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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
removed from fossil crude. As a result, algae could pull fossil-fuel generated CO2 out of the atmosphere and transform it into nearly carbon-neutral diesel or jet fuel with minimal environmental impact—a handy trick when demand for... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
and a 501(c)(3) called Cure Rare Disease. With the foundation, Horgan is trying to build something radical: A model for personalizing drug development, with the hopes of saving not only his brother but countless others. READ MORE Morrell:... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
passing motorists. Hustead acquired the T. rex, for example, to drive demand for the fossils, rocks, and dinosaur-related products for sale in the Wall Drug Mining Company, one of 21 separate retail departments that View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)
it’s not drug problems or throwing a stapler at the assistant. It’s missing a delivery date. A veteran I worked with told me, ‘Your job isn’t to make it great; your job is to get it in by Tuesday.’ ” Dick’s prime-time résumé includes The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
failed companies. When Potentia Pharmaceuticals won the contest in 2001 with Alec Machiels (MBA 2001) at the helm, its plan hinged on a mechanism created by a team of Harvard and MIT scientists that used atomic force microscopy in drug... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
affiliate in Plainsboro, New Jersey. That all changed when its breakthrough drug for type 2 diabetes, Ozempic, hit the market in 2018. By some biochemical mystery, it also turned out to be a powerful tool for weight loss—which led to the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
and a prominent addiction psychiatrist and former director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Addiction Research Program—explained the challenges to his son, whose background was in the video-game industry. In study after study,... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
sort of drug addiction, my mother who suffered from mental illness had started to disappear. And I guess, if I was a psychologist, I'd say, I, at 11, decided that I would be perfect in everything that I could control. I remember when my... 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, first as an entrepreneur and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
Broughton (MBA 2006) (Harper) A compendium of practical knowledge, trivia, and worldly wisdom for boys of all ages, designed as an informal full-color family scrapbook treasured by generations of one fictional family at their Adirondack... View Details
- 18 Sep 2014
- News
Room to grow: global expansion in the middle ground
consulting firm Shaldor, documents the specific strategies various companies pursued. As examples, by focusing on a neglected market segment, Netafim became the world leader in drip irrigation technology, while Teva Pharmaceutical created a scalable, acquisition-based... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
the more general reader interested in national parks. The Health Care Consumer’s Manifesto: How to Get the Most for Your Money by Deborah Dove Gordon (MBA 1999) Praeger Health care consumer policy expert Deborah Gordon offers a guided... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
wants to understand the barriers to effecting change on global issues such as health care." Under Ray Gilmartin's leadership, Merck has launched an unprecedented number of new drugs and forged partnerships with the public and nonprofit... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Finding a Balance
Do the rules of business change when a company’s product holds the power of life or death over its customers? That’s a question students must consider when discussing “Cipla,” a case about a $325 million Indian pharmaceutical company that manufactures and sells... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
Bank made a $160 million settlement with the Justice Department, agreeing it had been lax about accepting drug money from Mexico.) While U.S. law is tough on drug trafficking, terrorist financing, bank... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Ink: Miami’s Dark Neon Era, the Language of Success, and Getting Psyched Up
generations of Cuban refugees fought for control of the drug trade in Miami.” Classic Havana Nocturne How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution by T.J. English “All these mobsters are dead,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Luminaries Discuss Careers, Values with HBS Students
leading-edge R&D, Novartis considers community outreach an essential part of its mission. It offers some drugs at a discount or free to needy patients; a new malaria therapy will be available at cost. Greylock, one of the country’s most... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
corrupt and criminal money from around the world. That's correct. Approximately half of that sum is generated by violent criminal activity, such as organized trafficking in drugs, weapons, or people. The other half is illegal flight... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
Jeff Immelt’s night table—Railway Age, Aviation Week, Broadcasting & Cable—represents just a few of the industries encompassed by General Electric, the company founded by Thomas Edison where Immelt is entering his ninth year as chairman... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
shelters, Shumway talked to homeless residents about their circumstances. “These are good people,” he says. “They may have started to self-medicate with drugs or alcohol because they didn’t have access to the psychiatric or medical... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg