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- 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
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
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
- 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
- 18 Dec 2019
- News
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
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
tackling the global epidemics of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria; preventing noncommunicable diseases, such as cancers and cardiovascular diseases; and promoting equity in health by strengthening health systems worldwide. 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 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
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
when her mother died of cancer at age 43. Consumed by grief, her father succumbed to drink and depression, and the family’s once-idyllic suburban life spiraled downward into poverty. Barely adolescent and lacking role models for success,... View Details
- 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
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
cancer still progressing, he and his wife decided it was time to stop treatment. At the age of 74, Sato-san settled in for his final stages in the heart of his home—the altar to his ancestors to his left, oxygen machine to his... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 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 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
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
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