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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
An Engine of Innovation
the life sciences ecosystem. We’ve had about 50 student- and alumni-affiliated teams work there. To be accepted, high-potential biotech and life sciences ventures go through a selection committee chaired by Amitabh Chandra [the Henry and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
From Scholarship to Life-Saving Impact
prices and expand access to life-saving therapies,” she says. After college, Rabah joined the biotech company Sio Gene Therapies, where she had the opportunity to speak with parents of children with Tay-Sachs disease, an ultra-rare... View Details
- 15 May 2023
- News
From Scientist to Business Leader
emigrated from Korea. After graduating from the University of Virginia with a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering, Kim went to work for a biotech startup, Ceres Nanosciences. The company makes nanoparticles that improve early and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The Power of Many
Pagliuca, the lab, opened in November, offers shared space for high-potential life sciences and biotech startups that are founded by Harvard faculty, alumni, students, and postdoctoral scholars. The 15,000-square-foot facility has fully... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Seeing the Light
biotech job for Kirlin, a company her great-grandfather had founded. As she told the Detroit News (March 20, 2000), "Detroit is the hub of resources important to manufacturers like Kirlin. It was my first home. I could be part of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Mookerjee Picked as First Director of New HBS India Research Center
categories, including innovation in the technology and biotech sectors, business models, and marketing strategies needed to reach India’s 600 million middle-class consumers. More than a dozen faculty members have already committed to... View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
- News
LuminOva Makes Great Strides Tackling Infertility
Alexandra Dickson (MBA 2013) Alexandra Dickson (MBA 2013) LuminOva, a biotech startup in Boston that won the 2015 Bertarelli Prize, is making progress on its quest to develop a new technology that could increase in vitro fertilization... View Details
- 24 Jan 2025
- News
The Network Effect
Karan Mathur (left) and Dina Model (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Dina Model and Karan Mathur (both MBA 2015) met through mutual friends during their first year at HBS, neither was envisioning a future business deal. “We didn’t realize that we had shared... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
A revolution in healing
Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000) is president and CEO of Moderna Therapeutics, which is producing a new drug application that could revolutionize the biotech world. It hinges on messenger RNA, or mRNA, the molecules responsible for transporting... View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
William K. Bowes Jr., MBA 1952
building companies such as Sun Microsystems, Callaway Golf, and Ross Stores. Bowes also played a key role at Amgen, serving as the first chairman and treasurer of what has become the world’s largest biotech company. Venture philanthropy... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
biotech pioneer Robert Langer. “New knowledge comes from unexpected places, and Bob’s lab was eye-opening in that respect,” Simons recalls. “I met a ton of brilliant people with diverse expertise and ambitions—science, engineering,... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
HBS Creates Life Sciences Fellowship Fund
(unlike all other HBS financial-aid offerings), and recipients will still be eligible to receive need-based assistance over and above their fellowships. Possible candidates for the fellowships would include physicians, lab scientists, and View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The Evolving HBS Campus
gift from Judy (MBA 1983) and Steve (MBA 1982) Pagliuca, the lab, opened in November, offers shared space for high-potential life sciences and biotech startups that are founded by Harvard faculty, alumni, students, and postdoctoral... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Fall Reunions
the classroom, with topics ranging from business opportunities in emerging markets to biotech to management challenges in public education. And once the cold-call jitters were over, there was ample time for catching up with old... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Christina Ehrenberg: The Examined Life
Goldman Sachs in asset management with a biotech focus. Of her HBS experience, Ehrenberg says, “Unlike the rote, top-down German education system, here you are an equal partner in ongoing learning and discussion. HBS has made me more... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
strength and performance, with the goal of preserving and extending patients’ independence and functionality. Blum, who has served Cytokinetics in various roles since its launch in 1998, is quick to point out that the company’s business model sets it apart from most... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
temptation to fund whatever’s hot. Biotech is one example. Right now, 49 out of 50 states have programs predicated on the argument that their state is uniquely positioned to support biotech ventures, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
How to Close the Health Gap
where innovation is winning the day. An increasing number of biotech start-ups are setting up shop in developing countries, and VC firms are chasing them. In Hyderabad, India, for example, Shantha Biotechnics created clever... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges
Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration, have long studied how artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the competitive landscape, but the example they explore in their “Moderna” case study is perhaps the most dramatic. The case takes students inside the View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies
HBS assistant professor George Chacko, and HBS doctoral candidate Geoffrey Verter that looked at how risk management theory could be applied to understand a biotech firm's decision to buy call options on its own stock. In the final... View Details