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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
the five tenets of the mission at the Smithsonian's NMNH is to be a catalyst for the use of object-based science education in the K-12 school system. With a large education department that relies on close to four hundred volunteer... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
Yeo's ninth-floor office in one of the seven gleaming new buildings of Singapore's Biopolis-a $500 million, eighteen-acre complex dedicated to cutting-edge research and development in the biomedical sciences by the world's leading... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
research and teaching paths that HBS might take. As Dean Jay Light told participants, “Organizations of the future are likely to look very different than they do today, and the pace of change will only accelerate. We will need to be more global. We will have to better... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
immigrants represent an increasing share of the U.S. workforce, particularly in science and engineering. These immigrants affect economic growth, patterns of trade, education choices, and the earnings of workers with different types of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
formation of a repertory company, and how character and temperament mattered quite as much as acting ability; just his problem, he said—he had to balance his types too, and their science or seamanship weighed little against the kind of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
Kyarisiima did a summer internship in a research lab where, she discovered, this sometimes solitary environment didn’t fit her personality. “I wanted more interaction with people, which is often lacking in purely science fields,” she... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
the single most important factor in the rapid proliferation of personal computers. Bricklin, who took a shine to computer programming while still in high school in the 1960s, earned an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and computer View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
only one to ask that question. At the time, Sean Hogan (MBA 1993), a VP in IBM’s health care unit, was tasked with finding the major trends in the health and life sciences sectors that could lead to billion-dollar businesses. “We saw an... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
maxed-out credit cards, Orbital Sciences Corporation launched in April 1982, the first corporate entrant at the prime contractor level in nearly three decades. (Today, the company—now Orbital ATK—is a $4.5 billion enterprise.) For NASA,... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 28 Jan 2016
- News
What Flint's Water Crisis Means For The Future of U.S. Cities
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
began with the Giants’ cross-bay rivals, the Oakland A’s. As a political science major at the University of California, Berkeley, Baer fed his passion for journalism and sports by serving as business manager and sports director of the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
1990. The science of harvesting, processing, and freezing stem cells was already known from bone-marrow transplants. "I remember thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great if every child born could have a small sample of cord-blood stem cells frozen... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
innovation become the norm. Research Methodology: The Aims, Practices and Ethics of Science by Peter Pruzan (MBA 1959) (Springer) This in-depth guide to effective scientific research explains at the outset what View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
encompasses housing, water, transportation, and environmental priorities. Aside from downtown Colombo, the plan proposes a business park adjacent to the airport as well as a ring of clustered mini cities around the capital, each with a different focus: agriculture,... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
Deane Falcone, an expert plant biologist from the University of Massachusetts, to start defining the science side. “I was trying to figure out the technology road mapping for an industry that didn’t have a road map and, in fact, wasn’t an... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
start up an unusually innovative venture. It was a "launch" truly deserving of that designation - a company that would rocket commercial payloads into space. Today, the firm they established, Orbital Sciences Corporation, having broadened... View Details
- 01 Jan 2017
- News
Sphere of Influence
Analisa Balares (MBA 2005) was born into a poor family, but her life path crossed different strata of Philippine society, from the ultra-wealthy to the urban poor. A student leader from the age of 13, she represented her high school at View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
science and health services from Harvard’s School of Public Health, even she couldn’t successfully navigate the health care system for her mom. It set her on a path of discovery that led to not only a better understanding of the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
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people,” she says. “They can go with us.” But getting there isn’t just a matter of getting the science right. If Dubinsky and Numenta want to start a revolution, it’s going to take some groundwork. And that’s top of mind: During a morning... View Details