life sciences - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2014
News

What’s Next

potential to be a vibrant academic and enterprise zone where HBS, Harvard, and the Allston community intersect in ways that will unleash innovation. One especially exciting early development is the plan for the School of Engineering and Applied View Details

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

01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans

Commercializing Science and included members with medical, science, public health, and business backgrounds from HBS, MIT, and across Harvard University. The realization that DFA’s product had the power to impact the health of millions... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Health, Social Assistance; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

10 Nov 2020
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Learning to Fight

science is failure,” says Sontag. “The key is picking the people with the right character, who are going to stick with it. If something doesn’t work out, they move on to a new project and continue to be creative.” If he sounds like a... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Aug 2002
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For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts

that using the judo strategy approach allows small, agile start-ups to turn an opponent's size into a disadvantage. The closing presentation was delivered by Senior Research Fellow and Director of the HBS Life View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton

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Middle East & North Africa - Global Activities 2021

Mission to Improve the Health Care System Nora Rabah (MS/MBA 2022), a fellowship recipient who emigrated from Syria at age five, is a member of the first cohort of the MS/MBA in Biotechnology: Life Sciences... View Details

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Engineering Meets Advocacy: Driving Innovation in Women’s Health - Blog: Health Supplement

Blog Blog Health Care and Life Science at HBS Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Blavatnik Fellow Author Blavatnik Fellowship Team Author Executive Education Author HBS... View Details

26 Sep 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Negotiation

a family business? What's the strategic way to make concessions? How Can I Negotiate More Skillfully And Confidently? Negotiating in Three Dimensions "Negotiation is increasingly a way of life for effective managers," say HBS professor... View Details

11 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

cognitive lens to understanding technology trajectories across the life cycle by developing a co-evolutionary model of technological frames and technology. Applying that model to each stage of the technology View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Syngenta Tomato Vision

fruit virus. Founded in 2000 from the merger of the agrichemical units of Novartis and AstraZeneca, Syngenta is a provider of a broad range of agricultural science and technology products focused on seeds and crop protection. They spend... View Details

01 Mar 2018
News

Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness

Professor Michael Norton and Assistant Professor Ashley Whillans (image by John Ritter) People aren’t very good at predicting what will make them happy, say Professor Michael Norton and Assistant Professor Ashley Whillans, who both study the intersection of time,... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Medium of Artistic Expression - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

H. Land, "Chairman's Letter," Polaroid Corporation Annual Report 1976, 5. Polaroid advertisements featured the testimony of Polaroid users who claimed their cameras had made them "the life of the party." 78 "The entire process of pose,... View Details

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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Doriot held seven positions in four divisions of the Quartermaster Corps and eventually rose to the rank of brigadier general. Thereafter referred to as "the General," even in civilian life, Doriot proved tremendously adept in bringing together View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

Clark Bids Farewell to HBS

people’s lives, not only job performance but family matters, health issues, disappointments. The most difficult issues often involve life outside the School. What accomplishments are you proudest of? When we started out ten years ago,... View Details

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

01 Oct 1996
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Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire

Winston Churchill's observation that "nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." He also had to concern himself with midair refuelings with huge airborne tankers and with battling even the slightest case of... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

17 Oct 2019
News

Venturing Away from Venture Capital

Life Science Entrepreneurship in 2015, she worked for several venture capital firms specializing in health care and technology startups.) In order to satisfy the limited partners that supply their capital,... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

01 Feb 2001
News

The Doctor Is In

the time, I'd never heard of a physician doing such a thing," Slavin recalls. Slavin's specialty is adult internal medicine, which keeps him involved in everything "except children and surgery." It's deeply satisfying work, he says, to harness the "art and View Details

Keywords: healthcare; Health, Social Assistance

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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog

Q3Q4 3.0 Deals Q2 Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Fall 2025 Q2 1.5 Sandra Sucher Building Trusted Organizations General Management Fall 2025 Q2 1.5 ^ back to top T Course Title Area Term Quarter Credits Satish Tadikonda Entrepreneurship in View Details

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

The Watsons: IBM’s Troubled Legacy

busy day for Watson, but not a uniquely busy day. Indeed, one of the remarkable aspects of his long life was the number of days such as this which he arranged (and which those around him endured). Things were kicked off as Watson opened... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

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Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement