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- 29 Oct 2010
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The Mental Game of Breast Cancer
- 01 Nov 2010
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The Mental Game of Breast Cancer: Part Two
- 22 Feb 2024
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Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching
was so fatal. The interesting part about breast cancer was I had known that I was high risk for breast cancer, first because my identical twin sister had stage 3 View Details
- 21 Oct 2015
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Mammogram Guidelines, Legal Caucus & A New Greater Bostonian
- 27 Feb 2009
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Switzerland has the medical bills covered
- 01 Sep 2023
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Hands-on Learning About Global Markets
company’s leadership group: Sponsor special events related to senior care issues (fundraisers for breast cancer or Alzheimer’s), embed information about Ellie Care in every step of the patient journey (at...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 08 Aug 2013
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Cause Marketing Gets Personal
resulted in a breast cancer diagnosis, and Langer's battle against the disease led her to volunteer at the then-pioneering National Alliance of Breast View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
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The Power of Resilience
my eyes. My mother happened to be in the room with me at the time. My mother had herself been diagnosed with early onset breast cancer in her 30s. And when I got off the phone I just looked at her and I told...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Personal crises inform a life’s work
One of the youngest women to attend HBS, Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA 1977) was building a successful investment banking career when a cancer diagnosis at age 29 spurred her to volunteer at the National Alliance of View Details
- 07 Oct 2021
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Bringing Light to the Fight
part thanks to Smyth, who joined the volunteer board of the fledgling Breast Cancer Foundation NZ in the mid-1990s and became its chair in 2009. Her work with the charity has been informed by her business...
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- 11 Dec 2014
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Defining the field of cause-related marketing
After being diagnosed with breast cancer at age 30, Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA 1977) left a career in investment banking to launch the National Breast View Details
- 15 Apr 2021
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Bringing Light to the Fight
underwent a mastectomy and survived, and Smyth kept the family secret for more than a decade. That’s all changed now—in part thanks to Smyth, who joined the volunteer board of the fledgling Breast Cancer...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain
"I never intended to write a book," says Deborah A. Cohen (MBA '87). Nor did she expect to be diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 35. The author of Just Get Me Through This! The Practical Guide to...
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Morgan Baker
- 01 Oct 2002
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Amy S. Langer
More than fifty thousand women die from breast cancer every year in the United States. Another two hundred thousand are diagnosed with the disease — the most common form of View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
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Mara Aspinall
pharmaceutical companies focused their R&D on treatments for common illnesses — such as diabetes and high cholesterol — an approach that resulted in the development of blockbuster drugs. We now recognize that diseases are far more complex and heterogenic than...
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- 01 Aug 2001
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Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)
named executive director of the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO), where she had signed on as a volunteer three years earlier. When she joined NABCO, the New York City-based...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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Not Your Typical Business Conference
moving story about her own bout with cancer, an experience that led her to switch from a fast-track investment-banking job to the nonprofit world as head of the National Alliance of Breast Cancer...
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- 23 May 2018
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Winning Bid
$90,000 for breast cancer research), as well as its ability to connect people with similar interests: “That’s fascinating both in its simplicity and its complexity,” he says. “It’s not just commerce, it’s...
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- 25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up...
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