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Yaping Wang
semester, Yaping sought free coaching from HBS that helped her speak with greater confidence. "I think being comfortable reaching out for help is an important thing to learn; it doesn't have to be associated with being weak." As Yaping prepares for a summer... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care
Association’s conference held on campus in early November. The three-day conference included presentations by industry executives, government officials, and HBS faculty on topics ranging from trends in the biotech and pharmaceutical... View Details
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Thomas Grenier
biotech investments. "I showed that it was far more profitable in the United States and that U.S. companies are better at developing new drugs." Thomas will continue to explore health care in his summer internship with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
Building a Startup at HBS
direct patient care in a hospital, to biotech investing in New York and Boston, the Vein Whisperer has continued to keep our team united. Moving forward, we’re working remotely to finalize our patents and will continue to build the... View Details
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Tough Tech Ventures - Course Catalog
incenting and leading successful tough tech teams Course Content & Organization The main class tool will be case discussions based on a variety of tough tech ventures, including those pursuing frontier clean energy, material science, 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
- 05 Oct 2016
- News
Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
possible by a gift from Judy (MBA 1983) and Steve Pagliuca (MBA 1982), the lab will offer shared space for high-potential life sciences and biotech startups that are founded by Harvard faculty, alumni, students, and postdoctoral scholars.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
Whitehead's genome research center. Renowned as a thoughtful, charismatic speaker on biotech issues, Lander memorably described the Human Genome Project as biology's version of the discovery and consolidation of the periodic table: "Not... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Clubs Convene to Focus on Health Care
as a retiree, investors, and entrepreneurs; alumni working in a range of health care sectors, from biotech and research to pharma and the provider side of it as well. It was a chance to get connected. There was no agenda and no speaker.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Japanese Connection
skills. After working as a consultant at PA Consulting Services, Ltd., and APM, he joined Genentech in 1992, where he worked for nine years before leaving to launch his own marketing consulting firm, helping biotech start-ups get... View Details
- 09 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Solving the Complexities of the Biotechnology Industry
method implements. The unique case method at HBS is the result of decades of thinking critically about how to build the ability to react quickly and thoughtfully to situations. Providing someone with a background in life sciences or View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
necessary to save his brother’s life, but intent on laying some sort of foundation for success. The first step was an undergrad degree at Cornell, close to his family’s upstate New York home, and then on to HBS. While here, Horgan started two organizations—a View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
but the fund achieved impressive successes. For instance, it invested in biotech firms like Amgen, Cephalon, and Sepracor, and coinvested with major venture firms such as Kleiner Perkins and New Enterprise Associates. Its compensation... View Details
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Terrance McGuire
measured in multiple years rather than months. A high tech startup can see a marketplace, introduce a product and know pretty accurately whether its customers are going to purchase and use a product or service. A biotech venture might... View Details
- 30 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
The Health Care Initiative at HBS
research with over 100 cases, books, and articles about the topic. The school also offers several joint programs related to health care including an MD-MBA, DMD-MBA, MPP-MBA and two MS-MBAs, one with a focus on biotech and life sciences... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
The Next Big Thing
approach to meeting them. This could produce as many as 100,000 high-paying jobs in biotech companies alone, Porter said. Harvard’s Bishop William Lawrence University Professor and an internationally recognized expert on strategy and... View Details
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Tim Nicolette
LEK Consulting in Boston where I gained a lot of basic business, analytical, and strategic skills, and exposure to a wide range of industries from airlines and retail to biotech and P.E. But fundamentally, I wasn’t passionate about the... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Learning the Language of Business and Science – The MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program
Children’s Hospital, I went on to study bioengineering at Harvard. I became fascinated with biotech and established a goal of transitioning research into treatments that would make a meaningful difference for patients. After college,... 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