Cancer - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2008
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Team MBA

come to campus are just outstanding in terms of the credentials they have and the experiences they can share. Interacting with people straight out of HBS cases or the business headlines is amazing. One of my favorites was hearing a lecture by Dr. Judah Folkman, the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017

become the greatest gossip, flirt, or matchmaker in history. Or she could cure cancer and then start a nuclear war. A motley band of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and engineers might be able to influence her. The... View Details

01 Sep 2014
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Making a Statement

doctors were quite competent, but the group wasn’t working together. “We brought in a comprehensive, integrated system, with a better flow of information, and patient outcomes improved dramatically,” says Paul. The company that grew out of this initial effort now runs... View Details

06 Jan 2017
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Mental Illness and the Workplace

health condition, provided the same compassion and support that somebody suffering from cancer has. So really, it's a wholesale change from thinking about mental health as a weakness and as a problem. To thinking not only about it as... View Details

01 Dec 2004
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Retirement's Changing Face

Trust board and acts as chair of the organization’s clinical expansion, a part of its capital campaign. The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is another beneficiary of her management expertise; in addition to sitting on the board of the... View Details

Keywords: Personal Services

01 Mar 2023
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Action Plan: Casting Call

planned for 2023, when he will celebrate his 100th birthday. He’s quick to characterize the 64-year marriage he shared with his wife, Joan, until she died of cancer in 2012. “Where else could I find a woman who would hike across the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing

17 Nov 2022
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Blockchain for Good

charity sector, volunteering for a national breast cancer foundation and within her local community, often with her son in tow. She returned to finance in 2015, but her heart wasn’t in it. That’s when businessman and philanthropist Robert... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

20 Apr 2020
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To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual

featured speakers Clause Jensen, Chief Digital Officer and Head of Technology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and information technology author and thought leader Dan Roberts, CEO and President of Ouellette & Associates... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

25 Aug 2010
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Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations

(added, I think, by Ly Tran). Marc Pascarella was also possibly the only student to employ a massaging seat cover during class. We did an auction fundraiser for cancer research in the second term in honor of a sectionmate’s mother, and... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Oct 1996
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Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)

'76), have developed an astounding array of community outreach services -- from elaborate food pantries to job assistance programs; from tutoring, mentoring, and counseling services for children and young mothers to retirement planning courses for the elderly; from... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet

myeloid leukemia, a blood cancer in which abnormal white blood cells grow quickly. They comforted her by saying that the chemotherapy they were prescribing would attack the abnormal cells. And it did. But her recovery from post-remission... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

01 Jan 2005
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Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992

cancer survivor, she says the determination, energy, and perseverance she showed in the workplace were crucial in her successful fight against the illness. "I decided from the beginning that I was going to be upfront about it—look my... View Details

01 Dec 2007
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Rediscovering America

possible for organizations and individuals to donate unused computer time for use in AIDS and cancer research, which requires huge amounts of data-processing capacity. What is the difference between the “no child left behind” approach to... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Mar 2019
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The Blue-Green Revolution

make food in the stuff,” he says. Capitalizing on its burgeoning algal expertise, SGI has already bred one strain that can make highquality protein and healthful fatty acids, and it hopes to coax others into producing biological drugs such as the antibodies used to... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustration by Eric Nyquist

01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change

going. We want the region to move forward, not just any one hospital.” “What’s begun here is the core for collaboration among competing health-care providers,” says Dr. Judy Smith of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo. “It won’t... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2009
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Model Patient

world in life expectancy, at 77.9 years. Half the U.S. population does not receive standard preventive care such as cancer screening, blood pressure checks, or vaccinations. A 2007 McKinsey study found that compared with the average for... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

01 Feb 1998
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Not Your Typical Business Conference

moving story about her own bout with cancer, an experience that led her to switch from a fast-track investment-banking job to the nonprofit world as head of the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations. On Being There Excerpts... View Details

18 Dec 2019
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Thinking Smart About Numbers

Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, will talk about recent advances in cancer research and what challenges lie ahead. Review of 2020 Super Bowl Ads Alumni can join the discussion on February 5, 2020 as Tim... View Details