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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)
his business background may also be a valuable asset in what he sees as the "tough times ahead" for health-care management. "Insurance companies used to write a check for just about anything a physician wanted to do, but today medicine is... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 08 Mar 2018
- News
How HBS Gives Back
with the neighborhood and the city.” The article also features a collection of staff reflecting on their volunteer experiences, including this thought from Krys Mroczowski, assistant director of the Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
through an innovation-killing “peer review” process. The history of medicine is filled with shameful stories of “peers” who used their powers to suppress innovations: Judah Folkman, the brilliant scientist whose antiangiogenesis theory... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
"blockbusters" will disappear. Recent developments suggest that doctors will eventually be able to treat patients more effectively with medicine tailored to their genetic makeup, including, in some cases, gene replacement therapies. "The... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
cross-cultural initiatives at Harvard. Committed to enabling young people to reach their potential, Lemann co-founded Fundação Estudar to provide scholarships for Brazilian students. He also heads a family foundation that supports education, health, the environment,... View Details
- 27 Apr 2023
- News
Life Preserver
When Sebastian Giwa (MBA 2009) joined Singularity University's Global Solutions Program in the summer of 2012, he was accepted based on his ideas of how distance learning and remote work—both rarities at that point—could reshape opportunities for youth in developing... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Case Study: Your Data, Your Health
the cost of paying for health insurance subscribers, which will bring higher returns for the insurance company. We have seen this in the drug Angiomax by the Medicines Company. —Suleiman Yakasai (PLDA 22, 2016) Got a case? To take part in... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Innovation as Antidote
ails the industry ("Curing Health Care"), including Halle Tecco's (MBA 2011) focus on incubating new ideas and Gregory Stock's (MBA 1987) push to make medicine more personalized. WILLIAMS The energy behind these ideas originates in the... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19
globe,” notes Sanchay Gupta (MD/MBA 2022), who cofounded Umbulizer in 2017 and serves as chief medical officer. Before the pandemic developed, Umbulizer’s affordable device was already in use in hospitals and mobile medicine settings in... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Scientific Discovery
day, where it is the focus of Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. “The world is now very excited about the possibility of curative medicines originating from CRISPR-Cas9 technologies invented at the Broad Institute,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Christina Ehrenberg: The Examined Life
Ehrenberg decided at an early age that she wanted to be a doctor. “I was very concerned about sick people,” she says, “and I thought medicine was the greatest job in the world.” In 1997, she graduated from medical school in Munich and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
illustration by Marcos Chin illustration by Marcos Chin It’s hard to overstate the impact that antibiotics had on medicine after they became widely available in the 1940s. In the United States, the leading causes of death shifted from... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
biofuels project should eventually permit researchers to turn algae into microscopic factories for the manufacture of virtually any organic compound, leading to what Enriquez describes as a full-blown algal revolution. “You can make vaccines in the stuff, you can make... View Details
- 20 Aug 2016
- News
The Business of Improving Health Care Delivery
Josue Zapata (MD/MBA 2012) is chief resident in internal medicine at the University of California in San Francisco. In this interview he discusses how he is utilizing his business training to make a difference in patient treatment and... View Details
- 10 Aug 2021
- News
Moving Education Within Reach
out of the cycle of poverty. At least 11 of his students have gone on to become doctors, according to family records, including his very first student: Dr. Malarkodi opted to became an internal medicine specialist rather than a... View Details
- 20 Jan 2011
- News
A Precursor from the 1930s
in 2007. And the five-year DMD/MBA with the Harvard School of Dental Medicine began in 2009. I was surprised to have found some evidence that already in the 1930s, HBS was offering a joint degree (or a joint course of study) with the... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
multilateral agencies funded and facilitated the conversion.” Aurelio Montinola (MBA 1977) Chairman, Far Eastern University (FEU): “To assist our medical front-liners, we set up the gym of FEU Alabang with a 50-bed capacity for the outsourced health care workers of the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Raymond Hwang (MBA 2010)
medical director of the KishHealth Spine Center? “It’s remarkable how often I use HBS-derived knowledge, particularly since medicine is not a traditional MBA career track. From assessing the financial status of a medical practice to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
intersections and pass the information along to local governments to encourage better traffic management. They review 108 hang-ups, study best practices of emergency medicine in other countries, evaluate the level of care available at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
unique training.” That same philosophy, Gardner offers, informs how he runs the company. “We work hard to create an inclusive culture that embraces everyone’s individual contribution. We then try to help them develop their skills. View Details
Keywords: Susan Young