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- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
long-promised future a reality “This is is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
drug he has ever taken that directly targets his DMD, a rare degenerative disorder in boys that weakens the body's muscles, usually putting sufferers in wheelchairs in adolescence and shutting down their heart and lungs in their 20s. For... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
to move away, while the other rejects farm life to pursue a bigger payday smuggling drugs over the Canadian border. It’s a tough but touching story with a very un-Hollywood ending. Yet, for Jared Simon (MBA 2008), the making—and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
biotechnology. The prospect is exhilarating, but the road to this brave new biotech world has more than a few bumps. With an average time line of ten years required to bring a drug to market - and the potential for failure looming every... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
and hand sanitizer to every household in the city of Chelsea. We’re staffing a hotel that the cities of Chelsea and Revere have rented for people who need to be quarantined, and we’re providing medical and nursing care there. We are doing a lot of View Details
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
You wouldn't think that the lowly, annoying mosquito would have anything to teach researchers working on the cutting edge of drug delivery methodology, but you would be wrong. Have you ever noticed that you don't become aware of a... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy One day not long ago, a Japanese woman in her 60s walked into a hospital in Tokyo, worried she might have cancer. Doctors ran View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
withdrawal) and other incentives for remaining substance-free and engaging with a treatment program. The company currently offers programs for alcohol, opioids and heroin, and stimulant addiction. Participants can be prompted at random intervals to take an alcohol or... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
historically lagged behind that of California and Massachusetts despite the presence of numerous drug companies and medical research institutions.) And she is not alone: Endeavor Insight, a nonprofit research outfit that examines the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
care, plus some drug coverage — was rejected. It smacked of a “two-tiered” system, he says, and was unacceptable for political reasons. Costs have thus been significantly higher than expected because the standard plan — with a relatively... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
get involved with community development? For some years, the area around the church had been in steady decline, with vacant storefronts, deteriorating houses, and neglected properties. Gang activity and drug use were on the increase.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
and correction of such errors, Associate Professor Amy C. Edmondson studied eight teams of caregivers from two different teaching hospitals to explore how group and organizational behaviors affect error rates in administering drugs to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
in enterprise development through our incubator units in South Africa and Chile, which support over 220 freestanding businesses providing jobs to some 13,500 people. In South Africa, I’m also very proud that we have the largest workplace HIV View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
Nundy, who has a background in nonprofit service and worked as an analyst at Morgan Stanley before coming to HBS. "The fellowship gave me the confidence to try something completely different." "The summer internship program is a great way for students to View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
ship to launch and recover the submersible. He found a decommissioned US Navy ship laid up in a river in Washington State. The USNS Indomitable was originally built to hunt Soviet submarines at the end of the Cold War and was then used by the US Coast Guard for View Details