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- 23 May 2018
- News
Winning Bid
$90,000 for breast cancer research), as well as its ability to connect people with similar interests: “That’s fascinating both in its simplicity and its complexity,” he says. “It’s not just commerce, it’s commerce and purpose.” READ MORE 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 humanitarian disasters, to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Scott P. Mason Remembered
Scott Mason, an expert in capital markets, valuation, and financial systems and an HBS faculty member for seventeen years, died of cancer in September. He was 50 years old. "Scott was a good friend, valued colleague, and mentor to many of... 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 Jan 2011
- News
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
to mourn the loss of Myra Kraft, who succumbed to cancer in July. While Bob Kraft's remarkable successes in the paper and packaging business, as a sports team owner, and as a philanthropist have made him a beloved figure in the Boston... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Pedal Mettle
The Tour of Hope is a bicycle relay from San Diego to Washington, D.C., a 3,300-mile journey intended to raise awareness about cancer research, prevention, and detection. One of the 25 participants in the October ride was cancer-survivor... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
MBA 101: HBS Commencements Pass the Century Mark
sometimes glacial pace and antiquated norms of cancer research; doubled patients’ lifespans; and raised in excess of $165 million for research. Giusti urged graduates to set goals and build a plan around their passion; choose colleagues... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Father of Modern Advertising
scandal, Lasker pushed for the creation of a baseball commissioner. He was also an influential philanthropist behind the success of Planned Parenthood and the American Cancer Society. The Lasker that pops from these pages is driven,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Venture: Time Heals All
everyone. Borkenstein knows this from experience: As a registered nurse at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, she witnessed the difficult balancing act up close. At HBS, she teamed up with sectionmate Eric Gruskin... 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 longer patient lives in areas such... View Details
- 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
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
“Culture Is Everything”
always in transformation.” He then shared some moments of doubt he had at IBM when he first started (“I didn’t even know what a client server was,” he admitted) and said that he planned to work on public education and cancer research... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Moving Day 2012
would be a better world.” Prior to Sandberg’s talk, student speaker Andrew Sternlight (MBA 2012) related how his bout with cancer taught him profound lessons about community, family, and purpose. “With your extraordinary talents, give... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
then have to think about the prospects for commercialization. They have to communicate back and forth extensively. What were some of the projects? As an example, one of last year’s teams was looking at an application of quantum dots for View Details