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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
From Big Pharma to Startup
School clubs he had joined, he decided to apply. “It was just curiosity,” Goble says. The program, now known as Nucleate, which is dedicated to empowering the next generation of biotech leaders, hosted what Goble remembers as a kind of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 04 Apr 2024
- News
The Making of a Medical Milestone
then to Harvard for your MBA. Was biotech always in your career plan? In college, I set up an ambulance service in Saint Lucia. Then, during medical school, I started an organization that recycled medical equipment and donated it to the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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
- 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
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
Vertex Appoints First Female CEO
milestone for the biotech industry, which has been slow to diversity its leadership, according to a story in the Boston Globe. The article cites a report from 2017 by the Massachusetts Biotech Council, which... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
to indicate competence at the young firm, thereby validating it and its potential for firm-level success," she says. Higgins and Gulati began their research by documenting the career histories of top managers from Boston-area biotech... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 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
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
career in drug development and biotech companies, leading both R&D and business functions. She teaches the MBA elective Inventing Breakthroughs and Commercializing Science and an Executive Education offering Leading Science-Based... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Start Me Up
business or a social enterprise track, the fledgling companies pitched everything from early-stage Alzheimer's diagnosis technology to environmentally friendly lodging. Below, the four that the competition's alumni judges—plucked from the start-up and nonprofit... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
biotech firms public between 1979 and 1996. Her new book, Career Imprints: Creating Leaders Across an Industry (Jossey-Bass), analyzes and draws lessons from the factors that made one company — Baxter International — a standout in... View Details
- 24 Jan 2025
- News
The Network Effect
recalls. Only later would they realize how well-matched their ambitions were: Model wanted to work in finance at a biotech firm, and Mathur wanted to become a health care investor. Today, Model is head of financial planning and analysis... 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
- 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 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 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
- 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
- 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