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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
information on FDR’s hidden illnesses and how they affected his leadership. Other Alumni Books Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? by Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (MBA 1965) (HarperBusiness) Gerstner, who joined IBM as chairman and CEO in 1993,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting those with debilitating chronic illnesses and the dependent elderly.” —Professor Lynda Applegate, on Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, by Atul Gawande Excerpt... 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
- 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
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
also titled “The Globalization of Markets”— recalled these and other ideas and developments first discerned by Levitt, now universally hailed as a “marketing guru.” Although he was unable to attend the conference due to ill health, his... View Details
- 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 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
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
Heart to Heart, a group of California doctors who volunteer their time to perform heart surgery on Russian infants and children. “When they began their work in 1991,” she reports, “the situation was so dire that there were hundreds of people in line outside the... 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
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
examples of the kinds of questions the sector faces. “Public education is always going to present some difficult challenges,” he asserts, “because schools inherit all of society’s ills and have to deal with them. What I think we can... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 12 May 2016
- News
Food Rescue Is on a Mission
fill their own cars with fruits, vegetables, meat, and bread from Coles or other supermarkets and drive to their churches, where they cook a meal for neighbors in need. “A lot of the people in shelters have had mental illness and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 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 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
of sick people coming in,” to “Oh my God, are we going to run out of ventilators?” Our volume of cases doubled, with the number of critically ill people requiring a ventilator increasing over tenfold. At the peak, that meant every 20... 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
- 31 Jul 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
very sick actually. I had this weird stress related illness where I had blurry vision for six months. I couldn't get out of bed for a week. I was all messed up and they didn't know what was wrong with me. My doctor was just like, "We... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
as a way of going into the Airbnb business are going to get crushed. I don’t wish Airbnb any ill will. I think it’s a good, well-run business, but I think they’re going to have some significant challenges in the short term, maybe in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
opportunities for tech in helping solve social problems as well as identifying the ills from it and how we mitigate them. JB: It strikes me as one of these questions for which we would want to have people from Harvard Business School and... View Details