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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Elevator Pitch: Good Vibrations
Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Bone Health Technologies Laura Yecies (MBA 1988), CEO Concept: OsteoBoost, a wearable vibration belt that is designed to treat osteopenia and prevent osteoporosis by reducing bone View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
From Big Pharma to Startup
Hunter Goble (MBA 2022) did not enroll in Harvard Business School with dreams of becoming an entrepreneur. After earning his MBA, Goble intended to return to Eli Lilly to continue to work building brands and launching products. He envisioned himself leading a big,...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Case Study: Testing the Waters
Illustration by Christina Spano Endurance training was nothing new to Lauren Picasso (MBA 2014), who’d raced through her younger years as a cross-country runner and swimmer. In 2017, when she was director of marketing at Jet.com and looking for a physical challenge,...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
So many boxes. Drew Dixon (MBA 2004) moved into this Brooklyn Heights apartment just a few days ago, as evidenced by the ratio of boxes emptied to those still filled. The living room, though, is an island of unpacked order, bobbing above...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
to name the building Madikizela, in honor of the late South African political activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, a symbol of Black female resilience.) The upper floors will contain well-appointed rentals, whose target market includes single moms working low-wage jobs...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
children, and Ray’s demanding travel schedule. To supervise my parents’ care, I relocated my family to Boston, five miles from their home, and Ray and I began commuting to our jobs in Manhattan. I soon discovered the challenges of aging in America: the lack of...
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- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
their three college-aged children. “Everything was going along just great,” Sontag recalls. “Then came the evening of June 24, 1994, and our entire earth came apart.” That night, Susan had a stroke that left her with short-term memory View Details
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April White
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
Cyberattacks are surging: Accenture reports that cyber intrusions jumped by 125 percent, globally, in the first half of 2021 over the same period in 2020. And while all those data breaches and ransomware attacks have meant major headaches for companies and their...
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Alexander Gelfand
- 15 May 2023
- News
From Scientist to Business Leader
Brianna Kim (MS/MBA 2023) When she was little, Brianna Kim (MS/MBA 2023) fell in love with the hard sciences and expected to eventually go to medical school or earn a PhD. But her plans changed after college. Kim grew up outside Washington, DC, as the hearing daughter...
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- 07 Jan 2022
- News
Learning to Fight
Courtesy Rick Sontag In 1994, Rick Sontag’s (MBA 1968) wife, Susan, was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer. Thanks to an experimental treatment, Susan survived, though she continues to experience significant loss of cognitive function...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
variety of known causes, but this is the first time a genetically driven form of hearing loss has received rare disease recognition. We think the designation will broaden medical research in this field and...
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Deb Blagg
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
red tape to approve drugs? What is the drug industry’s own view on why there is this constant inflation in the cost of prescription drugs? —Etienne Locoh-Donou (MBA 2002) HASSAN: Governments are not good at managing markets or driving innovation. “Forcing” a minimum...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
Dr. Peter L. Slavin (MBA '90) nods toward a long line stretching back from a gourmet coffee counter. "That's one of our most utilized facilities," he says with a smile. "The joke around here is that the hospital operation is a loss leader...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
in 2016, with Gastfriend as CEO and his father as chief medical officer. A 2014 study estimated that 12.5 million Americans had substance use disorders, and that number was rising, largely due to opioid use. In addition to the human toll,...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
Appointed CEO of Seattle-based Virginia Mason in 2000, Kaplan steps into a low-morale environment of increasing competition from area hospitals and decreasing revenues. In 1998 and 1999, the medical center lost many millions of dollars,...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Cutting Edge
the day—the evening drop has melatonin, for example—and we're now rolling out a line of medicated lozenges." A Higher Authority When Steve Silk took over at Hebrew National in 1999, the company had lost $6 million in the two years since...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Healthy Profit
of Building a Culture of Health: A New Imperative for Business. “But if you have a norovirus outbreak on a weeklong cruise with 5,000 people, and that vessel has to port and the cruise is canceled, that loss will cost Royal Caribbean a...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
and hand sanitizer to every household in the city of Chelsea. We’re staffing a hotel that the cities of Chelsea and Revere have rented for people who need to be quarantined, and we’re providing medical and nursing care there. We are doing...
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