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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
heralding the start of National Biotechnology Month, as January 2000 had been designated by the U.S. Senate. For biotech, in fact, the party had begun months earlier, when hundreds of millions of dollars had poured into promising... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 13 Feb 2023
- News
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 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
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
New Releases
a competitive factor. In a three-year study of pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms, Pisano shows that the development of distinctive and superior process technologies can lower costs, improve quality, and increase flexibility. He... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
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
- 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
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
fifteen years ago, as a doctoral candidate in Harvard’s Economics Department, Lerner was collecting data on the role of VC funding in the biotechnology industry. Before long, he also became intrigued by the concept of intellectual... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
to the global automobile industry. Biotechnology and pharmaceutical firms are emerging as international players. There are also opportunities in infrastructure investment, such as telecom, ports, roads, and airports. Please comment on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
resources -- what we call social capital." Organizational behaviorists have known for years that third-party endorsements are critical to a young firm's success. Higgins and Gulati wanted to understand the origins and nature of these important relationships. They... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
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
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
The Next Big Thing
research and commercialization of biotechnology and biomedicine, the life sciences’ core activities? And what steps must be taken to maintain preeminence? In a keynote presentation at a September “Massachusetts Life Sciences Summit,” HBS... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts
case on the biotechnology firm Biogen, where a seemingly innocuous decision to license databases of new proteins discovered through genomic research wound up completely transforming the company's product-development process. As Vietor led... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
inextricably intertwined with institutions that are inherently local," he writes. He intends to test his findings by investigating process innovation in companies entering the semiconductor industry from Europe and Asia. He also plans to conduct a similar study of... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Classmates Rally to Help Family Stricken with Rare Disease
scientists and researchers, in conjunction with several biotechnology companies, including Genzyme Corp., are now ready to test on humans an enzyme replacement therapy that has been successful in reversing the disease in laboratory... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
team, novel biotechnology that extends cassava’s shelf life from three days to 18 months. The process transforms the cassava tuber into nutritious food products that provide alternatives to wheat flour. The first product CassVita... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
assignments. In the 1980s, biotechnology was a fledgling field. The scientists who were making breakthroughs and their venture capitalists needed businesspeople who were entrepreneurial and who could piece together an organization without... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
good ROI.” Diniz began to brainstorm with Paulo Puterman, a friend studying to get his PhD in biotechnology at the University of São Paulo who also happened to be focused on the highly efficient elephant grass/electricity equation. “After... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
engineering algae to get fat without going comatose. As a result, “You can take the brakes off oil formation without putting the brakes on growth,” says SGI’s CEO, Oliver Fetzer. In a study published in Nature Biotechnology in 2017, SGI... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
surprising that the venture capital industry was essentially dormant at the time. But with the growth of the microprocessor and of biotechnology in the late 1970s, as well as the deregulation of the airline and financial services... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Entrepreneurship at HBS
direct marketing, consumer products, and consulting. Following Professor Georges F. Doriot's lead, our graduates have had a major impact on the venture capital industry, which in turn financed a revolution in semiconductors, personal computers, communications, and... View Details