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...total, Harvard invested about $50 million in Harken and made a small profit off the investment, he says...
Harvard’s own culture is partly to blame. Compared to MIT, which is often cast as enthusiastically embracing an entrepreneurial view of science, Harvard has a reputation of being “above” turning research into profit. (Harvard generally gets only a portion of the profit from technologies it licenses to companies.) At the workshop, Hyman said he and Summers (who was not present) wanted to fight the perception that “Harvard is grudging about all of this” compared to other universities and has moved slowly to make it possible...
Kegs are financially more efficient for the cash-strapped student. They also have a similar profit margin to cases of beer for businesses like Blanchard’s, and since kegs are re-usable, they allow the store to keep costs down...
Additionally, favorable national attention helped establish Philadelphia’s image as an economically vibrant comeback city. Boston stands to profit similarly: the Big Dig will be well on its way to completion, and the Hub of the Universe will be able to display its rich culture heritage and position itself as a cutting-edge, 21st-century city...
HCNR is a non-profit organization that supports research of diseases that impair normal brain function, like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Multiple Sclerosis...