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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
dollars. All told, the process takes about 10 to 15 years. "I think we're all frustrated, we're all disappointed," explains PhRMA's EVP of scientific and regulatory affairs Bill Chin, former executive dean for View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
navigate life’s most difficult situations. The book is filled with stories of people facing a range of challenges, from going on job interviews to asking someone out; scientific research on how our bodies... View Details
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
stimulates the body’s circadian rhythms, cuing the production of cortisol during the day to keep you alert and melatonin at night to ready your body for rest. “It’s based on about 15 years of scientific View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
For her innovative research and outspoken advocacy of US health-care reform, Professor Regina Herzlinger is known in some media circles as "the godmother of consumer-driven health care." At HBS, she holds the distinction of being the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
presents up-to-date scientific research findings that explain why we have unwanted habits (for example, inappropriate angry outbursts, procrastination, breaking a diet, or abandoning an exercise program) and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
creating the right conditions for manufacturing to thrive. Actions it should take include the following: Funding basic and applied scientific research in advanced manufacturing technologies. Supporting... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Engine Co., on his personal acquaintance with Miller, interviews with more than 80 people who knew Miller, and extensive research in the Irwin-Sweeney-Miller Collection of his papers in the Indiana Historical Society. Breaking out of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
professional French-horn player, Brooks came to the subject of happiness by way of art. His early research focused on why people produce and consume art and beauty as well as the motives behind human generosity. He discovered that... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
inspiration from Margaret J. Wheatley’s Leadership and the New Science, a challenging scientific examination of change, leadership, and the structure of groups. Ross’ penchant for eclectic reading fortuitously led her to a new way of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
and AIDS. Those working in the biotech trenches, however, point out that the real work has only just begun. Dr. Robert Tepper, chief scientific officer for Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., put it this way in a Business Week interview:... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Ho Woon World Scientific Publishing Over sessions that lasted two to three hours each, every week for half a year, George Yeo met and mused over a wide range of topics with writer Woon Tai Ho and research... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
If you are one of the 17 million people who participated in the Ice Bucket Challenge a couple of summers ago, the money you helped raise to support ALS research may be at work today in a late-stage biopharmaceutical company headed by... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
withering critiques at business schools in recent years. Warren Bennis at USC’s Marshall School of Business argues that they are “institutionalizing their own irrelevance” by becoming too focused on scientific View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
Lim (AMP 160, 2001) World Scientific Publishing Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you would be breaching a law or policy if you help a person in need? Do you stand aside when someone needs assistance, thinking you have no... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
patients than any other hospital in the state—to bend without breaking under the pressure of the pandemic. Professor Robert Huckman is an economist and health care researcher who serves as unit head for Technology and Operations... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
dioxide from the air or from emission stacks. But there are very few people trying to figure out how to actually use renewable energy to convert carbon dioxide into the products that we need and want and use all over the world. DM: That's how Brix ended up reading all... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
forwarded the business plan. “By the end of 2013, we reached the point where I confronted either writing it off and writing off my friend and benefactor’s money—or I was going to pull the nose up.” Lo stepped in as CEO in July 2014. She built out the team, including... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
Confederacy Nineteen ninety-six was only a few days old when the New York Times ran the headline "'95 the Hottest Year on Record." The story discussed mounting scientific evidence of global warming, a potentially catastrophic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details