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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
From Big Pharma to Startup
Hunter Goble (MBA 2022) did not enroll in Harvard Business School with dreams of becoming an entrepreneur. After earning his MBA, Goble intended to return to Eli Lilly to continue to work building brands and launching products. He envisioned himself leading a big,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
city’s darkest days, during the drug and murder epidemics of the late 1980s and early 1990s. When Mayor Marion Barry was busted in an FBI sting for smoking crack in 1990, Dixon’s mother, Sharon Pratt, won the election to replace him,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Peter G. Harf
divisions - Coty and Lancaster - and its seven thousand employees worldwide. The Coty Division manufactures mass-market fragrances, cosmetics, and skin-care products that are available in drug and grocery stores, while the Lancaster Group... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
From Scholarship to Life-Saving Impact
Nora Rabah (MS/MBA 2022), who emigrated to the United States as a child, remembers the hardship of growing up without health care and wants to make drugs for children with rare diseases more accessible and affordable. Nora Rabah’s (MS/MBA... View Details
- 30 Jun 2022
- News
Scaling Hope
programs of treatment providers like Hazelden Betty Ford and Caron Treatment Centers. His ultimate message is one of hope. That’s what he didn’t know in the beginning: “I wish I had known that there was hope, a lot of hope, and that recovery was likely to happen for my... View Details
- 31 May 2023
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
molecules responsible for transporting DNA code from a cell's nucleus to the ribosomes that create proteins. mRNA Therapeutics, as the company calls this new drug application, gives patients' cells the code they need to begin creating... View Details
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
in the mid-1990s had one of the highest crime rates in the country, a significant drug problem, and a failing school. Local real estate developer and philanthropist Tom Cousins, who became the founder of Purpose Built Communities, led the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
Monte (“End of the Santa Fe Trail”) remains a magnet for prostitutes, particularly transvestites. Police dub them “heeshees” (he/shes); some dress in spiky heels and miniskirts, sporting silicone implants (done in Mexico) that a Hollywood starlet would covet.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived
telemedicine services available next year to employees in states that allow it. We’re going to see a lot more investment in this area, from both established health care companies and startups. What’s next in health care? “More constraints on View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Scientific Discovery
reduce human disease and suffering influences his work as a health care economist and researcher. “I imagine a world where we have treatments, ideally cures, for diseases where right now we have nothing,” he says. “So the big questions that motivate me are, what are... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
case study with the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, GNS Healthcare, the Moffitt Cancer Center’s ORIEN program, and biotech firm Foundation Medicine. Rethinking Drug Trials In an adaptive platform trial, different View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
visitors in their tracks. “I wonder if I should turn him down a little,” Hustead muses. As president of Wall Drug in Wall, South Dakota, Hustead ponders this and many other details of a 76,000-square-foot roadside attraction, not far from... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
The Last Frontier
state for people with debilitating but nonterminal diseases like his to receive, with a doctor’s assistance, drugs with which they may take their own lives. Explained Gardner, “Why do this? I want to be involved in public life. I was... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Finding a cure so that others may benefit
call. The foundation wanted to invest in for-profit bioscience companies to spur scientists to find a cure for the disease. O’Donnell is credited with almost singlehandedly raising $250 million in support of this venture philanthropy, which led to the development of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Finding a Balance
Do the rules of business change when a company’s product holds the power of life or death over its customers? That’s a question students must consider when discussing “Cipla,” a case about a $325 million Indian pharmaceutical company that manufactures and sells... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
investment in math and physical sciences. Moving on to challenges Merck has faced, Gilmartin explained that new drug discovery tools have increased the speed at which its competitors can introduce new products to the marketplace, even as... View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
Safe, Secure, and Prosperous
protect our nation by stopping all of the threats that might affect us: national security, criminality, human trafficking, and illicit drugs crossing our borders. “The job that I have has responsibility for the intelligence capability and... View Details