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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
really is no business of stem cells yet. There’s research, and money going into research, but to date there are no products being sold on the open market. It’s a fledgling business. The other major... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
HBS Fellowship Furthers Entrepreneurial Dreams
internship at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute during the summer before his senior year prompted Okeke to consider how he could broaden his impact in health care through business. He applied to, and was... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
Changing the conversation on US infrastructure challenges
Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s interest in US transportation and infrastructure began well before Boston’s record-setting 2015 snowstorms focused national attention on the downside of deferred maintenance for aging public transit systems. In February 2014, following 20 months... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
which is why our first goal was to get some sense of what each field means when it uses the word. Won’t some people argue that leadership is too nebulous a quality to define, that you’ll know it when you see it? The benefits of stem View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
A man on a mission
and physics at Cleveland community colleges at night while his career took off at the space agency’s Glenn Research Center during the day. “I felt such an obligation to those teachers who had helped me, and one way I could pay them back... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
A revolution in healing
proteins. Moderna's mRNA Therapeutics gives patients' cells the code they need to begin creating their own proteins and antibodies to fight disease, allowing the body to heal itself. "We believe we have a chance to do something... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- News
Education Is the Key
nonprofit business and economics institution in Brazil. The Insper Institute of Education and Research, he says, aims to address the shortage of prepared leaders. “Many of our problems [in Brazil] stem from microeconomics,” he says. “We... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
1990. The science of harvesting, processing, and freezing stem cells was already known from bone-marrow transplants. "I remember thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great if every child born could have a small sample... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
from fossil fuels to alternative sources of energy. We will need to finance research in technology innovation and biotechnology, including stem cell research. We will need to... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Scientific Discovery
very excited about having HBS, and the University more broadly, be a part of the effort to reduce human suffering, because that’s what drives all of us. That’s the shared value among the scientists in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Medical School, the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 03 Aug 2020
- News
A Clean Start
help solve this environmental conundrum. A chemical engineer, Brix had spent his career at Chevron in research and technology and then at Microsoft in IoT and automation. Then, in 2017, he turned his attention toward creating a renewable... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
New Biotech Joint Degree Program Kicks Off
training at Harvard’s Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, a collaboration between Harvard Medical School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Students complete HBS’s MBA Required Curriculum,... 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
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
transpires, she argued, not due to the govern- ment's desire to control, but the market's own need for stability. Spar's research on this topic includes the maritime trading boom of the 17th century and the development of the telegraph,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
1997 Placement Data Reflect January Cohort's Success
of students accepting jobs in each industry, as did their 607 classmates who entered in September. The similarities stem from a combination of many factors, from the admissions process (which admits all students from a single applicant... View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
Amadio, pointing with pride to one such early-stage firm, Atanse, founded by Michael Kelly (MBA 1990), which manufactures devices designed to inject stem cells into damaged areas of the brain, to repair it... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Long and Winding Road
the early 1970s. Our two years at the School were marked by long days in the insular environment of Aldrich and even longer evenings spent cracking cases and researching papers at Baker. Our academic reverie was sometimes interrupted by... View Details
Keywords: Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
compounds owned by struggling biotechs. Williams usually calls Tracy once or twice a day, with about a dozen emails back and forth daily. Things are moving. Long term, the Secklers see stem cell or gene... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
psychiatric patients. This targeted approach gives Bennet hope that Harmoni can benefit not only people suffering from movement disorders, but also a whole class of psychiatric patients. But working under Bennet and his collaborator, neurosurgeon Kendall Lee, a team of... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 24 Jan 2025
- News
The Network Effect
rare blood disorders, including pyruvate kinase deficiency, thalassemia and sickle cell disease. Mathur is a principal at Segard, a multi-strategy alternative asset management firm, within the Sagard Healthcare strategy. And the... View Details