biotechnology - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2016
News

@Soldiers Field

diverse, outstanding future leaders and who will go on to make a real difference in the world.” Baker Library’s Historical Collections acquired a trove of archival materials from Genzyme, one of the world’s leading biotechnology firms. A... View Details

15 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 15, 2007

Vertical Alliance Networks: The Case of University-Biotechnology-Pharmaceutical Alliance Chains Authors:Toby E. Stuart, Salih Zeki Ozdemir, and Waverly W. Ding Periodical:Research Policy 36, no. 4 (May 2007): 477-498 Abstract Many young View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Dec 2021
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Research Brief: Launching into a Downturn

labor market—but stays the same for those in more stable job categories. Examining the performance of 3,025 founders and their 1,747 startups in the biotechnology and medical-device sectors during previous economic downturns, Roche and... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

20 May 2013
Op-Ed

Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again

computer science, optics, and various engineering disciplines. We need to get over the outdated notion that manufacturing is "mature" and unconnected to science. Anyone who believes that should take a tour of a factory that produces semiconductors or View Details

Keywords: by Gary Pisano; Manufacturing

13 Feb 2023
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Alumnus Gift Will Nurture Basic, Therapeutic Science

been a partner of the School for over two decades, and I am delighted to continue to support the HMS community in its important work by helping to modernize these landmark facilities to keep pace with therapeutics innovation." Bertarelli is a former View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Seeing the Light

Living in Los Angeles and working as a marketer for a global biotechnology firm, Jana Kirlin Brownell (MBA '83) saw her career path take an unexpected turn. More than once, her father had asked her to come home and take over the Kirlin... View Details

01 Dec 2006
News

Faculty Books

reveal the mechanisms of advancement and speculate on what this means for the future of leadership selection and development. Science Business by Gary P. Pisano (HBS Press) Why has the biotechnology industry failed to perform to... View Details

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

01 Dec 2017
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Removing Barriers

people from different parts of the world, she notes, is extremely valuable. Prior to coming to HBS, Anita earned a degree in biotechnology and biochemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and then worked in... View Details

18 Feb 2016
Blog Post

Honing an Interest in Healthcare at HBS

few other operations and finance courses. My only healthcare work was an independent study that extended some interesting research on cancer treatment access with an HBS professor, and helping another professor write a biotechnology case.... View Details

07 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends

flow in terms of what areas are hot or not. Biotechnology was very hot in the 80s and 90s, and then there was a long profound downturn. In the last 18 months it’s becoming really hot again with bioinformatics, which combines information... View Details

Keywords: Re: Josh Lerner; Financial Services; Banking

12 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

alliance contracts, all of which concern early-stage research at small, biotechnology R&D companies. Staged investment is ubiquitous, but solutions to agency problems vary. The cycle of equity participation in alliances resembles what... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 1998
News

Novartis AG Establishes Global Research Fund

Four HBS professors whose international research efforts range from biotechnology in Taiwan to foreign investments in Costa Rica have been named the first Novartis Faculty Fellows. The two-year fellowships, funded by a $2 million gift... View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh

01 Mar 2004
News

The Business of Babies

surrogate mother have the right to change her mind and keep the baby she’s carrying?) and the political climate becomes more accepting of the role science can play in creation (with cloning the most radical example), the market cannot thrive. “If advances in View Details

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

09 Sep 2010
Working Paper Summaries

Boundary Spanning in a For-Profit Research Lab: An Exploration of the Interface Between Commerce and Academe

Keywords: by Christopher C. Liu & Toby E. Stuart; Biotechnology

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Collection Highlights | Baker Library

in the financing of the transcontinental railroad and development of the electrical industry. Henri A. Termeer Papers Document the career of an entrepreneur and biotechnology executive known for leading Genzyme Corporation from 1983 to... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Managing the Map

We are at the dawn of a new epoch in the world of science, one that will cast strong light on a unique corner of the biotechnology field known as genomics. The designation refers to the study of genes, those chemical building blocks of... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

27 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

It's been said that in this century, carbohydrates will replace hydrocarbons, and biology will supplant physics as the innovation-producing science. As science fiction becomes science fact, and with science-based firms presenting unique challenges for managers, HBS is... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Biotechnology

May 1999
Teaching Note

Genset Initial Public Offering (A) & (B) TN

By: Paul A. Gompers

Teaching Note for (9-297-096) and (9-297-097). View Details

Keywords: Biotechnology Industry; United States; France

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December 2023 (Revised March 2024)
Case

Manufacturing Moderna's Future

By: Satish Tadikonda and William Marks

In 2019, Moderna faced long odds of survival having failed to develop a successful clinical program out of the vast platform technology they had built around mRNA. Nearly overnight, the company skyrocketed to success with a vaccine for COVID-19, leading to an extremely... View Details

Keywords: Health Pandemics; Health Testing and Trials; Technological Innovation; Product Development; Production; Science-Based Business; Biotechnology Industry

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