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- 14 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Its 2023-2024 Blavatnik Fellows
industries, including: a novel enzymatic RNA synthesis platform, an immune system-driven dendritic cell therapy to combat cancer, new molecular technologies for the delivery of transdermal formulations, a lipid-targeting drug to treat View Details
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
Claire Zeng Business Track Runner-Up DoriVac (DNA Origami Vaccine) is a biotech startup for improving cancer treatment using a novel DNA nanoparticle platform. We develop View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
worth living, while others took the opportunity to divulge very personal information. In one case, a female employee shocked her colleagues by relating that she had breast cancer and had been having View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
Anatomy of a Hospital System Merger: The Patient Did Not Respond Well to Treatment , Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming). With Sadun, Raffaella, Martin Gaynor, Adam Sacarny, Chad Syverson, and Shruthi Venkatesh. Come... View Details
- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
nourished and lived in conditions of poor hygiene and constant labor. Hair loss was psychologically debilitating for early 20th-century women, as it is today for female cancer patients enduring the ordeals of chemotherapy, for instance,... View Details
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, The Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, Harvard Business School, and The Healthcare Initiative Advisory Board (HBS). Terry received a MBA from Harvard Business School, a MS in engineering... View Details
- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
know how to land a human on Mars. The sobering reality of health care is that terrible things—Alzheimer’s or cancer or an accident—can happen to anyone, including very healthy people. And that’s the bulk of health care spending. The... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thai Lee, MBA 1985
hospice care, but Lee refused to give up. Researching treatment options, she found doctors at Johns Hopkins who performed complicated surgeries. Today, Margaret is cancer-free, and much of Lee's philanthropy focuses on improving outcomes... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 06 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact
“is caution and vigilance,” which she says entails exercising due diligence before embarking on a new effort, whether analyzing investments, running multinational studies, planning treatment for a patient, or launching a start-up, which... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain
"I never intended to write a book," says Deborah A. Cohen (MBA '87). Nor did she expect to be diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 35. The author of Just Get Me Through This! The Practical Guide to Breast View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
treatment in Microsoft Word. (Case in point, see above: “Egocentric Interpretations of Fairness in Asymmetric, Environmental Social Dilemmas: Explaining Harvesting Behavior and the Role of Communication” vs. “The Impossibility of Auditor... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
INK: Taking Care
The sad and unfortunate fact is that one in every two people will develop cancer in their lifetime, Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) writes in her new book, Fatal to Fearless: 12 Steps to Beating Cancer in a Broken Medical System. It first happened to her more than 25 years... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
pharmaceutical companies focused their R&D on treatments for common illnesses — such as diabetes and high cholesterol — an approach that resulted in the development of blockbuster drugs. We now recognize that diseases are far more complex... View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
Eventually, he found a treatment trial at the Mayo Clinic that was testing a new combination of chemotherapy and high-dose radiation. Slowly, Susan’s tumor began to shrink, until there was nothing left but scar tissue. Although she would... View Details
Keywords: April White
Robert P. Luciano
Luciano generated top-level financial performance while streamlining Schering’s business operations. He divested Schering’s non-healthcare related business lines and was one of the first pharmaceutical executives to recognize the potential for biotechnology. His early... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- 17 Aug 2011
- News
Breath of Life
Green: Participating in the stem-cell revolution. Courtesy David Green It was the kind of medical miracle that experts say will one day be commonplace. In June, an artificial trachea (windpipe), infused with a tracheal cancer patient’s... View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Kathryn E. Giusti, MBA 1985
organization, the Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium, have revolutionized cancer research. Under her leadership, the two groups have made incredible progress — including helping to bring patients four new View Details
- 02 Sep 2022
- News
Strength in Numbers
Mark Verdi, Jan Swartz, and Rob Swartz Jan and Rob Swartz and Mark Verdi (all MBA 1996) and Mark’s wife, Gina, have witnessed, firsthand, the negative effects of our nation’s disjointed approach toward the treatment of mental illness.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Amy S. Langer
America today are far more knowledgeable about the disease, which has led to earlier detection and treatment, and higher survival rates. Declares Langer, who has become a national advocate and spokesperson for breast cancer research,... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)
respected spokesperson for patient needs and rights. She advises corporate and government cancer programs and medical professional organizations, gives presentations on cancer survivor- ship at national... View Details