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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
capitalism remains a major challenge. “When you don’t have the marketplace slapping you in the face, telling you your product is no good, you can really get confused,” Gates acknowledged. In health care, the foundation simply looks at the... View Details
- 22 May 2013
- News
Hansjorg Wyss doubles his gift
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
“If I had been leaving Harvard in 2010, this would be the area I would want to be going into.” — Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69), a founder of the European venture capital industry, referring to his latest venture, Social Finance, a social investment bank. (London... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Carla Small
son's childcare - all while launching a new company!" After graduation, Small plans to move into another family-related field: health care. "It's a complicated industry that increasingly appreciates a business perspective," she says. She... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Nation in health care, with a focus on preventing diabetes in indigenous populations. "I quickly realized that business alone was not enough to reverse the dysfunction of some tribal economies," says Keen. Earlier, he'd experienced the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
diverse product lines in health care, computers, printers, and scientific instruments, he notes, because it has established autonomous divisions around the globe with clear performance targets and incentives to grow. Other innovative... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- News
A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
transformative mission. Alice, for example, is a Brazilian startup upending the health care industry, offering insurance coverage combined with proprietary primary care, delivered digitally and in person, as Latin America works to catch... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
From Fellowship Recipient to ‘The Most Influential Business Thinker On Earth’
innovation framework to advancing education and health care. Referring to HBS as a “distribution mechanism by which we can help people that we could not directly reach,” Christensen encourages alumni to consider their relationship with... View Details
Keywords: awards
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
Commercializing Science and included members with medical, science, public health, and business backgrounds from HBS, MIT, and across Harvard University. The realization that DFA’s product had the power to impact the health of millions... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
more inclusive, and building a health insurtech company was not part of the plan. But in 2020, the pandemic led countless uninsured Filipinos to poverty, debt, or death. Growing up in the Philippines, I knew that underinsurance was a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
In Brief
Q&A with Daniel Vasella. Initially regarded by critics as too inexperienced to lead a major pharmaceutical company, Daniel Vasella (PMD 57, 1989) has set a new standard for innovation as CEO of Novartis. The Winning Season. Last year, St. Louis, Missouri, saw its... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
It was a milestone to celebrate: Earlier this year, designations from FDA and European Union regulators moved researchers at the Boston-based startup Akouos, Inc., a step closer to producing the first-ever therapy for gene-mediated hearing loss. The product could... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 13 Apr 2020
- News
10 Questions to Guide Boards Through the Pandemic
- 11 Apr 2020
- News
Reading Together, Apart
When Max Tuchman (MBA 2012) and her cofounder launched the storybook app Caribu in 2017, they knew their product would be a hit with parents who want to be able to read with their children each night, even when traveling—and with grandparents who crave closeness, even... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
@Soldiers Field
STEPPING UP Above: HBS students are among the Wednesday morning, stair-climbing fanatics at Harvard Stadium—a 2,122-step challenge led by The November Project, a global social fitness group that started in Boston. (photo by Susan Young) TOPPED OFF The final beam of... View Details
- 10 Jul 2016
- News
Mediconecta Brings Telehealth to Emerging Markets
- 18 Nov 2014
- News
Enabling families to navigate the aging process
Caring for her aging parents led Janet Simpson Benvenuti (MBA 1985) to launch a company that helps other families find resources that are right for their own parents’ needs. (Published November 2014) View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
To Market, to Market
BLAVATNIK Photo courtesy of Blavatnik Family Foundation Universities are ripe with new advances in science and technology, and Harvard is no exception. But developing those findings into breakthrough therapies and cures for disease is a somewhat different process that... View Details