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- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
taking care of ill patients and how we manage that act, how you design the processes that execute on that goal, and how you design the organizations that support those processes." I think Harvard and HBS have the capacity to make... View Details
- 15 Apr 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
outcomes. Public interest in the illness could also drive funding toward breast cancer research. Breast Cancer Foundation NZ launched a media campaign to spotlight the disease, and Smyth’s mother gave her daughter permission to talk about... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Fellowship Campaign Approaching Goal
that his illness dramatically altered his MBA experience by showing him the compassion of the HBS community. “I hope the challenges and experiences of the last two years have made me a better friend, father, husband, and person,” he said,... View Details
- 19 Jun 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
facilitates digital consultations, reducing the cost and travel demands on ill patients. And it allows doctors and other medical experts to collaborate on complex cases in a virtual clinical environment. Jarzabek had seen the value of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
management (oversight of a patient's care on a case-by-case basis, from start to finish); care paths (preplanned procedural menus for certain illnesses and conditions); information systems (allowing accessibility of a patient's records... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
Personalized Medicine,” a Harvard Business Review article that outlines an agenda that could hasten the transition from “trial-and-error” therapies for life-threatening illnesses to a more targeted line of attack. Aspinall began her... View Details
- 18 May 2023
- News
Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
in Peoria, Illinois, which took her through the city's poorest neighborhoods. A serious illness in Wilfong's mid-30s led her to reevaluate the way she spent her time. Wilfong realized she didn't want to wait until retirement to give back... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Classmates Rally to Help Family Stricken with Rare Disease
a genetic enzyme deficiency that leads to rapid muscle deterioration and death from respiratory failure, usually before age five. Although fewer than one thousand children worldwide suffer from any form of Pompe's disease, the Crowleys' son Patrick, born one week... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
Meanwhile, birth rates declined, and children had less interest in toys that didn't offer instant gratification. Serious jolts were also taking place in the LEGO Group. Kjeld, out of the office for a year following a serious illness in... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Patricia ("Tosh") Rapoport Barron
mother and of a close friend, and the serious illness of both her father and her husband - led Barron to opt for her current, scaled-down position at Xerox supporting the executive vice president of business operations. "While I... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 11 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
From Britain to Boston: Two Years at HBS
with personal illness and a family tragedy and having support from the friends I made at HBS got me through. I will always appreciate and love them for that. Academically, what part of your HBS experience has been the most meaningful?... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
health-care innovations that offer good value for the money. It was in Africa that we first saw sensible, low-cost health-insurance plans that protect people against financially catastrophic expenses and offer policies that reward the chronically View Details
- Profile
John Rogers
product development and manufacturing, I was ill equipped to take on the business challenges of agricultural value chain development. My first significant exposure to the space came during my initial January term, when I led a team of... View Details
- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
a B2B company that supplied bulk shea butter to brands and distributors. Akuete initially started down a different career path, having taken a job at JPMorgan Chase after business school. But when her mother became ill in 2015, Akuete... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
Harmoni could provide drug-free therapy for people suffering from illnesses like depression, addiction, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or Tourette syndrome, with its exacting approach alleviating concerns about side effects from... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting those with debilitating chronic illnesses and the dependent elderly.” —Professor Lynda Applegate, on Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, by Atul Gawande Excerpt... View Details
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Building an IT Governance Committee
a peer at the senior management and board level. The expert's job is to challenge entrenched in-house thinking. He or she should not think ill of technology-averse cultures and must be a skilled communicator who does not hide behind... View Details
Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan
- 16 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Delivering Solutions During a Crisis with Hans Kristian Furuseth (MBA 2019)
service are those most at risk. They have weakened immune systems and respiratory illnesses that make leaving home dangerous. For a lot of people this is a life or death situation,” Furuseth adds. “Being able to offer a new service in the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Scientific Discovery
development of a course that could enhance decision making by providing participants with the knowledge and skills to better manage, fund, and commercialize scientific discoveries that could potentially cure illnesses ranging from... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- Web
Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry - Course Catalog
distinguish trends from fads, what drives their selection of menu items and how they manage their supply chain. Crisis Management. We’ll consider the critical issue of food safety and the crisis management implications when a foodborne View Details