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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
ASD and found a “definitive association” between the two—though, notably no causality. “One of the reasons that SFARI has moved into this field is that the microbiome might offer a significant way to improve the quality of life of kids,” says John Spiro, senior vice... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
bicycle can cut their risk of having another heart attack in half, says Lee, a cardiologist and behavioral scientist at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “In an era of so many incredible medications, that’s pretty impressive,” she... View Details
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching
change behavior? And usually it is a collaborative process. So for example, in myeloma, we had to start by attracting scientists to the field at the MMRF. If we had to do grant funding and get them in, but then we didn't understand the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
it,” he says. That intuition has served him well: Over the past three decades, Levy has founded and led several tech companies and played a role as an investor and board member at dozens more. Now he and his team of scientists and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Research Brief: Making Way for Moonshots
pretty similar to what the company would normally fund,” Krieger observes. He and Nanda captured their findings in the working paper, “Are Transformational Ideas Harder to Fund? Resource Allocation to R&D Projects at a Global Pharmaceutical Firm.” It identifies the key... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 31 Jul 2023
- News
Striving for Imperfection
for organizations to do. I love the story of Nespresso. You know the little capsules, right? It comes from Nestle, which is this giant, more than a hundred year old company. They gave one of their young engineers, who’s literally a rocket View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
The Musts of 2023
Merali (AMP 184, 2013): This is Munir Merali graduate of AMP 184 in 2014. I recently saw with my family the Oppenheimer movie, and what was moving in that was the struggle that the scientists were having developing this technology. And... View Details
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
breakthrough in] the biotech industry takes a lot of time; it takes a lot of money; it's complicated science." And it takes a lot of people—from scientists to executives to board members. Bancel admits that people see the potential fairly... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures
their dismay they learned that because Pompe afflicts so few people — less than one in 40,000 — no treatment had yet been developed. Determined to change that, Crowley quit his job as a marketing executive for Bristol-Myers Squibb, befriended a View Details
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
sugaring, says Turner. “I was afraid it might change the taste, but Mike and some other scientists worked on it with me, and when we tasted the first batch, it was incredible.” For the Turners, “doing it right” also involves low-impact... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
attention-begging designs give away its second disruptive innovation, which is to fully embrace its NA-ness, according to Annie Wilson (PhDBA 2020). A behavioral scientist and lecturer of marketing at the Wharton School who wrote a case... View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
Making Lives Better
motivated. You have to understand how and why people are motivated so that you, as a leader, can help them do their best work," she says. The lesson has translated profoundly at the research-focused AFS, where Tepper Singer manages a large, diverse group of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Stiletto Science
Amalfi brand. “I’ve run a rocket company, I’ve built transatlantic fiber cable,” said Hughes. “But if I go to a cocktail party and say, ‘Oh, I’m a CEO of a rocket company,’ after all the rocket scientist jokes are done, there’s not much... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Raw, Done Well
of several nonprofits and is chairman and CEO of Modulus Guitars, a leading maker of guitars and basses for professional musicians. Many scientists and nutritionists scoff at raw-foodism, but Klein eschews proselytizing. “Roxanne's is... View Details
- 16 Sep 2024
- News
Life Preserver
“There’s a massive gap between how many people get to benefit from a lifesaving organ transplant and how many truly need one,” says Sebastian Giwa (MBA 2009). He’s spent the last decade trying to change that. In the United States alone, scientists estimate between... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
How to Close the Health Gap
higher rates in poor countries. You’ve heard of the wealth gap. Welcome to the health gap. The people who need the medicines most in the world are the least likely to receive them. “Now that we have such extraordinary capabilities, what will we use this power to... View Details
- 19 Sep 2019
- News
Predicting Human Behaviors
partner, Honda) began in August 2014, when Misra started his year as a Blavatnik Fellow in Life Science Entrepreneurship, a program launched in 2013 at HBS. Among the numerous scientists Misra met with in his search for marketable life... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
started two years ago in the HBS class Commercializing Science—a course open to students from across the University—which pairs scientific research teams with students looking to help them pursue a market for their discoveries. One of the 17 View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
Health (NIH) undertook the Human Genome Project, an effort to map the extraordinarily intricate chemical composition of the human genome. Scientists have long believed that understanding the vast genetic code underlying all human life... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 03 Apr 2016
- News
The Tampon of the Future
Ridhi Tariyal (MBA 2009) Ridhi Tariyal (MBA 2009) Is it possible to draw blood from a person without causing discomfort? That question has puzzled scientists for years. And the solution—for women, at least—finally is coming to market as... View Details