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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
conference included a dinner talk by William W. George (MBA '66), CEO of Medtronic, on "The Future of 21st-Century Health: The Right Care" and a lively session moderated by HBS professor emeritus James L. Heskett on the role health-care service and View Details
- 15 May 2023
- News
From Scientist to Business Leader
Brianna Kim (MS/MBA 2023) When she was little, Brianna Kim (MS/MBA 2023) fell in love with the hard sciences and expected to eventually go to medical school or earn a PhD. But her plans changed after college. Kim grew up outside... View Details
- 14 Apr 2014
- News
The Puzzle of Life
(acquired by Covidien), which uses a wire-mesh balloon technique to treat brain aneurysms; and Spinal Modulation, a company with a new, dramatically effective technique for blocking chronic pain at the source. (In June 2013, St. Jude View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Wyss Gift Supports HBS Doctoral Programs
thousands of students they eventually teach and the millions more who benefit from the research and new ideas they generate,” Wyss said. “I am proud to support this effort.” Currently chairman and CEO of Synthes, Inc., Wyss has had a distinguished career as a pioneer... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
ended, and the delighted diners got up to leave, all in about one hour.” More than thirty years later, Professor David Upton makes Benihana the very first case he teaches in his Technology and Operations Management course (POM’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
delegating authority to them.” Currently a marketing manager at General Mills, Sundy has a long-term goal: He’d like to become a member of the U.S. Senate, “to influence public policy and make a real contribution to society.” — GE Martín Curiel Curiel with Elizabeth... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Releases
Engines of Innovation edited by Richard S. Rosenbloom and William J. Spencer (HBS Press) In past decades, industrial laboratories such as AT&T's Bell Labs and the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center were wellsprings of powerful new View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
manufactured, or improve the way doctors perform surgery. HBS Takes Root in Silicon Valley While the Il Fornaio staff serve up French toast and fresh fruit, the patrons volley the big ideas that have turned Silicon Valley into a global capital of entrepreneurship,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 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 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
and War, by Nathaniel Philbrick In 1979, Mal Mixon parlayed $10,000 of his own money to engineer the purchase of an Ohio-based wheelchair maker that nobody else wanted. Today Invacare is the world's leading manufacturer and distributor of View Details
- 04 Dec 2014
- News
Hacking Health Care
in Montreal and Toronto on graduating in 1997, and then in 2002 cofounding Resonant Medical, a medical company that developed 3D ultrasound technology that finds and tracks cancer masses. “Our tool allowed... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
on the sport and breeding and event records. We are focused on a number of technology advances that can help the sport and have recently made DNA for parentage identification a part of the dog registration process. (We use a noninvasive... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Your Keyboard Is Listening
And unlike many other medical tests used to diagnose neurological diseases, it is also noninvasive and therefore can be used to monitor healthy people for signs of disease. “A lot of people may say, ‘Do I really want to know if I have one... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
time to translate ideas into action. Thus began Jana Care! We are a year old and a team of six—two engineers, one MBA, one designer, one diabetes educator, and one physician. The past year was spent on R&D for our core sensor technology... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
addition, he has held important administrative positions at the School, chairing Exec Ed's Advanced Management Program and its International Senior Managers' Program, as well as the MBA Program's Production and Operations Management unit (later renamed View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
there is little accountability in this important undertaking. “Good accounting rules are to good capitalism what good plumbing is to your home,” Ramanna says. No one thinks much about them until disaster strikes. Next Year in Ideas: View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
Hsieh, and Lyft founder John Zimmer, centers around a team-based curriculum. To date, DU has nearly 500 alumni from 50 countries, with more than 250 startups created, including a medical device company, an apartment listings app, and an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
class; structuring asset classes and adding value-oriented or other opportunistic “tilts”; measuring and managing risks, avoiding common mistakes, and more. The Soul of a Patient: Lessons in Healing for Harvard Medical Students edited by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
welfare,” Desai noted. Middle-Skills Gap Senior Lecturer Joe Fuller worked with consulting firm Accenture and workforce analytics company Burning Glass Technologies to produce a report highlighting the ways employers can foster the... View Details
- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
of night, you would see the glow from the mills that lined the river,” he recalls. Now Motley sees an entirely new city. Along the river are the offices of medical and technology companies. “Pittsburgh has... View Details
Keywords: April White