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- 01 Jun 2010
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Cardiac Kid
allows physicians to get inside blood vessels to view obstruction-causing plaques, as opposed to the external, X-ray sort of image provided by an angiogram. Furthermore, explained Huennekens, “We’re now developing innovative technologies... View Details
- 24 Jan 2025
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The Network Effect
rare blood disorders, including pyruvate kinase deficiency, thalassemia and sickle cell disease. Mathur is a principal at Segard, a multi-strategy alternative asset management firm, within the Sagard Healthcare strategy. And the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Giving hope and inspiration to cancer patients around the globe
Every new day is a good day for Kathryn E. Giusti (MBA 1985) since that morning in 1996 when her oncologist told her to get her affairs in order because she had a rare blood cancer, with three years to live. Leveraging her past experience... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Private capital, public good
Tracy Palandjian (AB 1993, MBA 1997) is spearheading the development of social impact bonds (SIBs), a financial innovation designed to tackle some of the world’s most intractable social challenges. Alongside Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969) and David View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
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Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
community is evident in the halls of medical, educational, and cultural institutions throughout the Boston area. The Kraft Family Blood Lab at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, for example, is one of the largest View Details
- 27 Apr 2017
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Going with the Flow
enabled parents to store their newborn’s umbilical cord blood as a source of stem cells—was her first foray into entrepreneurship. Fisher’s father, however, was reminding her that good intentions need solid financial underpinnings to be... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way
professor William Sahlman, who created the MBA elective Entrepreneurial Finance. * All comparisons exclude large corporations. Creating a Lifeline When Cynthia A. Fisher (MBA '90) had her first child last year, she added one more keepsake to the photos and mementos she... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Gore All Business at HBS
the opposite direction.” Gore and David Blood (MBA ’85) are founding partners of Generation Investment Management, a firm that makes long-term investments in companies adhering to sustainability principles. Earlier in the day, the pair... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Feedback
Having grown up and gone to college in northwest Ohio, Detroit was a magnet for us. I want to see it thrive. —Lenann Gardner (MBA 1976) via alumni.hbs.edu Detroit needs people like Peter Cummings to inject new blood into the city. I would... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Just Breathe
survive and thrive with the help of these techniques. Talk about the physical toll of racism in the workplace and what that looked like for you. Studies show that discrimination and racism are linked to higher rates of high blood pressure... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Health IT at the Bedside
occurred when a CT scan of Dad’s belly showed a “spot” on his liver. “It’s probably a benign collection of blood vessels,” his doctor told me. “But it is something we’ll watch closely.” I was able to tell her of a similar, earlier... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
MBA 101: HBS Commencements Pass the Century Mark
pharmaceutical executive at the time of her diagnosis with multiple myeloma, an incurable, rare, and little-researched blood cancer, Giusti went on to found the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and the Multiple Myeloma Research... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
accordingly. In several areas of oncology, particularly blood cancers, we have also moved close to full acceptance. Is there a role for the FDA to play in bringing personalized medicine more into the mainstream? The FDA is essential to... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Classmates Rally to Help Family Stricken with Rare Disease
those with the infantile/ juvenile form can live a few years longer.) Told that their son Patrick had a 25 percent chance of having the disease as well, the Crowleys waited a few months to have an initial blood test. "He seemed so much... View Details
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
you see that, maybe in the natural world. Rothrock: Oh, my gosh. The natural—our human body is naturally resilient. We have this thing called a skin, that’s like a firewall. But if you cut yourself, bad stuff gets in, what happens? The white View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Rebel with a Cause
responsibility. As a diary of successful social activism, the book is engaging. What makes it inspiring is the back story: Massie was afflicted by hemophilia, a rare disorder that as a child left him in constant pain and without the ability to walk for weeks at a time.... View Details
- 01 Jul 2013
- News
The Nature of Business
intimidated by new situations," he said. He also has been able to lean on a network of HBS alumni who serve on the TNC board. Among them are treasurer Muneer Satter (MBA 1987), Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966), David Blood (MBA 1985), Meg... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
Joel Bines (MBA 1999) spent his high school summers wearing a tricorn hat and waiting for tour buses to disgorge visitors at the Battle Green in his hometown of Lexington, Massachusetts, where the first blood of the American Revolutionary... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
role that is most important to Harf is being the cofounder and chariman of DKMS, the blood cancer cure bank. Now the most successful organization of its kind in the world, he launched it in 1991 after losing his first wife to View Details
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- 03 Apr 2016
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The Tampon of the Future
Ridhi Tariyal (MBA 2009) Ridhi Tariyal (MBA 2009) Is it possible to draw blood from a person without causing discomfort? That question has puzzled scientists for years. And the solution—for women, at least—finally is coming to market as... View Details