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- 13 Mar 2020
- News
Expanding Cancer Care
I spent pretty much every weekend going to nursing homes and making house calls with my dad and spending a lot of time around pretty sick patients. So for most of my life—my adult life—I decided I actually didn't want anything to do with... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
“At first it was just some of us from our Section I. Then it was other students and professors. If you knew Avi—he is so inspiring, no one says ‘no’ to him.” Indeed, dozens of HBS students, alumni, staff, and past and present faculty... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
phase four is the single-patient clinical trial. Morrell: So you are trying to build this new model of customized medicine and your first proof of concept is your brother. Horgan: That’s exactly right. And... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
points out. "And in both a hospital and a business, you have to rely on cross-functional teams." It is that cross-functional approach that lies at the heart of Vasella's management philosophy. At Novartis, View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
tide. “If we don’t take steps to slow down or stop drug resistance, we will fall back to a time when simple infections killed people. Can you imagine? That’s a bit of a doomsday perspective, but it’s a call to action.” “We are approaching... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 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... View Details
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
have the skills that you don’t,” she said. In the end that included experts and officials in clinical development, manufacturing, and delivery. “I also added people from government with defense procurement... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 30 Jun 2010
- News
Congressional Pork Is Bad for Business
ascendancy to the chairmanship of a powerful committee, the average firm in his state cuts back capital expenditures by roughly 15 percent, according to the trio's working paper, "Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?" The research strongly suggests that... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers
Executive Vice President for Strategy, Technology, and Innovation at Major League Baseball (photo by Alex Trautwig/MLB Photos) If you haven’t picked up a pack of baseball cards lately, you might be surprised... View Details
- 21 Dec 2017
- News
A Decent Place to Live
Humanity International. What attracted me there was this very simple and radical notion we have that everyone deserves a decent place to live. “If you think about it, home affects where View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Working on the Local Level
Aaron Chadbourne (JD/MBA 2010) accepted an offer from Maine’s governor to put his MBA to work tackling some of his home state’s toughest issues—from high taxes and an aging population to business development. In this video, he explains... View Details
- 16 Sep 2016
- News
Gaining Ground on ALS
If you are one of the 17 million people who participated in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, the money you raised may be helping to fund a first-of-its kind clinical collaboration... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
consumerism isn't necessarily a win for the planet either, right? Shopping can be helpful in getting the economy back up and running but more products filling our homes is not going to be helpful long-term in our climate goals. Can View Details
- 26 Mar 2014
- News
The Power of Education
had to make two trips from our home in New Jersey, but we didn’t want to miss either event.” The couple’s belief in the power of a Harvard education has inspired their generous and thoughtful support of both Harvard College and HBS. At... View Details
- 18 Dec 2019
- News
Thinking Smart About Numbers
of San Diego’s annual holiday party took place at the home of Gabriel Wisdom (OPM 26, 1998) and his wife Diane Weiss-Wisdom in Rancho Santa Fe, CA, on December 7th. With a Roaring 20s speakeasy theme, guests enjoyed 1920s accessories, a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Health IT at the Bedside
puzzled through the fragments of his history, my mom and I did our best to fill in the gaps. Clinical decisions are only as good as the information you have to make them. As competent and well-meaning as my... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
Reshaping Their Futures and Yours (HBS Press). The two countries together are home to roughly a third of the world’s population, and both are undergoing rapid social and economic transformation. Yet most Americans, asserts Khanna, are... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
ASPINALL Illustration by Jack Unruh When you ask people about their great fears in life, virtually everyone talks about cancer,” says Mara G. Aspinall (MBA ’87), past president of Genzyme Genetics, a Westborough, Massachusetts-based... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
genes to the inner ear with unprecedented efficiency.” The five-year-old company will likely apply for clinical testing permission for its lead therapy in the first half of 2022—a key hurdle in the notoriously lengthy process of advancing... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
interacted with it...I wanted to take the chapel and make it a public space." Bob Ryan: The funeral home was in a very rundown building. If you segment the African American market, View Details