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Health is Wealth The Path to Creating a Venture
WEBRachel Sanders (MBA 2017) started her professional career working in healthcare focused investment banking. After spending four years working at Raymond James focused on middle market transactions, M&A, and the intersection of technology and business, she had a strong understanding of the opportunities to leverage technology to …
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Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
WEBRegina Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, has been studying the health care sector for nearly half a century.In that time, she has seen significant innovation in the field—and she has also seen the powerful sway of the status quo, which has led to the slow adoption of some cost-reducing, …
The Making of a Medical Milestone
WEBThe Making of a Medical Milestone. On March 16, doctors at the Massachusetts General Hospital made history when they successfully transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig to a living human. The groundbreaking procedure marked a significant milestone in animal-to-human transplant, or xenotransplantation, which might …
Curing Health Care
WEBIn a big way. Founded in 1997, athenahealth now serves about 44,000 medical providers, posted $422 million in revenue in 2012, and has been growing 30 percent annually since 2006. In the years ahead, athenahealth announced, it would nearly double the size of its workforce, to some 5,000 employees.
Sterling Joins Healthcare Initiative
WEBCara Sterling has joined HBS as the founding director of the Healthcare Initiative, recently launched by former Dean Kim B. Clark and faculty chair Richard Hamermesh. The initiative seeks to create a community for students, faculty, and alumni who are interested in improving health and the health-care system.
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
WEBUsing genomics and machine learning, Day Zero Diagnostics (DZD) and Aikili Biosystems aim to save lives. “A common reaction to our venture is that it is ‘ambitious.’. Clearly our goals are not easy to pull off,” says Jong Lee (MBA 1999), CEO of DZD. “The thing about founding a company in life sciences is that what you are trying to do
Addressing roadblocks to innovation in health care
WEBHerzlinger has identified three types of innovation—focused on technology, consumers, and the integration of business models—that can make health care better and cheaper. Further, she has defined the six elements that must be factored into successful innovation ventures of any type: structure, financing, technology, consumers
Making a Statement
WEBAndrew M. Paul (MBA 1983) sees a powerful connection between the business side of health care and the benefits of better service delivery to patients. “By investing in companies committed to innovation, you can improve the quality of life for thousands of people,” he says. The cofounder and managing partner of Enhanced …
The Power of Education
WEBAttendance at Harvard reunions requires a little extra time from Robert Howard and his wife, Dr. Brenda Pagán-Durán. “This year, our 20th Reunion at Harvard College happened a week before my 15th at HBS,” says Howard, head of Equity Strategies at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. in New York.
Alumnus Gift Will Nurture Basic, Therapeutic Science
WEBSwiss biotech executive, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Ernesto Bertarelli (MBA 1993) has pledged $75 million to advance basic scientific discovery, therapeutic science, and a culture of entrepreneurship at Harvard Medical School.. The gift will set in motion plans to transform the outdoor courtyard of Building C into an expansive, …
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
WEBFighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time. A life dedicated to service is helping rebuild communities by addressing problems in housing, education, and health. Like many people who work for change in struggling urban neighborhoods, John Majors (MBA 2000) believes that high-quality education for all children is a vital link to future …
Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition
WEBAlumni-founded startups M7 Health and Hue came out victorious in the 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition on Thursday, winning the Grand Prize and Runner Up awards respectively in an impressive field of eight global regional winners.
From Big Pharma to Startup
WEBAkouos—develops gene therapies with the potential to restore, improve, and preserve hearing for people with disabling hearing loss . Buoy Health—provides AI-powered feedback on symptoms and makes recommendations for care options. Careport Health—offers care coordination software solutions to manage patient transitions across …
Road to Recovery
WEBA 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, the financial burden was substantial: Tobacco, alcohol, and illegal-drug addictions totaled an estimated $700 billion in direct and indirect costs, according to a 2015 report from
Investing in Entrepreneurship
WEBPeter O. Crisp (MBA 1960), a pioneering venture capitalist and philanthropist, is known for his firm’s investments in companies that have become household names: Intel, Apple, American Superconductor, Thermo Electron (now Thermo Fisher Scientific), to name a few.As a founder and managing general partner of Venrock Associates, he led the …
Alumni-Cofounded Company Sells to CVS for $10.6 Billion
WEBThe Wall Street Journal reported this week that health care giant CVS has agreed to purchase Oak Street Health, a “network of value-based primary care centers for adults on Medicare” that was cofounded by Geoffrey Price (MBA 2010), for $10.6 billion.. Price was named the Chief Innovation Officer at Oak Street in January 2022, with the …
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