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- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy One day not long ago, a Japanese woman in her 60s walked into a hospital in Tokyo, worried she might have... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain
arming women with better information will encourage them to become more involved in their own care and lead to better results in their fight with cancer. Cohen was working at Price Waterhouse as marketing director for the consulting... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
mother was dying of cancer, and he was caring for his grandparents. A younger brother had been killed in crossfire between the Israeli army and Palestinian police.” That fall, back at college, Hussein opened up a newspaper one View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
another 30,000 visit the company’s elderly day care facilities; and 2,500 people now have the ability to stay home at the end of life like Sato-san, instead of resorting to an overcrowded and more expensive... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Mickey Herbert (MBA 1969)
was absurd, a notion not shared by Professor James Bright. He would look around the classroom for a guy not wearing a tie, and three days in a row he called on me first to start the discussion. At the end of the third day, he actually... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Giving hope and inspiration to cancer patients around the globe
Every new day is a good day for Kathryn E. Giusti (MBA 1985) since that morning in 1996 when her oncologist told her to get her affairs in order because she had a rare blood cancer, with three years to live.... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
directly to NGOs that have been authorized to supply equipment and supplies to hospitals and COVID care centers in India. By May 12, GiveIndia’s web page was showing a tally of 1,550 donors from 30 different university groups, raising... View Details
- 30 May 2024
- News
Women’s Association Goes Nationwide; Connecticut Club Hosts Beshears
Alumnae to Celebrate Official Launch of HBS Women’s Association The Harvard Business School Women’s Association (HBSWA) will host a Virtual Launch Celebration on Wednesday, June 12, to mark its official expansion as a nationwide HBS alumnae Shared Interest Group (SIG).... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
employs 9,000 people and ranks as Georgia’s largest, most comprehensive health system. Under consideration this day is a proposal to add specialists — known as neurohospitalists — to manage care for patients... View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Three days before giving birth to her second daughter, Parul Somani (MBA 2009) felt a lump in her breast. Still unable to walk from her C-section, her husband... View Details
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
expectations of employees, how companies are reacting to this push, and what the future of family care might look like. READ MORE April White: Stephen, you've been CEO of Bright Horizons for the last seven years, but I know you've also... View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- News
A Fearless Force for Change
friends hope to complete and publish. A final blog entry, published three days before her death, best illustrates Linn's passionate, upbeat commitment to life: "â ¦medically I am having a tough time, but we are doing all that we can to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
MBA 101: HBS Commencements Pass the Century Mark
A Time To Celebrate: As with every year, Class Day and Commencement were filled with many memorable moments. Among the general scenes of pomp and pageantry were (middle) the faculty recipients of the Class of 2011’s awards for excellence... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Rhenisch Rick Bern/Courtesy Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority A community organizer during the 1960s, Madelyn Rhenisch was a pioneering advocate for better medical care for the people of rural upstate New York. More... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
1981. The School's Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, Herzlinger is the author of seven best-selling books, including her landmark volume Market-Driven Health Care (1997), which analyzed the revolutionary impact of... View Details
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone
Healthcare Alumni Conference Marks 25 Years The HBS Healthcare Alumni Association (HBSHAA) hosted its 25th Annual Conference at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge on November 7, and once again offered an exclusive agenda that was jam-packed with industry thought leaders... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 Apr 2021
- News
Michael Collins, ‘Third Man’ of the Moon Landing, Dies at 90
their exploration. As he recalled in an Atlantic article from 2019—the 50th anniversary of the mission—he circled the moon for a day after dropping off Armstrong and Aldrin, admiring the views. “But for Collins, the finest sight was the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
tools, expediting the time frame and accuracy of results. Using genomics and machine learning, Day Zero Diagnostics (DZD) and Aikili Biosystems aim to save lives. “A common reaction to our venture is that it is ‘ambitious.’ Clearly our... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Stocking Up Can Build Customer Value
A classic business problem from the 1950s illustrates the tension between inventory costs and missed sales. A newspaper vendor must decide how many papers to buy each day based on typical demand. His profit is optimized, the solution... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
The Network Effect
coronavirus. Kapoor was tested and by the time he received the results nine days later, they confirmed what he already knew: he had COVID-19 (and so did his wife, a physician, and two of his four kids). Kapoor’s testing experience... View Details