Biotech - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?

second of these books, Exponential Organizations (“ExOs”), explores the impact of new technologies on organizations. These are organizations driven by such things as AI, robotics, biotech and bioinformatics, data science, and 3D printing.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Jul 2021
Blog Post

Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Co-Founders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke

internship and then later back to McKinsey after graduation, where she focused on both large-cap and startups in the pharmaceuticals and biotech space. “For me, this was a way of making an impact,” said Schoonbeek. van Poecke began her... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology

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Bringing the Next Pandemic Vaccine to Your Doorstep with MIMIX - Blog: Health Supplement

next pandemic. As COVID taught us, the more we prepare now, the quicker we can get back to normal when the next pandemic hits. As I look back at Vaxess years, it has been fantastic to see life sciences grow at HBS and within the Boston View Details

04 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities

move to one of the big tech clusters like San Francisco,” Kerr says. “Likewise, if you are a biotech entrepreneur, there are enormous advantages to being in the Boston area. But there are also a lot of inventors who work in spaces that... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding

personalize healthcare and benefits, and Carol Nacy of Sequella, Inc., a biotech firm focused on controlling global infectious diseases, especially tuberculosis. Most of the companies were already up and running. Their funding to date has... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Circularity in Denmark

Kalundborg Refinery’s second generation bioethanol production from wheat straw. We closed the day with an inspiring view of how this biotech hub will continue leading innovation in sustainable energy infrastructure as Kalundborg Utility... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

An Rx for Small Business Recovery

cluster concept pioneered by Michael Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor (Renewal Leave) at HBS, Mills argues that organizing a region’s small and large businesses around specialized industries—such as biotech in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Sep 2012
News

High Honors

companies, primarily in the computer and health-care realm. In the four decades since, Johnson has helped build the biotech industry and earned a reputation as a thoughtful investor, trusted adviser, and generous philanthropist. Among his... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Finance; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management; Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

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

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services; Information Technology

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

01 Jun 2003
News

Student Conferences, at a Glance

Jurvetson; Jeffrey C. Walker (MBA 1981), managing general partner, JPMorgan Partners; Stephen A. Schwarzman (MBA 1972), founding partner, president, & CEO, The Blackstone Group Fewer but better biotech companies are being funded with... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

10 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke

internship and then later back to McKinsey after graduation, where she focused on both large-cap and startups in the pharmaceuticals and biotech space. “For me, this was a way of making an impact,” said Schoonbeek. van Poecke began her... View Details

23 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/318082-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 318-083 Sandra Brown Goes Digital (B): The Commitment Decision Sandra Brown, a middle manager at a biotech company who has led internal and external... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2004
News

The Future of Stem Cells

year for research on existing lines, even as other countries are investing many times that amount. Says Cynthia Fisher (MBA ’90), president and CEO of BioMed 20/20 Technologies, a biotech and medical information products firm, “The... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

24 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 24

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211086-PDF-ENG Innovation and Growth at Actelion Ltd Gary P. Pisano, Daniela Beyersdorfer, and Ruth DittrichHarvard Business School Case 611-065 : In late 2010, Jean-Paul Clozel, CEO of the Swiss View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Unlocking Your Investment Capital

Neither an asset's cost nor its size specifies its riskiness. For example, consider two assets, $1 billion of a single-drug biotech stock and $1 billion of U.S. Treasury bonds: Each has the same cost and size but they have radically... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

12 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

organization's relational capacity. The benefits will reverberate throughout every dimension of the company's work. Financial Contracting in Biotech Strategic Alliances Authors:David T. Robinson and Toby E. Stuart Periodical:Journal of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2008
News

Mara Aspinall

ASPINALL Illustration by Jack Unruh When you ask people about their great fears in life, virtually everyone talks about cancer,” says Mara G. Aspinall (MBA ’87), past president of Genzyme Genetics, a Westborough, Massachusetts-based division of the View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

20 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster

the federal government to create new clusters in the United States. He points to the rise of biotech in Harvard's backyard, which began despite government opposition in the 1970s. Clusters "tend to emerge much more organically, and they... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

06 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

Harvard Business School Supplement 107-049 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107049 Monsanto: Realizing Biotech Value in Brazil Harvard Business School Case... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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