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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Teens and Magazines: Where There's Smoke, There's Advertising
Public Health) found that the agreement has had little effect. In their article in the New England Journal of Medicine last August, King and Siegel analyzed trends in expenditures for advertising between...
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- 16 Sep 2016
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Gaining Ground on ALS
“The patients and caregivers we work with inspire us every day,” says Blum. “Bringing forward the first new medicine for ALS in nearly 25 years is a personal and professional crusade for everyone in our...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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A Natural Balance
Cavan Mahony and Ayla Hussain (both MBA '96) became friends and business partners through a mutual devotion to yoga and health -- and a conviction that beauty is more than skin deep. The two have joined with a third partner, supermodel Christy Turlington, to form...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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The Blue-Green Revolution
range of new applications in food and medicine. (Los Angeles Times/Getty Images) Having cracked the problem of boosting oil production, engineering algae to make petrochemicals ranging from fertilizers to plastics ought to be relatively...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
ambition and applied to HBS. “I was almost 30 when I realized that there were people called ‘entrepreneurs’ who get paid to start new things,” says Gardner of what inspired him to earn an MBA. “It sounded like the coolest thing in the...
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Susan Young
- 14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka
another 30,000 visit the company’s elderly day care facilities; and 2,500 people now have the ability to stay home at the end of life like Sato-san, instead of resorting to an overcrowded and more expensive hospital setting. Desperate for solutions and seeing the...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2007
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Daniel Vasella
Vasella Illustration by Dennis Balogh Twenty years ago a young doctor with a hankering for business experience gave up his clinical practice in Bern, Switzerland, and moved to East Hanover, New Jersey, to try his hand at drug sales with...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
That’s a huge amount of work.” Bohmer has firsthand knowledge of the issues faced by MHCD participants. A physician, he practiced medicine in New Zealand and England, helped establish a surgical hospital in...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing
highly visible undertakings such as the $4 billion Jurong Island complex, in which seven offshore islands were linked with imported landfill to form a huge new industrial area for land-strapped Singapore. Less apparent, but no less...
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Government
- 01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care
Prescriptions: Free the Data! Build a Killer App Measure Health Care's Real Costs Make Medicine Personal Leverage Human Nature Integrate Preventive Care and Payment BUSH: A passionate advocate for improving health care efficiency and...
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- 01 Jun 1998
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Mark Tatum
East Flatbush section of Brooklyn, where he learned early on to love baseball and to get along with all kinds of people. The decision to bypass medicine proved only a momentary redirection in an impressive college career: he went on to...
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Susan Young; photograph by Webb Chappell
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
Life in modern India, despite all of the advances of the last decade, is still barely controlled chaos. On the crowded streets, camels and donkeys mix with handcarts, three-wheeled scooter taxis, massive Tata trucks, luxury cars, and pedestrians. The construction of...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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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...
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- 01 Jan 2002
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Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
wants to understand the barriers to effecting change on global issues such as health care." Under Ray Gilmartin's leadership, Merck has launched an unprecedented number of new drugs and forged partnerships with the public and nonprofit...
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- 17 Mar 2015
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The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
“The Flatiron School is named after the Flatiron Building. It was the first skyscraper in New York City, and, for a long time, a symbol for technology transforming the landscape of a city. We hope to use technology to transform the...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Faculty Q&A: That’s Classic
alongside an August 2015 New York Times article on Amazon’s workplace culture. Are you trying to compare Caligula and Jeff Bezos? ED: No, not exactly. Caligula was as mad as you get—he had no block, was very creative, thought he was a...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs
China, and others will grow rapidly. The authors predict probable new principles for commercial success, among them that an obsession with return on equity will give way to more broad-based measurements of success, and that Adam Smith’s...
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- 17 Jun 2020
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Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
Clubs News Clubs News “Awesome” Author Helps Toronto Club Cultivate Calm; Cleveland Clinic Gives Updates As the COVID-19 quarantine extends through the spring and summer, the HBS Club of Toronto is producing...
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Margie Kelley
- 19 Jun 2019
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Connecting Patients and Providers
London, Chicago, New York, Boston, Cologne, and Frankfurt in search of a fuller diagnosis and cutting-edge medical advice. The extraordinary effort gave his 59-year-old mother another 10 months with her family. And it inspired Jarzabek to...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2003
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Andrea Silbert
people, including thousands of women entrepreneurs in southern New England, are better off because of it. As founder and CEO of the Center for Women & Enterprise, the energetic Silbert has followed her parents’ example of helping others,...
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