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- 15 Apr 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
underwent a mastectomy and survived, and Smyth kept the family secret for more than a decade. That’s all changed now—in part thanks to Smyth, who joined the volunteer board of the fledgling Breast Cancer Foundation NZ in the mid-1990s.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Amy S. Langer
More than fifty thousand women die from breast cancer every year in the United States. Another two hundred thousand are diagnosed with the disease — the most common form of cancer among women. Sitting in her... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
1,500-person division is a leader in the emerging field of personalized medicine, which treats cancer and other diseases with customized therapies that take into account the patient’s specific genetic traits. With HBS professor Richard... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain
"I never intended to write a book," says Deborah A. Cohen (MBA '87). Nor did she expect to be diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 35. The author of Just Get Me Through This! The Practical Guide to Breast View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)
named executive director of the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO), where she had signed on as a volunteer three years earlier. When she joined NABCO, the New York City-based organization's annual budget was $17,000;... View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
my eyes. My mother happened to be in the room with me at the time. My mother had herself been diagnosed with early onset breast cancer in her 30s. And when I got off the phone I just looked at her and I told her, “It's cancer.” And I just... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Class Day/Commencement 2013
moments? Being part of the HBS Show production team, drinking Coke Zero, and writing the script in the i-lab. What's next? Back to Oklahoma! I'll be working in marketing at the Stephenson Cancer Center in Oklahoma City. What will you miss... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
INK: Taking Care
The sad and unfortunate fact is that one in every two people will develop cancer in their lifetime, Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) writes in her new book, Fatal to Fearless: 12 Steps to Beating Cancer in a Broken Medical System. It first happened to her more than 25 years... View Details
- 24 Jan 2025
- News
The Network Effect
Karan Mathur (left) and Dina Model (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Dina Model and Karan Mathur (both MBA 2015) met through mutual friends during their first year at HBS, neither was envisioning a future business deal. “We didn’t realize that we had shared... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Making a Statement
doctors were quite competent, but the group wasn’t working together. “We brought in a comprehensive, integrated system, with a better flow of information, and patient outcomes improved dramatically,” says Paul. The company that grew out of this initial effort now runs... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- News
Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection
and stewardship of those programs. During dinner, Neil Ashe (MBA 1996), Chairman and CEO of Acuity Brands, presented the club’s Social Impact Award to Dean Crowe, Founder of the Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research. In 2014,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)
'76), have developed an astounding array of community outreach services -- from elaborate food pantries to job assistance programs; from tutoring, mentoring, and counseling services for children and young mothers to retirement planning courses for the elderly; from... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Kathryn E. Giusti, MBA 1985
as an entrepreneur have dramatically changed the lives of many cancer patients, including her own. By expediting research on multiple myeloma, a rare and incurable blood cancer with one of the lowest... View Details
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Defining the field of cause-related marketing
After being diagnosed with breast cancer at age 30, Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA 1977) left a career in investment banking to launch the National Breast Cancer Coalition and changed the way organizations raise... View Details
- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
part thanks to Smyth, who joined the volunteer board of the fledgling Breast Cancer Foundation NZ in the mid-1990s and became its chair in 2009. Her work with the charity has been informed by her business career, she says. A partner at... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Spin Cycle
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. “Cancer has not forced me to change my life,” says Linn. “The irony is that cancer has been one of the best things that ever happened to me.” View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Personal crises inform a life’s work
One of the youngest women to attend HBS, Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA 1977) was building a successful investment banking career when a cancer diagnosis at age 29 spurred her to volunteer at the National Alliance of Breast View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
make food in the stuff,” he says. Capitalizing on its burgeoning algal expertise, SGI has already bred one strain that can make highquality protein and healthful fatty acids, and it hopes to coax others into producing biological drugs such as the antibodies used to... View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- News
A Fearless Force for Change
founded with her husband Dave Linn (MBA '00) to fund research and clinical trials at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Linn died July 20 at the age of 40. Diagnosed with a soft-tissue sarcoma (a relatively rare cancer) in December... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
moving story about her own bout with cancer, an experience that led her to switch from a fast-track investment-banking job to the nonprofit world as head of the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations. On Being There Excerpts... View Details