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25 Aug 2022
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Reinventing the Future of Business

investments in innovations that enhance student learning and that hold the potential to generate solutions to important issues facing business and society. Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age Understanding the Digital, Data, and... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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Bridging the ESG Data Gap

partner reporting and portfolio monitoring. Launching a startup was not Murday’s original goal in attending HBS. She grew up in a Rust Belt city outside of Chicago and expected to work in the public sector after studying policy at Georgetown. Murday saw the View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Feb 1999
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Too Much of a Good Thing?

commercial and trade activity and agreements, with mountains of up-to-the-minute data available to firms and governments for making sophisticated projections, why do industries and countries continue to overproduce and create such View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

31 May 2023
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2023

came to Vertex in 2017, there was a medicine finishing early clinical trials with the potential to serve up to 90 percent of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). In October 2019 that became Trikafta. Now CF patients talk to me about... View Details

Keywords: leadership; management; work-life balance

19 Apr 2023
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A Kick Start for Latin American Startups

When Monica Saggioro Leal (MBA 2018) and her business partner, Lara Lemann, started MAYA Capital, a tech-focused, Brazilian VC firm launched in 2018, they wanted to take a hands-on approach with their startup investments in their first 12 months. Even so, they were... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Mar 2024
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On the Radar

Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Our planet is teeming with trillions of viruses and bacteria, most of which are innocuous or even helpful, but some pose a significant risk to public health, animals, and crops. In recent decades,... View Details

Keywords: Janine White; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

15 Dec 2023
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Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

secret,” she says. “I’ve spent the last 15 years in Africa really trying to not only unlock the agricultural and food potential on the continent, but also to enable our enterprises to scale.” Sahel Consulting provides strategy consulting... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

15 Jun 2021
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Zone Defense

reconnaissance of potentially hazardous spaces. The quadcopter functions in total darkness, in buildings it has never previously entered, and flies without prior knowledge or programming of the space—even in areas without GPS or... View Details

Keywords: April White; drone technology; military; security; entrepreneurship; leadership; Air Transportation; Transportation

15 Feb 2024
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Startup Shepherds

even if you meet them for only 15 minutes, which is a typical angel pitch, you can see them make mistakes on the spot.” They were the type of missteps only experienced entrepreneurs would recognize as potentially fatal weaknesses: a lack... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2023
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From Big Pharma to Startup

our story and gain feedback from an audience of potential investors,” Goble says. The victory also came with $75,000, a sizable sum for the young firm facing basic company-formation costs. The enterprise became part of the Harvard i-lab... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Peter G. Harf

in 1990. When the couple and their two daughters began looking for a bone marrow donor so that Mechtildis could have a transplant, they learned that there were only two thousand people listed in Germany's national registry of potential... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2019
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Developing Leaders Who Bridge Business and Engineering

Denise Dupré and Mark Nunnelly (MBA 1984) Mark Nunnelly (MBA 1984) and Denise Dupré are deeply committed to the creation of innovative programs for students who are driven to create, lead, and grow companies with the potential to change... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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An Engine of Innovation

of an idea with the potential to solve a problem or address an unmet need and grow it into a purposeful entity. The i-lab, the original component of the now three-lab ecosystem, opened in 2011 in Batten Hall with the vision of offering a... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

07 Apr 2015
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Warrior Spirit

ranging from $2 billion to $4 billion, depending on the cited source. While UFC stages events in Asia, ONE FC has the larger market share; Sityodtong sees the potential for a familiar dynamic to play out between the two organizations. “In... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2010
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John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures

became CEO of the researcher’s fledgling firm, Novazyme Pharmaceuticals. But Crowley’s personal involvement in the cure he sought almost proved his undoing, as perceptions of potential conflicts of interest threatened to keep his kids out... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

01 Dec 1997
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Multimedia Martha: Sharon Patrick Cooks Up A Winner

partnerships with others, like Time Warner. Martha had lots of ideas and a great sense of the possibilities of the businesses and the potential for brand building, but what was missing was a real game plan for getting there. Conversely, I... View Details

23 Mar 2023
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Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition

Competition, cohosted by the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and HBS Alumni Relations, serves as a launch pad for innovative new ventures from HBS alumni, providing access and exposure to potential investors, mentors, and advisors. The... View Details

31 Jan 2014
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Body, Heal Thyself

breakthrough in] the biotech industry takes a lot of time; it takes a lot of money; it's complicated science." And it takes a lot of people—from scientists to executives to board members. Bancel admits that people see the potential fairly... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; biotech; Health, Social Assistance; Scientific Research and Development Services

19 Apr 2024
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Alumni Host Energy CEO Summit in Houston; Austin Club Co-Hosts SXSW Reception

current and potential alumni members, and, specifically, entrepreneurs. “We had multiple goals for this mixer,” says Laurie Bishop, Associate Director of the HBS Rock Center. “One was to provide visibility for both the Rock Center and the... View Details