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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
in 2016, with Gastfriend as CEO and his father as chief medical officer. A 2014 study estimated that 12.5 million Americans had substance use disorders, and that number was rising, largely due to opioid use. In addition to the human toll,... View Details
- 16 Feb 2011
- News
Healthy Growth
the customer and to innovation” than he was in his previous job as president of Carrier Corporation, a division of United Technologies. He also relishes being “pure play” in one industry—animal health—which he describes as “a target-rich environment for continued View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
illustration by Pablo Amargo illustration by Pablo Amargo There is a doctor shortage in the United States, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, which predicts that the deficit could increase to more than 90,000... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
having to manually ventilate a friend’s 2-year-old son with a bag-valve mask for two days in a Pakistani hospital because of a shortage of ventilators. The boy, Bilan, died. Shaheer and his partners, Hamza Khan (MBA 2019) and Sanchay Gupta (Harvard View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 24 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni New Venture Competition Finalists Named
industries, such as transportation, 3D printing, food, biotechnology, and more. The final four are: Apli: A Mexican talent agency that delivers qualified on-demand workers in 24 hours. Alumna: Vera Makarov, MBA 2010 Region: Latin America FreeFlow View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Feedback
innovative HBS community. We also want this new magazine to be a conversation. You'll see more of your voices throughout the stories, weighing in on everything from business challenges to classroom revelations. And we want to hear from... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
serial entrepreneur, the New Mexico native ran his first business as an undergrad at George Washington University in Washington, DC, in the early 1990s. Selling medical lab tools from his dorm room and making deals using an old-school,... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
what you have done?" Williams asked. "No," admitted Tracy. "I'm going to change that," he said. In its first few years, the fund concentrated on raising money to support research, even hiring a research director to keep tabs on their investments. At night, the couple... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Research Brief: The Best Medicine
As it turns out, innovation doesn’t benefit everyone equally, and a new study tries to understand how that plays out in the pharmaceutical R&D process in the United States. “The numbers are striking,” says Associate Professor Joshua... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
and War, by Nathaniel Philbrick In 1979, Mal Mixon parlayed $10,000 of his own money to engineer the purchase of an Ohio-based wheelchair maker that nobody else wanted. Today Invacare is the world's leading manufacturer and distributor of View Details
- 20 Jan 2011
- News
A Precursor from the 1930s
professors from other graduate schools on research in interdisciplinary fields. They are also teaching courses that attract the interest of graduate students from other schools. And the Harvard Innovation Lab that HBS will fund, to be... 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 educational and... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
widespread adoption of the numerous innovations that already exist. The challenge identifies and supports the wider dissemination of proven medical innovations. The On-Demand Economy Doesn’t Have to Run on... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
Ganesh Natarajan (AMP 169, 2005), Chairman of 5F World, Lighthouse Communities Foundation, and Honeywell Automation India. Navaldi’s highlighted contributions include “delivering medicines, oxygen concentrators, and medical supplies to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
knowledge into action and, at the same time, be aware of their own character and values. In short, the School’s vision for 21st-century leadership requires a commitment to three dimensions of learning: knowing, doing, and being (see sidebar next page). View Details
- 28 Feb 2011
- News
Rebooting the Human Condition
engineered cells, biological tissue, and robots. This perfect storm of innovation will allow humans to shape their own evolution (as well as that of other species) and create solutions to energy, health, and economic problems. Enriquez... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Cutting Edge
the day—the evening drop has melatonin, for example—and we're now rolling out a line of medicated lozenges." A Higher Authority When Steve Silk took over at Hebrew National in 1999, the company had lost $6 million in the two years since... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
for-profit. She began to make her mark as vice president of business development at Novica, in Los Angeles, an e-commerce company that connects artisans in developing countries to businesses and consumers in the US. "It's an innovative... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
addressed one of four topics: different models of consumer-driven health care; the role of consumer-driven health care in supporting innovative solutions to chronic problems in the industry; the new breed of consumer information and... View Details
- 22 Jun 2023
- News
Finding Her Place
president of global franchises and innovation at ConvaTec, helping to prepare the $1.8 billion, London-based company to go public. After its successful IPO, Hudson took some time off to travel with her husband but fully expected to return... View Details