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- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
draft of the Human Genome Project, we launched the Biomedical Sciences Initiative here." As Singapore set out on this journey, Yeo made sure that plenty of funding was available to nurture and sustain the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
number of women graduating with undergraduate computer science degrees rose through the 1960s and ’70s, until the mid-1980s. In 1985, 37 percent of computer science graduates were women. In 2012, only 18... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
Illustration by Peter Arkle Illustration by Peter Arkle Sandra Oh Lin (MBA 2003) has raised enough venture capital for now, thank you very much. Lin is the founder and CEO of KiwiCo, which designs and delivers science and art project kits... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- Web
Alan Tu | MBA
intersection of technology and business: On assignment last year for the Harvard Crimson, I interviewed CEOs and VPs at The Engine, an MIT-based venture firm that funds "tough tech" startups. With my physics background, I immediately... View Details
- Profile
Hunter Goble
more diverse set of experiences and influences.” With a long-term goal to become an executive in a life sciences company, Hunter is already beginning to realize his ambitions on campus through his involvement in Activate, a joint... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Fueling Innovation
By giving to the HBS Fund, alumni and friends support the School’s core priorities and help catalyze the launch of new programs and initiatives and sustain their growth. Featured here are a few key examples of innovations at HBS that would not have been possible... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
research in the natural sciences on the measurement of biodiversity, we introduce-and demonstrate the benefits of-emodiversity: the variety and relative abundance of the emotions that humans experience. Two cross-sectional studies across... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Students Ready to Make an Impact
those who have a passion to found, work at, or invest in a startup, HBS’s Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, the Harvard Innovation Labs, and HBS’s close ties to the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are... View Details
- 31 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Change Pioneers in the Class of 1978
MJ quit ‘paid employment’ in 2003. After a successful careers in private industry and the federal government, she is now focused on philanthropy and personal enrichment. MJ founded and funded her Veverka Family Foundation, served on... View Details
- 09 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Addressing Inequities in Education: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Amal Tariq (MBA 2025)
addition, City Fund is extremely data-driven in how they measure and validate the impact they have on the communities they serve, so the first-year course Data Science for Managers has been instrumental in... View Details
- 07 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?
This week, President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency released the final version of the Clean Power Plan, a major set of rules and incentives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from America's power plants. The plan requires each state to meet a... View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). SEAS is relocating its campus across the street from the business school in a few years, and the two organizations are discussing collaboration opportunities. Seeking answers from... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
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Other Student Organizations | MBA
srane@mba2025.hbs.edu MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Student Association Mission Statement To build a strong community of Harvard MS/MBA students and alumni to support and enrich our collective interest in both life View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Celeste A. Guth, MBA 1986
computer science and economics. “For my graduate degree, I knew I wanted to study finance, and I knew I wanted the HBS brand,” she says. “I maxed out on every possible type of student loan to make that happen.” That experience was the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
How to Close the Health Gap
and Peter Singer (AMP 171, 2006) in their new book, The Grandest Challenge: Taking Life-Saving Science from Lab to Village (Doubleday Canada). Daar and Singer are professors at the University of Toronto and directors of the university’s... View Details
- 06 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows
(CRUK). At CRUK’s innovation engine Cancer Research Horizons, Keemia commercialized promising academic research through partnerships with the life sciences industry, leading the negotiation of two $25 million oncology research View Details
- Web
Educating Business Administrators - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Corporation agreed to establish the first U.S. graduate program in business administration. Initial funds for the School came from a General Education Board gift and support from both Harvard alumni and businessmen. The University placed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs
Philadelphia Club Hosts Shapiro Photo courtesy HBS Club of Philadelphia HBS professor emeritus Ben Shapiro addressed the HBS Club of Philadelphia at a gala benefit on March 27. The event, held at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, raised View Details