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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Bridging the Success Gap
they never knew they could become.” Navarro knows firsthand some of the challenges his students face. The Pomona, California, native went to a high school where the Bloods and the Crips gangs were prevalent. His experiences there, and... 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 Feb 1997
- News
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 Dec 2013
- News
A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
or in a way that didn't impact the health of all these children. "In Guiyu, people have about 250 times the level of lead in their blood compared to neighboring towns, and about 90 percent of the people suffer from neurological disorders.... 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
- 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 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
COVID-19, there has been such a need—who wants to go to the hospital for a sore throat in a pandemic? In addition, what hospital wants to see them? The acceptance of telemedicine has also led to a boom in wearable sensors. Apple came out with an app that measures how... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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
- 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 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
Merck, Gillette, and Searle, Kathy Giusti was diagnosed in 1996 with multiple myeloma, a rare and incurable blood cancer. She then founded the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and the Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
December). Amgen's Epogen (a treatment for anemia in kidney dialysis patients) and Neupogen (which restores white blood cells in cancer patients) generated more than $2 billion in sales last year. As the ability to analyze a patient's... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
and social justice in the conduct of capitalism. When Massie was an infant, his youthful parents received a stunning diagnosis: Their lively firstborn was a hemophiliac. The family's life in New York's Westchester County became dominated by his condition. View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
football coach—and in Texas that’s a blood sport.” Those experiences toughened her for the formidable challenges of animal conservation, in which your only hope is to believe deeply in the work: “Particularly at my age, you have to really... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
working on now are General Patton’s Secret Missions: Little Known Facts about Intriguing Experiences of Old Blood and Guts, which hopefully will be available by year’s end. The second, General Patton’s Major Impact on Our Lives, is about... 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
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
members were unwilling to find, and upload, their DD 214, the Department of Defense form that verifies military service, in order to prove their service. They were also reluctant to share their DD 214 because it includes their social security number, birthday, and... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
so what is the mission? What is the tactical plan to get this done? It’s in four phases. The first phase is the analytical phase. This is where we take a blood sample, a muscle biopsy from my brother to dive into the details of what is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
Africa; its importance to the country is as great as the threat to its existence. Illegal logging fueled Liberia’s recent civil war: “Blood timber” financed the violence, just as blood diamonds have in other African conflicts. The civil... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
says, “I was living a dream every time I put on that helmet. And none of my teammates, from high school All-Americans to the last guys on the bench, needed any extra motivation to leave their guts, heart, and blood on the practice field... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
level of creatine kinase—an enzyme indicative of muscle damage—in a normal person's blood is around 50 units per liter, maybe as high as 100 after a workout. Charley's was 20,000. It suggested muscular dystrophy. Related Links Curing... View Details