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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... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Merck’s Gilmartin on Vaccines, Global Health
that policymakers concerned with global public health must pay “dramatically greater” attention to vaccine-related issues. He pointed out that 3 million children worldwide die each year from diseases for which vaccines already exist. Even... View Details
- 23 Aug 2020
- News
In the UK, She Leads the Search for a COVID Vaccine
Kate Bingham (MBA 1991) Kate Bingham (MBA 1991) When she was asked to chair the UK’s Vaccine Taskforce back in May, Kate Bingham (MBA 1991) paused. Despite nearly three decades of experience as a life sciences investor with SV Health Investors, the enormity of leading... View Details
- 12 Aug 2015
- News
The Organizational Apology
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Imposter Among Us
phenomenon in a 1978 scientific journal article, in which they described the specific and unfounded fear of being discovered as a fraud. Their research focused on professional women who were successful by every external standard in their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
license or death certificate. “It’s a sense of euphoria,” he says. The internet era of the genealogy industry began in 1996, when Ancestry.com was launched by two graduates of Brigham Young University who had previously produced Church of Latter-day Saints View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
response to it, particularly in the developed economies, fits this description. Environmentalism, as we have known it since the 1960s, has been grounded in the physical sciences, law, economics, and public policy. Advocates for strong... View Details
- 03 Nov 2023
- News
Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum
Leadership Forum The panelists shared leadership challenges and successes around ESG, innovative public policies and “climate budgeting,” and the need for large investments to quickly scale up the renewables infrastructure, which... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
scientific advancement, team-building, and international cooperation. And the goal had never been a world record for one man. “We want to open the door for future exploration by science and business,” Vescovo later explained.... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- News
Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
Harvard students, equip scientific startups with the lab resources and programming needed to grow and scale life science ventures, and generate insights and expertise about what it will take for Harvard to continue to build a successful... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
million doses produced annually to combat the flu. It needs billions of doses, in every country. So while the public waits anxiously for updates on clinical trials, those behind the scenes are focused on more mundane but equally vital... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
on standardized tests can be found here. Zoë Cullen studies the design of labor markets and the choices of employers and labor platforms that affect matters of public interest, such as pay transparency, pay inequality, and... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Examining Climate Change From a Business Perspective
with Amram Migdal (a former research associate) and Mike Lynch (MBA 2017) for the Business, Government, and the International Economy class to help students explore the impact of policymaking on business around climate change. The case offers background on the decades... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
that had huge societal benefits. This sets up a theoretical framework for examining today’s norms. Right now in the marketplace, the lines between open science, public knowledge, and proprietary knowledge and research are becoming... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The End of Cows?
today: It may have unpredictable economic outcomes, but that shouldn’t mean we reject innovation. “We need to be aware from a public policy perspective what all the ramifications are going to be for the economy,” he says, “but at a basic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
headlines this year for releasing its research on a subscription-only basis, a stance that has caused some consternation in the scientific community. Thanks to large investments in automated gene-sequencing machines - and, it might be... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 22 Jul 2014
- News
Hungry for Change
technical solution or a cure for something that isn't scientifically possible or known," says Zeaske. "We have a resource scarcity and distribution problem, not a production problem." That last point is particularly true in agriculturally... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
started two years ago in the HBS class Commercializing Science—a course open to students from across the University—which pairs scientific research teams with students looking to help them pursue a market for their discoveries. One of the... View Details