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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
to be a doctor, but over time I became interested in larger health-care systems issues, too.” After graduating from Harvard College, where he started a health clinic for homeless people in Harvard Square, Jain completed three years at... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
Clubs News Clubs News “Awesome” Author Helps Toronto Club Cultivate Calm; Cleveland Clinic Gives Updates As the COVID-19 quarantine extends through the spring and summer, the HBS Club of Toronto is producing webinars to keep alumni... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
times as many Ph.D.’s as India. Basic education and technical and vocational training languish despite renewed government commitments. The rich-poor gap in education is mirrored in health care — India boasts hospitals and View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
antibiotic susceptibility profiles. The expertise DZD has developed along its three-year journey is already being deployed in clinical settings. “Our goal has always been to be commercially relevant, even during our R&D phase,” notes Lee.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 18 Feb 2016
- News
Challenge Aims to Speed Drug Trials Process
The HBS Health Care Initiative is seeking innovative ideas from the science, patient, business, and medical communities on how to transform trials for precision medicine. Through the HBS Precision Trials Challenge, it aims to bring... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
access encrypted data on the phone so contact tracers can notify those who have been near the person and provide them with health care guidance. The development of the app—an example of government-supported technological innovation for... View Details
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
outcome for the child. "SynapDx is doing very well and completing a large clinical study thanks to a $15 million investment from Google Ventures," says Anquetil, who retains an ownership stake in the company but is no longer involved in... View Details
- 11 Oct 2012
- News
Answering the Doctor's Call
take it to heart. Says Downing, a married father of three who has spent more than a decade volunteering in the poor urban neighborhoods of nearby Akron, “My true heroes are the pastors, social workers, doctors, and nurses who volunteer in the View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
both in and out of clinical settings, with the goal of trying to understand the patients’ life and relationship with their illness as completely as possible. They go to appointments with them, have coffee, visit their homes, meet their... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Rhenisch Rick Bern/Courtesy Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority A community organizer during the 1960s, Madelyn Rhenisch was a pioneering advocate for better medical care for the people of rural upstate New York. More... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
Vasella Illustration by Dennis Balogh Twenty years ago a young doctor with a hankering for business experience gave up his clinical practice in Bern, Switzerland, and moved to East Hanover, New Jersey, to try his hand at drug sales with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
indeed created a market for babies. Parents can choose the traits they want, clinics advertise for customers, and specialized providers are getting rich — it’s a $3 billion business in the United States alone. And that figure doesn’t... View Details
- 20 Jul 2020
- News
Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online
reforms.” Breed told the group her goal is to protect the public and the police. “She said growing up in public housing helped prepare her for these times, and she’s very hopeful for the future,” says Adams. “She believes that people genuinely View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 27 Nov 2012
- News
The Beauty of the Network
veteran of the beauty business who has devoted her career to helping create and launch some 400 products for other companies. “The initial round of funding came from Bonnie Messing, Tracey Bilski, and Lauren Bender (all MBA 1987),” Pao says. “They made it possible to... View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
You are healthy now, thankfully. I wondered, how do you see your work at Silver Linings evolving in the future? Somani: When I first launched Silver Linings, a lot of the work was still focused on the health care side and sharing my View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
practiced; what it means to be a “health care provider” needs to expand to include caregivers without advanced clinical degrees; and the United States needs a new health insurance model. Huckman concludes,... View Details
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
presentation based on his book, Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success, and Professor Weiss presented a session based on his book, We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 24 Apr 2020
- News
Spreading the Love
2015), a bioengineer and entrepreneur, and Emilio LaTorre, Lovepop’s head of supply chain. The team also collaborated with working groups at Partners Healthcare (which operates Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and other health View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
communities of color who include the voices of community members in their decision-making.” Unknown to Big Funders The NCF focuses on four pillars of underfunded structural challenges: policing and criminal justice reform; economic empowerment; health View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
passion. It’s just my passion is the technology, not the problem. That’s a great way of doing things. Many really good businesses have been built up on that. The other way, that’s more familiar to me, is saying, I have a problem and I need to fix it. I don’t really... View Details