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- 15 Apr 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
it began building what is now the Breast Cancer Foundation National Register, which tracks breast cancer diagnoses, treatment, and outcomes. The confidential database is a resource for clinical View Details
- 07 Jan 2022
- News
Learning to Fight
establish the Sontag Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting brain cancer research and brain cancer patients and caregivers. In the last 18 years, the foundation has... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)
respected spokesperson for patient needs and rights. She advises corporate and government cancer programs and medical professional organizations, gives presentations on cancer survivor- ship at national... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Nurturing Emerging Scholars and Leaders
the Clare Marie Doris Doctoral Fellowship Fund to provide financial aid for HBS doctoral students. The fund is named in honor of their first daughter, who died at 16 months from a rare pediatric liver disease. California-based Doris and... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A 'reluctant entrepreneur' draws on the HBS network
Cancer survivor Kathryn Giusti (MBA 1985) gives a talk about being a "reluctant entrepreneur" in founding the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Mickey Herbert (MBA 1969)
Mickey Herbert parleyed a stint as an administrative assistant to a pediatric neurologist into a successful career as the founder and CEO of a Connecticut HMO. Not bad for someone who confesses he had “no clue” what he wanted to do after... View Details
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
hypertension. The medical condition is not orthopedic care, but several conditions, including spine disorders, hip disorders, and so forth. Cancer care also involves many distinct medical conditions. Aligning an organization's view of... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Personal crises inform a life’s work
director from 1990 through its closure in 2004, and an internationally recognized advocate. “Our efforts started a movement that vastly escalated breast cancer research funding and gave patients and... View Details
Robert P. Luciano
Luciano generated top-level financial performance while streamlining Schering’s business operations. He divested Schering’s non-healthcare related business lines and was one of the first pharmaceutical executives to recognize the potential for biotechnology. His early... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
INK: Taking Care
The sad and unfortunate fact is that one in every two people will develop cancer in their lifetime, Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) writes in her new book, Fatal to Fearless: 12 Steps to Beating Cancer in a Broken Medical System. It first happened to her more than 25 years... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
case study with the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, GNS Healthcare, the Moffitt Cancer Center’s ORIEN program, and biotech firm Foundation Medicine. Rethinking Drug Trials In an adaptive platform... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 02 Aug 2011
- News
A Fearless Force for Change
founded with her husband Dave Linn (MBA '00) to fund research and clinical trials at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Linn died July 20 at the age of 40. Diagnosed with a soft-tissue sarcoma (a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Pedal Mettle
would never again do competitive sports. But inspired by Lance Armstrong (who took part in various stages of the Tour of Hope) and by a growing body of research that says fitness may reduce cancer recurrence... View Details
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Kraft Accelerator
Disparities and Democratizing Cancer Care HBS Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator Venture Philanthropy Done Right HBS Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator Addressing Demographic Disparities in Clinical Trials Harvard Business Review You... View Details
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
Hospital, London. He returned to India in 1989 to co-found a state-of-the-art center in Calcutta, the B.M. Biria Heart Research Center, which soon added pediatric cardiac surgical facilities. It was India's... View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
Electric and used a portion of the proceeds to establish the Sontag Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting brain cancer research and brain cancer patients and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?
Stefan Thomke, assistant professor Jonathan West, and Senior Research Fellow Juan Enriquez-Cabot. On February 12th of this year, this latest scientific revolution was launched in earnest when two research... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Man on a Mission
Girand Courtesy Jim Girand Jim Girand (MBA ’61), who’s been a high-tech entrepreneur since the 1960s, is also a veteran duathlete and former age-group national champion who hasn’t let a bout with prostate cancer slow him down. Indeed,... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
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Tricia Peralta Archives | Social Enterprise
Filter Results: (1) Submit Author Types Alumni HBS Staff SE Practitioners SEI Faculty SEI Team Students Topics Alumni for Impact Alumni Programs Arts Business for Social Impact Business School Executive Education Faculty Research Future... View Details
- 06 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows
noted, “I’m excited to learn from other fellows and explore opportunities for collaboration across other systems, including policy, healthcare, and criminal justice.” Keemia Azvine. Keemia, who is pursuing a MS/MBA in Biotechnology Life Sciences, comes to HBS after... View Details