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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
moving story about her own bout with cancer, an experience that led her to switch from a fast-track investment-banking job to the nonprofit world as head of the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations. On Being There Excerpts... View Details
- 18 Dec 2019
- News
Thinking Smart About Numbers
Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, will talk about recent advances in cancer research and what challenges lie ahead. Review of 2020 Super Bowl Ads Alumni can join the discussion on February 5, 2020 as Tim... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain
"I never intended to write a book," says Deborah A. Cohen (MBA '87). Nor did she expect to be diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 35. The author of Just Get Me Through This! The Practical Guide to Breast View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)
named executive director of the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO), where she had signed on as a volunteer three years earlier. When she joined NABCO, the New York City-based organization's annual budget was $17,000;... View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- News
Breath of Life
Green: Participating in the stem-cell revolution. Courtesy David Green It was the kind of medical miracle that experts say will one day be commonplace. In June, an artificial trachea (windpipe), infused with a tracheal cancer patient’s... 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
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
tackling the global epidemics of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria; preventing noncommunicable diseases, such as cancers and cardiovascular diseases; and promoting equity in health by strengthening health systems worldwide. View Details
- 19 Jun 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
Greg Jarzabek (PLD 21, 2016) was living in London and working in finance when his mother was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer in her native Poland. Jarzabek wanted to reach out to doctors around the world to review and discuss... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
With the sequencing of the human genome running ahead of schedule (see sidebar), the American Stock Exchange's "BTK" biotech index registered an annual increase of 232 percent in February, prompting exuberant headlines ("Move Over, Dot-Coms: Biotech Is Back") and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 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
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
Striking a Balance
1989. “She saw the tension between being mothers, wives, and professional managers.” It was a passion for Wilson, who had planned a research project on these issues before succumbing to cancer in 2003. Wilson took the HBS field study... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Salter New Head of External Relations
elective curriculum in the MBA Program, and chairman of the Advanced Management Program and the Inter-national Senior Managers Program. Salter is a trustee and director of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where he serves on the Finance... View Details
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
when her mother died of cancer at age 43. Consumed by grief, her father succumbed to drink and depression, and the family’s once-idyllic suburban life spiraled downward into poverty. Barely adolescent and lacking role models for success,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
INK: Taking Care
The sad and unfortunate fact is that one in every two people will develop cancer in their lifetime, Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) writes in her new book, Fatal to Fearless: 12 Steps to Beating Cancer in a Broken Medical System. It first happened to her more than 25 years... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Research Brief: The Power of Could
Say you’re in a bind, a tough one. You’ve got cancer and your only hope is chemo—the problem is, it’s wildly expensive and you’re flat broke. Do you follow your moral compass, even if it means dying? Or do you leverage your knack for... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Dan Geffken (MBA '87)
get-together. “I truly enjoy spending time with former classmates,” he said. “They're just very fun, interesting, bright people.” Geffken's HBS ties have offered personal support, too. When Brenda was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2000,... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
cancer still progressing, he and his wife decided it was time to stop treatment. At the age of 74, Sato-san settled in for his final stages in the heart of his home—the altar to his ancestors to his left, oxygen machine to his... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Kill Groupthink
Edited by Julia Hanna and Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Rose Wong If you’re not paying attention, groupthink can turn up like a cancer in the boardroom, hampering growth and innovation, says Helen Lee Bouygues (MBA 2000), founder... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Avon CEO Jung on Leadership
the courage to reinvent yourself, not hold on to the past, and to act swiftly.” Proudly noting that corporate responsibility has always been integral to Avon’s identity, Jung stated that the company has raised over $450 million in the fight against breast View Details