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- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
she had a different type of leukemia. They ran more tests but saw no sign of one. The hospital was affiliated with the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Medical Science, which had partnered with IBM Watson, a cloud-based... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 23 Mar 2016
- News
Curing Parkinson’s Disease
properties of a virus known as M13—properties first recognized by Solomon’s mother, a leading Alzheimer’s researcher—and produce a medication to treat diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimers’s. As Solomon tells Palreman: “A single... View Details
- 18 Feb 2016
- News
Challenge Aims to Speed Drug Trials Process
The HBS Health Care Initiative is seeking innovative ideas from the science, patient, business, and medical communities on how to transform trials for precision medicine. Through the HBS Precision Trials... View Details
- 28 Feb 2011
- News
Rebooting the Human Condition
engineered cells, biological tissue, and robots. This perfect storm of innovation will allow humans to shape their own evolution (as well as that of other species) and create solutions to energy, health, and economic problems. Enriquez... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System
Shape up, people! That was the message for both the health-care industry and the public at a November forum of more than 150 medical practitioners, health-industry executives, academics, and others who gathered at HBS. Titled "Healing... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Collaborative Cures
finance. “By increasing the collaborative efforts between Harvard Business School and Harvard’s scientific community, we will empower the next generation of life science entrepreneurs and provide a further catalyst for innovation and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
In Brief
global strategy, a new position. More Social Enterprise Start-Ups Recognized for Bold Ideas Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and disability in the developing world, affecting nearly 250 million people. Yet most can't afford the View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
and hand sanitizer to every household in the city of Chelsea. We’re staffing a hotel that the cities of Chelsea and Revere have rented for people who need to be quarantined, and we’re providing medical and nursing care there. We are doing... View Details
- 06 Dec 2012
- News
New Thinking on Healthcare Reform
HBS heavy-hitters Clay Christensen and Michael Porter closed out a recent conference organized by HBS and Harvard Medical School. Held on the HBS campus November 14 and 15, "Healing Ourselves: Addressing Healthcare's View Details
- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
news these days. The last innovation we had was 200 years ago, through the Industrial Revolution,” says Hanazawa. “Fashion is not doing anything for our health. It’s not making the environment any cleaner. I feel strongly that we can do... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Research Brief: The Best Medicine
As it turns out, innovation doesn’t benefit everyone equally, and a new study tries to understand how that plays out in the pharmaceutical R&D process in the United States. “The numbers are striking,” says Associate Professor Joshua Schwartzstein, pointing to the fact... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Tools and Training for a “Wicked Problem”
with me are things that could happen to many people in Albuquerque, whether it was a medical emergency or a lost paycheck,” he said. “That’s why we’re stepping up to create a safety net that works. Thanks to the Harvard Bloomberg program,... View Details
Keywords: homelessness
- 28 Apr 2022
- News
Finding Her Place
Photo: Courtesy Chapman Partnership Symeria Hudson (MBA 1997) never expected to find herself leading a nonprofit. She began her career with 25 years in the corporate world, the first 10 years in consumer goods and then 15 in the medical... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
illustration by Pablo Amargo illustration by Pablo Amargo There is a doctor shortage in the United States, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, which predicts that the deficit could increase to more than 90,000... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
having to manually ventilate a friend’s 2-year-old son with a bag-valve mask for two days in a Pakistani hospital because of a shortage of ventilators. The boy, Bilan, died. Shaheer and his partners, Hamza Khan (MBA 2019) and Sanchay Gupta (Harvard View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Life Lab Nurtures Early Stage Startup Day Zero Diagnostics
recent addition to the Harvard Innovation Labs ecosystem. DZD comprises a multi-disciplinary team of Harvard affiliates whose expertise in medicine, genome sequencing, and machine learning is helping doctors diagnose infectious diseases... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Health Industry Alumni Convene for Conference
and CEO of Mediconsulting, Inc., spoke about creating a better model for business collaborations between biotech and pharmaceutical firms. Said Klietmann, the conference's biotechnology chair and a lecturer in pathology at Harvard Medical... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
Illustration by Jon Krause Eric Gastfriend (MBA 2015) had watched friends and family members struggle with addiction. He’d seen some of them go to treatment, and he’d seen many of them relapse. He didn’t understand why the field of addiction psychiatry had been unable... View Details
- 16 Feb 2011
- News
Healthy Growth
the customer and to innovation” than he was in his previous job as president of Carrier Corporation, a division of United Technologies. He also relishes being “pure play” in one industry—animal health—which he describes as “a target-rich environment for continued View Details
- 26 Mar 2014
- News
The Power of Education
Puerto Rico, where Pagán-Durán grew up. “I could never have attended Harvard without significant scholarship funds,” explains the ophthalmologist who works in private practice and as an associate clinical professor at the Veterans Administration View Details