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- 27 Mar 2012
- News
One School at a Time
which provides the school’s building rent-free, is currently funding an expansion that promises to more than double ASMS’s physical space. A 2007 Intel School of Distinction finalist, ASMS concentrates on math and View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
All Hands on Deck
quickly, the School doubled funding for its summer fellowship program and opened it up to graduating as well as first-year students. These fellowships provide stipends to supplement lower-paying internships (for example, at nonprofits and...
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Jen Mele
- 16 Mar 2015
- News
A Sustainable Approach to Physics Education
Sir Peter Ogden (MBA 1973) has changed the lives of thousands of students with the Ogden Trust, which provides funding to ready the next generation of leaders in science and math. “My focus is not to change...
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- 10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
number of women graduating with undergraduate computer science degrees rose through the 1960s and ’70s, until the mid-1980s. In 1985, 37 percent of computer science graduates were women. In 2012, only 18...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2016
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Starting Lineup: Upturning Travel
websites. FLYR CEO Jean Tripier (MBA 1992) Founded in 2013 “The data science company that ends the guessing game of booking airfares.” When JetBlue created a venture capital arm earlier this year, its first investment was in FLYR’s...
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April White
- 26 Jan 2021
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Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
FemTech, the segment of the health care and life sciences industry focused on women’s health. A combined 175 alumni attended the discussions which featured alumni panelists who are investing in, or leading, companies in the FemTech space....
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2018
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Collaborative Cures
million gift to the University from the Blavatnik Family Foundation, headed by Len Blavatnik (MBA 1989), which also funded the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship Program at HBS. The...
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- 01 Sep 2024
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Fueling Innovation
By giving to the HBS Fund, alumni and friends support the School’s core priorities and help catalyze the launch of new programs and initiatives and sustain their growth. Featured here are a few key examples of innovations at HBS that would not have been possible...
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- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
draft of the Human Genome Project, we launched the Biomedical Sciences Initiative here." As Singapore set out on this journey, Yeo made sure that plenty of funding was available to nurture and sustain the...
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- 13 Mar 2020
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Expanding Cancer Care
the labs at Dana-Farber and that science getting to patients is time and money. So what my office does, and what I do, is spend as much time as I can to accelerate that time by creating new funds to...
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- 01 Mar 2003
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Three Appointed to Endowed Professorships
His work on private equity funds has examined the relationship between general partners and their portfolio companies. Gompers recently coauthored two books: Entrepreneurial Finance and The Money of Invention. His Harvard degrees include...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
instructional space, dining hall, and challenge courses. The funding will also support the expansion of the organization’s programs, which include science education, character development, and summer...
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- 16 Oct 2014
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Innovating for International Aid
selected as a Presidential Innovation Fellow at USAID. The program, started in 2010, is overseen by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. It brings dynamic executives from the private sector, nonprofits, and academia...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
Illustration by Peter Arkle Illustration by Peter Arkle Sandra Oh Lin (MBA 2003) has raised enough venture capital for now, thank you very much. Lin is the founder and CEO of KiwiCo, which designs and delivers science and art project kits...
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Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Oct 2002
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Pearson Hunt Remembered
high distinction in 1933 and received a doctorate of commercial science — the precursor to today's doctorate of business administration (DBA) — from the School in 1939. Named an assistant professor at HBS in 1940, Hunt became a full...
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- 15 Nov 2020
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Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. On April 16, video screens were glowing as spectators watched the finale of HBS’s annual New Venture Competition (NVC). COVID-19 turned the competition into a...
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- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Realizing a Dream
remembers her saying. The problem, she explained, was that despite a compelling application, the School wasn’t sure he could handle the quantitative work. “I’m someone who focuses on overcoming my weaknesses,” he notes with a laugh. He hadn’t taken undergraduate math...
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- 11 Oct 2022
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Righting the Ship
When Ross Stuckey (PLDA 21, 2016) joined the NAVSEA Warfare Centers—a part of the naval research labs responsible for developing science and tech for national defense—as their capital improvement program (CIP) manager in 2016, he was charged with doling out $80 million...
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Maureen Harmon
- 13 Oct 2016
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Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
where he endowed the Blum Family Venture Philanthropy Fund to promote discoveries with potential to benefit the Israeli life-sciences economy. Closer to home, Blum established the Tikkun Olam Youth Science...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2005
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Venture Capital’s Comeback
WILCOX: “At the height of the boom, all venture-capital funds had LPs begging to get in. Today, the really good funds are back competing for the very best deals.” With roughly half of the nation’s...
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