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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
social sharing platform to help older adults live independently longer and provide tighter connection to family. CareSolver is a startup run by two current HBS students. It activate, educates, and supports the nation's $450... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
tone quality, it was nothing short of a nightmare. After exhausting other treatment options, Frisch chose a radical alternative: having tiny, needle-like electrodes placed inside his brain. Those electrodes are part of a device called... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 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
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
executives of provider organizations, as well as hospital, insurance, drug, retail, and medical device companies; deans of medical schools; and employers, who pay the bulk of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
which HBS faculty are already studying. While one faculty member, for example, might look at the role that stock options played in a company that failed after it went public, another might investigate how a medical View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
walker, a wheelchair, or a body brace, chances are you've encountered overpriced, forbidding stores. Joyce I. Greenberg (MBA '78) is helping to change all that. Her new superstore in Springfield, New Jersey, Take Good Care, which opened in April 1996, offers a full... View Details
- 30 Jan 2018
- News
Four Alumni Named as Presidential Leadership Scholars
2002), cofounder and CEO of Parsagen Diagnostics, an early-stage medical device company focused on women’s health The members of the 2018 class were selected based on their leadership growth potential and... View Details
- 24 Sep 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
When his mother was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, Greg Jarzabek (PLD 21, 2016) sought out medical advice from specialists around the world: Warsaw, London, Chicago, New York, Boston, Cologne, Frankfurt, Turin, Helsinki,... View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- News
Where Are They Now?
Mahesh checks in from the factory floor. Courtesy Krishna Mahesh Related Links Alum startup wins HBS contest New Venture Contest: Call for entries Upcoming webinars for entrepreneurs HBS New Ventures group on LinkedIn “I am still amazed... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The power to change nuclear waste into cost-efficient energy
Entrepreneur Russell Wilcox (AB 1989, MBA 1995) envisions creating clean energy from the world’s stockpiles of nuclear waste at a price cheaper than coal. He is building Transatomic Power, a startup based on innovative MIT technology that... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program
a team project in the new MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program, offered jointly by HBS and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). With just three days to complete a prototype, Batt’s team created a connected View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Wyss Gift Supports HBS Doctoral Programs
thousands of students they eventually teach and the millions more who benefit from the research and new ideas they generate,” Wyss said. “I am proud to support this effort.” Currently chairman and CEO of Synthes, Inc., Wyss has had a distinguished career as a pioneer... View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
Frustrated by the slow pace and poor success rate of entrepreneurial startups bringing innovation from bench to bedside in his field, Jordan Amadio (MD/MBA 2010) and two partners founded NeuroLaunch, the world’s first neuroscience-focused... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Feedback
virtually all digital maps, an integral part of everyone’s mobile devices and car navigation—think Google Earth. It started with the Landsat program at NASA in the early 1970s, but small startups appeared,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Delivering Trust
Illustration by Marcos Chin Illustration by Marcos Chin When they married, Deborah and Jake Anderson (MBA 2010) knew that they might have difficulty starting a family due to a preexisting medical condition. They began consulting with... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Geisha Secrets
TSAI: A luxury skin-care line based on ancient Japanese rituals. Years of work-related testing of beauty products had left Victoria Tsai (MBA 2006) with acute dermatitis. After trying various medications to no avail, she turned to Japan... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Wyss Celebrated for Career, Conservation
Hansjörg Wyss (MBA 1965) has been unusually public of late, celebrated for his visionary accomplishments in health care and conservation. Wyss, 75, founded Synthes USA, a Swiss-American firm, in 1974 and led it to global prominence as a pioneer in the development and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
The Network Effect
participate in clinical trials. On March 29, Kapoor and his wife devised a solution: WorldWithoutCOVID.org, a nonprofit public health initiative that connects medical researchers with willing volunteers. A longtime student of network... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
Hsieh, and Lyft founder John Zimmer, centers around a team-based curriculum. To date, DU has nearly 500 alumni from 50 countries, with more than 250 startups created, including a medical View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
of pharmaceuticals and medical devices work in a more coordinated way? —Rebecca Leung (MBA 1996) HASSAN: Smaller, highly advanced countries with long-term industrial strategies, such as Singapore, have a... View Details