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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement

The power of the patient Patients like my mother have become the pioneers of change for rare diseases, advocating for themselves and educating their physicians in real time. Patient advocacy organizations and disease-focused, nonprofit,... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Future Vision

digitization and digital transformation while paying attention to issues such as ethics, privacy, bias, and cybersecurity. This understanding will be vital to successful organizations in the future. Both BiGS and D^3 will provide faculty members at HBS and other... View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

29 May 2023
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Nurturing Breakthrough Ideas

it fuels the entrepreneurial passions of students and alumni across all 13 Harvard schools, illustrating the power of “One Harvard.” The Harvard Innovation Labs—encompassing the student i-lab, Launch Lab X GEO, and the Pagliuca Harvard... View Details

08 Nov 2021
Blog Post

4 Ways the MS/MBA is Preparing Me for a Career in Health Care and the Life Sciences

It has been very powerful to be able to test out multiple career and life paths with people who have direct experience in sub-segments of the health care and life industry, and to see how generous people have been with their time. This... View Details

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Running Jobs - Research Computing Services

analyses broken into smaller parts (pleasantly parallelizing). This can be done through the command line or via the Program Application Center. Scripts written for graphical applications like MATLAB, Stata, and SAS, can be run in this manner and scaled for large... View Details

15 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village

the power in his or her family business system. As family business systems approach or reach the cousin stage, with diversified businesses and big ownership groups, as RBS now has, you find more systems having two or three leaders who... View Details

25 Nov 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Standard-Essential Patents

Keywords: by Josh Lerner & Jean Tirole; Legal Services

01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Alfred A. Checchi

Checchi puts it. "My grandparents symbolize what America is all about," says Checchi proudly, describing how his Italian immigrant forebears, from their corner store in rural Maine, first put the family on the path to self-betterment through hard work, sacrifice, and a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jan 2004
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D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954

Director & Former Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company, Inc. Former Treasurer, Harvard University Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Wesleyan University, 1952 B.A., Mathematics LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "HBS honed my View Details

04 Dec 2019
Book

Creating the Experimentation Organization

Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and author of the forthcoming book, Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments. Booking isn’t alone. Other companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Netflix are... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

13 Jun 2011
HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

can anyone garner from a 40-cent fee that customers pay once a week, if that? "Students first take a look at M-PESA and think, 'This is CSR [corporate social responsibility]! Where's the double bottom-line?" Rangan says. “Why not harness the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications

25 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse

any aspect of our lives. It's as if the impasse were made to break down our defenses. In particular, the inner critic becomes louder and more powerful during this second phase. The inner critic is that internal naysayer that Freud called... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

31 Jan 2007
HBS Case

When Good Teams Go Bad

What could better symbolize high-level business performance than an eight-oared crew team rowing in perfect unison, their boat powered by a selfless collaboration of strength, skill, and shared purpose? It's no wonder that advertisers... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

24 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

olfactory system is a powerful sensory source of both memory and pleasure and thus easily embedded into the habit loop,” the researchers explain in the paper. The experiment included 3,763 young children and their parents in 2,943... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Engagement - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

more engaged in the class discussion. Transcript The Visceral Power of Role Play Tom DeLong Professor DeLong explains how the use of role play can create a more powerful learning experience. Transcript... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order

largest public fast-charging network in the United States, which estimates that almost 5 percent of new vehicle purchases are electric today, and that electric vehicles will make up more than 40 percent of new light-duty vehicle sales in North America by 2030. The goal... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

23 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be?

invest in for their own operations. This innovative model was thoughtfully constructed and sparked many questions from our group. Key Takeaways: The Challenges of Decarbonizing Dairy One of our most powerful takeaways from this visit was... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

layoffs. Even so, I remember someone pointing at me in a bar, and we hustled out of there. It certainly left a taste in my mouth of the power of strategy and thought, but I felt really bad about it.” The tension between straight-ahead... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

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Judges - Alumni

serves on the board of The Weisiger Group, a $1.5B distributer of heavy equipment and power systems. She serves as a lecturer and coach for Georgia Tech's Create-X Program and served as an EIR at HBS. Lara has a BS in Aerospace... View Details

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By: Vincent Pons

Professor Pons studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how democratic systems function, and how they can be improved.

He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details

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