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HBS has announced a new cohort of Executive Fellows for the 2025 spring semester.

Three research teams have been selected as recipients of the 2024 Blavatnik Therapeutics Challenge Awards, an annual awards program that aims to progress promising discovery science at Harvard Medical School toward the creation of new medicines that could be life-changing for patients. Get more HMS news Open to all faculty at the rank of assistant, associate, and full professor at HMS, its affiliated institutions, and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, the awards provide critical funding to researchers who’ve made fundamental discoveries with the potential for becoming powerful clinical...

One of the oldest Black-owned security firms in the United States, Johnson Security Bureau, provided mainly unarmed guards to New York banks, public works, and hospitals. In order to grow the family business, CEO Jessica Johnson-Cope considered partnering with security firms in other states, something that threatened to put some of the company’s founding priorities on the back burner. She also considered expanding the business into cybersecurity. Senior Lecturer Henry McGee and Johnson-Cope discuss the issues of scaling a family business that are at the heart of the case study, "Johnson Security Bureau: Building Multigenerational Success.”

Avital Brodski completed three co-ops at Northeastern University before heading to Moldova on a Fulbright grant. Now, in her first job out of college, she supports communications and marketing for the Digital Data Design Institute. We caught up with her to talk about her role, her time abroad, and her passion for documentary filmmaking.