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- 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
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
resulted in a breast cancer diagnosis, and Langer's battle against the disease led her to volunteer at the then-pioneering National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO) in 1988. "We had the first... 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 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... View Details
- 07 Jan 2022
- News
Learning to Fight
establish the Sontag Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting brain cancer research and brain cancer patients and caregivers. In the last 18 years, the foundation has awarded more than $35 million to... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
Launches DKMS, the cure blood cancer bank 1993 Becomes CEO, Coty Inc. 2001 Appointed Chairman, Coty Inc. 2006 Appointed Chairman, Anheuser-Busch InBev With entrepreneurial energy, Peter Harf has left a mark on consumer goods industries... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
The sci-fi future for cancer treatment has become a reality, with breakthrough therapies that can use a cancer patient’s genetic information to create personalized treatments or employ the body’s immune... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
Electric and used a portion of the proceeds to establish the Sontag Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting brain cancer research and brain cancer patients and caregivers. The foundation’s signature... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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 Aug 2002
- News
Dan Geffken (MBA '87)
get-together. “I truly enjoy spending time with former classmates,” he said. “They're just very fun, interesting, bright people.” Geffken's HBS ties have offered personal support, too. When Brenda was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2000,... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A 'reluctant entrepreneur' draws on the HBS network
Cancer survivor Kathryn Giusti (MBA 1985) gives a talk about being a "reluctant entrepreneur" in founding the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. (Published April 2014) 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
- 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
- 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
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
data and machine learning to improve health care. Kelley, who recently received a Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship at HBS, aims to bring fast and accurate diagnoses to cancer patients around the world. “The majority... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 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