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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
more than sixfold to 65. The School now offers seven elective social enterprise courses and lists thirteen more as social enterprise–related. Since 2000, enrollment in these electives has more than doubled to some 400 students. Over the same period, enrollment in... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Student turns family health crisis into online solution
CareSolver, is an online health care service platform that offers families customized care guides as well as educational material and resources. The goal is to help caregivers get better care for their aging loved ones at a lower cost.... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
hospital stays and doctors' visits showed her the health care system up close. "I realized that I really wanted to make a difference," she recalls. At Harvard, this self-described "contrarian" recalls having to push her idea of promoting social and environmental value... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969
his schools in Sanliurfa. Hüsnü Özyeğin was born in Izmir, Turkey, the son of a medical doctor and a homemaker. At the age of 10 he went to Robert Academy, a prep school in Istanbul, and upon graduation he received a scholarship to attend... View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
- News
Working to Improve the End of Life
educate the public and medical professionals about end-of-life issues, like advance directives, palliative care, and hospice. We provide individual counseling to patients who are dying and their families,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
education and say that they are only providing opportunities,” writes Tamara Heimur (HBS ’10). “On the other hand I was impressed with the CEOs’ commitment to continually increasing reach and decreasing interest rates. It highlighted the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Action Plan: Net Proceeds
supply chain and certification company, to address the plastic pollution he saw in Haiti and other communities around the world. Goodwin had originally traveled to Haiti under the auspices of Executives Without Borders, which he helped launch with fellow Executive... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
New HBS, KSG Joint Degree
each school to become professionals skilled at devising innovative approaches to a broad range of complex challenges in society. There is also a wealth of increased opportunities for faculty collaboration in research, course development, and teaching.” Harvard Business... View Details
- 17 Aug 2020
- News
Democratizing Medicine
Inspired by a family member’s experience with a lack of timely access to health care, Carlos Reines (MBA 2014) built RubiconMD make sure others get the medical expertise they need, when they need it. In this interview, he talks about how... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Amy S. Langer
knows the subject all too well: Langer herself is a breast cancer survivor whose own bout with the disease seventeen years ago led her to leave a successful career at Lehman Brothers to fight cancer on behalf of other women, including those with limited View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
the experience of businesses including Keurig, Peloton, and Rent the Runway to develop more effective strategies to engage and educate patients about precision medicine, the need for genetic testing, and the importance of sharing that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 08 Apr 2011
- News
Management Matters In Health Care, Too
Harvard Medical School. He has shown that detailed checklists can improve surgical patient outcomes. Gawande told the audience that traditional practices with individual doctors can’t meet the complex challenges of modern medicine.... View Details
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
different departments. "NABCO was instrumental in changing the course of breast cancer screening, treatment, and care," she says. "Our physician and corporate partnerships to educate women replaced fear with facts. We helped craft and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Conference Examines Intersection of Medicine and Business
With a focus on cutting-edge ideas shaping global health care, the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association drew some 300 participants to its annual three-day conference in early November, held for the first time on the Harvard Medical... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Campaign Season
Jonathan Zittrain and included McArthur University Professor Rebecca Henderson, cochair of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative, and Harvard Medical School professor Peter Sorger. HBS will launch its campaign in April, followed by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
MD/MBA Program Launched
will produce “a new generation of leaders in health care.” Graduates of the program, whose enrollment will increase over time, will be encouraged to practice medicine before becoming senior executives in hospitals, health-care organizations, and private-sector firms... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
Karacesme (MBA 2021) and Süleyman Onay (MBA 2016) are working with the Turkish Education Foundation to raise awareness about a unique fund designed to support students called “Keep Them in School.” “The foundation initially had plans and... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Agenda: Amanda E/J Morrison (MBA 2014)
RIPPLE EFFECT “A woman gets a period around age 12 to 14, and then we tell her to go off in the world and not get pregnant.” “A woman gets a period around age 12 to 14, and then we tell her to go off in the world and not get pregnant.” For 15 years, the morning-after... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
shelters, Shumway talked to homeless residents about their circumstances. “These are good people,” he says. “They may have started to self-medicate with drugs or alcohol because they didn’t have access to the psychiatric or medical... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
complex, society-wide issues behind the problems in our education system, and it will require strong leadership and a smart investment of resources — not just setting standards — to turn them around. You write extensively about the way we... View Details