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- 12 Sep 2018
- News
Game-Changing Analytics
at multiple contact points, including ticket sales, retail transactions, digital communications, and social media,” notes Gelman, a former Crimson basketball star who also played professionally in Europe. She cites the Patriots’ launch a few years ago, of merchandising...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Scientific Discovery
example garnering worldwide attention is CRISPR-Cas9, a genome-editing tool that builds on the work of a host of international scientists. The effort began in 1993 with Francisco Mojica at the University of Alicante in Spain, subsequently passing from View Details
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Tech Trekker
In the middle of her second year at HBS, Ilene Lang sat in the MBA Program Office trying to convince an administrator to let her take a documentary film course at MIT for credit. As she made her pitch, then Associate Dean of Student...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Forecasting ’15
Food Lab “The cronut is not the last of its type. We’ll continue to see a lot of excitement and hype around crazy food things, usually something that is fat-on-fat-on-sugar-on-more-fat. But in 2015 we’ll also see more of the grassroots...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
How I Got to Google
end of the day, product managers are judged on execution and the quality of their launch. SS: Any advice for people who want to be a PM but don’t have a technical background? PR: I’m a computer and biomedical engineer by training, and spent two years working as a...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
years. He was previously a fellow with Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Broderick Turner, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech, and Cofounder, Technology, Race and Prejudice (T.R.A.P.) View Details
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Three Promoted to Full Professor
and performance of private firms; and long-run performance evaluation for newly public companies. He has written numerous journal articles and is the coauthor of The Venture Capital Cycle, published in 1999 by The MIT Press. Forest L....
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
exciting. There probably are only five or ten universities in the world where you could teach a course like this. We draw on science from labs across Harvard, and our student teams are tasked with determining if there is a market for the...
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- 01 Oct 2013
- News
Banking on Africa's Future
chemical engineering from MIT and a JD from Harvard Law School. His résumé also includes stints at Disney and the Texas Pacific Group. With some $2 billion invested in more than 30 countries, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, Helios's focus...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
That’s the imperative of the Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator, established in 2016 with a $20 million gift from the Robert and Myra Kraft Family Foundation, led by Robert Kraft (MBA 1965), in partnership with HBS and the Broad Institute of View Details
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Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
groups and class discussions revolved around learning how to think about complex issues." On the other hand, he believes, the news media have placed too much emphasis on "celebrity CEOs" in recent years. "Chief executives are too often...
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- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
alma maters (Miami University of Ohio and Vanderbilt University). They've also taken a leadership role at the school, serving on the Board of Dean's Advisors and as cochairs of their 25th Reunion, and as early founding donors of the Harvard Innovation View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
lab and the Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases. But in a much larger sense, Yeo is looking out on Singapore's future-a future he has played a primary role in creating since 1986, first as the longtime chairman of the Economic...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
$1,500 he and two MIT friends scraped together from personal funds and a $10,000 prize for winning MIT’s business plan contest. In 1996, the youthful trio sold the company to Artisoft for $13 million. Prior to HBS, Cassidy had earned two...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
failed companies. When Potentia Pharmaceuticals won the contest in 2001 with Alec Machiels (MBA 2001) at the helm, its plan hinged on a mechanism created by a team of Harvard and MIT scientists that used atomic force microscopy in drug...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Massachusetts, a research lab dedicated for the last sixty years to providing America’s soldiers with the world’s best equipment. In 1957, his dream of a European business school came to life...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
Design Rules: The Power of Modularity (Volume 1) by Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark (The MIT Press) Today's fast-paced global economy often seems to operate as an independent force, but its products, firms, and markets are all derived...
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- 10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
the Girls Who Code board. “I’ve heard stories from the girls,” she says of the 6th- to 12th-grade girls involved in the program. “It starts early. Stories of them being chased out of the computer lab because it’s ‘Boys Only.’ ” Maybank is...
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April White
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
shipping containers—necessitates a white cap and a lab coat. The units feature a double-door protocol that requires the exterior door to be closed before a second internal door can be opened. In the far corner of the building, a...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Unleashed
we like former MIT professor Edgar H. Schein’s iconic framework, which loosely divides organizational culture into artifacts, behaviors, and shared basic assumptions. As Schein argues persuasively, to get people to reliably behave the way...
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Jen McFarland Flint