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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
Harmoni could provide drug-free therapy for people suffering from illnesses like depression, addiction, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or Tourette syndrome, with its exacting approach alleviating concerns about side effects from... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
Mountain: Marietta knows there is no silver bullet for jump-starting the region’s economy and curing the many ills brought on by the collapse of coal and an ongoing opioid epidemic. (Nearly one-third of Harlan County’s almost 28,000... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
examples of the kinds of questions the sector faces. “Public education is always going to present some difficult challenges,” he asserts, “because schools inherit all of society’s ills and have to deal with them. What I think we can... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
both in and out of clinical settings, with the goal of trying to understand the patients’ life and relationship with their illness as completely as possible. They go to appointments with them, have coffee, visit their homes, meet their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
Q&A session is long and intense, despite the late hour. Shawn Anthony (HBS ’10), currently enrolled in the joint MD/MBA program with Harvard Medical School, asks how adverse selection and the higher costs associated with treating chronic View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
standardization of that information; evaluation of adjustments for the severity of illness of the patient; changes in the tax system to avoid discrimination against the uninsured; reform of state regulation, which one participant... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
reconsidering the traditional model of global health delivery. Each year, the United States alone spends over $9 billion on health improvement worldwide, yet nearly 13 million people die from illnesses that are relatively easy to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
launched a training program for inner-city residents, featuring one-on-one mentoring for new hires, it proved so successful that the company began to mentor all new hires. "Traditional solutions to America's recalcitrant social ills... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
quickly," he observes. Under his guidance, Novartis has been a leader not only in developing new drugs but in making them accessible to those in need around the globe. Dan Vasella has experienced first-hand the anguish of seriously ill... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present by Jeff Madrick (MBA ’71) (Knopf) This is a history of how greed has bred America’s economic ills over the last 40 years, and of the men most responsible... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
experiences at an early age, due to either an illness of their own or that of a close relative. "My family was politically active," Slavin continues, "and I worked on health policy issues one summer in college for Congressman Ed Markey.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
job but can’t make ends meet? —Rick Holliday (MBA 1963) OAKES: Yes, their needs are quite different. For individuals with mental illness or disabilities or who have experienced homelessness, we have learned that just providing an... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
hemophiliac, I knew I was different, but that was just normal life for me,” Massie recalls. “My family led a very romantic existence; we had a great time.” Yet as a child with a chronic illness (“the constant shadow,” he once wrote) that... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
In 2020, the city of Detroit logged some 7,000 calls involving mental health emergencies—a critical issue, notes Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who says, “When the mentally ill turn to the police for a response, the system is broken.” To fix... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
very sick actually. I had this weird stress related illness where I had blurry vision for six months. I couldn't get out of bed for a week. I was all messed up and they didn't know what was wrong with me. My doctor was just like, "We... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
serious illness and its attendant financial insecurity could one day focus instead on a brighter, healthier future. A Cornell graduate who holds an MBA from Boston College, Rhenisch was for years well employed and enjoyed excellent... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
and Thomas K. McCraw, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and his wife, Susan, an attorney, all of whom spoke about how personal events such as death and illness have affected their careers. "I was amazed at how candidly they... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
students began to attack these cases by working together. The goal was threefold, says Dr. James Young, executive dean of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine: Watson was to help doctors get better at diagnosing illnesses and... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
J.R. Klein Oxford University Press In the wake of the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump, globalization is increasingly under the microscope. The view that the reversal of globalization and a return to protectionism and isolation will cure the world’s View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
can take you a long way.” The following year, at the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf (AG Bell) in Washington, D.C., after illness and death struck top executives there, Sommer managed key tasks and projects so well that she... View Details