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01 Jun 2008
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HBS Creates Life Sciences Fellowship Fund

the MD/MBA joint degree program with Harvard Medical School in 2005. “We’re proud of this new fellowship program and its focus on students interested in science-related careers,” says Deirdre Leopold (MBA ’80), managing director of MBA... View Details

Keywords: Admissions; fellowship; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Investing in Life Sciences - SIP Resources

Market research: BCC Research - Reports on major economic, scientific, and technological developments in industrial, pharmaceutical, and high technology worldwide. Frost & Sullivan - Reports and market... View Details

01 Feb 2000
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Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care

conference included a dinner talk by William W. George (MBA '66), CEO of Medtronic, on "The Future of 21st-Century Health: The Right Care" and a lively session moderated by HBS professor emeritus James L. Heskett on the role health-care service and View Details

01 Sep 2004
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Duncan M. ("Greg") Murray (MBA 1964)

Nova Scotia native Greg Murray divides his time between a town house in Halifax’s city center and Athol Farms, a 400-acre cattle ranch on the Northumberland Strait. A longtime entrepreneur, his latest venture, the Clean Air & Water Centre, uses advanced ozone View Details

Keywords: Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture

June 1999 (Revised May 2001)
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CardioThoracic Systems

CardioThoracic Systems, a company that has developed a new system for performing heart surgery on a beating heart, is facing marketing challenges. Discusses the numerous reasons for the system's low penetration (including existing techniques, surgeon resistance, and a... View Details

Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Technological Innovation; Situation or Environment; Marketing Strategy; Sales; Health Care and Treatment; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United States

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01 Feb 2001
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The Doctor Is In

academic and practice leaders, and advance medicine through excellence in biomedical research. A native of Malden, Massachusetts, and a 1984 graduate of Harvard Medical School, Slavin knows exactly when he first became interested in... View Details

Keywords: healthcare; Health, Social Assistance

03 Apr 2016
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The Tampon of the Future

together, it becomes obvious. We have an opportunity every single month to collect blood from women, without needles.” Working with a business partner, Tariyal, who was a 2014 Blavatnik Fellow in Life Science Entrepreneurship, has developed a method for capturing... View Details

Keywords: Blavatnick; Scientific Research and Development Services

23 Mar 2016
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Curing Parkinson’s Disease

properties of a virus known as M13—properties first recognized by Solomon’s mother, a leading Alzheimer’s researcher—and produce a medication to treat diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimers’s. As Solomon tells Palreman: “A single... View Details

07 Aug 2019
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Vertex Appoints First Female CEO

Boston-based Vertex announced in July that Reshma Kewalramani (GMP 18, 2015), currently the company’s chief medical officer, would take on the role of president and CEO in April. Jeffrey Leiden, after seven years in the role, will stay on... View Details

24 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

responsible for the safety and effectiveness of prescription drugs, biologics (biotech products derived from living sources such as cells), over-the-counter medicines, medical devices, cosmetics, nutritional supplements, and all food... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health

Arjun Goyal

Medicines (NASDAQ:FIXX), Pionyr Immunotherapeutics (acquired by Gilead), Peloton Therapeutics (acquired by Merck & Co.), and Asklepios Bio (acquired by Bayer). Before co-founding Vida Ventures in 2017, Arjun was a life sciences investor at 5AM Ventures. Arjun... View Details

Keywords: Finance

13 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Making Biotech Work as a Business

technologies for drug discovery.) And patients with previously unmet medical needs can now get treatments that were not available before. That should be inspiring, he reminded the audience. Economic... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology; Technology; Technology

September 2008 (Revised March 2020)
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Medtronic: Patient Management Initiative (B)

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

The (B) case provides the denouement to the (A) case about Medtronic's introduction of the Chronicle and remote monitoring business. View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Measurement and Metrics; Information Technology; Competitive Strategy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

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27 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

June 2012 working paper, Key Drivers of Successful Implementation of an Employee Suggestion-Driven Improvement Program. Tucker is an associate professor in the Technology and Operations Management unit, and the Marvin Bower Fellow at HBS.... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry

18 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'

the first patent for the medical use of the herb. “This knowledge had been locked in their home country for decades, if not centuries, and now these skilled ethnic migrants were able to transfer the knowledge here,” says Prithwiraj “Raj”... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Food & Beverage; Accounting

18 Sep 2019
Working Paper Summaries

Female Inventors and Inventions

Keywords: by Rembrand Koning, Sampsa Samila, and John-Paul Ferguson; Medical Devices & Supplies; Medical Devices & Supplies; Medical Devices & Supplies

01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016

America Innovation Network By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and William R. Kerr Abstract— Technological progress builds upon itself, with the expansion of invention in one domain propelling future work in linked fields. Our analysis... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2008
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Mara Aspinall

“an incredibly dedicated and brilliant group of physicians, as well as patients with such courage and grace that I knew I wanted to do something to get more involved in their battle.” This year she is on a “working sabbatical” at Dana-Farber and Harvard View Details

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

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Tariro Goronga

Midway through his third year of medical school, Tariro Goronga came to a critical realization: “I just didn’t like sick people,” he says. “You have to be patient—and I don’t have that kind of patience.” Suddenly, the Zimbabwean native... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy

15 May 2023
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From Scientist to Business Leader

Brianna Kim (MS/MBA 2023) When she was little, Brianna Kim (MS/MBA 2023) fell in love with the hard sciences and expected to eventually go to medical school or earn a PhD. But her plans changed after college. Kim grew up outside... View Details

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