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27 Feb 2024
Blog Post

Fighting Cancer with a Novel Cell Therapy: Ananya Zutshi (MS/MBA '21)

and will call myself an engineer forever. But I recognized that my strengths and experiences are well suited for the business side of drug development.” Guardian Bio’s cell therapy uses dendritic cells, an essential component in the human... View Details

02 Apr 2014
News

Disrupting the Criminal Supply Chain

her dual law and business degrees to fight some of the world's most disturbing criminals. Since 2011, Brochu, 42, has been the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime's Expert on Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking, a position she... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; human trafficking; Government; National Security and International Affairs; Government

18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

in 2001 with Alec Machiels (MBA '01) at the helm, its plan hinged on a mechanism created by a team of Harvard and MIT scientists that used atomic force microscopy in drug research. "A number of the scientists decided that being part of a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

01 Jun 2011
News

The Best-Laid Plans

failed companies. When Potentia Pharmaceuticals won the contest in 2001 with Alec Machiels (MBA 2001) at the helm, its plan hinged on a mechanism created by a team of Harvard and MIT scientists that used atomic force microscopy in drug... View Details

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

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1.18 Field Global Capstone | MBA

choice of location(s) for coursework participation, whichever is the least-restrictive reasonable alternative. Drug & Alcohol Policy The HBS Drug & Alcohol Policy states expectations for responsible alcohol... View Details

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

How Technological Disruption Changes Everything

and, finally, self-care. Microsoft has way overshot what the customer needs. —Clayton Christensen Christensen said that disruptive technologies in health care are coming in the form of better and more targeted drugs and rapidly improving... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

20 May 2016
Op-Ed

World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics

greater role in WHO governance and if there are guarantees of purchase contracts for new drugs and vaccines at sensible prices. Both seem unlikely, as the WHO's culture has always winced at cooperation with the private sector. WHO's track... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Health

14 Jul 2006
Op-Ed

The Case for Consumer-Driven Medicaid

diabetic and asthmatic enrollees due to increased testing and drug utilization, while management consulting firm McKinsey found that consumer-driven enrollees were more likely to "very carefully follow treatment regimens for chronic... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger

18 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas, April 18

M&A) and Werner Baumann (CFO) have to decide whether to increase the cash portion of their $14.2 billion offer and/or amend the terms of a proposed joint venture (JV) with Merck involving cardiovascular drugs that had been included in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

for Google, etc. AI is already being used as an adjunct to diagnosis in some settings. However, the bar for US Food & Drug Administration approval for a diagnostic test is appropriately high, and “products” will need to meet this bar... View Details

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

24 Sep 2020
News

The Race for a Vaccine

Pisano says. But vaccines don’t really fit the same business model as high-volume therapeutic drugs; they have an even higher bar for safety and effectiveness, because unlike most other drugs they are administered to healthy populations.... View Details

Keywords: April White; COVID-19; Scientific Research and Development Services

25 Aug 2014
News

Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987

brink of failure through a painful restructuring and commitment to both innovation and the diversification of its product lines. “We make products that change the world,” he says, noting Corning’s development of LCD glass; tools to facilitate View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

28 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 28

disruptive to its drug development efforts and delay new drugs coming to market. UK politicians expressed concerns over downsizing and job losses in the economically important pharmaceutical sector. The case... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Apr 2018
News

One Last Pitch

app allows the user to participate in random drugs tests using a thumbprint, or breath or saliva tests via video. “No more degrading urine tests,” Gastfriend says. Patients are rewarded for meeting goals and staying on the program through... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

25 Jun 2020
News

Covering All Corners

is coordinating with Gilead Sciences, maker of Remdesivir, to distribute and manufacture the antiviral drug treatment for use in 127 countries, including Egypt. It was recently approved for emergency use by the United States, India,... View Details

03 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

invasive surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy for cancer, for example) with drugs that can palliate and perhaps cure genetically-linked diseases. But like most new technologies, these are hugely expensive to develop, and initially, to... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health

09 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 9

patient. Schrader and his colleagues had to decide on which vaccines to focus and whether and how to target the drug companies that manufactured the vaccines or the quasi-government organizations (such as UNICEF and PAHO) and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2019
News

The Blue-Green Revolution

make food in the stuff,” he says. Capitalizing on its burgeoning algal expertise, SGI has already bred one strain that can make highquality protein and healthful fatty acids, and it hopes to coax others into producing biological drugs... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustration by Eric Nyquist

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