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- 18 Jul 2018
- News
Ensuring HBS Remains a Dynamic Community
organizations in her community. Currently director of strategic philanthropy for Congregation Rodef Sholom, she has also served on the boards of the Marin Horizon School and the Greater Bay Area Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
diabetes and obesity that is engulfing the developing world. Jana Care aims to do so by building sensors and apps that can transform a mobile phone into a personal lab and lifestyle coach. The mobile phone as a key to diagnostics and...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: Frozen Assets
want healthy meals for their late-night employees. Day says the best evidence that she’s a believer in her product can be found in her mother’s freezer. Since stepping into her CEO role, she’s stocked it with Luvo meals, knowing they will provide her View Details
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Janelle Nanos
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
Christensen asks. In "Patterns in the Evolution of Product Competition," his 1996 study of four industries - hydraulic excavators, disk drives, diabetes care, and executive education - Christensen found that when new product innovations...
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Judith Ross
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)
diabetes to support services for those with catastrophic illnesses such as AIDS. Through the church's efforts, hundreds of residents in Riverhead and beyond have been able to climb out of poverty, drug abuse, and crime to create lives of...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
research management. Photo Courtesy JDRF Peter Van Etten (MBA ’73) is president and CEO of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), which has donated many millions to stem-cell research and strongly advocated that federal funds...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
and nephrologist. In a focused factory, all these resources are integrated. These diabetic specialists jointly develop treatment protocols and pricing. Together, they offer a full range of services customized for this disease. Research...
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- 05 Jan 2011
- Op-Ed
Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress
get money. If they can't get money, they lay off people and cancel projects. Now imagine you are a postdoc in a lab and are working on a project to use human embryonic stem cells to cure diabetes by creating new beta cells in the...
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- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
doctors and hospitals.” “No provider has all of your records,” says Bushkin, adding that a study published in the Journal of Patient Safety found that 440,000 Americans die annually as the result of medical errors. “Someone who is a View Details
- 30 Jun 2017
- News
Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, had a brand problem: the disease it addressed was no longer known as juvenile diabetes, as children and adults were being diagnosed in equal numbers. Pitter-Armand was charged with repositioning the...
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April White
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
due to the condition. In addition, 3 percent of Mexicans suffer from glaucoma and 7 percent of diabetics in Mexico are needlessly blind. According to salauno, only 30 percent of the Mexicans who need corrective vision procedures or...
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation
she adds, with the development of a vaccine against cervical cancer (Gardasil) and the launch of successful new drugs to combat diabetes and HIV/AIDS. Sato acknowledges that different situations will require different business...
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- 14 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
The Case for Consumer-Driven Medicaid
diabetic and asthmatic enrollees due to increased testing and drug utilization, while management consulting firm McKinsey found that consumer-driven enrollees were more likely to "very carefully follow treatment regimens for chronic...
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by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
2009), the company's cofounder and CEO. The device, which is powered by an electric motor, is highly customizable across a variety of medical, animal, agricultural, and cosmetic applications. One major market, says Anquetil, is diabetes...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
diabetes by creating new beta cells in the pancreas. This is difficult work that is high risk but high reward. You have come to grips with the many ethical considerations in working with stem cells derived from embryos that were created...
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- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
then could be tested experimentally. Studying doctors and patients The research team devised two experiments, one involving primary care doctors, the other, patients. In the first experiment, the researchers asked physicians to evaluate hypothetical View Details
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
drug, Afrezza. MannKind would thus be the only company with an inhalable insulin on the market. As an alternative to injectable rapid-acting (or mealtime) insulin, Afrezza boasted a potential market of at least 4 million diabetic...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
symptoms of diseases like diabetes or congestive heart failure. Before the implantable congestive heart failure monitor, for example, we had very poor diagnostic tools to alert the need for ASAP therapy, but these sensors can now alert...
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April White
- 23 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
times more likely to experience work-related problems than employees with chronic physical illnesses like diabetes or heart disease. So why do many companies fail to help their workers battle mental health disorders? “There’s a silence...
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- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
provide focused, comprehensive care for two high-volume and expensive medical conditions: type-1 diabetes and morbid obesity. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/718471-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School 417-023 Kurt Summers:...
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Dina Gerdeman