Fertility - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Jun 2022
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The Rise of Fertility Startups

10 Nov 2020
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The Challenges of Commercializing Fertility

04 Nov 2021
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Navigating Work While Undergoing Fertility Treatments

12 Nov 2009
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Navigating Fertility Clinics with a Click

fertility treatments and thousands of dollars, the couple realized how difficult it was to find and compare information about clinics, doctors, and other care providers. “It attacks you emotionally in a way that’s hard to fathom,”... View Details

23 Mar 2020
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Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation

01 Mar 2012
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Enriching the Ecosystem

22 Feb 2011
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The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

06 Feb 2018
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What Could Amazon’s Approach to Health Care Look Like?

23 Dec 2021
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Taking Over a State by a Religious Movement Was Basically Inconceivable to Most Outside Observers

01 Jun 2023
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3-Minute Briefing: Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966)

change, geopolitics, declining fertility rates, bad agricultural practices, high levels of debt, shortages of labor and raw materials, and more. You can’t predict the stress point, but the fact that something will crack is not... View Details

Keywords: climate change; finance; sustainability; prediction; Finance

01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

you will, for an alternative to the high-yield, soil-depleting cycle of tilling, pesticides, and fertilization that could ultimately endanger the planet’s ability to grow enough food for its people. Through gardens planted with heirloom... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

01 Apr 2000
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Strike Up the Broad(band)

open-standards, fertile software platform from which thousands of novel applications will bloom." While many of those new applications will benefit consumers, the authors raise concerns that the technology might exacerbate the "Big... View Details

01 Mar 2004
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The Business of Babies

“We have a business that doesn’t feel like a business,” she noted. “Nobody wants to acknowledge the extent of commercialization.” Yet Americans alone spent $2.7 billion on fertility treatments in 2002. Procedures such as egg and sperm... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2019
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The Blue-Green Revolution

range of new applications in food and medicine. (Los Angeles Times/Getty Images) Having cracked the problem of boosting oil production, engineering algae to make petrochemicals ranging from fertilizers to plastics ought to be relatively... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustration by Eric Nyquist

14 Feb 2019
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Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change

microorganisms that improve crop health and productivity, reducing the need for chemical fertilizers and pesticides. “We could absorb all the carbon humans have put into the atmosphere since the beginning of the industrial revolution if... View Details

01 Mar 2016
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Delivering Trust

Illustration by Marcos Chin Illustration by Marcos Chin When they married, Deborah and Jake Anderson (MBA 2010) knew that they might have difficulty starting a family due to a preexisting medical condition. They began consulting with View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2004
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The Future of Stem Cells

infertile women to conceive. Excess fertilized eggs are routinely discarded by clinics at the conclusion of the in vitro process. Opponents say such practices are immoral because they destroy human life; advocates assert it is immoral to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Sep 2004
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HBS Business Plan Contest

The School’s eighth annual Business Plan Contest proved that entrepreneurship is alive and well at HBS: Close to forty teams entered plans to be judged by a panel of experts. This year’s traditional track winner was Extend Fertility, Inc., a venture that allows women... View Details

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