science - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Feb 2022
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The Well-Healed Athlete

careers and team chances of winning championships. The aches, pains, and strains that these professionals endure are also a personal concern for weekend warriors and anyone who works in physically demanding environments: “We are all athletes,” Wu Tsai explains. Yet the... View Details

Keywords: April White; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

01 Jun 1996
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New Releases

of both. In their new book, HBS associate professor Adam Brandenburger and Professor Barry Nalebuff of the Yale School of Management develop a five-part business strategy based on this concept. Drawing from the science of game theory, the... View Details

01 Jun 2016
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Making It Possible to Explore and Grow

doctorate, I started out as a biologist with an interest in biofuels,” he says. “Then I began working half-time on the science and half-time on business development. I discovered that building the narrative around the company’s products... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building

options; as a result, about 20 percent of his work force became millionaires when the company went public. "We shared the profits with everyone and gave those staying on an excellent opportunity," Hawes proudly noted. Hawes, who grew up in Marsing, Idaho, earned his BA... View Details

04 Nov 2014
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Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years

engaged in graduate and postgraduate work within all of the University’s schools, with about 40 percent of funds disbursed to students enrolled in science programs. The Fundación also funds a full scholarship in memory of late board... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

technology to become available for laboratory use. He calls for new approaches to research and funding to encourage a tighter, more collaborative coupling of engineering and biology. Only then, he argues, will we see the rapid advances in the life View Details

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

trying to show there’s always something we can do to make a difference.” APRIL 20 TIBCO Software CEO Dan Streetman (MBA 2000) is working with global organizations to provide real-time visual analytics and data science solutions to gain... View Details

03 Oct 2019
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Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns

do or invent everything ourselves, or what’s invented elsewhere is not as good. You also want the person writing the IP to not be all about their invention but really look at all the third-party science in a very matter-of-fact kind of... View Details

Keywords: Space Research and Technology; Government

05 Mar 2025
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Uncertain Terms

for us. There is so much we can and need to do without big data, without machine learning. So much cutting-edge science can be commercialized without Large Language Models. So many low-tech processes can be improved without AI. Businesses... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire

book titled Ironclaw (the radio call sign of his carrier squadron). He completed the nonfiction account in 1995 during the last year of a final tour of duty in Washington, D.C., that included positions with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the White House Office of View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

01 Dec 2020
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Quantum Leap

time. They spun Aliro out of Harvard’s Quantum Information Science Lab, then incubated it at the Harvard i-lab. Ricotta came on board in 2019. A seasoned tech CEO, he had already launched a number of startups into emerging networking... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2017
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Global Perspectives

critical links in many global supply chains, particularly on the upstream supply end, so the group of 12 HBS faculty members and a colleague from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences visited companies... View Details

23 May 2018
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John A. Paulson, MBA 1980

history to the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). “SEAS is an integral part of the future of Harvard. I think the value creation that will come out of Harvard will be a thousand times what I gave,” says Paulson, for whom... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

20 Apr 2016
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Steps to Success

of the villages have seen slow progress, and one dropped out entirely, but Ruhr focuses on what CREATE! is building, which includes a workforce trained in computer science and agriculture that can now use QuickBooks for accounting. “We... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

19 Jan 2016
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Electric Avenues

day out of the Pacific and into San Diego County’s water system—good for about 8 percent of the county’s total water supply. Advances in material tech and science have driven desalination’s once-astronomical prices down, says Poseidon’s... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Jun 2010
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MBAs on a Mission

Science Museum: “We’re changing the cultural landscape of an entire city.” The Hub in the Heart of Texas The success of any large-scale project usually comes down to the effective management of hundreds and hundreds of small, pressing... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach;Deborah Blagg;Julia Hanna; Corporate Services; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

02 Apr 2014
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Disrupting the Criminal Supply Chain

science and engineering. But those paths never felt like quite the right fit. "Since high school, I had done volunteer work with homeless kids and vulnerable children and domestic violence victims," she says. "Somehow, that really spoke... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; human trafficking; Government; National Security and International Affairs; Government

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

organizations face in designing and implementing effective digital platforms that support a range of functions and stakeholders. “We talked about what it really means to transition to digital operations,” says Carrolo, the General Manager of IBM's Global Healthcare and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

28 Mar 2018
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Fueling the Future

biology, and chemistry. But it was an introductory geology course captivated her. “Building bridges, building roads, finding oil––so many practical things are related to geology. I knew this is a science I can use to make and build... View Details