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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)
diabetes to support services for those with catastrophic illnesses such as AIDS. Through the church's efforts, hundreds of residents in Riverhead and beyond have been able to climb out of poverty, drug abuse, and crime to create lives of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Rebooting Europe
targeted effort to improve Ebola treatments resulted in development of an antiviral drug with potential to treat the early stages of the disease. Better research, Moedas says, also requires better support for researchers. At a gathering... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Health IT at the Bedside
prescription from CVS and automatically check for any drug interactions. The hospital, like many community hospitals and doctors’ offices, did not have electronic records, but his office did. Would he ever go back to a paper prescription... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
effectively enforced money-laundering laws? For one thing, the flow of illegal drugs into this country would be significantly curtailed. At first, drug profits might simply be laundered elsewhere. Good!... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Inspiration Is Not Enough
execution can kill even the greatest of ideas. Alexander Graham Bell invented the “speaking telegraph” but had no aptitude to build a business around it. Dean Kamen (OPM 7, 1982) had already made riches on inventions, including the first View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Sorry, We’re All Out of Chilean Sea Bass
places our food comes from and us the consumers. And that’s part of the problem. Do you think it was worth spending millions of taxpayer dollars and endangering lives to pursue the fishing vessel? The economic incentives for this kind of fishing begin to resemble the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived
telemedicine services available next year to employees in states that allow it. We’re going to see a lot more investment in this area, from both established health care companies and startups. What’s next in health care? “More constraints on View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Turning Point: Addiction’s Impact
image by Jeffrey Decoster image by Jeffrey Decoster I was blindsided when my daughter told me, “I’m a heroin addict.” It was November 16, 2009, at a meeting with her drug counselor at Boston College. After I uttered a profanity and... View Details
Keywords: Melissa Weiksnar (MBA 1982)
- 14 Apr 2014
- News
The Puzzle of Life
capitalize companies that may not make sense for venture funds but do make sense for smart angels who have more patience than most VCs." Among those companies: Rani Therapeutics, an early-stage venture focused on making injectable biological View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics
2002 Alumni Achievement Awards Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68) Chairman, President, and CEO, Merck & Co. Since June 1994, when Gilmartin became its president and CEO, Merck has launched seventeen new drugs and increased revenues from $15... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
failed companies. When Potentia Pharmaceuticals won the contest in 2001 with Alec Machiels (MBA 2001) at the helm, its plan hinged on a mechanism created by a team of Harvard and MIT scientists that used atomic force microscopy in drug... View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- News
Voting for Optimism in Baltimore
problem that includes reducing the drug trade and its effect on homicides in the city while, at the same time, improving processes within the police department. When people can’t expect the police to do certain things, it causes the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Feedback
bulletin@hbs.edu. Write us a letter. This is your magazine. It needs your voice. Gene Williams, featured in the December 2013 HBS Alumni Bulletin Top Story The story of Gene Williams (MBA 1987) and his new drug development model hit a... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
notorious criminals. Presiding over complex, multidefendant trials at the height of the 1980s crack cocaine epidemic, Snyder stared down members of the “Wild Cowboys” drug gang like Daniel (“Fat Danny”) Rincon and Stanley (“Trigger”)... View Details
- 28 Apr 2016
- News
New Venture Competition Winners Announced
the $2,000 crowd favorite prize. It was a big night for big ideas in the health care field. In the student competition, Astraeus Technologies, a faster lung cancer screening, and UrSure, Inc., which is focused on HIV prevention drug... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
make food in the stuff,” he says. Capitalizing on its burgeoning algal expertise, SGI has already bred one strain that can make highquality protein and healthful fatty acids, and it hopes to coax others into producing biological drugs... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
Brazil,” he explains, “but after a project in Colombia, where we worked in regions that had been affected by guerillas and the drug trade, I started to think more about countries with challenges that require really large-scale... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)
it’s not drug problems or throwing a stapler at the assistant. It’s missing a delivery date. A veteran I worked with told me, ‘Your job isn’t to make it great; your job is to get it in by Tuesday.’ ” Dick’s prime-time résumé includes The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
recently been the headquarters of a drug dealer known as “Tarzan.” It was a symbolic gesture, Rodríguez Larreta acknowledges, but an important one. “Our biggest obstacle was the lack of credibility. For years, [residents] have had... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
to move away, while the other rejects farm life to pursue a bigger payday smuggling drugs over the Canadian border. It’s a tough but touching story with a very un-Hollywood ending. Yet, for Jared Simon (MBA 2008), the making—and... View Details