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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
A Legacy of Support
Precision Medicine. “In medicine and in life sciences there is a silo mentality, and we need some Harvard Business School discipline to help connect the dots,” observes Robert. Agreeing with his dad, Jonathan, who, like his father, has... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
firms find it so difficult to adapt in the face of change—to innovate? In the past 10 years, the importance of this question has increased as more industries and firms confront disruptive change. The pandemic has accelerated this crisis, collapsing the structures of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
that, it immediately professionalizes teaching to be on a par with medicine or law because in principle it’s at least as important to society. Beyond brick and mortar, where is the Internet taking Khan Academy? Via the Internet, today and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)
his business background may also be a valuable asset in what he sees as the "tough times ahead" for health-care management. "Insurance companies used to write a check for just about anything a physician wanted to do, but today medicine is... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
From Das’s Desk
Joe Fuller talk to business leaders about the forces changing the way we work. Skydeck – Alumni from across the world of business share lessons learned and their own life experiences. Under the Datascope – A series from the School’s Kraft Precision View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- News
Breath of Life
parts will be used to replace diseased internal organs such as coronary arteries, the esophagus, and the ureter. Playing a key role in this landmark moment for regenerative medicine was Harvard Bioscience, Inc. of Holliston,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
AI Enhances Diagnostic Care
musculoskeletal diseases. Theranostics, a combination of diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to health care delivery, is a new and exciting field of nuclear medicine now offered at MRC, Tantawy says. “It’s a personalized, highly... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
net-zero emissions by 2050. To accomplish that, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has estimated the world needs an additional 10 billion tons of CO2 removed each year through various mitigation strategies,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
month, reviewing the numbers. I learned a lot about medicine that way. Wasn't your husband also in the health-care industry at the time? Yes. Under a push for funding from President Nixon, there had started to be more research and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
New Biotech Joint Degree Program Kicks Off
we start by asking, ‘What will it take to eliminate disease?,’ we will gain a better understanding of why the disease occurs and what bits of biology need to be fixed—which allows us to create better medicines and, over time, get to a... View Details
- 25 Feb 2021
- News
Building Hope
gained attention in recent years as an off-label medication for treatment-resistant depression. Zapolin says that unlike plant medicines that involve intense psychedelic explorations, ketamine has a short period of onset lasting about an... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Morrell
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
of at least 51 people in Panama after they ingested medicine made with diethylene glycol, an industrial chemical similar to antifreeze that a Chinese company used as a substitute for pharmaceutical-grade syrup. In June, officials at the... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
multilateral agencies funded and facilitated the conversion.” Aurelio Montinola (MBA 1977) Chairman, Far Eastern University (FEU): “To assist our medical front-liners, we set up the gym of FEU Alabang with a 50-bed capacity for the outsourced health care workers of the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
(MBA '59) ((North American Business Press)) Inside Luxury: The Growth and Future of the Luxury Goods Industry by Maria Eugenia Giron ((LID Publishing)) The Exile: Journey from Life to Death by Ro Kong Kyun (MBA 1959) ((Eloquent Books)) Dead Wrong: and Other Episodes... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
citizens on Medicare to the fight against HIV/AIDS worldwide. Gilmartin, who has a warm smile and an approachable manner, says that Merck is just trying to live up to the values that have long guided the company. "George W. Merck, son of the company's founder, stated... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
people, including thousands of women entrepreneurs in southern New England, are better off because of it. As founder and CEO of the Center for Women & Enterprise, the energetic Silbert has followed her parents’ example of helping others, not through View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived
starting to catch up. It’s a state-by-state issue—you aren’t allowed to practice medicine across state lines, which makes it difficult for telemedicine to scale—but some states are beginning to ease restrictions. Telemedicine is not going... View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
cross-cultural initiatives at Harvard. Committed to enabling young people to reach their potential, Lemann co-founded Fundação Estudar to provide scholarships for Brazilian students. He also heads a family foundation that supports education, health, the environment,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
illustration by Marcos Chin illustration by Marcos Chin It’s hard to overstate the impact that antibiotics had on medicine after they became widely available in the 1940s. In the United States, the leading causes of death shifted from... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
biofuels project should eventually permit researchers to turn algae into microscopic factories for the manufacture of virtually any organic compound, leading to what Enriquez describes as a full-blown algal revolution. “You can make vaccines in the stuff, you can make... View Details