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- 15 Nov 2016
- News
HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking
Walsh spoke about creating wearable robotic equipment to help people with physical disabilities, and HBS professor Lauren H. Cohen outlined research focusing on “patent trolls” that sue cash-rich companies for patent violations. Ongoing collaborations between HBS and... View Details
- Fast Answer
Buying a Small Business Pt2: Search funds (For HBS Alumni)
Would you point me to some guides and best practices related to search funds? You may begin with the following: Search Funds – a website by the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Resources... View Details
- Profile
Jeremy King
As an undergraduate, Jeremy King pursued a degree in biology, studying ecology, genetics and animal behavior. Though he considered medicine a career, he found himself working with a very different animal. "I interned in the more... View Details
- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
Black patients and their doctors may be more open to new medications if drug trials included more Black people, new research shows. Currently, Black Americans represent just 5 percent of drug trial participants. Nearly three-quarters of doctors surveyed in a new View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Michael F. Cronin, MBA 1977
Detroit, and even the student whose idea it was to put solar panels on the roof of Shad,” he notes. Cronin is the cofounder and managing partner of Weston Presidio, a private equity firm with offices on both US coasts and over $3 billion... View Details
- 20 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Exploring Cleantech at HBS
and Westrek. The Africa Business Conference has an excellent cleantech panel every year, and Westrek often includes visits to Bay Area cleantech companies. 2. Be proactive on (and off) campus Consider organizing an event for the annual... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why Evolutionary Software Development Works
Given the importance of software, the lack of research on the best ways to manage its development is surprising. Many different models have been proposed since the much cited waterfall model emerged more than 30 years ago. Unfortunately, few View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Markets’ Moral Limits
Economics has lately “wandered” from its traditional study of phenomena such as business cycles and is now about commoditization, incentives, and “principles by which people make decisions,” declared Harvard government professor and... View Details
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
Working PapersIndustry Equilibrium with Open Source and Proprietary Firms Authors:Gastón Llanes and Ramiro de Elejalde Abstract We present a model of industry equilibrium to study the coexistence of Open Source (OS) and Proprietary (P)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Association of Boston (HBSAB) recently presented a virtual panel discussion exploring the unique challenges that women entrepreneurs encounter when founding their companies. The conversation, titled “The... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
other resources to help put Russia's War on Ukraine in context Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Insights on Russia and Ukraine from Harvard Faculty of Arts & Sciences Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Harvard... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Ads Improve Consumer Decisions
Advertising can be good for you! Sounds fishy to the average consumer, but it's implied by conclusions from research by HBS associate professor Bharat Anand and his colleague, Ron Shachar, of Tel Aviv University. The pair began by View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- Web
SPACE: Space, Public and Commercial Economics - Course Catalog
learn about the history of civilian space agencies like NASA and of the military in space, and we will debate their role in the future. We will study the economics underlying the sector, where public-private linkages are deep and... View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
The webinar offered a panel discussion featuring guests with a variety of board experiences, including Anilu Vazquez-Ubarri, a Stanford alumna from TPG Global, Gabe Turner (MBA 2010), executive director of Draper Networks, and Ivelisse... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
@Soldiers Field
(Michael Hemment) Maddie may be HBS’s most popular study partner. The sweet-tempered therapy dog makes semiannual visits to Baker Library to provide much-needed stress relief during finals. Last December, an estimated 80 students and... View Details
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Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog
the firms depicted typically attend the class and often function as mentors/advisors in the subsequent two field courses. The case studies cover virtually all health care verticals. These sessions are complemented with optional View Details
- 06 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
A Letter from the Women in Investing Club
were committed to increasing the visibility and accessibility of Women in Investing on campus. We partnered with other groups such as the VCPE Club, the HBS Investment Club, the Health Care Club, and numerous others to collaborate on networking events and View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
“This was an idea that probably wasn’t going to be well received by the mainstream philanthropy world but had really big potential,” he recalls. A Princeton University study of GiveDirectly’s efforts is an early measure of that potential.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Alumni Connections: Photos of Recent Alumni Events
(AASU)—were each presented with the Hutchins Center’s W.E.B. Du Bois Medal by Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. (far right), director of the center. The medal is Harvard’s highest honor in the field of African and African American studies... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
panels on the affirmative action debate, the potential for technology to strengthen the African-American community, entrepreneurship and economic development, and careers in the venture-capital and private-equity arenas. Frank Savage,... View Details