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...Douglas Melton, and another on markets and morals. “The book tries to argue for the moral limits of markets in certain spheres of life,” he wrote in an e-mail. “Examples range from organs for transplantation to mercenary armies to for-profit prisons, schools, and hospitals.” Sandel plans to incorporate those themes into a new course he will be instructing upon his return. Williams, Jr. Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Doris Sommer will be dedicating much of her time to Cultural Agents, an interfaculty initiative at Harvard...
...will not [lose focus] of the primary goal: to alleviate the number one source of health problems and disease on this planet, which is water-borne pathogens... it may be that the fastest way to do that isn't through a non-profit, but to do a for-profit piece and then double-use the knowledge, the technology and the tooling. If we need to do that, and it speeds things up, not slows them down, we'll do that...
...treatment, an intervention that will slow the disease,” Brown said. “Obviously the real hope is a cure. Whether that is possible, I don’t know.”This summer, Kremer will be working on the launch of Avi Therapeutics, a for-profit biotech company that will try to commercialize academic research in the ALS field, according to Kremer. With these two companies, Kremer said he will continue to fight. “I want to save every ALS patient who lives today,” he said.LIVING AND LAUGHINGKremer has devoted...
...comparison to chief executives at for-profit firms with revenues comparable to Harvard’s, Summers was paid a pittance...
...University reported total revenues of $4.994 billion last year. If Harvard were a for-profit firm, it would place 430th on the Fortune 500 list of largest companies, seven spots behind RadioShack and 13 spots ahead of Hershey...