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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
received a boost from Russia’s launching of a space satellite, Sputnik, in 1957. This was a shock because Russia’s scientific prowess was not taken seriously at the time. The United States committed to putting a man on the moon in the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Optimizing search technology
Olivier Dumon (MBA 1998) is managing director of academic and government markets for global publishing giant Elsevier, where he’s working on optimizing online search protocols. He believes that the more the technology is improved, the faster View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
It was a milestone to celebrate: Earlier this year, designations from FDA and European Union regulators moved researchers at the Boston-based startup Akouos, Inc., a step closer to producing the first-ever therapy for gene-mediated... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- Profile
Ann DeWitt
After five years as a research scientist at 3M, Ann DeWitt was ready for managerial responsibilities that would require a new set of skills. "I wondered how I would make the transition," Ann says. "In slow steps or in one... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
A New Ecosystem for Business and Society
lives in diverse and frequently unexpected ways. Describing, for example, the dramatic evolution that took place in colleges and universities a century ago with the advent of research libraries and View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 May 2013
- Op-Ed
Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again
Critics have denounced this proposal as yet another government intrusion into the market and a futile attempt to "pick winners." What these critics ignore is that the US government has a long history of investing in research... View Details
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Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation - Course Catalog
intellectual property, developing clinical budgets and timelines, using these tools to develop a business model and resource the venture, exploring the process of building a syndicate and establishing a board of advisors, finding human talent to accomplish View Details
- 19 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Here Comes Internet2—Time to Shed Dot Vertigo
networks of networks. Currently, he said, universities and labs use it to connect researchers working on collaborative projects. These projects can range from building virtual reality models of the ear—a medical application—to studying... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
difficult and time-consuming even in countries with sufficient medical resources, much less in developing countries where the need is great but fewer personnel have the time and training. Harvard researchers wondered: Could programmers... View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
management task in all innovating organizations. In this paper, we focus on the evaluation of frontier scientific research projects. We argue that the "intellectual distance" between the knowledge... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2019
- News
Finding a Fix for Food Allergies
they found not only a network of support and resources, but also many classmates with their own family’s challenges with food allergies. The group includes Ron Laufer (MBA 2000),who conducted scientific View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
depends on a scientific breakthrough: a time machine. It’s his only hope to regain the full life intended for him. When the film was made, Fox was a boyish 24-year-old, vigorous, athletic, and graceful. Six years later, in 1991, he... View Details
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
started two years ago in the HBS class Commercializing Science—a course open to students from across the University—which pairs scientific research teams with students looking to help them pursue a market... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
DNA evidence from the laboratory to the courtroom. The Gordon Research Conferences as Scientific Infrastructure Authors:Arthur A. Daemmrich and Leah Shaper Publication:Bulletin for the History of Chemistry... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
player in the development of the Valley. Working with Thomas J. Davis, Jr., in the firm Davis & Rock, as well as on his own (as Arthur Rock & Co.), Rock has backed many of the companies that make the Valley what it is today: Teledyne, View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Gore All Business at HBS
WARM WELCOME: On an unseasonably mild December day, after a reception with faculty, staff, and students, Al Gore and Dean Jay Light walk to Burden Hall. We are managing the planet as if it were a business in liquidation,” former U.S. Vice President Al Gore declared to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
scientific experts, such as virologists, to inform decision-making. Additionally, women are more concerned about health and hygiene issues, as research on disgust-sensitivity shows, and this may also apply... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 28 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Manufacturing Matters
and the government invested dramatically in building a scientific and technical infrastructure needed to fuel growth. That was the national strategy, but it was not industrial policy. There's an important need today for having a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
biotech company cofounded by genomics pioneer Craig Venter and Nobel Laureate Hamilton Smith, together with writer and life sciences investor Juan Enriquez (MBA 1986). And it may soon come to fruition: Last March, in the wake of a View Details