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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
through an innovation-killing “peer review” process. The history of medicine is filled with shameful stories of “peers” who used their powers to suppress innovations: Judah Folkman, the brilliant scientist whose antiangiogenesis theory... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Ink
present tangible ways in which it can do so (and why).” What I’m Reading “A brilliant materials scientist takes us through the remarkable histories and properties of the world around us, from self-healing concrete to the molecular... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology, was a research model built for a different era. When groups like AT&T’s Bell Labs and Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) were formed, academic scientists had little... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
of living that the developed world takes for granted. The panelists agreed that the world is warming faster than scientists anticipated even a few years ago and that, for investors, a changing climate offers many opportunities. These... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Preparing Leaders to Leverage Artificial Intelligence
Lakhani, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration. He co-wrote the forthcoming book, Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World. Lakhani believes HBS has an important role to play in this... View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- News
Breath of Life
scientist by training. I also like business, and combining the two in a career is great. If you can do that and save lives, it’s a pretty fulfilling way to earn a living.” 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
- 08 Apr 2021
- News
Real Talk
storytelling and narrative to help employees in their organizations work across—and value—their differences to create stronger professional relationships and organizational cultures. The Equitas founders also turned to the findings of Joshua Kalla and David Broockman,... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
Back before Ozempic, when Kate Mulroney (MBA 1984) spoke at technical conferences about her work at Novo Nordisk, people often assumed she was talking about Novartis. “I’d have to explain that’s a Swiss company; we’re Danish,” says Mulroney, now head of advanced... View Details
- 22 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Summit Explores Leadership for a Sustainable Future
Delmotte, a senior scientist at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), “very clearly set the stakes” of climate impacts, while Pierre Vandier, head of the French Navy, provided a “crisp and insightful view” on the new... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 23 Sep 2021
- News
Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies
often in a shorter time frame,” says Rogers. The program seeks to work with clients offering types of work that allow employees to thrive, which is critical for turning around a community. The program takes inspiration from the values of View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 21 Oct 2020
- News
Cold Calculations
cause of it. Thick, old ice reflects 80 percent of solar radiation, helping to keep the planet cool. Brittle, newly formed ice is only half as effective and melts more easily. And open water reflects only 5 percent of the solar radiation warming the planet. View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 Nov 2018
- News
New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change
scientists anticipated even a few years ago. “For investors, a changing climate offers many opportunities in technologies to mitigate warming, such as batteries, wind, solar, electric vehicles, and plant-based proteins,” she says.... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
it means for them. It is particularly hard in the U.S. because the topic has become unnecessarily controversial and polarizing. This is a massive communications failure; there’s a massive gap between what scientists know and public... View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
Making Lives Better
motivated. You have to understand how and why people are motivated so that you, as a leader, can help them do their best work," she says. The lesson has translated profoundly at the research-focused AFS, where Tepper Singer manages a large, diverse group of... 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
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
allocates money to researchers whose proposals are reviewed by a panel of scientists knowledgeable in the field. A typical grant proposal is 25 single-spaced pages and takes months to prepare. The NIH responds in approximately nine... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Stiletto Science
Amalfi brand. “I’ve run a rocket company, I’ve built transatlantic fiber cable,” said Hughes. “But if I go to a cocktail party and say, ‘Oh, I’m a CEO of a rocket company,’ after all the rocket scientist jokes are done, there’s not much... View Details