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- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
SFP raises funds from individuals, foundations, and endowments to achieve its goals. The huge demand for organic goods such as corn, oats, and alfalfa, and the higher prices they command than traditionally grown crops, creates a dramatic... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
analytics model the ways that different variables interact: the number of seeds planted per acre, the amount of nitrogen added to the soil, the crop rotation, and rainfall and tillage practices, among others. With a large enough data set,... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Gleason (MBA '97) is finding a way to make both a profit and a difference. Last fall, as a part of HBS associate professor Marco Iansiti's Managing Product Development course, Gleason created a model for a company that would employ... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
LSP core team. Explains Pisano, “The purpose of this initiative is to create some mechanisms for collaboration and integration across disciplines and among faculty, as well as to connect with outside constituencies.” In this way, the LSP, which is View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
provide the tools and services that will help older adults live longer, healthier lives. Investing in Experience Abby Miller Levy was motivated to start a venture fund in the older-adult sector after discovering a dearth of options for... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
goes to education—about $800 million. Business people are also allocating a lot of private philanthropy money. JOSEPH FULLER Professor of Management Practice and Co-chair of HBS’s Managing the Future of Work project The funding mechanisms... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
away from you quickly. In the early days of WAVE, with a fairly small team, it was easy for me to model the expected behavior. But as we started to scale up, and our original culture ambassadors became the minority to the new hires, we... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
1997; since that time, it has overseen six funds totaling more than $1.1 billion. With the coronavirus pandemic and travel restrictions continuing to batter the industry, Depatie takes a clear-eyed look at what the future might hold for a... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
Moderna could create a vaccine for clinical testing in just 60 days. That was three times faster than any vaccine candidate had ever been produced. Fauci didn't believe him. An idea emerged to test Bancel’s record-breaking claims: a mock pandemic. The NIH would provide... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
A Student Plan Goes to Washington
charter the CGC, while funding would come predominantly from public investors. To launch the college, the proposal seeks a congressional mandate to require companies receiving federal TARP bailout money to allocate three board seats to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
was an engineer with John Deere and her mother a busy volunteer and housewife. In high school, in addition to music, dance, and swimming, she explored international issues in debate club and participated in Model UN, an interest she... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
satisfaction of applying their learning to a problem about which they care a great deal." Funded by the School principally through generous alumni gifts and supplementing what employer organizations can pay, fellowships enable students to... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
like realistically modeling molecules for more efficient drug discovery and material design. The equipment that SEEQC—short for Scalable Energy Efficient Quantum Computing—and pronounced “seek”—is using to achieve this computational dream... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
eight years below the national average.) But with its manifold offerings and programs, all of which feed one another in ways both obvious and subtle, the school is a model for a radically diverse approach to economic development that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
ROLE MODELS: Baltimore principal Cindy Harcum says PELP's strength is helping participants consider the application of business models while understanding the unique challenges of their field. A grizzled Baltimore cabbie does a double... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
land, as well as a $240 million fund to help them build sustainable economies. Among the powerful lessons for others, Eamer says, hope might be the most immediate. “It’s difficult to understand how to work your way through to a solution.... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
strengthens the value of the HBS learning model for all our students," he notes. Other faculty members agree that diverse classes form the cornerstone of excellent courses. "Diversity of all kinds is the basis upon which dynamic case... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
centers profitable more quickly. — Bob Poulin (MBA 1985) The premium in the hourly rates is well deserved, but you are giving too much value away by not covering fixed/setup costs. I believe the source of funds to finance the expansion is... View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
“Billions of dollars in research funding is pouring into the space. We have tools that are unprecedented in their power, their ease of use, their accessibility, and their cost. The number of neuroscience articles published in academic... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
who can really afford credits [to offset emissions] are funds like Frontier and the Microsofts of the world—organizations that want to encourage growth and development. But costs will naturally come down over time, the way most industrial... View Details