Biomedical Research - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 17

Paul Healy, George Serafeim, and Devin Shanthikumar Abstract—Prior research on equity analysts focuses almost exclusively on those employed by sell-side investment banks and brokerage houses. Yet investment firms undertake their own... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 May 2013
Op-Ed

Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again

industries. Research funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sowed the seeds for the internet and advanced computer graphics. And massive investments by the National Institutes of... View Details

Keywords: by Gary Pisano; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2011
News

Alumni Team Up to Fight Cancer

networking among its alumni community. Bowes, founding partner of US Venture Partners, and Giusti, founder of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF), discussed the need for innovative, results-oriented View Details

Keywords: biomedicine; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

19 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Making a Broader Impact with Multiple Disciplines

Santosh Iyer is originally from Toronto, Canada, and pursued his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Engineering Science and Biomedical Engineering from the University of Toronto. He is currently an EC student and will graduate with... View Details

01 Jan 2006
News

Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976

Yeo's ninth-floor office in one of the seven gleaming new buildings of Singapore's Biopolis-a $500 million, eighteen-acre complex dedicated to cutting-edge research and development in the biomedical sciences... View Details

Career Coach

Alan Braly

and deploy analytics tools based on real world data sources. He began his career in implantable medical device research and development at Medtronic. Work Experience: Foundation Medicine (Senior Director); Blavatnik Fellow / Start-up... View Details

25 Feb 2025
Blog Post

Making a broader impact with multiple disciplines: Santosh Iyer (MBA 2020)

Santosh Iyer (MBA 2020) is originally from Toronto, Canada, where he earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in Engineering Science and Biomedical Engineering from the University of Toronto. Today, he serves as a Venture Partner at... View Details

Profile

Tony He

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Prior to business school, I studied biomedical engineering and worked in health economics research. I learned useful technical skills, but I looked to expand my thinking. Business school... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

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

02 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 2

colocation impacts the likelihood of scientific collaboration. We introduce exogenous colocation and face-to-face interactions for a random subset of biomedical researchers responding to an opportunity to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2018
News

Collaborative Cures

long. Enter the Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator, which identifies early-stage, highly promising technologies developed by Harvard faculty, and then helps those selected navigate the early stages of development so that they can go to... View Details

20 Aug 2014
News

With No Time to Lose

Prize4Life has also worked with Jackson Laboratory to develop a colony of ALS mice to be provided to competing teams at little or no cost. To address the barriers to collaboration, Prize4Life has partnered with the Biomedical View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2018
News

Case Study: Your Data, Your Health

Ridhi Tariyal (MBA 2009) was in her early 30s when she grew curious about her chances of having children one day. “I didn’t want to wake up and learn that my opportunity had passed,” says Tariyal, then a genomics researcher with a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

28 Feb 2011
News

Rebooting the Human Condition

year, he put together a TED panel titled “Threads of Discovery,” whose panelists include a neuroengineer, a surgeon, an artist, a biomedical engineer, an energy expert, and a hematologist. “It's an incredible opportunity to showcase some... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

06 Dec 2021
News

Vision: Sound Science

It was a milestone to celebrate: Earlier this year, designations from FDA and European Union regulators moved researchers at the Boston-based startup Akouos, Inc., a step closer to producing the first-ever therapy for gene-mediated... View Details

Keywords: Deb Blagg

01 Aug 2013
News

A Cure for Cold Storage

started two years ago in the HBS class Commercializing Science—a course open to students from across the University—which pairs scientific research teams with students looking to help them pursue a market for their discoveries. One of the... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; vaccines; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

18 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

Science at Harvard (LISH) has a long history of working together with Harvard Catalyst at Harvard Medical School to identify interesting innovation and process problems in translational biomedical areas. We have conducted many View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

01 Dec 2008
News

NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits

accountability and governance, and development and marketing. Professor Kash Rangan, who cochairs the School’s Social Enterprise Initiative, reviewed his research on nonprofit trends. Professor John Quelch, a marketing expert, focused on... View Details

01 Jan 2004
News

Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963

the CEO of the world's largest independent biomedical research and testing company. He set off on a two-year "odyssey" around the United States to try to figure out what was wrong with this country's public... View Details

05 Aug 2016
News

Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier

“Billions of dollars in research funding is pouring into the space. We have tools that are unprecedented in their power, their ease of use, their accessibility, and their cost. The number of neuroscience articles published in academic... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

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