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- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
many products and offer countless tips on how to lower your carbon footprint every day. Julia Austin (@austinfish) is an executive fellow at the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and a former senior lecturer. Jeffrey Bussgang: Civil rights and View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters
Scenario 4: The M&a As R&d The next-to-last category, acquisitions as a substitute for in-house R&D, is related to product and market extensions, but I'll treat it separately because it's so new and untested. An assortment of high-tech and View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
- 13 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams
equates to roughly 60 percent of the total US workforce. Zhang tracked acquired firms for 10 years, from five years before they were purchased through the five years afterward. He found that companies whose acquirers operated in the same industry, such as View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
School, Al was just publishing Scale and Scope. I watched him move from this book, which dealt principally with Second Industrial Revolution industries, to a keen interest in telecommunications and the Information Revolution. Before long, Al was digging into View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
top biotech managers, companies leave an imprint of their worldview on young executives through such things as the firm's structure, strategy, and culture. There is a GE imprint, an IBM imprint, a Bain imprint—all of which influence... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
something like that in energy, which is particularly interesting in areas like conservation. Biotech and pharma are more dependent on patents than energy is likely to be; but one of the most important things we learned from looking at... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
its traditional slow-paced and bureaucratic system of R&D to emulate the relatively fast pace and entrepreneurial system of biotech companies." The firm created several specialized research teams to manage the innovation process.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
likens clean-tech energy production companies to the biotech firms that were sprouting up in the early 1980s. Their success, too, relied on government policy much more than that of general high-tech firms. He recalls former students who... View Details
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
Fibrosis Foundation: Venture Philanthropy Funding for Biotech Harvard Business School Case 808-005 In 2001, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated acquired the San Diego-based biotech company, Aurora... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation
science-based research is something the heads of top biotech and pharmas learned long ago: There are few instant payoffs to please investors. Just ask Raymond Gilmartin, former chairman, president, and CEO of Merck & Co., who now... View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women
by the firm's mission and saw that it had been self-sufficient for nearly seven years, Fisher's task became much easier: In three stages, over the course of 2000, she raised venture capital funds of $11 million, $48 million, and $75 million. That same year, she founded... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Connections
capital on their ability to secure resources. "In biotech it can take eight to ten years to develop a product and cost hundreds of millions of dollars to bring it to market," says Higgins. "Therefore, funding is... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
cloud-based software and service companies, which could take advantage of AWS to decrease costs, versus others like biotechs that were less impacted by the new technologies. “The goal was to try and understand whether VCs were allocating... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Center Focuses on Europe
growth decisions facing Direvo, a young German biotech firm, when one of their partners suddenly wants to become an investor and the company expands both its customer and investor base in Europe and not just in Germany. Still a relatively... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
(MMRC), and brought together a diverse body of academics, researchers, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, physicians, and patients to combine their efforts around the disease. The MMRF had helped facilitate clinical trials for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517027-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 617-022 Alnylam Pharmaceuticals: Building Value from the IP Estate (B) The leader of a pioneering biotech company in the siRNA space weighs his... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
Business Model Gary P. Pisano, Ryan Johnson, and Carin-Isabel KnoopHarvard Business School Case 611-046 In the biotech world, the 18-year-old Munich-based company MorphoSys was a rarity: it was profitable. The company achieved this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
research projects. A: There is a whole bunch of work being done on biotech, the biotech industry, and the future of pharmaceuticals. My stuff looks at a broader question: Can science be a business? This is the history of biotech, which is... View Details
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
this situation, donations are likely to decline, investment surplus has declined and biotech partners are challenged to finance joint projects as well as their own operations. Beall is striving to find a cure for cystic fibrosis while... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
technological innovation, which is how the biotechs and some of the medical devices can get through these hurdles. But for a health service innovation, the payment hurdles are so massive it's masochistic. Then if you go into competition... View Details