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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
Merck, Gillette, and Searle, Kathy Giusti was diagnosed in 1996 with multiple myeloma, a rare and incurable blood cancer. She then founded the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and the Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium,... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
myeloid leukemia, a blood cancer in which abnormal white blood cells grow quickly. They comforted her by saying that the chemotherapy they were prescribing would attack the abnormal cells. And it did. But... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
December). Amgen's Epogen (a treatment for anemia in kidney dialysis patients) and Neupogen (which restores white blood cells in cancer patients) generated more than $2 billion in sales last year. As the ability to analyze a patient's... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
working on now are General Patton’s Secret Missions: Little Known Facts about Intriguing Experiences of Old Blood and Guts, which hopefully will be available by year’s end. The second, General Patton’s Major Impact on Our Lives, is about... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
level of creatine kinase—an enzyme indicative of muscle damage—in a normal person's blood is around 50 units per liter, maybe as high as 100 after a workout. Charley's was 20,000. It suggested muscular dystrophy. Related Links Curing... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
advantages and disadvantages. "Younger generations might have a different set of values [from their elders]," which can lead to conflicts when running a business. On the other hand, said Nursalim, blood ties can mean instant trust. Hong... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
first Super Bowl played outdoors in cold weather—and a blood drive. In the final two weeks, its role shifted to guest service. A social media communications center was established and staffers responded personally to each of the thousands... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
secrecy jurisdictions. To be sure, money derived from trafficking and violence-based enterprise is bloodier than ill-gotten, white-collar gains. But the global financial system’s shadow architecture provides the same haven for all illegal money, however derived, with... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
says he “wanted to warn other members of the family whom I knew, and those I had yet to find” about their chance of inheriting the serious blood disorder. Diamond had been retired only a few years after a successful career in the global... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
When Johnson was born, social norms and her government-issued birth certificate said she was Negro, nullifying her mother’s white blood in her identity. Later, as a Harvard-educated business executive feeling too far from her black roots,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
to the company. In 1988, Binder was named CEO. That same year, Amgen's R&D efforts began to pay off as the company launched its first product, Epogen, which stimulates red blood cell production and thus fights the anemia common to... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
be honest, Sly didn’t actually break a sweat with us, he just watched and shared a few words with us afterward, but it was really awesome nonetheless. He talked about how he fought to change the original ending of First Blood (the first... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
world in life expectancy, at 77.9 years. Half the U.S. population does not receive standard preventive care such as cancer screening, blood pressure checks, or vaccinations. A 2007 McKinsey study found that compared with the average for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
and split their time between two countries, slowly mastering a new language and making friends with the locals over long meals. Van Sickle makes wry observations on France, like the power of cheese to sway elections, the right and wrong ways for men to kiss each other,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
the waiting rooms where drivers sat until their cars were ready. Better yet, while their cars were getting the once-over, drivers could be given blood and urine tests. "It's been a terrific success," says Mukhtar. "Awareness among the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
instant hits. Last summer, Nicotrol became the first of these products to receive over-the-counter approval. De Weese left Cygnus in 1992 to head up M6 Pharmaceuticals, a New Yorkbased vaccine and antibiotics company. In 1995, he launched Hemox Therapeutics, a View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
it is easy to forget the importance of family and friends." Alumni Take Action Once they began to recover from the initial shock of the events of September 11, HBS alumni started putting their skills to work. Whether donating money, volunteering their services,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
1998, Eamer was shot by bandits. He lost seven pints of blood in the four hours it took to find a surgeon. He barely made it. Ever since, they have had a family motto: If it ain’t life and death, it ain’t worth panicking about. And if it... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
wanted to advance clinical trials and facilitate blood plasma donations to help fight the pandemic. He recently helped launch WorldWithoutCovid.org, a free public health service for patients and researchers that matches volunteers with... View Details