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- 18 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows
immune system-driven dendritic cell therapy to combat cancer, new molecular technologies for the delivery of transdermal formulations, a lipid-targeting drug to treat cancer and neurodegenerative disorders, and AI-driven medical... View Details
- 02 Sep 2022
- News
Strength in Numbers
ineffective.” Their solution? The Goodness Web, a nonprofit that finds its strength in connection, in “a web of people who can aggregate resources—whether that is philanthropic dollars or contacts—to do good, better,” Swartz explains. The Goodness Web aspires to be a... View Details
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Laura Mackay
summer internship allowed me to try a new space that I had not considered prior to HBS and to discover a new passion: the use of technology and services to empower consumers to play a role in their own health care. I was then able to take... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
also has developed partnerships with more than 850 hospitals across Andhra Pradesh that will provide 108 patients with 24 hours of free medical care. Hospitals that had been initially reluctant to sign on to the service quickly came... View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
political system, our review of the literature finds no academic consensus on the consequences of inequality for the health of the economy or the democracy, or for nearly any other macro-level outcome. With the academic community reaching inconclusive and conflicting... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 06 Dec 2012
- News
New Thinking on Healthcare Reform
of minicomputers created more of a midpoint (clinics) before desktop PCs became prevalent (home healthcare and services such as MinuteClinic). "We need to bring technology to outpatient clinics and patients' homes so they can provide more... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Spin Cycle
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. “Cancer has not forced me to change my life,” says Linn. “The irony is that cancer has been one of the best things that ever happened to me.” View Details
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Nabihah Sachedina
Tactically, the Partnership is responsible for thirteen priority programs, ranging from mental health and cancer to childhood obesity and diabetes. But strategically, it's changing the very way health care... View Details
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Kyle Schultz
Kyle Schultz (MBA 2004) works with a software company that is developing ways to notify patients about the costs of their health care procedures and the ways insurance can be applied. View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Get Well Soon
first-year required Technology and Operations Management course (TOM), the case offers valuable takeaways for future managers of any complex service organization. “It’s a good TOM case in that it includes hard numbers and rigorous... View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- News
A Fearless Force for Change
founded with her husband Dave Linn (MBA '00) to fund research and clinical trials at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Linn died July 20 at the age of 40. Diagnosed with a soft-tissue sarcoma (a relatively rare cancer) in December... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Making a Statement
Getting Behind Health Care Andrew M. Paul (MBA 1983) sees a powerful connection between the business side of health care and the benefits of better service delivery to... View Details
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Ebru Dorman
Ebru Dorman (MBA 1999) is deputy CEO of the largest private health care provider in Turkey, focused on improving the patient experience. She is also working to introduce the “softer skills” into the primary school curriculum. View Details
Tasneem Dohadwala
Albright Institute, Charter Member of TiE Boston, member of Brigham and Women’s Cancer Research and Care Advisory Board, member of the Phillips Academy Andover Development Board, and Head of Women’s... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Vital Signs
Halle Tecco (MBA 2011) Halle Tecco (MBA 2011) Halle Tecco (MBA 2011) has been a health care investor since she graduated from HBS. Her fascination with the massive disruptions underway in the industry led her to found the Rock Health... View Details
- 04 Jan 2016
- News
Taking Time Out for a Challenge
After living in Sierra Leone from 2006 to 2010, where she worked as a founding board member of the Welbodi Partnership, which supports the country’s health system in delivering essential services to women and children, HBS doctoral... View Details
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Defining the field of cause-related marketing
After being diagnosed with breast cancer at age 30, Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA 1977) left a career in investment banking to launch the National Breast Cancer Coalition and changed the way organizations raise... View Details
- 07 Jan 2022
- News
Learning to Fight
establish the Sontag Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting brain cancer research and brain cancer patients and caregivers. In the last 18 years, the foundation has awarded more than $35 million to... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
myeloid leukemia, a blood cancer in which abnormal white blood cells grow quickly. They comforted her by saying that the chemotherapy they were prescribing would attack the abnormal cells. And it did. But her recovery from post-remission... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
care costs? Quelch noted that in the cases of the grocery retail market and the financial services market, higher empowerment typically leads to lower costs because more of the work is shifted to the... View Details