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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
the pair look for new businesses to support, one area that personally interests Levy is family caregiving. “We have 50 million unpaid, untrained family caregivers. I'm really interested in the care that’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care by Richard M.J. Bohmer (Harvard Business Press) In this book, Senior Lecturer Bohmer, a medical doctor, explains that health-care professionals provide two different types... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Fighting the diabetes epidemic using mobile phones
people worldwide who suffer from this often-fatal disease. With a goal of reversing “diabesity”—the twin epidemic of diabetes and obesity that is engulfing the developing world—Jana Care is building biosensors and software apps that can... View Details
- 03 Feb 2014
- News
Eyes on Medical Breakthroughs
1979), she learned not only about the workings of the human body, but also about the value of relationships and collaboration. It all added up to make her one of the savviest health care sector investors in the country. In the early... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
health care system. Bushkin’s unassuming item is MedKaz®, a 4-GB flash drive carried on a keychain or in a wallet that can hold a lifetime of medical records, giving patients control over their data and providing a full picture for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Wyss Celebrated for Career, Conservation
Hansjörg Wyss (MBA 1965) has been unusually public of late, celebrated for his visionary accomplishments in health care and conservation. Wyss, 75, founded Synthes USA, a Swiss-American firm, in 1974 and led it to global prominence as a... View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
American Cancer Society for the mental health field—an organization that can increase awareness, reduce the stigma, and rally donors to make large, multiyear funding commitments to the most promising care and research in the field. While... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
patients than any other hospital in the state—to bend without breaking under the pressure of the pandemic. Professor Robert Huckman is an economist and health care researcher who serves as unit head for Technology and Operations... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
1981. The School's Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, Herzlinger is the author of seven best-selling books, including her landmark volume Market-Driven Health Care (1997), which analyzed the revolutionary impact of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Bottom-Line Beauty
cheap. If a product doesn't affect the customer, we don't care about it." Meanwhile, Bluemercury is reaping the benefits of Malcolm's thrift and savvy, with projected revenues of $8 million for 2000 and five new stores slated to open in... View Details
- 18 Feb 2019
- News
Tracing Ridhi Tariyal's Startup Journey
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Can the United States Avoid a Fractured Future?
We’re bringing religion and some very personal terms into it. A whole series of fissures that have sat quiet in this country for a long time can be revived if there isn’t space for moderation. What can be done to bring the country... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
level of creatine kinase—an enzyme indicative of muscle damage—in a normal person's blood is around 50 units per liter, maybe as high as 100 after a workout. Charley's was 20,000. It suggested muscular dystrophy. Related Links Curing Health View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Turning Point: Ready or Not
was so lost in the black hole of Zoom meetings and other pandemic-related frustrations that it was easy to forget the necessity of showing unqualified love, concern, and attention—the sort of care I remember receiving from my grandmother.... View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
and more treatable stage. And so when I came across this company it just so personally resonated with me. And I pivoted my corporate career into the health care space and into genomic space, all inspired by... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Turning Point: Network Effects
nonprofit that develops national networks of volunteer mental health professionals who can provide free, confidential care to individuals experiencing an acute or chronic need for help. Our initial focus was veterans and their families,... View Details
Keywords: Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997)
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Health Industry Alumni Convene for Conference
Current issues in health care; ranging from finance and patients' rights to genomics and personalized medicine; were among the subjects discussed last November at the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association's second annual conference. Held... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Bill Dunaway (MBA 1964)
A self-described SOB — son of the boss — Bill Dunaway grew up working in his father’s pharmacy in Marietta, Georgia, a town of 61,000 outside Atlanta. After expanding the business to a chain of 18 drug stores, Dunaway sold the operation in 1989 and opened the 1848... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
1,500-person division is a leader in the emerging field of personalized medicine, which treats cancer and other diseases with customized therapies that take into account the patient’s specific genetic traits. With HBS professor Richard... View Details