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- 24 Sep 2020
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The Race for a Vaccine
drug maker Fosun Pharma, were recruiting another 30,000 volunteers in the United States and several other countries to evaluate its own mRNA-based solution in a Phase 2/3 trial. “We’re not racing against each other,” says Bancel of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
fifteen years ago, as a doctoral candidate in Harvard’s Economics Department, Lerner was collecting data on the role of VC funding in the biotechnology industry. Before long, he also became intrigued by the concept of intellectual property and concerned about the sad... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
according to research conducted by private-capital database PitchBook, just 12 percent of check-writing decision-makers at the largest VC firms in the United States are women. A survey by The Information, a tech-sector media outlet, found... View Details
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone
from Ascidian to Moderna. We had folks who are taking big bets on the future of health care and coming up with innovations to make people healthier. I’ve been to lots of different health care conferences, and you just don’t get the same View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Jun 2025
- News
Slice of Life
United States for me to go to and really set me on that path. With Neapolitan pizza, you can have the recipe, but the recipe doesn't even get you halfway there. It's really about how do you put all the elements together with the right... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
professor. We became friends for life and HBS gave me a chance to leave US State Department while in South Vietnam and join the class of 1972 in January 1971 while on a sabbatical. I never looked back and resigned from Government during... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 01 Dec 2001
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Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges
discussing their findings, Shleifer and Johnson combined business and economic statistics from these nations to illustrate the levels of investor protection achieved by the disparate models. Establishing appropriate legal support for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
profits, as most industrialized countries use. In a pure territorial system, the profits of multinational companies based in the United States would be taxed only by the country in which the profit is earned. But none of our major... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
I stop listening to what’s being said and start realizing what’s happening. I look around, and there are ninety of my peers engaged in conversation, no laptop screens up. Paying attention to each other, respecting each other, pushing back. I’m not sure that will happen... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
skills to attract funders for his ships, lifeboats, supplies, and food. He also recognized the importance of assembling a team that could work together and embrace high levels of risk and uncertainty—qualities that proved particularly... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Taiwan Club President Thrives on Region's Entrepreneurial Energy
explained. "Our recent success in high-tech manufacturing on a worldwide basis is a natural outgrowth of that entrepreneurial spirit. If you can survive on the local level in Taiwan, you have a very good chance of making it in the global... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
growth capital. And given the demands for growth capital, leveraged purchases aren’t necessarily the right financial structure for most companies. In Japan, the number of private-equity deals is slowly increasing, but they are still at quite a low View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
In June 2000, when the National Commission on Terrorism released its report, the commission's chairman, L. Paul ("Jerry") Bremer III (MBA '66), issued a warning. "There's a chance terrorists will try to stage a catastrophic event in the United View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
universities have started to get more cagey about letting people know what they’re up to. Many of our cases and readings focus on strategic, operational, and ethical issues that arise in this environment at the level of the researcher and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Flying High
didn’t ground demand,” she notes. “The demand was still there, especially for products like ours that limited your exposure.” When passenger air travel neared pre-pandemic levels in 2022, Aero discovered another advantage. With commercial... View Details
Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation
- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
built his family’s New Jersey–based industrial distribution business over 15 years (to sell to a Fortune 50 company), and then as a consultant to family businesses and international investors. “We’ve witnessed countries mount concerted initiatives from the highest... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Climate change as must-see TV
When a Hawaiian observatory reported in 2013 that carbon dioxide levels in Earth’s atmosphere had reached their highest point in some 3 million years, many people concluded that climate change was unstoppable. But Dan Abbasi (AB 1986, MBA... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Research Online
consumers prefer single songs over music “bundles.” The result? It is time for the industry to rethink its products and prices, writes Associate Professor Anita Elberse. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6312.html. India Transformed? Insights from the Firm View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
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Empowering women to lead
Public Policy, Hood asks students to consider—in an era where women are achieving at rates higher than ever before—why are there so few women leaders at the highest levels of decision-making? Her class combines leadership theory with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
UNC's “Accidental” Dean
figured that his impressive business credentials and international perspective would serve the school well. “They were as open to a practitioner for the role as they were for an academic,” Jones told the Herald-Sun. Thrilled to be back home, Jones aims to lead the... View Details