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- 28 Feb 2020
- News
Filling the White Space
companies involved in research into psychedelic compounds for medical use. (Compass has been granted a US patent that covers a method of obtaining psilocybin to treat drug-resistant depression; the treatment is in a phase IIb clinical... View Details
William T. Kerr
Kerr expanded Meredith Corporation by focusing on its core business and directly managing its financial performance. Over the last few years, the company compounded its earnings per share at 33% per year and tripled its profit margin to... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- Profile
Arjun Goyal
and business responsibilities, including the review of scientific literature and therapeutic guidelines, the analysis of compound licensing opportunities, the structuring of efficient clinical trials, and the creation of viable financial... View Details
- 23 Mar 2016
- News
Curing Parkinson’s Disease
properties of a virus known as M13—properties first recognized by Solomon’s mother, a leading Alzheimer’s researcher—and produce a medication to treat diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimers’s. As Solomon tells Palreman: “A single View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
handle the rockier, less sandy soils of Wisconsin—yet has to fit under the 8-foot-high shade cloth that ginseng depends on. “We’ve started using a lot more technology to reduce the dependence on farm labor,” Hsu says, “but you can only do so much.” View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM EST, 11 Jan 2017
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided
Five years of research from Harvard Business School's US Competitiveness Project, as well as the findings from the 2016 surveys on US competitiveness, present a sobering picture of the deep structural challenges facing the United States. The US needs a national... View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
Millennium. Thomas Honohan "When it comes to choosing a compound to take into development, for example, we have scientific and technical criteria which we approved ahead of time which we use to make that decision," Honohan... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
anyone in business and sales. The book ends with a series of analytical exercises to illuminate basic principles on which readers can base business plans. The Power Curve: Smart Investing Using Dividends, Options, and the Magic of View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Terrorism, Insurance, and Uncle Sam
that historically, federal disaster policy has not produced effective risk monitoring sufficient to curtail the kind of risky behaviors (such as reckless building) that compound losses when natural disasters strike. With that in mind, he... View Details
- 19 Oct 2011
- News
A Good Look
appearance of healthy-looking skin.” Rosemary is the source of a natural antirancidity agent. “In a synthetic form, the chemical compound butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) would perform the same function,” Levy notes, “but many consumers... View Details
- 15 Apr 2020
- News
Money Matters
financial concepts into cocktail-napkin-sized explanations. In her suggestions to the Times, Hay pointed to the importance of understanding the power of compound interest; monitoring your credit, which can give you financial flexibility... View Details
- 21 Aug 2019
- News
Analyzing Homelessness
If business leaders want to solve societal problems, Randy Shumway (MBA 2000) suggests, “Find an issue that inspires you. Your impact will compound from there.” For Shumway, that issue is homelessness. Shumway is founder and chairman of... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
US Competitiveness Report Sees ‘A Nation Divided’
Porter and Rivkin. “The weak economic recovery we now see is due to long-term structural issues, which are further compounded by political paralysis.” The report draws attention to the choices facing the nation in order to rebuild a... View Details
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
weekly Tupper Lake Free Press about an idea for a regional nature museum in the heart of his beloved Adirondack Mountains, he picked up the phone. Clifford, who still goes by his childhood nickname “Obie” when he’s in Upstate New York, spent his boyhood summers at a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 27 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud
two years to think about what I want to do. To know what’s possible, to know what I didn’t know. I wanted to make my next career decision based on knowledge and experience.” Noa’s explorations were compounded by another important... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
have been increasingly demanding a bachelor’s degree for jobs that didn’t traditionally require one. Since only a third of the US population has a bachelor’s degree, the pool of candidates for those positions is limited. Compounding the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
HBS Records an “Excellent” Year
$2.8 billion on June 30, 2007, contributed $7 million to revenue growth. The market value of the HBS endowment and current use funds has grown at a compound annual rate of 16.1 percent for the past five years. For the first time in the... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Ray A. Goldberg (MBA '50)
with living things or organic compounds will have a common language and, in turn, a common business," he asserts in "Transforming Life, Transforming Business: The Life-Science Revolution," a McKinsey Award-winning article he coauthored in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
To Market, to Market
chirality) of drug molecules with a high degree of accuracy for drug development and diagnostic applications. Chemical compounds excreted by predators that stimulate avoidance behavior in disease-carrying rodents, to be formulated as a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
recognizing this, BMW Group several years ago began issuing a Sustainable Value Report detailing the energy and water consumed, waste removed, and volatile organic compounds per vehicle produced. BMW believes that its reputation as the... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles