genealogy - Publications - Faculty & Research

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19 Oct 2012
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five million. We currently maintain a phenomenal service, but I know that we won’t be able to market ourselves to double or triple the size we are today: We must continue to create entirely new ways of helping people make genealogical... View Details

Keywords: genealogy; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

February 2006 (Revised August 2006)
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deCODE Genetics: Hunting for Genes to Develop Drugs

By: Debora L. Spar

In 1996, Kari Stefansson launched a new kind of biotechnology company and a whole new way of attacking diseases. Based in Iceland, his firm, deCODE Genetics, plans to identify the individual genetic markers that lead to society's most prevalent diseases. To do so, it... View Details

Keywords: Information; Innovation Strategy; Genetics; Ethics; Health Disorders; Biotechnology Industry; Iceland

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01 Sep 2023
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Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through... View Details

Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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generation. Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees How genealogy research grew from a hobbyist project into a multibillion-dollar industry That Was Then, This Is Now For more than 20 years, the HBS Portrait Project has captured a moment in... View Details

06 Sep 2016
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Connecting Past and Present

Family health was the impetus for Stanley Diamond (MBA 1958), founder of one of the world’s largest genealogy resources. “My family carries the beta thalassemia genetic trait,” a blood disorder. When my nephew was diagnosed, and we then... View Details

17 May 2016
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May 17, 2016

stability. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51049 in press Economic Growth and the Origins of Modern Political Economy: Economic Reasons of State, 1500–2000 Achtung! Banditi! An Alternate Genealogy of the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Aug 2016
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Connecting with the Past

networking cards; Modular Visions Systems; and Gage Electronics, the first manufacturer of computer-based instrumentation. In 1991, the need to find and warn family members of their genetic heritage prompted Diamond to concentrate on that pursuit. He attended his first... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

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Lauren Taylor & Rebecca Henderson

no-brainer. The process has offered me a unique opportunity to learn to see fields that I'm interested in through Rebecca's eyes. She knows so many of the scholars we're reading personally and can trace genealogies of thought for me - but... View Details

04 Oct 2018
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“A Shout Through Time”

help. First, he used a genealogy website that showed him that the surname had a high concentration in the Detroit area. And then, he ran a targeted search on Facebook for the name in that area. There were some hits, but no luck on a... View Details

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