounds through clinical trials and into the market. This involved expanding the firm's facilities and headcount, and he planned to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
can state confidently that cancer is the most expensive disease to treat. Cancer patients and survivors account for about 0.5 percent of the US population, and about 6 percent of the nation's health care expenditures. He's aware that 46... View Details
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About
join the biotechnology firm Vertex, where she led teams to make innovative medicines that treat chronic diseases like cystic fibrosis. Amid a busy career, Depelsha McGruder acted courageously to launch Moms of Black Boys United to... View Details
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
IT systems that handle a good chunk of the work, Quelch says. Yet consumer trust when it comes to data privacy is not always a given, and consumers want to have a say. Some people fear that information about a serious disease diagnosis or... View Details