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- 23 Oct 2019
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A Bid for the Future
$5 billion construction investment. “This is the ultimate opportunity,” Moret recalls thinking at the time. He had been on the job as president and chief executive officer of VEDP only about eight months, and the commonwealth was not known for the generous View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
(neighborhood parents of infants) of the center? Maybe throw in incentives for higher commitments like X hours of credits, VIP parking, five free birthday parties, etc. You could even launch a few simultaneous campaigns varied by... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- News
Finding a Fix for Food Allergies
and provide incentives for scientists to work together within food allergy and across disease states to solve specific problems such as diagnostics and reducing the allergic response.” The couple hopes their advances can offset the... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 10 Jun 2014
- News
Why Work-Life Balance Is Your Company's Problem
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits by Leslie R. Crutchfield (MBA ’01) and Heather McLeod Grant (Jossey-Bass) What makes nonprofits great? The authors studied twelve nonprofits that have extraordinary influence — from Habitat for Humanity to... View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
“You are seeing meaningful renewable programs in most states, and that’s both good news and bad news.” Using the example of her own company, a private equity firm investing in the energy sector, she explained the challenges of working within 50 different regulatory and... View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 18 May 2015
- News
Companies Drain Women’s Ambition After Only 2 Years
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Immersion Program Digs Deep
was charged with discovering what happens to all of the uneaten prepared food in the city; they came away with a government incentive scheme to reduce the leakage of untreated food waste into the animal feed supply chain. “International... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Moving Day 2012
Sandberg Photos by Russ Campbell (Commencement); Neal Hamberg (Class Day) As Dean Nitin Nohria told the audience on Baker Lawn on May 23, this year’s Class Day was an occasion for both celebration and mourning. Just days earlier, Nathan “Nate” Bihlmaier (MBA 2012) had... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
one would be willing to invest in research for fear that imitators who had not spent a dime on R&D would become competitors and drive down profits. By protecting innovations, patents are an essential incentive for the development of new... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Trust Me
level of integrity. “You build trust when you are vulnerable. If the person you are dealing with has an incentive to harm you but comes through and does not, then you learn to trust him or her,” Malhotra explained in a recent interview.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fixing What Ails the Drug Industry
with academia; and sharing pre-competitive research, Lechleiter said. He made a plea for federal and state policy support in the form of tax incentives and improvements to the U.S. education system to back up industry action. Conference... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
entrepreneurs to think about those dynamics as they build their board. Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz, for instance, have a very different incentive for exit than some of the more traditional VC firms. They would be much more willing to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
the fixed-fee system, filling cavities is a cost, not a revenue opportunity. So the financial incentive supports preventive care. So a system where health providers offer comprehensive care for a fixed fee is the disruptive innovation... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Sorry, We’re All Out of Chilean Sea Bass
places our food comes from and us the consumers. And that’s part of the problem. Do you think it was worth spending millions of taxpayer dollars and endangering lives to pursue the fishing vessel? The economic incentives for this kind of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
WILLIAMS CHARLEY SECKLER in the midst of the first-ever trial for a DMD treatment at Johns Hopkins University. Photo courtesy the Seckler Family by Dan Morrell There's this picture of Charley Seckler from last summer that his mom has sent to everyone: Her 12-year-old... View Details
- 06 Mar 2020
- News
The Key to Inclusive Leadership
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Merck’s Gilmartin on Vaccines, Global Health
but most have been driven away by fears of liability and government discount price-setting. “No one company or handful of companies can undertake all the research” necessary to produce needed vaccines, he said. Incentives must be... View Details