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- 15 Jan 2018
- News
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
an effective biomarker—a kind of test that could measure the progression of ALS over a short period of time—did not yet exist. Without it, drug trials relied on longer, more costly observations of disease progression. Next, collaboration... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Pedal Mettle
player who was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease in 1995, Berté saw the cancer return six months after she completed her initial treatment. She then enrolled in a clinical trial including chemotherapy, radiation, View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Bringing a new funding model to the life sciences industry
technique to treat brain aneurysms, and Spinal Modulation, a company with a new technique for blocking chronic pain. "In my lifetime, we will apply those insights in ways that will positively impact tens of millions of people," says... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
School’s 100th MBA Class Graduates
trial and error; entrepreneurs are those who can turn unavoidable setbacks into advantages.” Third, he concluded, “Principles often have a cost, but it’s always a bargain in the end” because principled... View Details
Keywords: Graduation
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Agenda: Amanda E/J Morrison (MBA 2014)
RIPPLE EFFECT “A woman gets a period around age 12 to 14, and then we tell her to go off in the world and not get pregnant.” “A woman gets a period around age 12 to 14, and then we tell her to go off in the world and not get pregnant.” For 15 years, the morning-after... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
proteins were created inside the human body. The company launched its first vaccine trial for a strain of avian influenza in 2015. If developing vaccines for widespread and endemic diseases has long been... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
learn (or review) and then points to what the student should next master to proceed most efficiently to his or her knowledge goal. FAST FACT: Knewton was named a 2011 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. DATA POINT: In a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
time to consider the devastating implications of this chaotic funding environment. And to do that, one needs to understand how a modern research lab operates. A typical lab has twenty to forty people, led by a senior researcher (the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
meetings. Thousands of people have participated. And there have been a number of court cases. The judges who have reviewed the evidence have all essentially come to the same conclusion: The new runway is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
people die as a result. And yet, there are only 42 antibiotics currently in clinical development, and typically only 20 percent of infectious disease drugs that enter phase 1 clinical View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Time to Vote in University Elections
magna cum laude, JD '76 cum laude. U.S. District Court Judge. Boston, MA. Steven A. Schroeder, MD '64 cum laude; BA '60, Stanford University. President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Princeton, NJ.... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)
some $3 billion. Born in Ireland in 1932, Dunphy studied law at Oxford University, but he discovered an intriguing career alternative when students visiting from Harvard Law School mentioned HBS during a moot court exercise. Dunphy... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
Crimson Greetings simulation, for example, made use of Shad's squash and racquetball courts and a huge basement room equipped with vast tents) was like "solving one of those... View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
- News
HBS Alumna Now Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator’s Codirector
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Turning Point: One Story at a Time
those efforts when India’s Supreme Court decriminalized homosexuality. It was an amazing 493-page judgment that will make it possible to push for additional rights, even if achieving them will take a while. But I’m hopeful. Change happens... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
in on a treatment for age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness. In October 2009 the company entered into licensing and purchase option agreements with Alcon, which is now taking Potentia’s drug candidate through... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
Mariner (MBA '78), CFO of the 1997 World Series champion Florida Marlins, traces baseball's major turning point to the mid-1970s when several players, supported by a Supreme Court ruling, established their legal claim to "free agency"... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
enacted a number of intellectual property laws and set up a criminal court to prosecute violators, violations are difficult to police, especially when local governments openly support businesses that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
On Track
trials forced her to put those aspirations aside. The drive that led her to excel in athletics had to be rechanneled into the private sector, a life change that brought her to HBS and eventually to the top... View Details
Keywords: Finance