The 5th Annual Fast 50
27. (Drug) Delivery Man
Robert Langer
MIT
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The idea for a "pharmacy on a chip" came to Robert Langer one evening 10 years ago. What if you implanted an electronic device, he ...READ»
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35. Home Schooler
Michael Viscardi
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Michael Viscardi is the kind of applicant other Harvard hopefuls pray doesn't exist. He's concertmaster and a violinist with the local youth ...READ»
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43. Psychotech
Hunter Hoffman
University of Washington
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Kids at Seattle's Harborview Burn Center have found help in a strange new place: SnowWorld, a virtual reality where they ...READ»
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29. Chairvoyant
Patricia Urquiola
Furniture designer
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Little-known until a few years ago, the Spanish-born Patricia Urquiola was the buzz of the Milan Furniture Fair in 2004. Then ...READ»
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33. Watershed
General Electric
The Ecomagination Program
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The world's water supply will continue to dry up in the next decade, but a growing number of companies see opportunity ...READ»
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16. Student Loans
Raza Khan and Vishal Garg
MyRichUncle
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Note: This article has been modified from an earlier version to correct the name of MyRichUncle.
Private, ...READ»
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1. Solar Sells (At Last)
Bruce Osborn
Stirling Energy Systems
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By spring of 2010, each dawn will see a startling robotic performance in the Mojave Desert, north of Los Angeles. Just before ...READ»
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12. Blue-Hair University
Rakesh Khurana, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, and Nitin Nohria
Harvard Business School
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Rakesh Khurana, a 38-year-old associate professor at Harvard Business ...READ»
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7. Mass Marketer
Joe Duffy
Duffy & Partners
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With a population of more than 1.3 billion, China is the King Kong of global markets--a fact not lost on the West's giant ...READ»
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8. Digital Sleuthing
Elizabeth Charnock
Cataphora
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If you work for a sizable corporation, you can pretty much bet that all your online communications--every email and instant ...READ»
