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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
Benvenuti Photo courtesy Janet Simpson Benvenuti Although I didn’t realize it until much later, my life changed the day I agreed to become legally responsible for my 78-year-old father and my 77-year-old mother, who suffered from lung View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
role that is most important to Harf is being the cofounder and chariman of DKMS, the blood cancer cure bank. Now the most successful organization of its kind in the world, he launched it in 1991 after losing his first wife to blood... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 10 Aug 2021
- News
Moving Education Within Reach
close contact with her mentor over the years. Speaking to Ramalingam on the phone one day, she noticed he had developed a cough and urged him to see a doctor. That visit led to a diagnosis of the cancer that would ultimately take his... 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
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Venture: Time Heals All
Assembling a nursing schedule for a hospital ward can be surprisingly difficult—a little like playing three-dimensional Tetris, says Ilana Springer Borkenstein (MBA 2022). “It is a really challenging, tedious task.” Nurse managers must take into consideration a host of... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he was also a partner. Mendell is a member of the executive committee of the Cancer Research Institute, vice chairman of the New York division of the National Mentoring Partnership, and a trustee of... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Crucible: Give It Up
Here’s a great saying that’s been particularly relevant in my life over the past few years: “If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.” To rewind a bit, I was named president of Micron Technology in January 2012. Five days later, my boss, the CEO, died in a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Action Plan: Casting Call
planned for 2023, when he will celebrate his 100th birthday. He’s quick to characterize the 64-year marriage he shared with his wife, Joan, until she died of cancer in 2012. “Where else could I find a woman who would hike across the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 27 Apr 2023
- News
Life Preserver
led to the creation of the Organ Preservation Alliance, a nonprofit established to advocate for additional funding for research into cryopreservation and connect scientists in the field. Giwa served as founding CEO of what he calls a "mini American View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
charity sector, volunteering for a national breast cancer foundation and within her local community, often with her son in tow. She returned to finance in 2015, but her heart wasn’t in it. That’s when businessman and philanthropist Robert... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
American Cancer Society for the mental health field—an organization that can increase awareness, reduce the stigma, and rally donors to make large, multiyear funding commitments to the most promising care and research in the field. While... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
There are over three million corporations in the United States today. From my experience working with a range of businesses, I am sure there is no cancer of immorality among them. The vast majority of our alumni and business leaders are... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
myeloid leukemia, a blood cancer in which abnormal white blood cells grow quickly. They comforted her by saying that the chemotherapy they were prescribing would attack the abnormal cells. And it did. But her recovery from post-remission... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977
up to the ideals instilled in him by his forebears. Several months after their father died of cancer eight years ago, the Tisch brothers split his office into two, each taking half. “Sometimes when I’m struggling with an issue—whether it... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992
cancer survivor, she says the determination, energy, and perseverance she showed in the workplace were crucial in her successful fight against the illness. "I decided from the beginning that I was going to be upfront about it—look my... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life
answer to that indefatigable voyager into the unconscious, Sigmund Freud. In 1923 Freud, an inveterate cigar smoker, was diagnosed with cancer of the jaw. But for the next sixteen years, up until his death, he did not give up smoking,... 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 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 forms the basis for many... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
family has grown. When his wife, Ann, was diagnosed with cancer eight years ago, he reshuffled his priorities, cut down on travel, and pledged to be home for dinner at least twenty nights a month. Asked about his biggest personal... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
possible for organizations and individuals to donate unused computer time for use in AIDS and cancer research, which requires huge amounts of data-processing capacity. What is the difference between the “no child left behind” approach to... View Details