The university could have easily gotten out of the swaps after Summers left Harvard in 2006.

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Unable to land government grants for his proposal to study Icelanders' genetics, Stefansson left Harvard and founded DeCode Genetics in Reykjavik in 1996.

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In fact, earlier this month, Professor John Quelch left Harvard Business School to become Dean of China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai.

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In 1981 the young Argentinean doctor left his Harvard-affiliated hospital with another colleague to set up shop in Fort Myers, Fla.

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Peter Park , who left a Harvard economics Ph.

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Synthetic biology is such a small field right now that Keasling and Somerville were both initially involved with LS9, but left, leaving Harvard researcher George Church as the main scientific founder.

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He left in 1973 to attend Harvard Business School, earning a masters' in business administration.

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"This is the strongest genetic risk factor yet" for osteoporosis, says Chief Executive Kari Stefansson , who left a tenured position at Harvard in the 1990s to found DeCode.

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DeCode is a small, unprofitable biotech firm founded by the genetics visionary Kari Stefansson , who left a tenured post at Harvard University to go back to Iceland and probe the genetics of an entire country.

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Haseltine was so excited by the potential that he left a plum AIDS research post at Harvard to lead the new company.

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Stefansson left his spot as a professor at Harvard Medical School to found DeCode because he thought his native Iceland provided the perfect spot for discovering genes in families with lineages that have been tracked for generations.

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Sergio Aguayo, a left-leaning academic who wrote the open letter to Harvard, complained that Mexicans still lack closure on the more than 25, 000 disappearances which remain unsolved during his term.

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At Harvard, one of Gore's fellow freshmen left to join the military.

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In 1991 Buck left Columbia and set up her own lab in the department of neurobiology at the Harvard Medical School, where she and her team raced against Axel's lab at Columbia to figure out how all those receptors that she and Axel had identified actually work.

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Harvard Business School (HBS) Professor of Management Practice, Joe Lassiter, left Arkansas for school in Cambridge and stuck around.

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