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- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
scientists Michael Norton and Francesca Gino found that rituals alleviate and reduce grief after a devastating emotional loss—even among people who don’t inherently believe in the efficacy of rituals. In short, people who performed... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
favored white males, hunted for clues to candidates’ soft skills over dinner or coffee, and hired people based on résumés that revealed little about job fit. Yet Polli knew that scientists possessed a battery of tests for accurately and... View Details
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 May 2011
- News
Race to the Finish?
global game with global implications. Steeped in many cultures and societies, a peripatetic globetrotter at home virtually anywhere in the world, Carlos Ghosn may be just the kind of business leader with the requisite skills and vision to lead the charge. Be it Ghosn... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
In May 1995, two scientists at the University of Mississippi were granted an American patent for the use of turmeric to treat flesh wounds. Soon thereafter, an Indian research organization won a lawsuit challenging the novelty of the... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
company’s scientists and management team have shown “extraordinary commitment” to Cytokinetics. “Attrition is a constant challenge in biotech,” he observes. “The bar for continuity in management is pretty low—usually a few years. But the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
Education offerings that teach scientists business and organizational fundamentals? What about joint MBA/Ph.D. programs? How about science/business seminars, more science-based cases, and more science-savvy faculty to teach them? We don't... View Details
- 02 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 2
areas. Our results suggest that matching between scientists may be subject to considerable frictions-even among those in relatively close geographic proximity and in the same organizational system. At the same time, even a brief and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2016
- What Do You Think?
What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?
the brand. They immediately seized control of the discussion by enthusiastically endorsing the name and its further use. So much for scientific inquiry by blog. On the plus side, however, the issue brought out the best in British humor, something that the View Details
- 21 Oct 2020
- News
Cold Calculations
cause of it. Thick, old ice reflects 80 percent of solar radiation, helping to keep the planet cool. Brittle, newly formed ice is only half as effective and melts more easily. And open water reflects only 5 percent of the solar radiation warming the planet. View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Learning the Language of Business and Science – The MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program
to a career in biotech; the PhD route and the non-PhD route. Either of these routes can lead to a successful and impactful career. However, the distinction between scientists and business professionals has drawbacks in the daily course... View Details
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
In the early 1950s, two scientists at McGill University inadvertently discovered an area of the rodent brain dubbed "the pleasure center," located deep in the nucleus accumbens. When a group of lab rats had the opportunity to... View Details
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
behavioral research from CEOs, policymakers, and high-stakes decision makers." —Francesca Gino "It's always been obvious to social scientists and business scholars that there are lots of things that you can't learn in the laboratory, but... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Profile
Hann Yew
Zone, about incurable viruses, like Ebola," says Hann. “I was fascinated by the CDC scientists – they seemed like swashbuckling figures." From that point on, she not only dreamed of biological research; she created and followed... View Details
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
and professional activities of academic biomedical scientists. In qualitative and quantitative analyses, we show that scientists match to their postdoctoral mentors based on two dominant factors, geography and scientific focus. They then... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
How to Close the Health Gap
higher rates in poor countries. You’ve heard of the wealth gap. Welcome to the health gap. The people who need the medicines most in the world are the least likely to receive them. “Now that we have such extraordinary capabilities, what will we use this power to... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences – A Q&A with Professor Robert Howe
faculty are instinctively outward facing. Engineers and applied scientists at SEAS routinely collaborate with researchers from other parts of Harvard across myriad disciplines. HBS also has a distinctive position, compared to other... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
allocates money to researchers whose proposals are reviewed by a panel of scientists knowledgeable in the field. A typical grant proposal is 25 single-spaced pages and takes months to prepare. The NIH responds in approximately nine... View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
in a way that they never were. Twenty years ago, said Lander, information was a trivial component of biomedical research. Most of what a scientist did was based on work taking place in his or her own lab or in a few other labs. Now, of... View Details
- 19 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Are Web Sites So Confusing?
background research. The old, inefficient search method, which relied on index cards and inevitably entailed flipping through pages of not necessarily relevant journals, had the benefit of exposing scientists to a wider range of ideas,... View Details
Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien