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- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
of at least 51 people in Panama after they ingested medicine made with diethylene glycol, an industrial chemical similar to antifreeze that a Chinese company used as a substitute for pharmaceutical-grade syrup. In June, officials at the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
chemicals and pharmaceuticals; and computers, Silicon Valley, and the Internet. From the past eighty years of "relentless change," McCraw offers colorful illustrations of how business transformed the country's economic and cultural... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
As a way to delve deeper into the link between motivation and creativity, Amabile and her husband, psychologist Steven J. Kramer, conducted a three-year study of 238 professionals from seven companies in the high-tech, consumer products, and View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Turning Point: In Good Company
program and found a study group of alumni—especially Tom Shaffer (MBA 2005)—who were impressed with my poetry and writing. Their support during the pandemic helped me write Chemical Khichdi: How I Hacked My Mental Health—part-memoir,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
three major cities. The first six years of my life were in Calcutta. Then we moved to Delhi, where I finished my schooling at St. Columba’s. Afterward I enrolled at IIT Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and earned a chemical... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 16 Jan 2014
- News
Learning from Helping Others
marketed credit cards for Chemical Bank, then MasterCard. But she always found time to volunteer, recording books for the visually impaired, and reading to elementary school students on her lunch hour. A change in management at MasterCard... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
trying to punch out time.” An art and a science: “There are probably 30 or 40 different spotting chemicals and techniques depending on the fabric, the stain, and how long it’s been there. You can’t just throw a shirt into the cleaning... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
electrodes deliver pulses that spur the release of neurotransmitters, the chemicals that stimulate the neurons that carry messages throughout the brain. This targeted approach gives Bennet hope that Harmoni can benefit not only people... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Three Promoted to Full Professor
Harvard College, where he majored in biology, Gompers worked for a year as a research biochemist for Bayer Chemical AG before earning a master's degree in economics at Oxford University on a Marshall Scholarship. He completed his Ph.D. in... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
John Mulroney: Center Stage at the Opera
and COO of Rohm and Haas, the largest specialty chemicals company in the United States. The longtime Philadelphia resident, who started his forty-year career at Rohm and Haas as an engineer, says he was ready for retirement but felt no... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Ink
March 2016 We can achieve presence when we need it, Cuddy argues, through a combination of body postures, behavior, and mindset, which activate chemical changes in the body. Expansive “power poses” can cause testosterone levels to rise... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
internationalization process of the HBS curriculum. Crum graduated from Cornell University in 1957 with a degree in chemical engineering. At HBS he was a Baker Scholar and earned his MBA with high distinction in 1960. He began teaching at... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
which, when burned, releases more CO2 (a key greenhouse gas) into the atmosphere. C12 Energy's North Dakota project will instead capture industrial CO2 from a big chemical plant located about 50 miles away and then pump it to the mature... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
process of drug development: With quantum’s ability to analyze multiple molecules, proteins, and chemicals at the same time, researchers could significantly speed the time to market with ultrafast and high-volume testing—and discover new... View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
Ralph Lauren Home shop in Filene’s. That forced me to engage with people on a new level and to convince them to spend $50 on a towel,” he says. He ultimately finished Duke and moved to New York City in 1987 to work at Chemical Bank, first... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
noncore businesses, including a specialty chemicals group, and expanded significantly abroad, becoming one of the top U.S.-based pharmaceutical businesses in Europe. During this period, Merck also took the lead on a host of pressing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
believe that we can just take existing processes for capturing carbon dioxide directly from the air and improve them through optimizing the chemical engineering process. The fundamental bottleneck that controls the economics of direct-air... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
and to be generous with our time," she says. Scher's father ran an environmentally responsible chemical company. Her mother was a professor of economics, an environmental activist, and a ready volunteer for a plethora of causes. "She did... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Sparkles in Our Skies
Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Aether Diamonds makes its precious gems out of thin air—literally. The three-year-old company uses carbon dioxide drawn from the atmosphere to synthesize stones that are View Details