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- 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... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
JULY 12 The HBS Club of India recently launched an “Alumni in Action” campaign, which highlights stories of members who have led pandemic relief efforts. The first two alumni highlighted are Akshay Navaladi... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
million to have the biotech develop it as a potential cancer drug, eventually giving up when even low doses resulted in severe nausea during clinical trials. Still, the drug became a focal point for the... View Details
- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
part thanks to Smyth, who joined the volunteer board of the fledgling Breast Cancer Foundation NZ in the mid-1990s and became its chair in 2009. Her work with the charity has... View Details
- 12 Mar 2019
- News
Acting Naturally
what comes next in everything that we do. We have a very diverse group of people that we work with, because the business is complex. And somehow it all works, where everybody has bought into this common purpose of creating natural... View Details
- 01 Apr 2024
- News
Generosity Multiplied
Foundation launched the Big Give in 2007, and since then, it has raised nearly £200 million for 10,000 charities that address a range of causes, from climate change and cancer research to food insecurity and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
world in life expectancy, at 77.9 years. Half the U.S. population does not receive standard preventive care such as cancer screening, blood pressure checks, or vaccinations. A... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
Utkal University, receiving his degree in 1978. During that time, he also took courses in banking and finance, which enabled him to be promoted to a managerial position. With little room for career growth at... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
Nair, who received his medical training in India and a master's degree from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), Gita's case demonstrates not only the importance of getting good primary View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Fighting the diabetes epidemic using mobile phones
Through Jana Care, a start-up he cofounded in Bangalore, India, Sidhant Jena (SPH 2011, MBA 2011) is building affordable diagnostics and evidence-based lifestyle coaching programs on mobile phones to make diabetes management cheaper,... View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers to discuss anything and everything: medication, insurance, clinical trials, hope, and hopelessness. “We’ve had about 200 families in the group,” Sontag says. “I’ve... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
possible for organizations and individuals to donate unused computer time for use in AIDS and cancer research, which requires huge amounts of data-processing capacity. What is the difference between the “no... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
are following their own business models—whether they are for-profit or not-for-profit. The additional spend on health care is due to increased utilization of health-care services as the population gets older. Costlier innovations and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
consumers in seeking care providers, how consumers make decisions about health care, the system-wide effects of increased consumer choice in health care, and the important... 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
- 18 Dec 2019
- News
Thinking Smart About Numbers
alumni and guests of the HBS Club of India enjoyed Professor Desai’s July 9 book talk in New Delhi, titled “How Finance Works.” His talk “helped de-mystify some of the most complex aspects of finance into... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
data and machine learning to improve health care. Kelley, who recently received a Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship at HBS, aims to bring fast and accurate diagnoses to cancer patients... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
Along with a bunch of other highly qualified students, one of this team’s members was a Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researcher. Within two weeks, the team delivered the bad news that the technology wasn’t going to pan out. But they then... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
India with the SVB delegation. By investing in companies abroad, Wilcox acknowledges that U.S. venture-capital firms are helping to export U.S. jobs. “But I don’t think there is any way around it,” he adds.... View Details