Vaccine - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Apr 2021
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Get Ready for the Relationship Renaissance

Photo courtesy of Hinge Photo courtesy of Hinge With vaccines more readily available and the world inching toward recovery, Justin McLeod (MBA 2011), founder and CEO of the dating app Hinge, predicts singles will be getting serious about... View Details

Keywords: Private Households; Personal Services

01 Mar 2012
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How to Close the Health Gap

where innovation is winning the day. An increasing number of biotech start-ups are setting up shop in developing countries, and VC firms are chasing them. In Hyderabad, India, for example, Shantha Biotechnics created clever culture-growing techniques that dropped the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Mar 2019
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The Blue-Green Revolution

biofuels project should eventually permit researchers to turn algae into microscopic factories for the manufacture of virtually any organic compound, leading to what Enriquez describes as a full-blown algal revolution. “You can make View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustration by Eric Nyquist

07 Sep 2021
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Embracing Activism for Social Change

gap? For this reason, I strongly recommend MBA graduates consider spending time in the public sector.” In Detroit’s all-hands-on-deck response to the pandemic, Mendu’s focus shifted this past spring to helping with vaccine rollout. More... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2003
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Portraits from the Class of 2003

First Film: Open Invitation, half–hour dark comedy Previous Job: managed brand franchises for Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati and Toronto AT P&G: spearheaded relationship with UNICEF to donate tuberculosis vaccines Copresident: HBS... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

29 Sep 2022
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Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal

countries closed their borders. Diagne’s first task was to work closely with the ministry’s leadership team in crafting an economic response to the pandemic. Worldwide, crisis management involved very similar challenges—layoffs and shutdowns, unemployment, and View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

13 Jan 2021
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Stress Test

lock, but the company soon expanded its focus to B2B sales in the health care sector. Its clients now include sites responsible for COVID-19 testing and vaccine distribution, which require both security and a reliable audit log. The... View Details

01 Oct 2021
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Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges

potential workers—such as veterans, caregivers, immigrants, and individuals with mental or physical health issues—who might otherwise be overlooked. How AI Accelerated a COVID-19 Vaccine Karim Lakhani, the Dorothy and Michael Hintze... View Details

16 Dec 2021
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A Global Alumni Response to the Pandemic

millions for pandemic relief, used their networks and resources to support small businesses, and created entirely new enterprises to respond to a post-COVID world. In India, where the pandemic has hit particularly hard, HBS alumni are confronting the problem head-on.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

24 Apr 2014
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Advocating for all children with autism

convinced by the growing science showing that vaccines were not the cause of autism, she left the group and founded the nonprofit Autism Science Foundation (ASF), where she serves as president. Based in New York City, ASF focuses on... View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Lab Work

papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil was perhaps his biggest success—Henderson said, "There is much more interest among academics than there was a decade ago. Now there is a growing realization that unless a commercial entity picks up... View Details

Keywords: immunology; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Oct 2001
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Courage and Hope in Africa

the country's economy and infrastructure in shambles and with its enormous social problems (Sierra Leone has the highest infant mortality rate in the world), Van Gerpen is seeking aid for UNICEF from Western governments and international development agencies. Van... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Oct 2021
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New Biotech Joint Degree Program Kicks Off

addressing the pandemic in real time, including John Markels, president of global vaccines at Merck, and Dan Barouch, MD, an innovator in the field of infectious disease research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Students were... View Details

10 Mar 2021
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Action Plan: Brewing Awareness

rental expenses to preserve jobs. Now, as India begins a massive vaccination program, Murad is glad to have made it through the worst of the pandemic with White Owl’s workforce of 120 employees largely intact. “It’s easy to abandon ship... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; beer; India; leadership; COVID-19; manufacturing; marketing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2010
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Noted & Quoted

“Unfortunately, the technology for growing flu viruses to make vaccines is fifty years old — it’s chicken eggs.” — HBS Professor of Management Practice and former Merck CEO Raymond Gilmartin, at a November HBS panel discussion on drug... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Information

01 Mar 2014
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@Soldiers Field

THAN 900 FIELD 2 STUDENTS for their assignments in destinations around the globe, HBS set up a vaccination clinic in Spangler to protect them from a host of potential illnesses. © Carrie Mae Weems. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman... View Details

Keywords: FIELD program; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

22 Feb 2022
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Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path

What prevented the crisis that the data in the spring and summer of 2020 predicted? There are three possible explanations. First, the crisis was much shorter and milder than we originally anticipated because the vaccines came out. Second,... View Details

Keywords: April White

25 Mar 2021
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Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy

looks at how the company built a digital organization that leverages AI and other technologies to speed its operations, manage its processes, and ensure quality across research, testing, and manufacturing in its race to develop a vaccine... View Details

20 Apr 2020
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To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual

may not guarantee long-lasting immunity. This is of major importance for vaccine development, because a person must produce a sufficient amount of neutralizing antibodies to be protected.” Seftel has used the weekly updates to give a... View Details