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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement
tag Biotech/pharma Care Delivery Clinical Trials Health Care Innovation Public Health Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) . Not only a mouthful, but also very hard to spell and remember - a fitting name for a rare disease. This is the genetic View Details
- 29 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)
In what could be considered the first business how-to book, an Italian merchant from the 1400s advises leaders to be charitable, ethical, and treat people fairly; be modest; look for the right qualities in a wife; be selective in deals; and retire at 50, when “natural... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 17 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both?
Ramesh Balwani, had long known that Theranos’ home blood test didn’t work, but misled investors to keep money flowing in. Holmes and Balwani are accused of defrauding patients, doctors, and investors of over $700 million. At its peak in... View Details
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
explains the process to his two young children: Think of your body as needing a recipe book, with each page detailing the directions to produce specific proteins. When a protein goes haywire—as might be the case with diabetes, when insulin needs to be produced to keep... View Details
- 26 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Office of Strategy Management
positive effects are being most keenly felt in the organizations we cite in our article—the Army, Chrysler Group, and Canadian Blood Services since they are the earliest adopters. As the concept of the OSM matures and as we hear more and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
on-the-ground advocacy—to go get a free eye exam or a blood pressure check-up. Easy. Your basic principles of sales and promotion will carry the day. If your charge is minimizing smoking or drug use, well, your job becomes rather more... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
8 Stories from PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
of blood or marriage. This is a strong part of the LGBTQ+ community in many ways, but it was not new to me. I grew up with eight people living in my house, which included my parents and two siblings, along with my godmother and her two... View Details
- 21 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Machine Learning and Behavioral Economics
assignment, before embarking on his MBA, was one of the corporation’s flagship projects - the Baseline Study. The project is a longitudinal study of human health that he describes as “like a Google Earth of the body. By accumulating cross-sectional data – such as View Details
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
blood testing market. The company and its founder were riding high, adorning the covers of magazines and making headlines. But the momentum slowed in October after a negative write-up in The Wall Street Journal, which questioned several... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
A good way to visualize what incumbents can do when faced with a disruptive attack is to consider how humans respond to a perceived threat. Our body immediately reacts. We produce adrenaline. Our heart rate goes up. Our respiration rate goes up. View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
Enfants du Paradis (1945). “The dialogue, the acting, the cinematography are all sublime. I also love The Last King of Scotland with Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin and Blood Diamond with Leonardo DiCaprio. I’ve met similar mercenary-type... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
our respective losses. So turns out that Peter lost the love of his life, his wife, to a blood disorder. She also needed a bone marrow transplant. He couldn't get her a bone marrow transplant. When he shared that with me, I was so... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
noteworthy cases from HBS faculty about companies that are balancing blood ties and balance sheets. hbsp.harvard.edu CP Group Balancing the Needs of a Family Business with the Needs of a Family of Businesses How a second-generation leader... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
trillion in assets in 2008. One such member of PRI is Generation Investment Management, a company founded by David Blood (MBA ’85) and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, with offices in New York, London, and Sydney. Generation considers... View Details
- Portrait Project
Zachary Surak
little heaven on earth was only a few miles down the road at the college I had grown up visiting — Princeton. "Zack, that's just not going to happen." I wish I could have seen the look on my face. How does someone look when his dreams have been crushed? The... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Founding a bone marrow donor bank that saves thousands of lives
Peter Harf (MBA 1974) transformed Joh. A. Benckiser SE, a small, privately held German company into a global powerhouse, but it’s his cofounding of Delete Blood Cancer DKMS that he considers his most important role. Since 1991, the... View Details
- 23 Mar 2016
- News
Building a Biotech Business from Farmed Fish
Charlton Ames (MBA 1970) is chairman and vice president of business development for Sea Run Holdings, a virtual firm in Maine that develops innovative biologics and therapeutics from the blood of farmed salmon. In this video he explains... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
and Santiago, Chile For-profit conservationists David Blood (MBA 1985) Generation Investment Management London, New York, and Sydney Investment management that integrates sustainability factors and traditional equity research Scott Bolick... View Details
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Mastering Strategy Execution
By: Robert Simons
Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details
- 03 Apr 2016
- News
The Tampon of the Future
Ridhi Tariyal (MBA 2009) Ridhi Tariyal (MBA 2009) Is it possible to draw blood from a person without causing discomfort? That question has puzzled scientists for years. And the solution—for women, at least—finally is coming to market as... View Details