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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Scientific Discovery
Amitabh Chandra, Henry and Allison McCance Professor of Business Administration at HBS and Ethel Zimmerman Wiener Professor of Public Policy and Director of Health Policy Research at HKS (photo by Susan Young) A key challenge in the life sciences is that the arc of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 11 Jun 2018
- News
How science can bring about a eureka moment for Indian startups
- 15 Mar 2019
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Targeting cancer and careers: Precision Medicine
- 01 Jun 2024
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Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
- 31 May 2023
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
with the near-impossible job of drug discovery and development.” Back to top Depelsha Thomas McGruder (MBA 1998) COO and Treasurer, Ford Foundation Founder, Moms of Black Boys United In my solitude: “I was... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
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Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
biotech companies—as a function of cost, time, and failure modes—tend to risk pivot on one program, one clinical trial, one outcome,” he observes. “Our company is the leader in mining muscle biology for drug View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
To Market, to Market
which depends on the merging of breakthrough scientific ideas and great business leadership," said Dean Nitin Nohria. By focusing on technologies that have great potential to impact human lives and by enabling business leaders to take these View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
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Floor It
so that we can help get clinical trials done and move the pace of discovery even quicker.” How do they expect to get there? Here, a look at the accelerator’s model, which comprises four work streams, each inspecting a different part of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
affiliate in Plainsboro, New Jersey. That all changed when its breakthrough drug for type 2 diabetes, Ozempic, hit the market in 2018. By some biochemical mystery, it also turned out to be a powerful tool for weight loss—which led to the... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
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Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
investment in math and physical sciences. Moving on to challenges Merck has faced, Gilmartin explained that new drug discovery tools have increased the speed at which its competitors can introduce new... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
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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 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
higher efficacy rate — 80 percent or more. Is 80 percent efficacy unusual for drugs currently on the market? Across all patients and diseases, drug efficacy averages 50 percent, so half the time they bring... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
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The Business of Biotech
which a drug is interacting, we can predict the basis for toxicity as well as efficacy," says Alan Crane of Millennium. "With the whole genome known, the process of drug View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
is progressing daily. You can't settle for the typical schedule of drug discovery and development. So forget the drug companies. We'll form our own. “Well, you can't just tell... View Details
- 14 Apr 2014
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The Puzzle of Life
capitalize companies that may not make sense for venture funds but do make sense for smart angels who have more patience than most VCs." Among those companies: Rani Therapeutics, an early-stage venture focused on making injectable biological View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
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How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
targeted approach gives Bennet hope that Harmoni can benefit not only people suffering from movement disorders, but also a whole class of psychiatric patients who, until now, had few options beyond prescription drugs to help lessen the... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 19 Aug 2024
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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 Jun 2008
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A Binary Formula
engine of its economy,” says HBS professor Kent Bowen, organizer of the colloquium. “One way to do that is through science and technology, but we need to know how to get those discoveries into the economy.” To achieve that goal, Bowen and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
and asked each of the 177 team members to complete a brief electronic diary every day during the course of a creative project. “We wanted to observe creativity as it was happening within teams that are supposed to be doing creative work,” explained Amabile. One of the... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015
low-key mother, an accomplished scientist whose discoveries had been licensed in a multimillion-dollar deal, was on to something big. After a second field study, Solomon and Hillerstrom launched NeuroPhage. In tests on mice, the View Details