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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
those? But on Monday morning, when the rubber meets the road in Jakarta or Bogota, the way that we were being taught to do things was not going to work there. Jones: Business schools in Latin America, South... View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- News
Breath of Life
Green: Participating in the stem-cell revolution. Courtesy David Green It was the kind of medical miracle that experts say will one day be commonplace. In June, an artificial trachea (windpipe), infused with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
side effects of the powerful drugs used to treat HIV/AIDS and TB. In February, DFA’s reach broadened when the Gates Foundation continued its support by awarding the group a $2.99 million grant to develop agricultural diagnostics for rural... 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... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
to move to Havana. The decision came in January 2017, when Gordon was working in a sales position at Castlight, a Bay Area B2B health care technology company. The couple had... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Just Extraordinary
Life (XOL), plan to join the fun in a special way: Fifteen girls from Washington, D.C., all living in foster care, will travel to South Africa for what XOL hopes will be a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
radical transformations, including a power shift from its headquarters in London to an international secretariat in Johannesburg; a new federated governance structure that increases the influence of units... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
times during Minto's childhood, she and her family had to relocate from their native Canada for extensive sojourns in Africa and Europe. As a result, she soon discovered how to adapt quickly to new... View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers to discuss anything and everything: medication, insurance, clinical trials, hope, and hopelessness. “We’ve had about 200 families in the group,” Sontag says. “I’ve... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Spin Cycle
Courtesy Cycle For Survival In 2004 at age 33, Jennifer Goodman Linn (MBA ’99) was diagnosed with MFH sarcoma, a rare soft-tissue cancer. Through 26 months of chemotherapy and four surgeries, Linn kept up her fitness, mainly through... 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) 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
- 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... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
million to have the biotech develop it as a potential cancer drug, eventually giving up when even low doses resulted in severe nausea during clinical trials. Still, the drug became a focal point for the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Founding a bone marrow donor bank that saves thousands of lives
Peter Harf (MBA 1974) transformed Joh. A. Benckiser SE, a small, privately held German company into a global powerhouse, but it’s his cofounding of Delete Blood Cancer DKMS that he considers his most important role. Since 1991, the... 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... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
retail store allow her to feed her family, gain equity, and send her children to school. (Carielle Doe/Mercy Corps) McKenna had followed the story as it unfolded in the news. She had long admired the work of Mercy Corps, especially during... View Details
- 28 Apr 2016
- News
New Venture Competition Winners Announced
the $2,000 crowd favorite prize. It was a big night for big ideas in the health care field. In the student competition, Astraeus Technologies, a faster lung 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... 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