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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Climate Change as Must-See TV
scientists to investigate human causation of climate change. Video Embed Dan Abbasi (MBA 1998) hopes to enlist the HBS alumni community in the political movement for climate change. He calls his fellow alumni "probably the most powerful... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Stiletto Science
Amalfi brand. “I’ve run a rocket company, I’ve built transatlantic fiber cable,” said Hughes. “But if I go to a cocktail party and say, ‘Oh, I’m a CEO of a rocket company,’ after all the rocket scientist jokes are done, there’s not much... View Details
- Web
Sean Meng | MBA
expertise, and capital that empowers our up-and-coming generation of scientists and makes impactful research accessible to all. Professional goals: In the realm of science, I would like to understand the basis of intelligence and build... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
supporting private-sector research; another $2 billion was earmarked for R&D that the government wanted scientists and engineers to pursue to help local enterprises improve their technology and become more competitive internationally. But... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Righting the Ship
around 60 percent, where they remained. The inability to execute the work came from a host of problems, including the ability of contractors to perform or finish projects in any given fiscal year. The result was deferred maintenance on buildings and equipment... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- Web
Just Digital Future - Race, Gender & Equity
Interviews with computer scientists and data experts explore the social and political roots and uses of the data we collect and analyze. Design: At, Into, & Beyond Interviews with designers and researchers shed light on how systems and... View Details
- 07 Jan 2022
- News
Learning to Fight
Mark Johnson, one of the early recipients of the foundation’s signature Distinguished Scientist Award. Johnson is now chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery at UMass Memorial Health and a professor at the University of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Bridging Domains
companies, and for scientists and engineers to better understand how businesses can enhance the impact of their ideas.” Karen, Sanjeev’s classmate at Harvard College, majored in government as an undergraduate and holds a master’s degree... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
Enterprise’s Innovator of the Year in 2013. The year before that she was chosen Scientist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation and in 2011 was named one of the “10 Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs” by Fortune. All this by the time she... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
Health (NIH) undertook the Human Genome Project, an effort to map the extraordinarily intricate chemical composition of the human genome. Scientists have long believed that understanding the vast genetic code underlying all human life... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 03 Apr 2016
- News
The Tampon of the Future
Ridhi Tariyal (MBA 2009) Ridhi Tariyal (MBA 2009) Is it possible to draw blood from a person without causing discomfort? That question has puzzled scientists for years. And the solution—for women, at least—finally is coming to market as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Raw, Done Well
of several nonprofits and is chairman and CEO of Modulus Guitars, a leading maker of guitars and basses for professional musicians. Many scientists and nutritionists scoff at raw-foodism, but Klein eschews proselytizing. “Roxanne's is... View Details
- 11 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
Meet the 2018-2019 Blavatnik Fellows in Life Science Entrepreneurship
2018) Click Here Tarran Pierfelice joins the Fellowship as a cross-disciplinary scientist with expertise in stem cell biology, neuroscience, and molecular medicine with a strong interest in developing therapies and diagnostics for... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Preparing Leaders to Leverage Artificial Intelligence
Lakhani, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration. He co-wrote the forthcoming book, Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World. Lakhani believes HBS has an important role to play in this... View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- News
Breath of Life
scientist by training. I also like business, and combining the two in a career is great. If you can do that and save lives, it’s a pretty fulfilling way to earn a living.” View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Making a Difference in the World
“If each household ” Union of Concerned Scientists “Common Sense on Climate Change, Solution #3” “The top 3,000 .” UN Environmental Program Finance Initiative. 2010. “universal Ownership: Why environmental externalities matter to... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
2016 Scientists Making a Difference: One Hundred Eminent Behavioral and Brain Scientists Talk about Their Most Important Contributions The Motivation for Creativity By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—Scientists... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
for organizational theory. The Value of Openness in Scientific Problem Solving Authors:Karim R. Lakhani, Lars Bo Jeppesen, Peter A. Lohse, and Jill A. Panetta Abstract Openness and free information sharing amongst scientists are supposed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter
way we will build a new theory about leaders that, even as it acknowledges that most individual leaders have little impact, identifies the relatively rare circumstances when a single individual in the right place, at the right time, can make history. Philosophers and... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sandy Ottensmann
My greatest discovery as a scientist began with a mistake. Months in the lab had proved futile, and I had just lost another day's work because of a careless mistake: I used the wrong stopper to seal the flask. Overnight, the internal... View Details