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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Winter Break Just Got Educational
emphasis on business opportunities in the broad field of health sciences. Focusing on different medical specialties each day, the program featured preeminent Harvard scientists such as cancer researcher Dr. Judah Folkman and medical... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
company’s scientists and management team have shown “extraordinary commitment” to Cytokinetics. “Attrition is a constant challenge in biotech,” he observes. “The bar for continuity in management is pretty low—usually a few years. But the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
and we consulted with academics to examine the state of our democracy and what reforms will matter most. We have a data scientist on staff who combines public sources of data across different types of organizations, which in the political... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
classmate Hampus Hillerstrom (MBA 2007) conducted a field study at HBS on the pharmaceutical market potential of preclinical assets like his mother’s virus, Solomon had a revelation: His low-key mother, an accomplished scientist whose... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
Jensen chairs, Organizations and Markets. Each of the unit's five faculty members brings specific expertise to its mission - "to develop a modern theory of organizations and markets that is useful to both social scientists and managers."... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 07 Oct 2014
- News
Network Effect
True to the venture capitalist ideals of simplicity and thrift, the partners created a streamlined application process. Researchers submit three-page proposals and receive answers in a few weeks, rather than months or years. The process is liberating to View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
happiness and peace.' Then I realized that happiness and peace came from knowing that whatever problem is brought to me, I-or someone in the company-can solve it." Whether meeting with scientists in a research lab outside London or seeing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
societies toward what political scientists and development economists call extraction since they tend to concentrate wealth in the hands of a few. In an extractive state a few people are in charge and take most of the economic surplus as... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
wells. The people with whom he was working had come up with a process to take 90 percent of the oil out of the wastewater from an oil well, which can use millions of gallons of water. “While I was working on this, the lead scientist... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
possibility of creating plant-human hybrids. But when her fellow scientists start turning up dead, she’s both the natural leading suspect and the only person (or plant) who can crack the case. Esa Otra Orfandad by Gabriela Couturier (MBA... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
over environmental issues such as climate change? We’re a nonpartisan group. Our board is half Republican and half Democrat and includes scientists like Jared Diamond, business leaders like David Bonderman and Ed Bass, and civic leaders... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 26 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore
Conference Looks at Future of Hong Kong as a Global Leader The HBS Association of Hong Kong (HBSAHK) celebrated the club’s 45thanniversary in February, with its 2025 Signature Conference at Cloud 39, a rooftop ballroom at The Henderson skyscraper in central Hong Kong.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Stem Cell Man
Last year, Brock Reeve (MBA ’88) was named executive director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute to bring his managerial and diplomatic skills to bear on achieving organizational cohesion and help speed laboratory innovations to market. “Although not a View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Scientific Discovery
we now have the idea that this is possible, and companies around the world are working hard on it.” To help senior executives and scientists at life science companies and related health care organizations advance cutting-edge medicines,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
Electric and used a portion of the proceeds to establish the Sontag Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting brain cancer research and brain cancer patients and caregivers. The foundation’s signature initiative is its Distinguished View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
low-emissivity insulated glass, dynamic glass changes tint on demand — so you can “instruct” it to block or allow solar heat and light based on outside conditions. Mulpuri’s delight in this technology makes perfect sense. He’s a materials View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
companies, compares the benefits of studying the Valley to those that scientists gain when studying fruit flies. "There are very short life cycles in this area, so you can learn a lot in a short amount of time," says Datar, who is a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
Organizational Behavior. I have invited them to become co-travelers with me on this journey for the next eighty minutes. I have invited them into my “mad scientist lab.” And I need their focus and interest to be inside the classroom, with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
popularity of chef Wolfgang Puck. Technology as a Tool Advances in technology have changed museum operations, both internally and externally. Whether it's as simple as the software that helps organize collections or as complicated as live Web chats with View Details