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Charles A. Heimbold, Jr.
Heimbold focused on Bristol-Myers Squibb’s growth and created a scientific-based, world-leading pharmaceutical company with very strong consumer franchises. Sixty-two percent of its sales come from pharmaceuticals (where it holds leadership positions in anticancer...
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Healthcare
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
need someone like that because, while the Center for Disease Control has fantastic scientists, management has never been their main skill set. “The goal should be to optimize to mitigate catastrophes while managing routine concerns...
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- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?
new drugs and therapies that can be tailored to individuals and result in fewer side effects. Advances in treatments of cancer and infectious diseases are likely to be early benefits of work in genomics,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
New Biotech Joint Degree Program Kicks Off
addressing the pandemic in real time, including John Markels, president of global vaccines at Merck, and Dan Barouch, MD, an innovator in the field of infectious disease research at Beth Israel Deaconess...
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University Collaborations - HBS Fund Investors Society 2021 Report
Merck, and Dan Barouch, MD, an innovator in the field of infectious disease research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Students were challenged to consider how they would have responded if they had...
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- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Life Lab Nurtures Early Stage Startup Day Zero Diagnostics
recent addition to the Harvard Innovation Labs ecosystem. DZD comprises a multi-disciplinary team of Harvard affiliates whose expertise in medicine, genome sequencing, and machine learning is helping doctors diagnose infectious View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
newly opened facility to accommodate its vaccine development work, and CEO Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000, AMP 170) welcomed input on the design from the government’s infectious disease experts. For two years,...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
illustration by Marcos Chin illustration by Marcos Chin It’s hard to overstate the impact that antibiotics had on medicine after they became widely available in the 1940s. In the United States, the leading causes of death shifted from View Details
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Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
in 1918 from influenza than in a similar period from any other infectious disease outbreak ever, including smallpox and the plague. Comparisons to 1918 may thus be unfair. What we can say is that the world...
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- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
interventions are now creating more value than ever as clinicians work to provide care for patients outside of the physical walls of a clinic or hospital. Ariel D. Stern (@arieldora) is the Poronui Associate Professor of Business Administration. New data approaches and...
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by Danielle Kost
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
disasters, to infectious diseases, to pandemics, and more. With chapters on Superstorm Sandy, H1N1, the Ebola virus, and bioterrorism, these cases cover major areas in public health preparedness. This book is suited for public health...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
does behave like a luxury good," he said. Rich people tend to want more of it than poor, according to Reinhardt, and rich countries demand it whereas poor countries do not. In addition, thanks to progress in the treatment of View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
cardiovascular disease. In addition, apart from any possible therapeutic benefits, embryonic stem-cell research could play a central role in helping to understand the nature and development of disease generally. Spar, the Spangler Family...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
effective leadership. At times of conflict and war, people are more likely to endorse a more aggressive, masculine leader—for example, Winston Churchill—to take action. But a pandemic is not a war and framing it as a warlike threat may hinder effective action. An View Details
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All Industries
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
emphasis on indoor air quality and other healthy building measures will diffuse through the rest of the economy. As the country begins to return to work, concerns about the spread of infectious disease will...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
1,500-person division is a leader in the emerging field of personalized medicine, which treats cancer and other diseases with customized therapies that take into account the patient’s specific genetic traits. With HBS professor Richard...
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- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
effective solution. In the past, business model innovation was common in health care. When the technological enablers for the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases emerged, most patient care was...
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- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
people are more likely to endorse a more aggressive, masculine leader—for example, Winston Churchill—to take action. But a pandemic is not a war and framing it as a warlike threat may hinder effective action. An infectious View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works
“Heroes List” of authentic leaders who are making a difference in overcoming the challenges of COVID-19: Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has been at the center of every virus...
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- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
Science and Technology (DOST) to fast-track a dashboard for the Inter Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Disease (IATF-EID) and sponsored the data warehouse and data analytics needed...
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Margie Kelley