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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Thomas C. Høegh
child-focused development organization. The Expedition for Education has secured backing for Childreach's school-support efforts from regional companies and HBS alumni. In return, Høegh and other "cyberexperts" on the HBS team will... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
nations, across nations, and across regions. Half the world’s poor are projected to be in sub-Saharan Africa, living on incomes a small fraction of those in developed countries. Of 4.1 billion workers, 3.3 billion will be unskilled and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
quickly," he observes. Under his guidance, Novartis has been a leader not only in developing new drugs but in making them accessible to those in need around the globe. Dan Vasella has experienced first-hand... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
business, government, and the global economy. It saps the strength of people and institutions, especially in developing countries. Everyone’s against corruption, or so they claim. But virtually all countries are involved in facilitating... 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
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
trajectory of overdose deaths from prescription drugs and heroin. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US death rate from opioid overdose has increased over 400 percent since 1999; the picture is even grimmer... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
state of the world—while working toward milestones that put patient safety first.” Laura Kelley (MBA 2019) (photo by Len Rubenstein) Laura Kelley (MBA 2019) (photo by Len Rubenstein) Lee and Kelley are both leading firms at the intersection of biology and computer... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
app allows the user to participate in random drugs tests using a thumbprint, or breath or saliva tests via video. “No more degrading urine tests,” Gastfriend says. Patients are rewarded for meeting goals and staying on the program through... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 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 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
developed at Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic. Kevin Bennet (MBA 1980) chairs the hospital’s 102-year-old engineering department, where some of the first machines designed to keep patients alive during open-heart surgery were developed. Today,... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
assumed it was some combination of choice, poor financial decisions, and bad luck,” says Shumway, the founder, chairman, and former CEO of Cicero Group, a Salt Lake City–based consulting firm that uses advanced analytics to help clients View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
Kristof, most of which have focused on poverty in developing countries. But in the Pulitzer Prize-winning duo’s latest book, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, they turn their lens on working class communities in the United... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Bart Harvey: Opportunities for Others
even as he enjoyed a successful career as a high-flying real-estate dealmaker at Dean Witter Reynolds. Then he was introduced to the late James Rouse, the visionary developer who founded the Enterprise Foundation in 1982. "Jim Rouse... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
CHRISTENSEN: “By some estimates, 50 percent of all health care is driven by physician and hospital supply, not by patients’ needs.” An acclaimed author and expert on the development and commercialization of technological and business... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
like realistically modeling molecules for more efficient drug discovery and material design. The equipment that SEEQC—short for Scalable Energy Efficient Quantum Computing—and pronounced “seek”—is using to achieve this computational dream... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
career in drug development and biotech companies, leading both R&D and business functions. She teaches the MBA elective Inventing Breakthroughs and Commercializing Science and an Executive Education offering... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
(photos by Jennifer Heffner) As lead private-sector specialist at the World Bank Group’s Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice, Emiliano Duch (MBA 1991) draws on 25 years of experience in helping countries and regions to develop... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Stephen M. Moret: A Campaign for Positive Change
but his choice was driven by the School’s mission to develop leaders who contribute to the well-being of society. “HBS has given me an expanded sense of perspective and of what is attainable,” says Moret, who recently completed a field... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Inspiration Is Not Enough
animated screen stars for decades of royalty income. IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad developed a rigorous vendor-screening process that, though not sexy, provided the furniture retailer with “an impressive supply chain that is virtually... 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... View Details