Biotech - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Apr 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

in the clean tech and biotech fields, both of which often require a great deal of time and capital to create any workable product. The same is true of the transportation industry—inventor Dean Kamen's Segway, for example, or startup... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer

02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

Scenario 4: The M&a As R&d The next-to-last category, acquisitions as a substitute for in-house R&D, is related to product and market extensions, but I'll treat it separately because it's so new and untested. An assortment of high-tech and View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

many products and offer countless tips on how to lower your carbon footprint every day. Julia Austin (@austinfish) is an executive fellow at the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and a former senior lecturer. Jeffrey Bussgang: Civil rights and View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

School, Al was just publishing Scale and Scope. I watched him move from this book, which dealt principally with Second Industrial Revolution industries, to a keen interest in telecommunications and the Information Revolution. Before long, Al was digging into View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Oct 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech

MBA students often fall into one of two categories—those hungry to rush into careers as venture capitalists, and those eager to found a venture-funded start-up. For all of them, Harvard Business School professor Joseph Lassiter has some intriguing advice: Spend a few... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities; Financial Services

03 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry

Jeffrey Wiesen, an attorney specializing in biotechnology, the standard routine was "more a work-for-hire model than a collaboration model, although we always called it collaboration." In a nutshell, it worked like this, Wiesen said. "A View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

12 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707438 PublicationsScience Business: Promise, Performance and the Future of Biotech Author:Gary P. Pisano Publication:Harvard Business School Press (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?

second of these books, Exponential Organizations (“ExOs”), explores the impact of new technologies on organizations. These are organizations driven by such things as AI, robotics, biotech and bioinformatics, data science, and 3D printing.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/318082-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 318-083 Sandra Brown Goes Digital (B): The Commitment Decision Sandra Brown, a middle manager at a biotech company who has led internal and external... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

organization's relational capacity. The benefits will reverberate throughout every dimension of the company's work. Financial Contracting in Biotech Strategic Alliances Authors:David T. Robinson and Toby E. Stuart Periodical:Journal of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation

four-and-a-half year period. Problems involved everything from biotech to consumer products and agrochemicals. Thanks to broadcasting, nearly one-third of the previously unsolved problems found successful solutions. "Innovations... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

asking, is this the right business model? But there are no answers. The market and technology are constantly changing," Riesenfeld remarks. Important Sounding Board The biotech industry presents similar challenges in a space littered with... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

28 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

testing, and business strategy at Targanta Therapeutics, a biotech company preparing its first new drug application to the FDA. In October 2007, Mark Leuchtenberger, president and CEO of Targanta—which has just held a successful... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

The Right Connections

capital on their ability to secure resources. "In biotech it can take eight to ten years to develop a product and cost hundreds of millions of dollars to bring it to market," says Higgins. "Therefore, funding is... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

top biotech managers, companies leave an imprint of their worldview on young executives through such things as the firm's structure, strategy, and culture. There is a GE imprint, an IBM imprint, a Bain imprint—all of which influence... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

02 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Health Care Research and Prospects

research projects. A: There is a whole bunch of work being done on biotech, the biotech industry, and the future of pharmaceuticals. My stuff looks at a broader question: Can science be a business? This is the history of biotech, which is... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Health

09 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Speed Up Energy Innovation

Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding

personalize healthcare and benefits, and Carol Nacy of Sequella, Inc., a biotech firm focused on controlling global infectious diseases, especially tuberculosis. Most of the companies were already up and running. Their funding to date has... View Details