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- 27 Apr 2023
- News
Life Preserver
led to the creation of the Organ Preservation Alliance, a nonprofit established to advocate for additional funding for research into cryopreservation and connect scientists in the field. Giwa served as founding CEO of what he calls a "mini American View Details
Keywords: April White
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
injuries, novice mistakes, and the heartbreaking loss of a best friend. When breast cancer threatens her own life, she seeks solace and recovery in the wild. Her quest takes 10 years. Regardless of the need since childhood to feel... View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
American Cancer Society for the mental health field—an organization that can increase awareness, reduce the stigma, and rally donors to make large, multiyear funding commitments to the most promising care and research in the field. While... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
There are over three million corporations in the United States today. From my experience working with a range of businesses, I am sure there is no cancer of immorality among them. The vast majority of our alumni and business leaders are... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977
up to the ideals instilled in him by his forebears. Several months after their father died of cancer eight years ago, the Tisch brothers split his office into two, each taking half. “Sometimes when I’m struggling with an issue—whether it... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
cancer-screening project in southern India as part of my summer internship while at HBS. We used community health workers armed with mobile phones to take pictures of oral cancer patients in rural areas and send them to Bangalore for... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life
answer to that indefatigable voyager into the unconscious, Sigmund Freud. In 1923 Freud, an inveterate cigar smoker, was diagnosed with cancer of the jaw. But for the next sixteen years, up until his death, he did not give up smoking,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
cancer at age 87 on June 2, 1987), all of the strands of Doriot’s life connect to form something quite profound. In the second half of the 20th century, the United States experienced a historic transformation, in which a society dominated... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
authentic self. Bladder Cancer: A Patient-Friendly Guide to Understanding Your Diagnosis and Treatment Options by David Pulver (MBA 1965), Mark Schoenberg, and Fran Pulver Patient-Friendly Publishing After David Pulver was diagnosed with bladder View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
with the University of Illinois and Carnegie Mellon, the University of Dundee and Imperial College in Great Britain, and Sweden's Karolinska Institute. And he is attracting superstar scientists from around the world such as Dr. Edison Liu, formerly of the U.S. National... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
through an innovation-killing “peer review” process. The history of medicine is filled with shameful stories of “peers” who used their powers to suppress innovations: Judah Folkman, the brilliant scientist whose antiangiogenesis theory forms the basis for many... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
family has grown. When his wife, Ann, was diagnosed with cancer eight years ago, he reshuffled his priorities, cut down on travel, and pledged to be home for dinner at least twenty nights a month. Asked about his biggest personal... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
(MBA 1977) She Writes Press Floundering in her second career, Suchors decided that, despite a fear of heights, her midlife success depended on hiking 48 of the highest White Mountains in New Hampshire. She endured injuries, novice mistakes, the loss of a best friend,... 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 for taking a picture every day,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
program started by teaching sailing skills to children with spinal cord injuries, it now serves children and adults with a variety of physical and emotional challenges as well as cancer patients and veterans. “I thought the best path to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
landing on an aircraft carrier in darkness, flying combat missions over Korea, breaking the sound barrier, and then teaching others to do the same. This is the story of that journey. The Big Ordeal: Understanding and Managing the Psychological Turmoil of View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
staff to help her temper her corporate mentality, which she admits at times lacked empathy. “At the age of 50, I had never once cried in my life,” she says. “By then, I'd had breast cancer three times and my mother was dead—I hadn't cried... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
million to have the biotech develop it as a potential cancer drug, eventually giving up when even low doses resulted in severe nausea during clinical trials. Still, the drug became a focal point for the Secklers. "Here was this drug that... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
mother at too young an age to cancer. I was a key caregiver to my mother-in-law at the end of her life. These events meant putting my career on the back burner and focusing on family. And then my husband died of cancer last year. While... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
says Clark, who is a cancer survivor. "I enjoy contributing my management experience, and more important, I have grown to appreciate the struggles of poor people." Davey S. Scoon is executive vice president and COO of Colonial Management... View Details