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...quarrel is not with Harvard University the institution. It’s a great place and many a brilliant mind have passed through its hallowed halls,” Carlson says. “Our concern is with the Harvard Office of Planning and Real Estate, a for-profit corporation with a huge portfolio that has been wanting to build in Riverside...
Like so many other entrepreneurial tales, the story of the Outdoor Channel starts in a garage--this one at the Post Falls, Idaho, home of George and Wilma Massie. Avid weekend gold panners, the Massies launched a for-profit gold-prospecting club in 1968. They moved their business in 1976 to California, where George won a little fame four years later when he found a million-dollar pocket of nuggets in the Mother Lode area. In the late 1980s their son Tom, now 37, began filming George's gold-hunting expeditions and lectures--footage that the Massies turned into...
Twenty years ago, when most current undergraduates were still spitting up their mother’s milk (then still-uncontaminated by transgenic proteins) the relationship of the University to for-profit biotechnology companies was the subject of somber faculty meetings and cautious pronouncements by former University President Derek C. Bok. Although the relationship between the faculty and the biotech industry is less strained than it once was, the problems of actually building companies has not gone away—and those problems illustrate why Summers’ comparison to the electronics industry that grew up around Stanford University...
...biotech industry in California, has seen collaborations with companies for research drop by nearly half from 2000. Such stark figures should give Summers pause before he starts intertwining Harvard research with the work of biotech companies. Indeed, Harvard has always been hesitant to associate itself too closely with for-profit companies. Cambridge-based Vertex Phamaceuticals, which includes former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles on its scientific advisory board, tried to name itself “Veritas” when it was founded in 1989. Knowles, however, interceded and convinced the company...
...Angeles clinic wants to bring that hope one step closer to reality by opening the first for-profit egg-freezing operation in the country. "It's like an insurance policy," says Dr. Thomas Kim, medical director of the CHA Fertility Center, which wants to start freezing the eggs of women ages 35 and younger beginning this fall for about $8,000. "If they are willing to do it, we are happy to give them the service...