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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Turning Point: Eternal Returns
mother always told us, “Where you were born should not determine nor define your future. It is up to us.” When I came to HBS I was overweight, shy, and spoke very little English. I was there because my boyfriend encouraged me to apply with him, although I was a View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
New Biotech Joint Degree Program Kicks Off
biology major interested in business. “I wanted to learn more about commercialization, investing, and policy, but I didn’t want to move too far from the hard science,” says MacColl. A few years later, she was thrilled to discover... View Details
- 24 Jul 2020
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
professor.” The students, in other words, identify their own educational gaps and seek ways to address them. “Do you need study halls? Do you need office hours with your math teacher because you’re struggling? Do you need time in biology... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
biotech companies—as a function of cost, time, and failure modes—tend to risk pivot on one program, one clinical trial, one outcome,” he observes. “Our company is the leader in mining muscle biology for drug discoveries that translate... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Driven
In Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices, HBS professor emeritus Paul Lawrence and professor Nitin Nohria explore one of the most basic questions of human behavior: What motivates us to act the way we do? Drawing on theories of evolutionary View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
Illustrations by James Steinberg It’s been said that in this century, carbohydrates will replace hydrocarbons, and biology will supplant physics as the innovation-producing science. As science fiction becomes science fact, and with... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
high school years, but I had put it off twice to pursue other career options. I realized then that medicine required the same skill sets, and it also represented a return to service—a very personal form of service.” Cooper took a job as a research assistant in a... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
14, when her dad, looking for a career change, became a college professor. Brooks aspired to be a doctor with an international practice, with the goal of combining her love of biology with her desire to see the world. While studying at... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
debate, Cohen notes, is the fact that “through the use of research into embryonic stem-cell lines, we could make great strides in our ability to understand the biology and etiology of disease. Important research into how disease happens... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Ian Walsh
Ian Walsh was like many other students at Hamilton College - he majored in English and biology and played hockey and lacrosse. But he and his twin brother, Eric, were in a class by themselves when it came to career plans. While their... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs
Industry Alumni Association; James Wild, head of biochemistry and biophysics at Texas A&M; and Susan Naylor, professor of cellular and structural biology at The University of Texas Health Science Center. Women’s Association Celebrates Ten... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
Utah, she was accepted with a full scholarship to study molecular biology and dance. Suddenly, a pre-planned life became uncharted territory. From that one big decision to pursue an education in the United States, she says, came many... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship
biology and chemistry to prepare for a career related to helping the environment. An introductory course in economics changed all that. "I realized that economic issues drove many of the decisions companies made regarding environmentalism... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
professor told me that physicists can work as engineers, but that engineers can never work as physicists," he recalls. That single conversation was the spark for a career at NASA. Earls' undergraduate work was followed by a master's in radiation View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Antoinette J. ("Toni") Rapone
building and thinking, 'I'm going to die if I don't get out of here,' " she says. So in 1993, Rapone became a college freshman again, earning high honors studying wildlife biology at the University of Montana and then entering a Ph.D.... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
state of the world—while working toward milestones that put patient safety first.” Laura Kelley (MBA 2019) (photo by Len Rubenstein) Laura Kelley (MBA 2019) (photo by Len Rubenstein) Lee and Kelley are both leading firms at the intersection of View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
Drives Biology by W. David Lee (AMP 108, 1991), with Jeffrey Drazen, Phillip A. Sharp, and Robert S. Langer (MIT Press) Investigating a series of major biological discoveries that range from pasteurization to electron microscopy, Lee... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
STUDENTS "Enjoy whatever you are doing or move on." CURRENT READING Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements, by Austin Burt and Robert Trivers As the overseer of Singapore's economic direction for many years, Philip Yeo... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
a dramatic impact on life in the 21st century, from online retail giant Amazon.com to Internet behemoth Google to synthetic biology leader Amyris. Doerr has become a leading advocate of innovation and investment in green technologies.... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
lifetimes and that is worth worrying about. So, I think understanding those, and I said earlier how to regulate them, I think is important. But to keeping in mind the fact that it could really solve some very important problems, whether in sustainability or in planet... View Details