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- November 2023 (Revised April 2024)
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BiomX: Bringing Phage Back to the Stage
By: Paul A. Gompers, Elie Ofek, Orna Dan and Emilie Billaud
In the spring of 2023, and following the favorable results of a trial involving its phage cocktail for treating lung infections among cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, the leadership of BiomX had several critical issues to wrestle with. First, given its precarious...
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Working Capital;
Financing and Loans;
Health Testing and Trials;
Product Development;
Research and Development;
Science-Based Business;
Commercialization;
Biotechnology Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Gompers, Paul A., Elie Ofek, Orna Dan, and Emilie Billaud. "BiomX: Bringing Phage Back to the Stage." Harvard Business School Case 524-051, November 2023. (Revised April 2024.)
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General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
reputation and expertise, while expanding its client base. During this period, Lehman Brothers was appointed the Fiscal Agent of Alabama. In this capacity, its first venture into municipal financing, the firm sold state bonds as way to...
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- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?
In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at...
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- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
conflicts of interest, myriad examples of bribery and extortion, unfair and predatory competition, theft and misappropriation of information,...
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by Carla Tishler
- 18 Jan 2023
- Blog Post
Career Planning and Development: Interview with Career Coach Wendi Zhang (MBA/MPP 2013)
HBS career coaches are committed to helping MBA students and alumni realize their unique career visions. They are trained to assist with all aspects of the career development process including self-assessment and career vision, developing...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Engaging Students More Deeply
Students at Success Academy stay more focused on the dot rug. Photo courtesy HBS Multimedia Development To tell the compelling stories of a developer working to revitalize Miami Beach, a Maine lobsterman confronting the economic risks of climate change, and a charter...
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April White
- 13 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?
to drive to the grocery store to pick up the kids and go on errands, rather than pushing it to its limits on the open road. They were not interested in the racing heritage of Porsche. The commentators would...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Venturing Forth
Illustration by Adam McCauley Venture capital is a heady industry: Big bets mean big checks when the deals hit right. And for most of the last decade, those taking part in the funds were riding high: Capital was abundant, valuations were soaring, and the stock market...
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- 05 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors
in unconscious processes. Growing recognition of this is one reason for the increased interest among marketers of the role of emotions in...
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Tread Lightly Through These Accounting Minefields
By: H. David Sherman and S. David Young
In the current economic climate, there is tremendous pressure—and personal incentive for managers—to report sales growth and meet investors' revenue expectations. As a result, more companies have been issuing misleading financial reports, according to the SEC,...
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Sherman, H. David, and S. David Young. "Tread Lightly Through These Accounting Minefields." Harvard Business Review 79, no. 7 (July–August 2001): 129–135.
- December 2010
- Case
Financing Higher Education in Australia
By: David A. Moss and Stephanie Lo
Even before Australian lawmakers abolished university tuition in 1973, students in Australia had long benefited from low tuition and large government subsidies. By the early 1980s, however, the nation's universities faced growing budget challenges and an apparent...
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Economic Slowdown and Stagnation;
Higher Education;
Borrowing and Debt;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Policy;
Education Industry;
Australia
Moss, David A., and Stephanie Lo. "Financing Higher Education in Australia." Harvard Business School Case 711-047, December 2010.
- 06 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
What Makes the HBS MBA unique?
skills critical for business. Additionally, you’re introduced to classes and career paths that you might find interesting but that you otherwise wouldn’t take on your own. For me, I came to HBS thinking that I was more View Details
- August 2012
- Case
Messer Griesheim (A) (Abridged)
By: Josh Lerner, Eva Lutz and Kerry Herman
In 2001, Allianz Capital Partners and Goldman Sachs acquired a majority stake in Messer Griesheim, a European industrial gas concern held by Hoechst. The dealmakers faced several challenges, including delicate corporate governance issues due to partial family... View Details
Lerner, Josh, Eva Lutz, and Kerry Herman. "Messer Griesheim (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 813-018, August 2012.
- 01 Sep 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can We Train for Trust?
interests of others as well as your own” or is the effort merely window dressing? Means: Are methods employed perceived, among other things, as being fair? Impact: What are the results, good and bad, and do...
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by James Heskett
- 10 Dec 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
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Management MBA Fellowship . MSCPA Scholarships The Massachusetts Society of CPAs Educational Foundation awards scholarships that range from $2,500 to $10,000 to students interesting in pursuing a career in...
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Faculty - Creating Emerging Markets
Faculty Project Coordinator Geoffrey G. Jones Isidor Straus Professor of Business History Research Interests : business history , international business , entrepreneurship , environment , globalization...
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- 02 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies
A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices...
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by Lane Lambert
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Our Values | About
inconsistent with our most fundamental values; as humans, we must condemn them. The atrocities carried out were heinous and they have left the Israeli and Jewish members of our community, and all of us,...
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- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
and told him that he was interested in more responsibility, his mentor pushed back and asked if he was serious. Jeff replied, "I really would like to work on the human dimension of leading and managing...
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by Kim Girard