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- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
been collaborating for three years to increase the number of African American biologists and chemists. In 1995, they launched the UNCF Merck Science Internships. The undergraduates, doctoral students, and postdoctoral scientists who receive these internships are...
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by James Austin
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
Cancer research, it has been said, is not unlike a group of blind men studying an elephant. One man feels the elephant's tail and says it is a rope. Another blind man handles its tusk and calls it a spear, and yet another declares its...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
predictable date for its demand. There is certainly a need for more research into vaccine-production technologies and for greater production capacity, and WHO encourages vaccine firms and national governments to invest in such areas. How...
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- 16 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
with cancer and passed away a couple of years later,” Dzodan shared. “After he passed, I had to start working on the company because it was a small business and there were no managers.” Their father’s passing took an emotional toll on the...
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- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
with multiple myeloma, a rare and incurable blood cancer, Kathy Giusti cofounded the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, which has helped thousands of other patients with the cancer and has accelerated...
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- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
with cancer and passed away a couple of years later,” Dzodan shared. “After he passed, I had to start working on the company because it was a small business and there were no managers.” Their father’s passing took an emotional toll on the...
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- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
practices are broadly familiar, their application within cross-industry teams calls for unique leadership approaches that combine flexibility, open-mindedness, humility, and fierce resolve. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51140 2016...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
engaging the patient to the point that she may take action that is not in her best interest?” (The American Cancer Society in October pushed back its age for recommended mammograms in part because they can lead to false positives and...
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- 28 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’
Association and an MBA candidate in the class of 2015 at Harvard Business School. The event was moderated by Anita Elberse, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, whose research focuses on...
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- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
companies do CSR in fits and starts” The problem? They lack a cohesive CSR strategy, says Rangan, who recently cowrote the working paper Why Every Company Needs a CSR Strategy and How to Build It with HBS research associate Lisa A. Chase...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
researchers then analyzed the data, totaling some 12,000 daily diaries, looking for commonalities that influenced "inner work life," which the book defines as "the confluence of perceptions, emotions, and motivations that...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
in entrepreneurship despite earning low risk-adjusted returns. This has lead to attempts to provide explanations-using both standard economic theory and behavioral economics-for why certain individuals may be attracted to such an apparently unprofitable activity....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
group that first voiced skepticism, demanded accountability, and catalyzed dissent. Andrew Zimbalist is the leading researcher on the hidden costs of hosting megaevents like the Olympics and the World Cup. They provide a blueprint for...
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- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
“Billions of dollars in research funding is pouring into the space. We have tools that are unprecedented in their power, their ease of use, their accessibility, and their cost. The number of neuroscience articles published in academic...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
cancer still progressing, he and his wife decided it was time to stop treatment. At the age of 74, Sato-san settled in for his final stages in the heart of his home—the altar to his ancestors to his left, oxygen machine to his...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
expert in the field brings you the latest research and real-world stories on how to develop your own personal networking strategy to help you achieve the future you want. What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence by Stephen A....
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
Doriot HBS ARCHIVES PHOTOGRAPHS COLLECTION As a young man, Georges Doriot dreamed of running a factory, a rare aspirational failure in his long, storied career. Rather, he ended up teaching thousands of HBS students how they should run modern enterprises, masterminded...
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- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
precision diagnostics. It is a travesty that we don’t have simple tests that can distinguish between the common cold, seasonal allergies, and various strains of the flu, let alone the sophisticated diagnostics needed to guide the treatment of View Details
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by Danielle Kost
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
shouldn't wait for policy; they should act now to become early movers in leading these changes. Context Professor Porter, having conducted in-depth research and analysis on the U.S. health care market, discussed his conclusions on the...
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- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
to the company to the economy as a whole—creativity is something that can be created and fostered if you have the right guidance and incentives. Think of the following insights and techniques, gleaned from the research of six HBS...
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by Michael Blanding