Caroline de Lacvivier

Ashesi University: The Journey from Vision to Reality

In 1997, Patrick Awuah had a dream: to bring liberal arts education to Ghana. Amid the country’s declining economy and pervasive corruption problems, Awuah saw education as an opportunity to reverse its fortunes by investing in the next generation of African leaders. Five years later, he and his team established Ashesi University, which differentiated itself from Ghana’s traditional educational model by remaining privately funded (and therefore independent from Ghana’s public school system),...

Lustgarten Foundation invests $1.5 million to bring promising immunotherapy to patients with...

The Lustgarten Foundation awarded $1.5M for a Dana-Farber clinical trial to test immunotherapy in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer.

Dana-Farber DIPG Scientific Update

Houdini had a Brother

Most people know about Houdini. He was the illusionist who locked himself up in a milk can, filled it with water, and advertised that failure meant a drowning death. Few people know about his brother, Theodore Hardeen, who continued to perform the act long after Houdini died of appendicitis, a protracted, unnecessary illness that could have been cured had Houdini not been too proud to seek treatment. I used to wonder if it was an act of love or hate that impelled Hardeen to replace his...

About | Hale Family Center For Pancreatic Cancer Research

At Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Hale Family Research Center's objective is to develop more effective pancreatic cancer treatments by uniting laboratory and clinical experts in gene discovery, functional genomics, computational biology, chemical biology, and model system development.

The Struggle To Speed Study Start-up

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The Iowa Review Volume 49, Issue 2 | Fall 2019 Fiction: Caroline de Lacvivier - Geisa

Alaska Airlines: Empowering Frontline Workers to Make It Right

This case documents the ongoing efforts by Alaska Airlines to enhance its efforts to become more customer centric by empowering its employees using a service framework. It explores how the airline starts with a completely hands-off approach to empowerment in which employees are encouraged to do whatever it takes to please customers.

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