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Director’s Foreword | Baker Library
vast archive. In 2016, the exhibition At the Intersection of Science and Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation—The Formative Years , celebrated the opening of much of the collection to researchers... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
In a predawn phone call on October 14, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences informed HBS professor Robert C. Merton that he had won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics. Merton's work evaluating risk has changed the nature of financial... View Details
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Scott Daubin
months-long road trips and face-to-face encounters with executive luminaries, such as Eric Schmidt of Google, Meg Whitman of eBay, and Christie Heffner of Playboy. "It was my crash course in business," says Scott. When he realized that his love of View Details
- 14 Apr 2014
- News
The Puzzle of Life
"I think the human race is beginning to unravel what life is," says Andrew Farquharson (MBA 1999). "I find that intellectually fascinating." His interest, and a desire to make a difference, led Farquharson to the life sciences industry,... View Details
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Chris Wilson-Byrne
science lectures I was used to." Environment for transformation "Coming from a Jesuit school," Chris says, "HBS' emphasis on 'transformation' has a lot of appeal for me. This is an environment in which I can discover... View Details
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Arjun Goyal
Trust Centre for Human Genetics, a new door opened for Arjun. “It was my first exposure to research,” he says. “It fascinated me that the test tube in my hand could hold a new cure or the next new therapy for controlling a disease.”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
at Hewlett-Packard for seven years and holds two patents in integrated-circuit testing, admits it was anything but inevitable that he would end up at HBS. “I was interested in science and technology policy at the Kennedy School, and I... View Details
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
science and math play an extremely important role, and I'm worried that we're not educating our young people enough in science and math. We also need the arts to open their... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
actual cost. Possible Solutions Reinhardt shifted the conversation to discussing solutions, such as assigning property rights to water. "In a way the history of Europeans and Asians on this continent has been the story of environmental abundance converted to... View Details
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Bobby Daly
Investigating best use of resources In one internship, Bobby worked with Genzyme, in Cambridge, to examine both the science and business issues underlying investments in new medications. "The big question," Bobby says, "is... View Details
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Career Support & Exploration Funds | MBA
one-year positions at a select group of nonprofit and public-sector organizations. The program engages top-tier organizations and works with their leadership to develop high-value positions open exclusively to HBS MBA students. All... View Details
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
started two years ago in the HBS class Commercializing Science—a course open to students from across the University—which pairs scientific research teams with students looking to help them pursue a market for their discoveries. One of the... View Details
- 02 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs
property position. Within the study, the computer and Internet, telecommunications, and life sciences industries are disproportionately represented because they have those characteristics. When we look at the more recent years in our... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
plus city and industry fixed effects explain between sixty and eighty percent of manufacturing entry. We use spatial distributions of natural cost advantages to address partially endogeneity concerns. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-055.pdf The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2011
- News
Show Time
in 2010 when, at peace and surrounded by her family, she took her own life under Oregon’s assisted-suicide law. Curtis, who had a modeling career before attending HBS, worked for many years as an administrator and lecturer at Oregon Health and View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
accepted advice is that wealth and growth will come to countries that open their borders to foreign direct investment. "The historical evidence shows clearly that this is an article of faith rather than proven by the historical... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy
her Veverka Family foundation, she set about learning how to become an “impactful” philanthropist. She pursued her love of the outdoors by systematically visiting each of the now 63 national parks. Her passion for improving recreational access and trail restoration... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
cultural, aesthetic, and social,” Koehn said at the opening session. When it came to issues that matter, she continued, “We organized the conference not just with respect to possibilities, but with respect to key questions,” a duality... View Details
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Managing & Investing in a Fast-Growing Emerging Market: India
style="font-size:12.0pt">Targeted articles searches: Search for articles in specific platforms: ScienceDirect: multidisciplinary – particularly strong in View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
helped him focus. After high school, Simmons majored in political science at Yale, then went to work on Wall Street. “I wasn’t as thoughtful about the kind of career I wanted when I graduated as I should have been,” he says of his first... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna