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Mohammed Guerrab | MBA
Mohammed Guerrab Computer Science Kirkland 2023 Cohort 5 The world’s most pressing problems cannot be solved by a single individual. As a Tech Fellow, I am excited to strive towards improving our world by learning with and working... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
from his post as a vice president at Internet travel giant Expedia to become a philanthropist-in-training. His “teacher” has been Seattle's chapter of Habitat for Humanity, where he has been busy helping to build interest-free, at-cost... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
Summing Up Is the end of cheap oil a challenge to the world? Yes. Will it affect our standard of living adversely? Not likely. At least that is the verdict of most of the large number of respondents to this month's column who rely on assumed human ingenuity combined... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
student, a third-year law student, and a Kennedy School student with experience working in the United Nations. "It was the perfect blend of backgrounds," says Schrader. In 2012, the fledging company won both the HBS Business Plan... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Faculty Books
choosing group members, establishing norms, and dealing with conflicts to evaluating progress and deciding when it’s time to restructure. Capitalism at Risk: Rethinking the Role of Business by Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn... View Details
- 13 Mar 2020
- News
Expanding Cancer Care
after graduating from Harvard Business School, I started to volunteer at Brigham and Women's Hospital. And then I ended up working there for a little while. And in working at Brigham and Women's, I actually realized that being in health... View Details
- October 1999
- Case
Agricultural Biotechnology Brief, 1999
By: Forest L. Reinhardt and Jennifer Burns
Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Biotechnology Industry
Reinhardt, Forest L., and Jennifer Burns. "Agricultural Biotechnology Brief, 1999." Harvard Business School Case 700-066, October 1999.
- June 1990 (Revised July 1990)
- Case
Minneapolis Plastic Packaging Ban (A)
By: George C. Lodge and Jeffrey F. Rayport
Lodge, George C., and Jeffrey F. Rayport. "Minneapolis Plastic Packaging Ban (A)." Harvard Business School Case 390-221, June 1990. (Revised July 1990.)
- 1999
- Chapter
The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Revolution in Molecular Biology: Interactions Among Scientific, Institutional, and Organizational Change
By: Rebecca Henderson, Gary P. Pisano and Luigi Orsenigo
Keywords: Science-Based Business; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Transformation; Pharmaceutical Industry
Henderson, Rebecca, Gary P. Pisano, and Luigi Orsenigo. "The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Revolution in Molecular Biology: Interactions Among Scientific, Institutional, and Organizational Change." In Sources of Industrial Leadership: Studies of Seven Industries, edited by David Mowery and Richard Nelson. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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Beverly Fu | MBA
dedicated to developing and applying tech solutions to change the world. Tech areas of interest: Biotechnology, Data Science Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: I have previously interned at an early-stage... View Details
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Supply Chain Management - Course Catalog
SCA emphasizes how to deploy data science (analytics) capabilities in business operations and how employees can best leverage their own expertise and data science tools to... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
least in the short run. But with that increase of fossil fuel burning comes an ever-escalating cloud of CO2 emissions destined to linger in our atmosphere and oceans for hundreds, even thousands of years. OP-ED COLLECTION The Business of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Ink: Miami’s Dark Neon Era, the Language of Success, and Getting Psyched Up
introduced English as the lingua franca Takeaway Two Things to Do Before Your Next Big Presentation (from left: photos by Russ Campbell) (from left: photos by Russ Campbell, Blaise Hayward) In his new book, Psyched Up: How the Science of... View Details
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Hann Yew
One might think that an HBS student with a recent victory in the Deans' Health and Life Sciences Challenge would be eager to represent her life as a success story. Instead, Hann Yew, MBA 2015, sees it as a cautionary tale that began for... View Details
- 31 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Change Pioneers in the Class of 1978
Maryland and nationally, through the National Park Foundation. Her goal is to transform science education by getting students into the field to experience science directly. Professor Michael Toffel is... View Details
- March 1994 (Revised October 1994)
- Case
Reading Energy
Reading Energy builds facilities that produce energy from nontraditional fuels. A privately held, entrepreneurial organization, it has spent six years developing a plan to build a waste-to-energy plant in the town of Robbins, Illinois. The plant would burn municipal... View Details
Keywords: Energy Generation; Wastes and Waste Processing; Business and Community Relations; Business Plan; Agreements and Arrangements; Contracts; Risk and Uncertainty; Government and Politics; Environmental Sustainability; Business Strategy; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Illinois
Reinhardt, Forest L. "Reading Energy." Harvard Business School Case 794-102, March 1994. (Revised October 1994.)
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Ken Peterson | About
Ken Peterson Bio In his role, Ken collaborates with colleagues across the Harvard Business School, Harvard University, and beyond, supporting the needs of faculty, students, alumni, and researchers. A focus for his collaborations is... View Details
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Forest L. Reinhardt | About
leaders understand the economic and political environment in which business is conducted, and the strategic opportunities and risks to which globalization and anti-globalization give rise. The second, View Details
- May 2006 (Revised June 2006)
- Case
Codon Devices
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and David Kiron
In December 2005, 40-year-old John Danner was about to make his first presentation to the board of directors of Codon Devices, a one-year-old biotechnology start-up based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After a month as the company's CEO, Danner was prepared to lay out... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Venture Capital; Intellectual Property; Governing and Advisory Boards; Genetics; Competitive Advantage; Science-Based Business; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Biotechnology Industry; Cambridge
Lassiter, Joseph B., III, and David Kiron. "Codon Devices." Harvard Business School Case 806-198, May 2006. (Revised June 2006.)
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Mark Cicirelli
When I was a kid I blew the fuse in my parents' house—a lot. I had turned the basement into my "laboratory," where I spent far too many late nights poring through science books, building gadgets, and using a lot of electricity.... View Details