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- 30 Sep 2022
- News
Scaling Hope
collection of essays that D’Antonio hopes will help other parents, he writes of what he wishes he’d known in the beginning: “I wish I had known that there was hope, a lot of hope, and that recovery was likely to happen for my son. I wish I had known that my son could... View Details
- 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 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
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: In 2008, Jim Langford (MBA 1984) became the executive director of the Georgia Meth Project, a nonprofit that blanketed his native state with a graphic, disturbing ad campaign dedicated to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Cast of Characters
The main characters of F.X. Biasi Jr.’s (PMD 41, 1981) first epic, The Brother-in-Law, were too old to star in an ongoing adventure series. So in Biasi’s later thrillers, the mantle is passed on to a son, Navy SEAL Bruce Tanner—“the classic all-American male hero.” In... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
trajectory of overdose deaths from prescription drugs and heroin. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US death rate from opioid overdose has increased over 400 percent since 1999; the picture is even grimmer... 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
- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
app allows the user to participate in random drugs tests using a thumbprint, or breath or saliva tests via video. “No more degrading urine tests,” Gastfriend says. Patients are rewarded for meeting goals and staying on the program through... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 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)
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
Bank made a $160 million settlement with the Justice Department, agreeing it had been lax about accepting drug money from Mexico.) While U.S. law is tough on drug trafficking, terrorist financing, bank... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
of scientific inquiry in gene-based hearing loss and inner-ear drug delivery: “In some infants with profound hearing impairment, there’s a mutation in one of those genes that results in loss of a protein that inner-ear cells need to... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
brink of failure through a painful restructuring and commitment to both innovation and the diversification of its product lines. “We make products that change the world,” he says, noting Corning’s development of LCD glass; tools to facilitate View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 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
- 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 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
hundreds of millions of rural poor into the market system (as China Mobile did by bringing mobile phone service to the Chinese countryside), that brought medicine where it had been unaffordable (which the Indian pharmaceutical firm Cipla did with HIV/AIDS 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 Dec 2020
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Quantum Leap
process of drug development: With quantum’s ability to analyze multiple molecules, proteins, and chemicals at the same time, researchers could significantly speed the time to market with ultrafast and high-volume testing—and discover new... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
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To Market, to Market
chirality) of drug molecules with a high degree of accuracy for drug development and diagnostic applications. Chemical compounds excreted by predators that stimulate avoidance behavior in disease-carrying... View Details