Scientific Research - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

recent vaccine for Ebola took five and a half years. And why does it take so long? First of all, it requires a rigorous scientific assessment. And here we didn't even understand the virus itself or how the virus affects the immune system.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

05 Aug 2014
First Look

First Look: August 5

Publications August 2014 Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Emodiversity and the Emotional Ecosystem By: Quoidbach, Jordi, June Gruber, Moïra Mikolajczak, Alexsandr Kogan, Ilios Kotsou, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Bridging psychological View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Nov 2018
Book

Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?

JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Agriculture & Agribusiness

01 Jun 2023
News

From Big Pharma to Startup

investment. “That was the point at which it was abundantly obvious that this was the best career opportunity for me,” he says. “It’s when I fully committed to entrepreneurship.” Today, Transcera has four full-time employees including Justin Wolfe, the company’s... View Details

Keywords: April White

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

claiming an unexpected career toll among scientific researchers, and particularly on women, new research shows. If you are female, have young children, or work in a lab, you are more likely to feel the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 Nov 2015
First Look

November 3, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50057 November 2015 Negotiation and Conflict Management Research Done but Not Published: The Dissertation Journeys of Roy J. Lewicki and J. Keith Murnighan By: Kopelman, Shirli, Anne L.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Profile

Prineeta Kulkarni

possibilities inherent in the life sciences while simultaneously revealing her limitations. "My entire education was technically intensive and focused on scientific research, not management practices," she says. "I realized... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

15 Mar 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology

29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008

Berkeley. Its unique materials technology has been exploited for 10 years, but the company needs a new business model. The company concept required the invention of hardware and software to do high throughput materials discovery, and a business partnership model to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

Introducing One-Step Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy... View Details

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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy... View Details

01 Dec 2013
News

To Market, to Market

and other tasks necessary to determine the best route for product commercialization. "By increasing the collaborative efforts between HBS and Harvard's scientific community, we will empower the next generation of life science... View Details

Keywords: Scientific Research and Development Services

15 Jul 2019
Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

researches tax policy, international finance, and corporate finance. The book grew out of his efforts to make finance more accessible through executive education teaching and his online course Leading with Finance. His previous book, The... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

could come from the experience. Lastly, the value of the learning that might result from analyzing and discussing simple mistakes is often overlooked. Many scientific discoveries have resulted from those who were attentive to simple... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

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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

02 Dec 2010
What Do You Think?

Making Right Choices: Art or Science?

this way: Decisions on personal matters carry a greater weight of art; those that relate to work have more of science. Frances Pratt commented, "It is often the art that allows us to imagine that we are indeed making a controlled, View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Dec 2003
News

The Next Big Thing

research and commercialization of biotechnology and biomedicine, the life sciences’ core activities? And what steps must be taken to maintain preeminence? In a keynote presentation at a September “Massachusetts Life Sciences Summit,” HBS... View Details

Keywords: life sciences; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

the customer knowledge gained from conducting market research at the front end of NPD affects which of these opportunities the firm should pursue. Pitfalls in analyzing the customer data are described, along with guidelines on how to... View Details