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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
afforded her a detailed view of the industry’s challenges and opportunities and helped to inspire the founding of the National Trust. The nonprofit launched its test case in May 2021, with the purchase of 24 newspapers and websites in... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Bridging Business and Engineering
to really test out an idea to make sure that you are creating something that people want. I think that sometimes, as engineers, we get excited by the building process and forget that part.” Perelson appreciates having the opportunity to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Firm Foundation
as reported in the Wall Street Journal. Kanbrick took a majority stake in the patented boat-covering system Marine Concepts and established a dealer network across the Southeast. Since acquiring JM Test Systems, a third-generation... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Toward a Life Well Lived
first, LIFE Matrix (see below), offers insights about managing time, dealing with trade-offs between work and life, and how choices correlate with joy, meaningfulness, achievement, and life satisfaction. Another tool, currently being View Details
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast
analytics, to take the emotion out of the decisions-- all day breakfast was a great example of relying on a very consumer-focused idea. But allowing the analytics and the pilot market, so the test versus control, to highlight the... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
about this is that consumers are voluntarily opting into a carbon price, and as an economics major that's very exciting. We're very interested in sort of testing right now if folks could opt into the social cost of carbon, would they do... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
after he took the helm. Starting this May, Parneros plans to grow the number of physical Barnes & Noble stores. The company has also launched five new-format stores to test different retail strategies, among them a smaller selection of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 Jan 2023
- News
‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data
records on borrowers, and put the data through a random forest regression, a type of analysis known for producing good predictions that can be readily understood. When they tested the resulting model, the results were astounding. They... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
always rule. "If the CEO is overconfident, he will feel undervalued by the equity market, and an equity issue will seem too expensive," she observes. "An overconfident CEO will therefore end up investing less than he would like to - unless internal cash flow is... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
Moderna could create a vaccine for clinical testing in just 60 days. That was three times faster than any vaccine candidate had ever been produced. Fauci didn't believe him. An idea emerged to test Bancel’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Research Brief: The Best Medicine
the clinical approval process. In a survey experiment, the researchers found that 72 percent of doctors had been asked by their patients whether a new drug would “work in people like me.” Black patients and the doctors who treat them put less faith in trial evidence... View Details
- 16 Sep 2016
- News
Gaining Ground on ALS
1998. “But this grant is significant because it facilitates the sharing of plasma samples, collected from test subjects over time, with academic researchers.” The collaboration is a first for an international, late-stage trial and could... View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
- News
HBS Alumna Now Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator’s Codirector
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Bringing a new funding model to the life sciences industry
Andrew Farquharson (MBA 1999) wants to change the landscape for biomedical financing. The cofounder of VentureHealth, an online funding platform based in Silicon Valley, Farquharson leverages deals with investors who want access to biomedical startups. "If we can... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
case study with the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, GNS Healthcare, the Moffitt Cancer Center’s ORIEN program, and biotech firm Foundation Medicine. Rethinking Drug Trials In an adaptive platform trial, different drugs are simultaneously View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Finding a cure for cancer became a personal mission
Thai Lee (MBA 1985), president and CEO of SHI International, talks about how a family crisis led her to funding cancer research. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 15 Jan 2018
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A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
- 28 Jan 2016
- News
Harvard Business School Launches Precision Trials Challenge
- 16 Nov 2020
- News
Moderna Announces Promising Vaccine Trial Results
Moderna released promising news on the progress of their coronavirus vaccine this morning, noting that trials showed it to be 94.5% effective. “In this pandemic, what has been awful from a public health standpoint, an economic standpoint, is the worry people have to... View Details