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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Meeting an essential health care need in India
When his mother became ill in 2008, Krishna Mahesh (MBA 2005) came face to face with India’s deep deficit of quality hospital beds. It inspired him to launch Sundaram Medical Devices, which develops high-tech, low-cost hospital beds that... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Improving Wellness Through Better Nutrition
diseases—heart disease, renal disease, celiac, diabetes, cancer—are influenced by the food we eat,” Burrough notes. By providing freshly made meals with ingredients customized to meet specific nutritional needs, Mom’s Meals helps seniors to stay healthy or manage... View Details
- 02 Sep 2022
- News
Strength in Numbers
for mental health, an organization that can increase awareness and reduce the stigma of illness as well as rally donors to make large, multiyear funding commitments to the most promising care and research in the field, especially for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Better Care at Lower Cost
good example of disruptive innovation, Christensen noted. Before the development of balloon angioplasty, patients with coronary artery disease had to be seriously ill before getting open-heart bypass surgery, an expensive procedure... View Details
- 28 Apr 2020
- News
Lessons from a COVID Survivor
Radha Ruparell (MBA 2008) Radha Ruparell (MBA 2008) When Radha Ruparell (MBA 2008) fell ill with COVID-19, she wasn’t prepared for the physical and emotional rollercoaster that the ensuing weeks would bring. On day 16 of her illness,... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- News
Spreading the Safety Net
a critically ill loved one without this same level of benefits. I had inadvertently created classes of employees — and by doing so, had done my part to contribute to America’s inequality problem. The new policy gives warehouse employees... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Richard Edelman (MBA 1978)
social ills than government. Trust is the central issue for global institutions. CEOs have to speak out on societal issues, because their employees expect to work for a company with values consistent with their own. Wolverine, the... View Details
- 22 Jun 2023
- News
Finding Her Place
when the recruiter called from Chapman Partnership, a homeless-services nonprofit in Miami-Dade County, Hudson said she wasn’t interested. Yet she couldn’t stop thinking about the opportunity—and her Uncle Billy. Her mother’s brother had struggled with mental View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
HBS Student Battles ALS
the fact that ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease) is a progressive neurodegenerative illness that to date has no cure, Kremer vowed to continue his studies at HBS, far from his network of family and friends in... View Details
- 07 May 2025
- News
Scaling New Heights
Brianna Brown, chief product officer at City Fresh Foods in Boston. (Photo/video credit: Susan Young) City Fresh Foods has long served nutritious meals to students, seniors, and daycare centers in Greater Boston’s under-resourced communities. But when the company saw... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Jan 2019
- News
Working to Improve the End of Life
in dying is also called physician-assisted death, sometimes. And what it is, is the ability of a mentally competent, terminally ill adult to get a prescription from their doctor that they can use to end their life, if they choose to do... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Bart Harvey: Opportunities for Others
residents' levels of health, education, and job preparedness all show improvement. But urban ills such as crime and rundown areas remain. "This is not an overnight process," says Harvey, "but we are moving closer to our goals. The reality... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Booth Gardner’s Night at the Oscars
leaving office. Although his own condition is not considered life-threatening, in 2006 he took on what has become known as the Death with Dignity campaign, believing that terminally ill people should have the right to make the choice of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Patricia ("Tosh") Rapoport Barron
mother and of a close friend, and the serious illness of both her father and her husband - led Barron to opt for her current, scaled-down position at Xerox supporting the executive vice president of business operations. "While I... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 28 Oct 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Nick Soman (MBA 2010)
What was the inspiration behind Reveal? “The inspiration for Reveal happened in 2009 during my second year at HBS. I got an illness called GBS (Guillain-Barré Syndrome) that stripped the protein sheaths around my nerves so they couldn’t... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Katherine Switz (MBA 2000)
I wanted to create many, many more. The Stability Network has 70 leaders in 25 cities in the United States and Canada. Getting people to come out about their mental illness is actually pretty hard, but we give them support, training, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Vittorio Colao (MBA 1990)
modes I need to be in—decision-making, listening, analyzing, and so on.” Recent reads: One serious, one for relaxation. Ill Fares the Land by economist Tony Judt and The Ascendant: A Garrett Reilly Thriller by Drew Chapman. The Economist... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
health-care innovations that offer good value for the money. It was in Africa that we first saw sensible, low-cost health-insurance plans that protect people against financially catastrophic expenses and offer policies that reward the chronically View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Scientific Discovery
development of a course that could enhance decision making by providing participants with the knowledge and skills to better manage, fund, and commercialize scientific discoveries that could potentially cure illnesses ranging from... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
Dr. Abraar Karan took the stage in custom-made ties adorned with cartoon mosquitos. With Hour 72+, they hope to minimize deaths caused by mosquito-borne illnesses like malaria, dengue fever, and zika virus. “For us it’s exciting, but for... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers