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- 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 Cancer... View Details
- Portrait Project
CiCi Barrett
remission, cancer remained in my life. My dad’s leukemia diagnosis when I entered high school turned depression and fear into fury and drive. Cancer fueled me. I entered college with the sole purpose of curing it. But I slowly realized... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Books
compete in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of specific health conditions. The book lays out a framework for redefining health-care competition based on patient value: from prevention and diagnosis through recovery or long-term... 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
- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
dollar we raise from the community. It’s about making sure you do the right thing for the people who have given you that support.” Starting a public conversation about women’s health was not easy, but awareness—among both women and their doctors—is essential to early... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Faculty Books
given predictable, reliable, low-cost care) and iterative (the patient’s condition is unknown; tremendous resources may be required for diagnosis and treatment, often with uncertain outcomes). To reduce costs and manage care effectively,... View Details
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
second company, SynapDx, launched in 2009 while he was still at HBS, is developing a blood test for early diagnosis of autism. "With autism, there is a small window of opportunity," he says. "If you can give a parent a View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
MBA 101: HBS Commencements Pass the Century Mark
pharmaceutical executive at the time of her diagnosis with multiple myeloma, an incurable, rare, and little-researched blood cancer, Giusti went on to found the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and the Multiple Myeloma Research... View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
warrior mode, where I just braced myself to hear the news of the diagnosis and was very strangely matter-of-fact in my questions, just trying to understand what is the stage, what is the action plan? It was only when she told me that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Forecasting ’15
Health Care: Data-Driven Diagnosis Robert Wah (AMP 175, 2008) President, American Medical Association; Global Chief Medical Officer, Computer Sciences Corporation “We’re entering the third phase of health information technology. The first... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
School, the article evoked a flood of encouraging letters and e-mails. “The response wasn’t ‘you’re crazy,’ or ‘competition has no place in health care,’” recalls Porter. “We felt obligated to turn the diagnosis in the article into... View Details
- 10 Aug 2021
- News
Moving Education Within Reach
close contact with her mentor over the years. Speaking to Ramalingam on the phone one day, she noticed he had developed a cough and urged him to see a doctor. That visit led to a diagnosis of the cancer that would ultimately take his... View Details
- 10 Jan 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management
cross-functional coordination, and profitability management. Current product-tracking technology makes problem diagnosis much easier than the time of the original study. By and large, companies using this methodology see lowered costs and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
HBS Student Battles ALS
face of this frightening disease. “The diagnosis was shocking,” says Kremer, a former officer in the Israel Defense Forces and project manager at a high-tech Israeli defense-industry firm. “I had so many plans for the future, so many... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
care organization that has embraced the concept of tradeoffs with positive results. Some time ago, the Mayo Clinic decided to focus on the priority of reducing the amount of time patients wait to be seen. As a result, today you can get a Mayo Clinic View Details
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
biomedical problems? LISH team: There is an endless array of potential tools possible for better diagnosis by image analysis. However, there are reasons for why such tools have been relatively slow in development and implementation. The... View Details
- 21 Jun 2020
- News
Rooting out Racism
promotions with peers, Rice writes. Or when employers produce diversity plans that lack the rigor that is expected of every other part of the business practice—a fact-based diagnosis of the problem, quantifiable goals, interim progress... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Martin Gonzalez - Quiet Courage
students. He downplays his ability to continue functioning throughout his medical ordeal. “It is much harder to watch a loved one go through something like this,” he says, quietly mentioning that his mother was found to have the same cancer shortly after his own View Details
- 17 Aug 2020
- News
Democratizing Medicine
right? A primary care clinician, if they see a patient, they have a question, they are trying to figure out what the right diagnosis or care plan is for their patients, they can access our platform. “They provide a brief description. They... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Student Trio Advance Health Payment Reform
focused on how to calculate a fixed price for all services related to a specific condition — knee replacement. (The hospital is nationally recognized for expertise in orthopedic surgery.) The “bundled” price would cover everything from View Details