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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
A Case For Fellowships
the point. Members of the class come from 68 countries, 13 percent of the class are the first in their families to graduate from college, 34 percent come from STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) backgrounds, 20...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Offshore Learning
you can catch and hold one of the briny little creatures in your own two hands. As president and CEO of the Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center in Boston, Arthur Pearson (MBA 1991) is working with Boston Public Schools to make...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Ready for Take-Off
WorldClinic, Inc., a "virtual ER," providing U.S.-quality health-care services to Americans traveling abroad. Cynthia A. Fisher (MBA '90) of ViaCell, Inc., which combines the banking of stem cells from umbilical cord blood with technology...
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- 27 Apr 2017
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Going with the Flow
enabled parents to store their newborn’s umbilical cord blood as a source of stem cells—was her first foray into entrepreneurship. Fisher’s father, however, was reminding her that good intentions need solid financial underpinnings to be...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships
because education provides the leverage to change people’s mindsets and enable them to be successful.” Cenat believes that business can be a catalyst for social change, and she is deeply grateful for the HBS financial aid that has set her...
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- 01 Dec 1997
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Banking on HBS
Senior Associate Dean of Executive Education W. Earl Sasser, Jr., who oversaw the formal development and implementation of EDP, calls it "the most ambitious customized executive education program the School...
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Garry Emmons
- 07 Sep 2016
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Appreciating the Big Role of Small Business
in the mode of the fabled Joe the Plumber. “The neglect of small businesses stems in part from the sense that they aren’t very dynamic—that in contrast with startups, they don’t really grow or change from year to year,” Nohria writes. At...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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Novartis AG Establishes Global Research Fund
to strengthen our global research capabilities. We are grateful to Novartis for supporting this significant goal." The gift, which funds a four-year program that will include additional fellows, stems from a decade-long relationship...
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Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
research. I’m interested in very focused and very early investing. What’s the next big thing in that area? Stem cell initiatives are going to produce interesting therapeutics. Good diagnostic and early detection, particularly of cancer,...
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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo
also heaped another thirty hours per week onto her schedule working in community activities. At HBS, for example, she was a representative and chair of the Education Committee, helping classmates and faculty maintain communication on a...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 09 Dec 2020
- News
How to Fix America
HBS alumni and a faculty member were among the respondents. Kwame Owusu-Kesse (MBA/MPP 2012), CEO of Harvard Children’s Zone, writing with the organization’s founder, Geoffrey Canada, suggested that, “[i]f we are going to break the cycle of poverty, we must reimagine...
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- 22 Apr 2008
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The Next Harvard Square? Really?
though — even visually-challenged individuals like me can see that by taking a stroll by the construction zone for the Harvard Allston Science Complex on Western Avenue, due for completion in just a few years and future home of the Harvard View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Code Breakers
recent decades, the number of women in tech jobs remains far lower. And the figures for women in leadership roles still hover around a far-from-equal 25 percent. Girls Who Code is on a mission to close the gender gap in STEM View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
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HBS Alumni On Leading Their Alma Mater
ultimate tech rep at the School. And it’s phenomenal in terms of all the transformations. But there is also a lot that has remained the same in terms of the student classroom experience and how we further the mission of the institution. What are the challenges for...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2008
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A U.S. Turnaround?
from fossil fuels to alternative sources of energy. We will need to finance research in technology innovation and biotechnology, including stem cell research. We will need to generate most of our electricity using nuclear fuel. We will...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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Up on the Green Roof
but living roofs aren’t a new idea. They’ve been used in Europe for hundreds of years and were common in 19th-century sod homes across the American prairie. The recent surge of interest in green roofs stems from a modern-day concern for...
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- 01 Oct 2021
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Tulsa Massacre Case Fosters Timely Conversations
case raises the question of how to address historic injustices. Ratajczak steered the conversation away from past harms to the Black community to current issues that stem from them. He wondered how payments could address modern inequities...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
them — were needed to stem internal bleeding caused by even mild stress on his joints. His blood-filled knees and ankles left Massie unable to walk and brought on “interminable nights when pain banished sleep,” he later wrote. His parents...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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An American Odyssey
it India/Pakistan, the Balkans, or the Middle East, there are ancestral grievances about economic injustice underneath that have not been recognized or analyzed properly. A lot of our conflicts globally stem from these kinds of historical...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Feedback
top 10 percent of all schools in NYC. The key to building a pipeline of women pursuing STEM careers is to start early. Through high-quality education and early exposure to science...we can transform the next...
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