Life Sciences - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

occurred in the pharmaceutical industry over the past two decades. Since 1989, a number of major pharmaceutical companies (Merck, Novartis, Pfizer, etc.) have chosen to locate new laboratories in one or more major life View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

Crisis or Opportunity? Psychological Science Ayse Yemiscigil, A.V. Whillans, and N. Powdthavee “Does retirement lead to an existential crisis or present an opportunity to experience a renewed sense of purpose in life? In a nationally... View Details

15 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?

Noam Wasserman is an assistant professor and MBA Class of 1961 Fellow in the entrepreneurial management unit at Harvard Business School. His paper "Founder-CEO Succession and the Paradox of Entrepreneurial Success," published in Organization View Details

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

The more fundamental question that firms and policy makers need to be thinking about is just what type of good is software?—Siobhán O'Mahony Similar issues surface in the biotechnology world, where university and market conceptions of the View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

01 Jun 2018
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Alumni Achievement Awards

approach. Very few times in my life have I felt like I was really in a comfort zone. If you start to feel comfortable, you just know, intellectually, it’s not a good place to be. Because there is something you’re really not seeing if... View Details

16 Jul 2019
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The Making of a Movement

making decisions that could advance treatment options for patients with rare cancers. Neither of the Linns worked in science or medicine. A few years earlier, rare cancers had not even been on their radar. Now it was possible their... View Details

Keywords: Greg Forbes Siegman; cancer

01 Jun 2000
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The Business of Biotech

forum for discussion. But as knowledge of life sciences develops alongside even swifter advances in technology, it seems inevitable that biotechnology's influence will be felt to a profound degree well... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2020
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The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads

ago. There were multiple species of humans (nine in total), now only sapiens is left, and most humans have some Neanderthal DNA. Runners-up: Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams, by Matthew Walker Range: Why Generalists... View Details

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Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity

natural human and human-informed technological bias. Embedded Ethics A distributed pedagogy initiative at the Harvard John A. Paulson School Of Engineering And Applied Sciences that embeds philosophers directly into computer View Details

15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

ocean exploration. It’s an entire world that needs to be understood and is incredibly valuable to our existence. So that excites me a lot. This last year prompted me to think about the arc of life and death. I lost my eldest son in a... View Details

01 Jun 2020
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Homeschooled

thing—especially for kids who need to start making money sooner. If you think about online as a place where you learn in an even more personalized way, then you have this other aspect of your life where you create a rich experience. You... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; online learning; Educational Services

16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany

out-of-office message on, and take time for reflection. And I was very privileged to do that, and it's been very helpful in my life and in my career. And the second thing is, when you do that and you listen to your inner voice, you listen... View Details

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Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

and steel in blast and open-hearth furnaces and foundries. The distribution of educational kits provided another vehicle for reaching elementary, junior high, and high school classes. For example, How Steel Is Made , a science kit created... View Details

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Research Resources | Baker Library

Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land . Reading, Mass.: Perseus Books, 1998. “Polaroid-Land Process Now Has Black and White.” U.S. Camera 13, no. 8 (August 1950): 42–43. Quick, Jennifer. “Designing Polaroid: Ansel Adams as Consultant.”... View Details

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Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online

within this subject area to earn a Certificate of Specialization Learn More about what you earn Syllabus 3 Modules, 25-30 Hours Download full syllabus 5-6 hrs Module 1 - 1 week The Fundamentals of Climate Change Understand climate change View Details

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Middle East & North Africa - Global Activities 2021

Mission to Improve the Health Care System Nora Rabah (MS/MBA 2022), a fellowship recipient who emigrated from Syria at age five, is a member of the first cohort of the MS/MBA in Biotechnology: Life Sciences... View Details

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

When In-House Research Isn’t Enough

protection in the pharmaceutical and life sciences arena, said Chesbrough. But if you're in IT, forget about it. Can you sustain the pace of innovation necessary for success? The answers to the previous... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

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Engineering Meets Advocacy: Driving Innovation in Women’s Health - Blog: Health Supplement

Blog Blog Health Care and Life Science at HBS Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Blavatnik Fellow Author Blavatnik Fellowship Team Author Executive Education Author HBS... View Details

10 May 2022
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2022

of it as a place for cats playing the piano. But I gave it a shot, and the videos took on a life of their own.” The plunge: “Soon, tens of thousands of people were using the videos every month. In 2009, I left my job and set up Khan... View Details

24 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

April 2018 Management Science Offline Showrooms in Omni-channel Retail: Demand and Operational Benefits By: Bell, David R., Santiago Gallino, and Antonio Moreno Abstract—Omnichannel environments where customers shop online and offline at... View Details