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- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
to something big. After a second field study, Solomon and Hillerstrom launched NeuroPhage. In tests on mice, the drug they developed improved both memory and cognitive abilities. “We believe it can identify harmful aggregates in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
And those mercurial capital flows, as welcome as they are when they’re inbound, can wreak havoc when they reverse, or as they attract undisciplined competitors and drive excess supply at the worst possible moments. Moreover, the aforementioned creative destruction may... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Starting Lineup: Upturning Travel
in 2011 “The best way to book bus tickets,” aggregating information on a half-million bus routes in 63 countries. Winner of the 2014 Alumni New Venture Competition’s Best Investment category, Busbud has debuted a product that allows third... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
bars handing out student or alumni e-mail addresses to commercial enterprises.) “My feeling is that rankings do serve a purpose by aggregating information for people who are trying to make a difficult decision,” says Kenny, who came to... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
there’s a role that employers can play by adding just a little bit more information, for example, to their quarterly wage reporting, like adding a title or occupation for all the folks who they are already reporting wages for, that would help the state to View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
equity, and sold the company. But the investors, including our family, lost money. Professionally, my judgment of aggregate risk was honed through this failure. The company was international, run out of a holding company with diluted... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
management, and too many stakeholders. Individual entrepreneurs, on the other hand, were more what I was used to seeing in African agriculture transformations—individuals who would have private-sector incentives to work with farmers to help them access inputs, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Renter’s Market
City–based Redbrick with an economist partner in 2002. “Millions of individuals buy a unit or two to rent out as income producers,” Lee says. “But there existed no fund that went after single-family houses in some sort of aggregate way... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Social Entrepreneurship Fellows Named
’08/MPA ’09). Both have been named HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellows for 2010 and awarded $25,000 grants to advance their enterprises. Brehm, along with his wife, Faith, is cofounder of the online venture AbilityTrip (www.abilitytrip.com), which View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
A World of Information at Your Fingertips
news sources that covers the globe; and ABI/Proquest, which aggregates business and management publication articles. For those who need in-depth information on companies, including financial reports and market research from more than... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard
leaders an opportunity to explore social entrepreneurship and test ideas for social innovation in a rigorous yet supportive environment.” This year, the $75,000 Peter M. Sacerdote Grand Prize was awarded to Mosaic, a health care data View Details
- 11 Jan 2019
- News
Case Study: Beating Bias
in his quest to help readers—particularly millennials and Gen-Zers—better understand how the news is spun. The launch product is a free daily newsletter that aggregates headlines from both the left and right, with analysis that... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
initial step in his quest to help readers—particularly millennials and Gen Zers—better understand how the news is spun. The company’s launch product is a free daily newsletter that aggregates headlines from both the left and the right,... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Students craft their post-HBS lives
reflection. “One of the course goals is to help students develop self-knowledge and live with greater intentionality,” explains Francis, who journals regularly. “We created an app that prompts students to reflect daily and then aggregates... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
consult its resources monthly, and its aggregate data has spurred policymakers to consider disparities in the government’s procedures. In an analysis undertaken before the pandemic, Boundless found that the average processing time for... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
approached her to become its second president, Barry was ready to make the move. During the past fifteen years, the network's aggregate portfolio has grown to more than $8 billion, and WWB has gone from serving some 20,000 low-income... View Details
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I love these end-of-the-year lists where you can get recommendations from smart people about things that are worth your time and money. It always sets me up really... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
referring physicians. We think that health plans are also the logical place in the system at which to aggregate medical records. Right now, the medical record resides with each provider, and providers must request records from each other.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
value of its philanthropic giving. The foundation recently raised a $120 million Growth Capital Aggregation Pilot fund that is investing in only three social sector organizations, including Youth Villages. The Decade Ahead IDEAS RULE:... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
the learning time on Khan Academy directly. There’s no way to directly measure the total aggregate learning time in the actual school system. But if I could, I would bet that has gone down dramatically. Kids also are incredibly tired.... View Details