Health Care
Influenza is an acute respiratory illness that spreads rapidly in seasonal epidemics. Annually influenza outbreaks result in 250,000 to 500,000 deaths around the globe. The World Health Organization reports that the costs of health care, lost days of work and education, and social disruption are...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —Africa has an unfortunate PR problem. While new coverage of the area is often focused on political unrest, conflicts, poverty, drought — Africa is in fact doing just as well as, if not better than, other developing regions of the world. This was the message...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —When Paul Auerbach arrived at the University Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after the January 2010 earthquake, he faced a sea of death and misery the likes of which he'd never seen. A thousand people were critically injured or ill, buildings were in ruin...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS - Data—its uses, abuses, influence, and future possibilities-was the focus of attention for 700 TEDx conference attendees who gathered at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
The audience included venture capitalists, startup founders, alumni, Silicon...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS - Each day in Tanzania, 220 people - most of them children - die of complications from malaria, a curable disease. In part those deaths occur because health facilities in extremely rural areas throughout sub-Saharan Africa have immense problems keeping the...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —A new generation of medical "rock stars" are blending cutting-edge technology with reams of old-fashioned data to help drive innovation in health care, according to Todd Park, chief technology officer of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
One of...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —Twenty million low-birth weight babies are born each year and four million of them die within their first month of life. But Stanford Graduate School of Business alum Jane Chen, MBA ‘08, is seeking to change that statistic one baby step at a time.
Chen is...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—U. S. medical products firm ATL manufactures a battery-operated, handheld sonar device that’s selling briskly in rural India and Asia. The portable machine enables doctors examining pregnant women to determine the gender of the unborn. And in those countries,...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS -- Andy Katz-Mayfield, MBA class 2011, has a resume that highlights his time with national consulting and equity investing firms. Danielle Weiss, a physician, recently completed a fellowship in endocrinology at Stanford Hospital and Clinics.
In the normal flow...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS - Calling education "the most important problem that we have to solve in this country," an official of the U.S. Department of Education warned that other nations are doing a better job than the United States of educating their young people.
Too often American...