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Harvard Business School (HBS) has named its 2025-26 Blavatnik Fellows and the program’s twelfth cohort. Launched in 2013, the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship is part of a gift to Harvard University from the Blavatnik Family Foundation. The Blavatnik Fellowship offers HBS alumni and Harvard-affiliated postdoctoral researchers the opportunity to advance new ventures around promising life science technologies and develop their leadership talents during a 12-month fellowship year. This unique opportunity allows fellows to work closely with leading biotech industry and biomedical authorities, receive programmatic guidance and mentorship, and join a community of entrepreneurs shaping the future of science.

The C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning (CCTL) opened its doors 20 years ago, with the mission to promote and support teaching excellence and innovation. "CCTL provides the insights, the best practices, the coaching, the consultation, the teaching material development, the design, in order to empower and equip each and every one of us faculty members, in order to give learners a transformative experience." (Professor Tsedal Neeley, CCTL faculty chair) We talked with the center’s director, Senior Lecturer Willis Emmons, about its history, how it’s evolved (and how it’s stayed the same), and what the future might hold.

What does a humble potato in a dark cellar have to do with finding satisfaction in your work? For Sasha Watkins, it’s an important metaphor for change and resilience. We talked with Sasha about her work supporting students, why she decided to work in the mental health field, how she finds balance, that potato metaphor, and more.