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- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
different departments. "NABCO was instrumental in changing the course of breast cancer screening, treatment, and care," she says. "Our physician and corporate partnerships to educate women replaced fear with facts. We helped craft and... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
2001 after his IT and consultancy startup, Mainspring, was acquired by IBM. Regardless of specialty, doctors complained of rushing through their days, too over- scheduled to fully comprehend patients’ lengthy and complex medical records, each often hundreds of pages... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
Mediva (for Medical Innovation and Value-Added). The medical branch remains a legally separate nonprofit, according to Japanese regulation, but in practice the two entities operate as one: Mediva handles management across both companies, for example, freeing the View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Clubs Convene to Focus on Health Care
Canada’s public healthcare system. Kessel cofounded the Center for Partnership Medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, while Dr. Sivjee, a respirologist, is a fellow with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)
his business background may also be a valuable asset in what he sees as the "tough times ahead" for health-care management. "Insurance companies used to write a check for just about anything a physician wanted to do, but today medicine is... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
an invitation-only workshop for top management and senior physician leaders. The School also launched a joint-degree program with Harvard Medical School in 2005, with the first full cohort of students graduating this past May. Left out... View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
neuroscience entrepreneurs capture the value around their idea,” Amadio says. “I believe very strongly that we’re starting a movement.” In that same spirit, he has found ways to forge relationships between the physicians at Emory and the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 20 Aug 2016
- News
The Business of Improving Health Care Delivery
patients and how we deliver health care. “One thing that I feel passionately about is training our physicians to become leaders. I teach medical students about how to actually have a way in your mind for if you see something that you... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
and cancer. Antibiotics helped lift the average life expectancy at birth from 54 years in 1920 to 78.6 today. But almost as soon as the treatments were made available, physicians had to cope with the specter of antibiotic resistance, a... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 20 Apr 2020
- News
To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
put them in the proper perspective,” says Seftel, a physician and immunology expert whose company, Enable, is currently developing a highly-sensitive rapid COVID-19 test with its public health laboratory partners. “There’s been a lot of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
senior executives. They encouraged him, for instance, when he made early forays into television advertising in the 1960s and when he suggested that Tylenol, originally available only from physicians and hospitals, be sold as a consumer... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Scientific Discovery
very excited about having HBS, and the University more broadly, be a part of the effort to reduce human suffering, because that’s what drives all of us. That’s the shared value among the scientists in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Medical School, the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 07 Oct 2014
- News
Network Effect
Henry McCance, founder (left), and Tim Armour, President & CEO, of Cure Alzheimer's Fund Twelve years ago, when Henry McCance (MBA 1966) and his wife initially faced her diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, the couple consulted some of the world’s top View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Mickey Herbert (MBA 1969)
graduating from HBS, I worked briefly as a management consultant in New York City before getting laid off. An opening at a nonprofit health-policy research firm lured me to Minneapolis, where I learned about health maintenance organizations. I moved to Connecticut when... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
Capital Partners, a firm he joined after what he calls his “two magical years” at HBS during which he transitioned from medical provider to physician leader. “My first year at HBS gave me the framework to think about different parts of a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
Physicians Organization. Slavin and Huckman joined the HBS Alumni Bulletin to discuss the ways in which MGH was able to redeploy resources to meet the surge of patients, and how the delivery of health care might be forever changed as a... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
senior executives from Fortune 1000 companies. Among employees, 73 percent expressed interest in a defined contribution system, citing advantages such as the ability to choose the best quality plan in which their physician participates... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
quality and outcomes. Consumers need to have that information to make good decisions.” Jain believes that any health-care system should center on a strong doctor-patient relationship and allow physicians sufficient time and opportunity to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Get Well Soon
implementing a “forcing function” into the operating room process that keeps patients out of the OR until they’ve received antibiotics, thus reducing surgical site infections. For another project, she selects the hospital’s Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Clinic, in part because... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
SABO." Since leaving the company, Andresen and his wife, a physician from Yugoslavia, have enjoyed traveling, sailing, studying art history, and keeping in touch with Harvard friends. Reflecting on the professorship that bears his name,... View Details