Surgery - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call

the surgery scenes.) Heskett says studying Shouldice helped him conceptualize the strategic-service vision that he and HBS colleagues would develop into a framework for success for service firms. “The case endures,” he declares, “because... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2007
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Man on a Mission

Girand Courtesy Jim Girand Jim Girand (MBA ’61), who’s been a high-tech entrepreneur since the 1960s, is also a veteran duathlete and former age-group national champion who hasn’t let a bout with prostate cancer slow him down. Indeed, after successful View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2009
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Model Patient

for low-income individuals and families may be workable and politically acceptable at the national level.” MAKING A DIFFERENCE: Lynne Gassiraro, who recently had thyroid cancer surgery and other ailments requiring the care of specialists,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

18 Oct 2024
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My Worst Job

project that was quite difficult and challenging. My wife and I had been married for about a year at that time. She was a medical resident, and so her hours were really terrible. And at the time she was doing surgery rotation, which... View Details

01 Jun 2007
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Profiles from the class of 2007

ask for a better in-the-field education.” A team of students will return again in January 2008. D’Avella’s early commitment to service began at the Delbarton School in Morris-town, New Jersey, where he became involved with Operation Smile, a nonprofit that provides... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

01 Oct 2002
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Class Notes Extra

Heart to Heart, a group of California doctors who volunteer their time to perform heart surgery on Russian infants and children. “When they began their work in 1991,” she reports, “the situation was so dire that there were hundreds of... View Details

02 Aug 2011
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A Fearless Force for Change

founded with her husband Dave Linn (MBA '00) to fund research and clinical trials at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Linn died July 20 at the age of 40. Diagnosed with a soft-tissue sarcoma (a relatively rare cancer) in December 2004, Linn endured 26 months of... View Details

01 Oct 2002
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Faculty Research Symposium

and the other focused on cardiac surgery teams. She found that differences in psychological safety indeed predicted a team's ability to learn and cope with change effectively — a consistent result across very different organizational... View Details

05 Aug 2016
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Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier

fewer than 5 percent of neuroscience-related patents are successfully commercialized. Amadio, currently chief resident in the seven-year neurological surgery residency program at Emory University, in Atlanta, was troubled by the gap... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

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