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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
walker, a wheelchair, or a body brace, chances are you've encountered overpriced, forbidding stores. Joyce I. Greenberg (MBA '78) is helping to change all that. Her new superstore in Springfield, New Jersey, Take Good Care, which opened in April 1996, offers a full... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
still true today: eBay enables users to trade with other people without regard to time and distance. It makes inefficient markets efficient. What kind of communications devices do you use? I may be the last person on earth who does not... View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
Frustrated by the slow pace and poor success rate of entrepreneurial startups bringing innovation from bench to bedside in his field, Jordan Amadio (MD/MBA 2010) and two partners founded NeuroLaunch, the world’s first neuroscience-focused... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program
a team project in the new MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program, offered jointly by HBS and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). With just three days to complete a prototype, Batt’s team created a connected View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Feedback
virtually all digital maps, an integral part of everyone’s mobile devices and car navigation—think Google Earth. It started with the Landsat program at NASA in the early 1970s, but small startups appeared,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Wyss Celebrated for Career, Conservation
Hansjörg Wyss (MBA 1965) has been unusually public of late, celebrated for his visionary accomplishments in health care and conservation. Wyss, 75, founded Synthes USA, a Swiss-American firm, in 1974 and led it to global prominence as a pioneer in the development and... View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
technologies. NeuroLaunch is also working with startups outside the medical sphere: consumer-facing businesses that are developing products to tap brain waves to facilitate learning, meditation, mood and... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
Hsieh, and Lyft founder John Zimmer, centers around a team-based curriculum. To date, DU has nearly 500 alumni from 50 countries, with more than 250 startups created, including a medical View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
class; structuring asset classes and adding value-oriented or other opportunistic “tilts”; measuring and managing risks, avoiding common mistakes, and more. The Soul of a Patient: Lessons in Healing for Harvard Medical Students edited by... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
president and CFO of Medtronic, overseeing a number of acquisitions and sales at the medical device company and broadening its reach to include a more global investor base. In this special edition of Skydeck... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Enabling the Dream of Building A Healthy Future for India
Surabhi Bhandari (photo by Susan Young) Surabhi Bhandari (photo by Susan Young) Surabhi Bhandari (MBA 2017) wants to launch a medical technology startup in India that will help revolutionize health care in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
@Soldiers Field
Polaroid in the 1930s and ’40s, when the iconic company was a risky startup led by an untested entrepreneur. A “Hack Your Sleep” event offered insights into the science of slumber—a subject unfamiliar to many MBA students. Cosponsored by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Origin Story: Ricky Cordova (MS/MBA 2025)
device for ovarian cancer. But any device needs to be commercialized to exist on the market. And I knew nothing about that part.” But first: “I came to Boston for Harvard View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
military telecommunications or beam the Super Bowl worldwide? Joseph Landon (MBA 2007), VP and CFO of Planetary Resources in Redmond, Washington, one of the space startups pursuing asteroid mining, estimates there are about 400 active... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
lights and other electrical devices for three days before it’s swapped out for one that has been recharged. Customers pay a yearly subscription fee per battery and a small fee for each recharge. What comes next: On-the-ground research in... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
devices were.” CollaborateUp specializes in bringing corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, and other organizations together to take on big, complex issues, such as endangered species trafficking, international food security, and... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
go for the money. In your first job, you're naive and will make a lot of mistakes. You need someone who will protect you, push you, and support you." CURRENT READING On Chesil Beach, by Ian McEwan For thirty years, Hansjörg Wyss has led Synthes, a global View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
and commercialize medical diagnostic tools that will, ultimately, improve health outcomes. Lee’s DZD was one of the inaugural startups in 2016 at the Life Lab, a state-of-the-art wet lab and coworking space... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
—Shereen Shermak, HBS Rock Center Entrepreneur-in Residence and CEO of cryptography company Nth Party Remote-first labor is the greatest boon to software startups since Amazon Web Services. No role in a SaaS startup, from engineering to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Meeting an essential health care need in India
When his mother became ill in 2008, Krishna Mahesh (MBA 2005) came face to face with India’s deep deficit of quality hospital beds. It inspired him to launch Sundaram Medical Devices, which develops high-tech, low-cost hospital beds that... View Details