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- 13 Oct 2016
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Drug Coupons: Helping a Few at the Expense of Everyone
- 31 May 2023
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
with the near-impossible job of drug discovery and development.” Back to top Depelsha Thomas McGruder (MBA 1998) COO and Treasurer, Ford Foundation Founder, Moms of Black Boys United In my solitude: “I was born in Rome, Georgia. I’m an...
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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
(Thinkstock) Prescription drug spending increased by more than 13 percent in the United States in 2014, raising health insurance premiums and the ire of consumers and politicians. The reasons behind the rise...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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The Race Against Resistance
tide. “If we don’t take steps to slow down or stop drug resistance, we will fall back to a time when simple infections killed people. Can you imagine? That’s a bit of a doomsday perspective, but it’s a call to action.” “We are approaching...
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Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Sep 2006
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Sorry, We’re All Out of Chilean Sea Bass
places our food comes from and us the consumers. And that’s part of the problem. Do you think it was worth spending millions of taxpayer dollars and endangering lives to pursue the fishing vessel? The economic incentives for this kind of...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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The Business of Biotech
biotechnology. The prospect is exhilarating, but the road to this brave new biotech world has more than a few bumps. With an average time line of ten years required to bring a drug to market - and the potential for failure looming every...
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Julia Hanna
- 05 May 2020
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“Walking a Tightrope”
Kristof, most of which have focused on poverty in developing countries. But in the Pulitzer Prize-winning duo’s latest book, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, they turn their lens on working class communities in the United States—communities that have been...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived
significant investment in the area. At Kaiser Permanente, for instance, 25 percent of annual capital spending is invested in IT, and in the private sector, 102 telemedicine companies have received venture funding since 2011. In the first...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Vision: Sound Science
of scientific inquiry in gene-based hearing loss and inner-ear drug delivery: “In some infants with profound hearing impairment, there’s a mutation in one of those genes that results in loss of a protein that inner-ear cells need to...
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Deb Blagg
- 07 Oct 2014
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Network Effect
was shocked by their advice. “They said, ‘Try three Advil a day. It might help. There are a few FDA-approved drugs for Alzheimer’s disease, and they won’t help,’” he recalls. McCance, a venture- capital pioneer with Greylock Partners, had...
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Linda Kush
- 13 Oct 2016
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Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
biotech companies—as a function of cost, time, and failure modes—tend to risk pivot on one program, one clinical trial, one outcome,” he observes. “Our company is the leader in mining muscle biology for drug discoveries that translate...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2001
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Stephen M. Moret: A Campaign for Positive Change
low-cost HIV/AIDS drugs to Malawi. “I’m the guy who still can’t believe I got to go to school here.” After traveling around the world this fall, Moret will take a position in McKinsey’s Washington, D.C., office, where he hopes to View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
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The Race for a Vaccine
Pisano says. But vaccines don’t really fit the same business model as high-volume therapeutic drugs; they have an even higher bar for safety and effectiveness, because unlike most other drugs they are administered to healthy populations....
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Cynthia Carroll
practice. What keeps you up at night? Right now, I’m thinking a lot about the preservation of our balance sheet and cash position. Whatever spending we have ongoing, it clearly has to be for the highest shareholder value. We have...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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HBS Alums Help Jailhouse Entrepreneurs Go Straight
Like it or not, a drug dealer, for example, already knows a lot about what it takes to run a successful business. Teaching them passion is not something we have to do; what we teach them is how to go legit.” At HBS, several students are...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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One-on-One with Edwin Reed
Reed Edwin C. Reed (MBA ’79) spends Saturdays with his family, but on Sundays, you’ll always find him at the office. Reed is the CFO of the Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church in Jamaica, Queens — a powerhouse religious institution...
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- 03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet
business of publishing technical papers. “I didn’t want to spend the next 5 to 10 years doing these little increments and never knowing whether, with the right effort, we could solve a big challenge,” Ferrucci told HBS Professor of...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Dec 2001
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Reaching Out
"Many people want to spend their productive years doing something that they care about, and one way to do that is to work through the social sector on issues that markets alone don't always address," Childress says. A Two-Way Street While...
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- 15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015
sons whose mothers were employed spend more time caring for family members, a much-cited working paper by Professor Kathleen McGinn, Elizabeth Long Lingo (PhDOB 2005), and their coauthor found. Darrell Huntsman (MBA 1998) founded the...
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