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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
To Market, to Market
Inhibitors of proteins that play an important role in cholesterol and fat metabolism, to be developed as potential therapeutics for the treatment of diseases such as metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease, and some cancers. A method for... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
Kurt (MBA 1967) and Louise Wulff
Kurt (MBA 1967) and Louise Wulff Kurt Wulff (MBA 1967) credits Harvard Business School with changing the way he viewed decision making. Even after 50 years, he remembers Dr. Howard Raifa’s courses on game theory and decision analysis. A View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
- News
Remembering Walter Shipley
Walter Shipley (AMP 73, 1976), the former chairman and CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank and Chemical Bank, died on January 11, 2019, at the age of 83, prompting a flood of fond remembrances in the media. Over his 40-year tenure, Shipley is... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
How to Prepare for Shark Tank
What’s it like to appear on ABC-TV’s popular start-up series Shark Tank? In a word, nerve-wracking. Just ask Desiree Stolar and Nate Barbera (both MBA 2015), cofounders of Unshrinkit, a Harvard-born startup that has developed a formula that brings shrunken sweaters... View Details
- 20 Jan 2011
- News
Oil Spill Solution
that has proven effective in pollutant absorption both above and beneath the surface of water. Smith has been working closely with fishermen in the Gulf area to help rid the affected waters of the propylene glycol (a chemical found in... View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
chemical fertilizers. Soil from the average cultivated field contains 0.5 to 1 percent carbon, while soil from the average virgin land, including forest and prairie, contains 3 to 7 percent. “Carbon capture is the only way to get out of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance
focuses on six worldwide corporate brands, including Nestlé, Nescafé, Nestea, Buitoni, Maggi, and Friskies, which are complemented by regional brands such as Stouffer's and Crosse & Blackwell. After graduating from HBS, Corti took a job as a corporate planner at Kaiser... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Turning Point: In Good Company
program and found a study group of alumni—especially Tom Shaffer (MBA 2005)—who were impressed with my poetry and writing. Their support during the pandemic helped me write Chemical Khichdi: How I Hacked My Mental Health—part-memoir,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
in this effort, including Southwest Airlines (with its Southwest Airlines One Report), United Technologies Corporation (UTC), the Dutch electronics and health-care giant Philips, the German chemical company BASF, and Danish pharmaceutical... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
trying to punch out time.” An art and a science: “There are probably 30 or 40 different spotting chemicals and techniques depending on the fabric, the stain, and how long it’s been there. You can’t just throw a shirt into the cleaning... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
electrodes deliver pulses that spur the release of neurotransmitters, the chemicals that stimulate the neurons that carry messages throughout the brain. This targeted approach gives Bennet hope that Harmoni can benefit not only people... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Ink
March 2016 We can achieve presence when we need it, Cuddy argues, through a combination of body postures, behavior, and mindset, which activate chemical changes in the body. Expansive “power poses” can cause testosterone levels to rise... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
internationalization process of the HBS curriculum. Crum graduated from Cornell University in 1957 with a degree in chemical engineering. At HBS he was a Baker Scholar and earned his MBA with high distinction in 1960. He began teaching at... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
Ralph Lauren Home shop in Filene’s. That forced me to engage with people on a new level and to convince them to spend $50 on a towel,” he says. He ultimately finished Duke and moved to New York City in 1987 to work at Chemical Bank, first... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
and to be generous with our time," she says. Scher's father ran an environmentally responsible chemical company. Her mother was a professor of economics, an environmental activist, and a ready volunteer for a plethora of causes. "She did... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
lowers the risk of infestation, thereby reducing the need for fertilizers and pesticides. Chemicals that are required are delivered in water that circulates and is recycled. The system also minimizes variation in growing conditions, thus... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
Related Links Ten Amazing Facts about Beauty Register for a Club presentation with Professor Jones on October 19 In his new book, Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry (Oxford University Press), HBS professor Geoffrey Jones explores how the beauty... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
the test as he methodically refashioned the two old-line chemical companies with disparate corporate cultures into a single entity focused on health care and powered by an innovative approach to R&D. Today, Novartis is one of the world’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
available search-and-rescue, as well as no oil or chemical spills and no rust buckets allowed. By secure we mean no single nation has control or the ability to unfairly tax ships passing through. Reliable means having enough... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
“business is an extraordinary force for good.” While Nohria earned a chemical engineering degree from prestigious IIT Bombay, he harbored a dream of becoming an entrepreneur even as he applied to a doctoral program at MIT. At MIT, he... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson