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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
that there are currently 111,000 pages of Medicare regulations on the books. A cardiologist at the session described, with frustration, his ongoing multiyear crusade to convince Medicare officials to fund preventive measures against heart... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
evolved and adapted in order to meet new business challenges. This ability—to rapidly update, improve, remove, replace, and reimagine the software applications that underpin a firm’s competitive position—is at the heart of what has been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
School Case 816-072 Neurotrack and the Alzheimer's Puzzle Elli Kaplan founded Neurotrack in 2012 with a breakthrough noninvasive cognitive diagnostics test that will detect Alzheimer's disease in its earliest pre-symptomatic stages. While... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
Brain cancer is almost always fatal. There are no cures for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, or ALS. And mental health remains a global burden.” Worse yet, despite all of medical science’s efforts, most of... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
state after an outbreak of illness. Approved the first generic versions of Coreg, a widely used medication for high blood pressure and chronic heart failure. Proposed new standards for formulating, testing, and labeling sunscreen drug... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
fiftysomething flatlander with urban sensibilities, and his wife move to a ratty weekend cabin in the heart of the Ozark Mountains. It is crudely built and lacks running water and electricity. Another problem is the local land baron, who... View Details
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
IT systems that handle a good chunk of the work, Quelch says. Yet consumer trust when it comes to data privacy is not always a given, and consumers want to have a say. Some people fear that information about a serious disease diagnosis or... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
the inside, in their hearts and minds, they are all just like you and me. The Island of the Fours Ps: A Modern Fable About Preparing for Your Future By Ed Hajim (MBA 1964) Skyhorse The Island of the Four Ps, a spinoff of Ed Hajim’s... View Details
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
focuses almost entirely on disease care to keep people alive, but does very little to enable Americans to live healthy lives. The longer people live in their disease-prone years, the more they cost Medicare. AHCA doesn't really address... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
those diseases. “These people have no voice in the marketplace,” Gates said. As a result, ten times as much funding is devoted to research on the prevention of male baldness as malaria, a disease that kills more than 1 million people each... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
deeply moving and insightful exploration of one of the most challenging diseases of our time. Combining personal narratives, practical guidance, and cutting-edge research, author Maria Ellis offers readers a comprehensive and... View Details
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
watch a series of real, crime-related videos (while the control group watches non-crime-related videos). Not previously victimized participants exposed to the treatment video show significant changes in cortisol level, heart rate, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
can state confidently that cancer is the most expensive disease to treat. Cancer patients and survivors account for about 0.5 percent of the US population, and about 6 percent of the nation's health care expenditures. He's aware that 46... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
organs. My husband, an MIT physicist, started a company that developed technology intended to keep a diseased heart beating while the patient was awaiting a transplant. Working with him on that start-up was... View Details
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
urged investors to be patient and stay the course with the revised J.C. Penney marketing strategy despite mounting negative financial indicators. The heart of the strategy was the "Fair and Square" approach to pricing. This was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. He also leads a new merchandising and media company serving the African-American community via the Internet. Of these ever-changing challenges, he quips, "I just enjoy learning new... View Details
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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
disease requiring hospitalization. Olatec is developing a new class of drugs, known as NLRP3 inhibitors, that target the “causal factor” of the immune system’s cytokine-driven inflammatory response. The company has completed clinical... View Details
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future where humans capabilities could be enhanced, aging could be reversed, new forms of life created, and new custom designed materials could be grown rather than manufactured. Companies like Verve Therapeutics announced the first human trials of a single shot cure... View Details