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- 04 Jun 2014
- What Do You Think?
Does Internet Technology Threaten Brand Loyalty?
some people will always need references such as brands. Others will be more adventurous, enjoying the search for new features. "At the core of human behaviour is human biology and that will not change because of information... View Details
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows
consultant at Deloitte. Ilana earned a BS in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from HBS. Hunter Goble (MBA 2022) is the co-founder and CEO of Transcera, a biotech startup harnessing the biology of sphingolipids to... View Details
- 24 Jul 2020
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
professor.” The students, in other words, identify their own educational gaps and seek ways to address them. “Do you need study halls? Do you need office hours with your math teacher because you’re struggling? Do you need time in biology... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
professor told me that physicists can work as engineers, but that engineers can never work as physicists," he recalls. That single conversation was the spark for a career at NASA. Earls' undergraduate work was followed by a master's in radiation View Details
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
Amyris Biotechnologies: Commercializing Biofuel Gary P. Pisano and Alison Berkley WagonfeldHarvard Business School Case 610-031 In 2009, Amyris Biotechnologies was building a plant in Brazil that used synthetic biology to convert... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
Counterfactual simulations of our structural model show large gains from screening potential hires via psychometric measurement and training to improve managerial practices. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55871 Advancing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
An Aerospace Engineer Provides a Lift for Underrepresented Innovators and Entrepreneurs
Try as she might, Toyin Shodiya (MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences 2022) was just not interested in biology. As a high school student living in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., her lack of interest in the subject did not go unnoticed by her AP View Details
- 07 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience
talent and career pathways in the tech industry. I’m a “non-traditional” software engineer with a molecular biology degree, and I believe that it is our capabilities, not our credentials, that should define our career opportunities. By... View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
program had two origins: Princeton engineering lecturer James Shinn (MBA 1981) and biotech entrepreneur Gregory Stock (MBA 1987), the brother of one of Amadio’s biology professors. “They impressed upon me how interesting it would be to... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
causing disparate industries to merge, compete, and change in ways that are still unclear. Business models and business practice will also be affected. As with the example of energy-producing bacteria, the entire basis of the industrial economy will shift, with View Details
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
underdeveloped support infrastructure. As the managing director of the Office of Technology Transfer at the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, he works with researchers at the forefront of biology and biotech, yet he faces... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
Experiment in Computational Biology By: Boudreau, Kevin J., and Karim Lakhani Abstract—Most of society's innovation systems―academic science, the patent system, open source, etc.―are "open" in the sense that they are designed to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
Drives Biology by W. David Lee (AMP 108, 1991), with Jeffrey Drazen, Phillip A. Sharp, and Robert S. Langer (MIT Press) Investigating a series of major biological discoveries that range from pasteurization to electron microscopy, Lee... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
high school years, but I had put it off twice to pursue other career options. I realized then that medicine required the same skill sets, and it also represented a return to service—a very personal form of service.” Cooper took a job as a research assistant in a... View Details
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
pharmaceuticals, new learning in biology culminating in the coming of a new science has created a medical revolution that should continue well into the twenty-first century. View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
fellowship when someone forwarded an email to him about the program. He knew right away that SPNM had what he wanted. "It sounded great. I was a biology major, and I didn't have any formal training in how to run a nonprofit," Marriner... View Details
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
blend the two models? Paper: http://hbr.org/2013/03/do-you-really-want-to-be-an-ebay/ar/1 Prize-based Contests Can Provide Solutions to Computational Biology Problems Authors:Lakhani, Karim R., Kevin J. Boudreau, Eva C. Guinan, Carliss Y.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
14, when her dad, looking for a career change, became a college professor. Brooks aspired to be a doctor with an international practice, with the goal of combining her love of biology with her desire to see the world. While studying at... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
debate, Cohen notes, is the fact that “through the use of research into embryonic stem-cell lines, we could make great strides in our ability to understand the biology and etiology of disease. Important research into how disease happens... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
Cell Biology at Harvard. Sato oversees the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Sciences Entrepreneurship, which provides a select group of HBS MBA alumni the opportunity to work with top Harvard inventors. The goal: To promote the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel