medical technology - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2025
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Origin Story: Ricky Cordova (MS/MBA 2025)

device for ovarian cancer. But any device needs to be commercialized to exist on the market. And I knew nothing about that part.” But first: “I came to Boston for Harvard Medical School’s HealthTech Fellowship—a 10-month program grounded... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2004
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The Future of Stem Cells

medical advances. The effect of the ban, experts say, has been to slow research and drive it into areas where it is supported in patchwork fashion by academic institutions, individual states, private firms, and foundations. Stem cells... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2009
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A New Approach to Health-Care Reform

CHRISTENSEN: “By some estimates, 50 percent of all health care is driven by physician and hospital supply, not by patients’ needs.” An acclaimed author and expert on the development and commercialization of technological and business... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2022
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Road to Recovery

in 2016, with Gastfriend as CEO and his father as chief medical officer. A 2014 study estimated that 12.5 million Americans had substance use disorders, and that number was rising, largely due to opioid use. In addition to the human toll,... View Details

Keywords: April White; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

19 Mar 2019
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A Quick Study

Shiv Gaglani (AB 2010, MBA 2016) was a medical student, trying to keep up with his gross anatomy coursework, when the realization struck him that there must be a better way to learn the material. Inspired, he and classmate Ryan Haynes... View Details

01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots

In 2010, Maria Gotsch (MBA 1989) called a meeting with the chief information and technology officers at five of the largest banks headquartered in Manhattan. The session would last for three hours, but as Gotsch recalls, the executives in... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page

24 Apr 2014
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Fighting the diabetes epidemic using mobile phones

The company has raised $500,000 through private funding and government grants. “Diabetes is not just a medical problem, it’s a lifestyle and a social problem rooted in rapid urbanization, sedentary lives, and bad diets. It requires a... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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The New Venture Competition Crowns a New Crop

platform, delivering qualified workers in 24 hours. Alumna: Vera Makarov, MBA 2010 Region: Latin America FreeFlow Medical Devices LLC: Maker of medical devices that solve clotting, infection, and clogging... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Dec 2020
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Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers

adoption of some cost-reducing, consumer-facing, and life-saving technology innovations. Herzlinger—dubbed the “godmother of consumer-driven health care”—has helped to shepherd countless new health care products to market. But she’s never... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care

The occasion? The company, a leading supplier of cloud-based services for electronic health records (EHR), practice management, and care coordination, was expanding. In a big way. Founded in 1997, athenahealth now serves about 44,000 View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2002
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Up to the Challenge: Tony Sanchez - Team Builder

egoless.” Describing himself as a “quiet professional” whose strength lies in facilitating teamwork, Sanchez hopes someday to be the CEO of a medical engineering company. His interest in medical View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Dec 2010
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Making a Difference

closely with actor Marlon Brando before his death in 2004 to create a development plan for Brando’s 1,500-acre Tahitian atoll. When the forty-unit project is completed in 2012, the resort will be virtually carbon neutral and a showcase for green View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; meta

01 Mar 2012
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In Memoriam

approachable—even humble—exemplifying in everything he did the true sense of what it means to be a teacher.” An authority on the management of technology and innovation and an HBS faculty member for 41 years, Richard Rosenbloom (MBA 1956,... View Details

Keywords: obituraries; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jan 2008
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Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982

x-ray machines. Today, under Immelt’s leadership, GE is a $173 billion organization that still has roots in its past, even as it rides a wave of 21st-century innovation in clean energy, water treatment, and medical View Details

01 Dec 2017
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@Soldiers Field

Last month, health care executives and clinicians gathered to brainstorm strategies for navigating payment reform for providers, payers, and pharma. Speakers included HBS faculty Leemore Dafny and Robert Huckman, as well as Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Chief View Details

22 Jun 2023
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Finding Her Place

Photo: Courtesy Chapman Partnership Symeria Hudson (MBA 1997) never expected to find herself leading a nonprofit. Hudson had spent the first 25 years of her career in the corporate world—the first 10 years in consumer goods and then 15 in the View Details

04 Sep 2019
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Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives

and commercialize medical diagnostic tools that will, ultimately, improve health outcomes. Lee’s DZD was one of the inaugural startups in 2016 at the Life Lab, a state-of-the-art wet lab and coworking space in Allston for Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

26 Feb 2020
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Alumni-Led Biotech Developing Vaccine to Combat Coronavirus

prominent local scientists and biotech leaders—Bancel included—met this week at Harvard Medical School to brainstorm new approaches. That meeting is part of a recently announced $115 million collaboration between scientists at Harvard... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match

Capital Partners, a firm he joined after what he calls his “two magical years” at HBS during which he transitioned from medical provider to physician leader. “My first year at HBS gave me the framework to think about different parts of a... View Details