Life Technologies - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Dec 2015
Blog Post

Working with Professors at HBS

professor in particular whom we all loved, Ryan Buell. We were his first class at HBS and we could tell every day that he loved what he did, and he made us all feel special. He taught the first year course of Technology Operations... View Details

30 May 2016
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Sound Society

Student clubs are a vibrant part of student life at HBS. With more than 70 different options to choose from, there’s something for everyone. Except, sometimes, there’s not. When Jeff Zeller and Sofia Pietrella arrived at HBS, they felt... View Details

01 Jun 2001
News

Virtual Plant Tours and Beer Game Dysfunction

more willing to admit what they don’t understand when they’ve had the opportunity to explore the material interactively online. Sometimes using technology is the best way to prove a point, as the Technology... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

21 May 2019
Blog Post

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS

in different modes of transportation since my first visit as a kid to the Boeing factory and have spent my time at HBS learning about advances in this field. Along these lines, I am exploring concepts for utilizing cutting-edge View Details

31 Oct 2019
Blog Post

5 Things on My Mind in the Second Year of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

committing with a full-time role. Students chose to spend their summers in a variety of ways. There were many people who worked on their startups continuing their projects from our first-year design class, Technology Venture Immersion.... View Details

24 Apr 2019
Blog Post

2019 New Venture Competition Student and Alumni Journeys

exciting, challenging, and rewarding experience whether you are a winner of prizes or if you are simply taking advantage of the learning and can apply it later in your career. Grand prize: My Toolbox Technologies Runner up: Nom Pot Crowd... View Details

21 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse

company would be more than likes, comments, and shares, he said, and Meta would develop the community on top of the Oculus platform it bought for $2 billion in 2014. The Facebook-Meta name change came a year-and-a-half into the COVID-19 pandemic, which demonstrated the... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Nover; Information Technology; Information Technology

Profile

Fatou Bintou Sagnang

something that impacts people, but also draws me close to people. I just didn't see myself being in a lab all the time. I wanted to interact—business was a way for me to get to that." Connecting the dots, filling the plate After three and a half years with... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Tech

26 Apr 2011
News

BioMine Strikes Gold

Contest. BioMine uses existing scaled-up mining industry technologies to capture value from the 40 million tons of "e-waste" that is landfilled or incinerated annually around the world. (Watch Bradoo explain the concept behind BioMine.)... View Details

Keywords: Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

Paris Wallace

School. In 2021 Paris sold Ovia Health to Labcorp (LH). Paris was the CEO and founder of Ovia Health, the leading women’s health and technology company. Ovia Health's fertility, pregnancy, and parenting programs helped over 20 million... View Details

Keywords: Biotech & Life Sciences;#19;#Digital Health;#43;#Healthcare;#56;#Personal Health & Wellness;#64;#Software/App

30 Nov 2017
News

SEAS Complex Reaches for a New Frontier

hoisted into place. The celebration included remarks by Faust, Nohria, and Walsh; demonstrations of new technologies being developed by SEAS students; and a panel discussion on the impact of the SEAS move and Harvard’s expanding science... View Details

Career Coach

Oscar Mak

Prior to joining Toyota Tsusho, Oscar held various cleantech roles, including project development, renewable energy finance, and corporate development for a solar energy technology startup. He has additional experience as a consultant... View Details

Keywords: Clean Technology; Clean Technology; Clean Technology; Clean Technology; Clean Technology; Clean Technology; Clean Technology

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century

Consider the title. "The Electronic Century" is the twenty-first century. The "inventing" refers to the creation of the technological and institutional foundations—the "infrastructure"—during the latter... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler, Takashi Hikino & Andrew Von Nordenflycht; Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology

01 Apr 2000
News

At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths

movie theaters did with the advent of television. Myth #2: There are no barriers to entry on the Internet. What about the huge sums, asked Bezos, that Amazon and other e-commerce companies invest in their businesses? Barriers to entry are actually getting higher in the... View Details

14 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

digital form, stored in this platform, and therefore ready to be transported in digital form. WK: Journeying from one business model to another is a formidable leadership challenge, especially in an industry so given to continual View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology

01 Sep 2007
News

Replica Bell for Baker Library; Historic Original Returns to Russia

In August, the bell atop Baker Library was replaced by a replica as the original, along with seventeen other bells at Harvard University, is being returned to Russia. Amid fears that the Soviets might melt them down, the bells were sold in 1930 to an American... View Details

Keywords: Soviet Union; cold war; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Apr 1998
News

Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered

published widely in academic and professional journals and contributed to several books. He was a consultant to many companies and served on committees of the National Research Council and as an advisor to the Congressional Office of View Details

01 Oct 2000
News

Hawes Hall Groundbreaking

1969), and their six children and spouses. "Beverly and Rod are a wonderful model for us all," Clark noted. "They have had an outstanding career and life together, raised a fine family, and never lost sight of the importance of helping... View Details