Courts and Trials - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Jan 2011
Op-Ed

Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress

a new research stream, and there is a low probability you will get funded in a new area. You may be fired. In short, your career is in danger of total meltdown. That is the real cost of our randomized model of research support in the... View Details

Keywords: by William Sahlman; Biotechnology; Health; Pharmaceutical

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Prompt-a-thon Invites HBS IT Staff to Sharpen GenAI Skills | Information Technology

Prompts: Learn about the tool’s strengths and weaknesses through trial and errors Join the Fun! If you wished you could have participated, you’ll have another chance soon! All... View Details

24 Aug 2017
News

Unlocking Potential

and it is incredibly rewarding to meet the young men, who are energized to start anew if only someone would give them the opportunity,” MacDonald observes. Reset started with 10 students in a daytime pilot program in San Francisco. Not... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Community Partners; Legal Services; Professional Services

20 Dec 2016
First Look

December 20, 2016

forthcoming Research in Organizational Behavior The Dynamic Componential Model of Creativity and Innovation in Organizations: Making Progress, Making Meaning By: Amabile, Teresa M., and Michael G. Pratt... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 Oct 2020
News

Clearing the Path to Citizenship

hoped to start a new life with their young son in their adopted country, but the immigration process would not be an easy one. “Everything was opaque and scary,” Wang says. “It was our one shot at being able to stay.” Stymied by the... View Details

Keywords: April White

15 Jul 2025
Blog Post

Outrage at the Death of a Tree

but have not reckoned with nature’s bounty fully. One intriguing effort recently is to anthropomorphize nature, in the so-called ‘rights of nature’ movement, which endows river, forests, etcetera, with rights. Ecuador pioneered this in 2008, View Details

Portrait Project

Abbas A. Kanji

the ball. Every time I step onto the squash court I try a new shot or strategy which makes me a better player overall. The philosophy of continuous learning and improvement is something I want to incorporate... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Case Study: Your Data, Your Health

early detection of gynecological diseases. The Oakland-based company completed its second clinical trial and is now raising Series A funding. Its initial indications focus on identifying conditions that... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

04 Sep 2019
News

Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives

tools, expediting the time frame and accuracy of results. Using genomics and machine learning, Day Zero Diagnostics (DZD) and Aikili Biosystems aim to save lives. “A common... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: W. Mitt Romney

public - and corporate - esteem. He notes that the SLOC is on track to secure its target amount of nearly $1.4 billion in private funding. Romney is courting new corporate sponsors, particularly high-tech... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

05 Aug 2015
News

Bringing New Life to an Iconic Magazine

it’s work he finds himself well suited to, especially when it comes to courting and hiring the talent that sets a publication apart in today’s noisy world. “Journalists are wired to be in the game, striving,... View Details

Profile

Jeff Nelson

Since his undergraduate days at Cornell, housing has been a major theme in Jeff Nelson’s career. As a college student, he volunteered for Habitat for Humanity, building houses in the upstate New York communities near his campus, and in... View Details

05 Dec 2013
Op-Ed

Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents

Like many people interested in the tangled connections between health care progress and intellectual property rights, I avidly followed the Myriad Genetics case, decided by the Supreme Court this June 13. In... View Details

Keywords: by Richard G. Hamermesh; Biotechnology; Health

01 Jun 2000
News

Business Suits You: Experimenting with Professional Identity

experimenting with images that serve as trials for possible but not yet fully elaborated professional identities." In an article titled "Provisional Selves: Experimenting with Image and Identity in... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Turning Point: The Dark Season

some things that only trials and tribulations produce. When you suffer and have to draw from the depth of your personal resources to overcome adversity, it gives you the... View Details

Keywords: Jonathan Wilkins (MBA 2007, MDiv 2009)

01 Dec 2019
News

The Race Against Resistance

people die as a result. And yet, there are only 42 antibiotics currently in clinical development, and typically only 20 percent of infectious disease drugs that enter phase 1 clinical View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

01 Jun 2004
News

Massport, Back on Course

meetings. Thousands of people have participated. And there have been a number of court cases. The judges who have reviewed the evidence have all essentially come to the same conclusion: The new runway is... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Massport; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation

17 Apr 2015
News

A Driving Force for a Sustainable World

and 16. Helping them to grow up as young adults gives me a great sense of accomplishment,” she says. A former competitive tennis player, Herlaut regularly hits the courts with her girls, View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles

01 Sep 2024
News

Ink: Framing the Full Picture

Filipinos have been in the United States for longer than the country is old. As far back as 1763, sailors from the Philippines started arriving in the Gulf of Mexico as indentured servants on Spanish galleons. Life on board was so brutal that, at the sight of land,... View Details