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- 13 Jul 2023
- News
The Network Effect
whose background was in investment banking and health care consulting, wanted to become a health care investor. Both were attracted to the health View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981
Boston University, and Boston Medical Center. In Mumbai, the Dahod family helped build Saifee Hospital, a state-of-the-art facility that offers subsidized care for people in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
Kettering Cancer Center, where his brother was treated so many years ago. Peter Crisp My father made it clear that in the summertime I had to work and get a job. And I went to work when I was about 12 years... View Details
- 31 Jul 2023
- News
Striving for Imperfection
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
tries, and fails, to convince yet another cancer patient to opt for the less risky course of treatment. In Supercommunicators, Charles Duhigg blends deep research and his trademark storytelling skills to... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
to remove a cancerous tumor in his throat. Stripped of his voice box and vocal cords, he had to learn to speak using his esophagus. Batten, an entrepreneur who thrives on difficult challenges, says that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
communication—is widely used, and cancer care is now delivered in a hub-and-spoke model, a system that is much cheaper and more convenient for patients because it is built... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
‘Your tribal corn.’” Walker told Keen that big ag was displacing indigenous seeds in India with GMO crops, a story later told in the 2016 documentary Seed. At the time, Keen... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
the country in a very short amount of time.” While it has already been approached by politicians and leaders from across the country who want EMRI to expand emergency response in their home districts, EMRI’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Venture: Time Heals All
and type of patients on the ward and the skills required to care for them, along with constraints on individual nurses, such as the number of consecutive hours they can safely work. All in all, building... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain
arming women with better information will encourage them to become more involved in their own care and lead to better results in their fight with cancer. Cohen was working at... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 15 Apr 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
underwent a mastectomy and survived, and Smyth kept the family secret for more than a decade. That’s all changed now—in part thanks to Smyth, who joined the volunteer board of the fledgling Breast Cancer Foundation NZ View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- News
Where Are They Now?
designer. Manufacturing the beds in India keeps costs down, and making them both upgradable and compact gives buyers—Indian health care institutions—the opportunity to increase... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
1,500-person division is a leader in the emerging field of personalized medicine, which treats cancer and other diseases with customized therapies that take into account the patient’s specific genetic... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Expanding Horizons
his country, India, and more broadly, the world at large. “HBS changed my career direction and broadened my horizons,” he says. “I was going into the health care sector, but a summer in equity capital... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Starting Lineup: Values Proposition
Illustrations by Drue Wagner The Company The Leadership The Pitch The News Saathi Cofounder and CFO Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014); Founded 2015 Almost 3 million women in India don’t have access to sanitary pads.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
times as many Ph.D.’s as India. Basic education and technical and vocational training languish despite renewed government commitments. The rich-poor gap in education is mirrored in health View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Social Enterprise Start-Ups Recognized for Bold Ideas
pilot with 100 patients under way and aims to reach 5,000 diabetes sufferers over the next year—and many thousands more in the future. In recognition of Jana Care’s innovative use of technology to deliver... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
Benvenuti Photo courtesy Janet Simpson Benvenuti Although I didn’t realize it until much later, my life changed the day I agreed to become legally responsible for my 78-year-old father and my 77-year-old mother, who suffered from lung View Details
- 17 May 2017
- News
Nisa Godrej Takes Over
company] for 25 years." A recent piece in Quartz suggests that Godrej’s appointment is part of a larger cultural movement in India, with more and more women taking on visible executive roles. Last July,... View Details