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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 08 Apr 2011
- News
Management Matters In Health Care, Too
opportunities abound. That helps to explain why 372 current students have expressed an interest in the health-care industry. That interest is nurtured by the Health Care Initiative, a multidisciplinary program dedicated to innovative... View Details
- 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
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
scores of patients and experts across a variety of fields, combining patient stories with medical insights and advice from those who have been there, and structured around the typical phases of the process, this book is an accessible... View Details
- 15 May 2023
- News
From Scientist to Business Leader
Brianna Kim (MS/MBA 2023) When she was little, Brianna Kim (MS/MBA 2023) fell in love with the hard sciences and expected to eventually go to medical school or earn a PhD. But her plans changed after college. Kim grew up outside Washington, DC, as the hearing daughter... 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
- 09 Feb 2016
- News
Powering into the Future
have is having to plug them in all the time and charge them. So we use magnetic waves to move the power, and to move it very efficiently. There are applications across all of these consumer electronics, automotive vehicles, even medical... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
Mediva (for Medical Innovation and Value-Added). The medical branch remains a legally separate nonprofit, according to Japanese regulation, but in practice the two entities... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 26 Mar 2014
- News
The Power of Education
Puerto Rico, where Pagán-Durán grew up. “I could never have attended Harvard without significant scholarship funds,” explains the ophthalmologist who works in private practice and as an associate clinical professor at the Veterans Administration View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
adopting business practices. Helping students, alumni, outside business leaders, and nonprofit managers develop skills and innovations they can apply to the social sector is one of the main goals of the Initiative on Social Enterprise, an... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 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 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
x-ray machines. Today, under Immelt’s leadership, GE is a $173 billion organization that still has roots in its past, even as it rides a wave of 21st-century innovation in clean energy, water treatment, and View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Your Keyboard Is Listening
And unlike many other medical tests used to diagnose neurological diseases, it is also noninvasive and therefore can be used to monitor healthy people for signs of disease. “A lot of people may say, ‘Do I really want to know if I have one... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
engineering major with a goal of building cars, he saw a future spent designing door handles in some automaker’s basement and switched to international affairs and foreign policy. After graduation, he spent three years in China helping his father build a View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
Contest were Boss Medical and Baby.com.br, while SANA Care won in the social enterprise track. More than 90 teams submitted entries as part of this year's Alumni New Venture Contest. Clubs in Boston, Brazil, Chicago, Germany, India, New... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
which HBS faculty are already studying. While one faculty member, for example, might look at the role that stock options played in a company that failed after it went public, another might investigate how a medical device company marketed... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
leading from the street to the house itself. That insight, coupled with the radical nature of precision medicine, led to a realization: A “business as usual” approach wouldn’t do the trick; a different way of fighting cancer required an equally View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li