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- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
With the sequencing of the human genome running ahead of schedule, the American Stock Exchange's "BTK" biotech index registered an annual increase of 232 percent in February, prompting exuberant headlines ("Move Over,... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
their data for two years before publishing it. "Today," he said, "the standard is 24 hours to put information on the Web; that's the rule for participating in the Genome Project." (The U.S. Human Genome... View Details
- Profile
Terrance McGuire
such success stories as Akamai Technologies, which enabled the rapid movement of data over the Internet, and deCODE Genetics, a global leader in analyzing the human genome based in Iceland. Early on, Polaris decided to invest in the... View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
- Blog Post
Journey to my Summer Internship
marketing, operations or sales. As luck would have it, I interviewed with Danaher, a global science and technology company with operating companies in many different industries and locations. They had a marketing role open at Beckman Coulter View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
The Next Big Thing
center recently established in Cambridge to advance genetics-based medicine. Summers, Vest, and Lander all remarked on the promise the genomic revolution holds for society, the need to facilitate its emergence and commercialize its... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
From genome research to e-commerce, new ventures are popping up everywhere, competing for the cash needed to turn them into successful enterprises. When trying to secure backing for a high-risk start-up, whom you know can be just as... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
when VC firm Mohr Davidow made an investment in Navigenics, a direct competitor to personal genomics company 23andMe, a startup it had invested in previously. A year later, a similar case occurred when Andreesen Horowitz cut its... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Excellence At The Intersection Of Disciplines
boundaries of their particular schools to address society’s most exciting opportunities and challenging issues. In the Harvard Innovation Labs, for example, members of the Harvard community are developing and carrying forward ideas for ventures in areas ranging from... View Details
- 05 Jul 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?
destruction and even universal death. (Of course, this could trigger other dilemmas.) For example, at Google there is a task force (Calico) whose objective is to develop the means for people to live productive lives of 500 years. At Harvard, a project is underway to... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts
case on the biotechnology firm Biogen, where a seemingly innocuous decision to license databases of new proteins discovered through genomic research wound up completely transforming the company's product-development process. As Vietor led... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
Intermountain’s oncology team in 2013 and spearheaded the creation of Intermountain Precision Genomics (IPG). By 2016, IPG had a cutting-edge genomic sequencing laboratory that provided sequencing services... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
substantial breakthroughs in life sciences technologies and continued breakthroughs in information technology. While there is no entirely new technology cluster evident on the horizon, new segments will be added to existing clusters such as View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2017
- Blog Post
The 23rd Annual Harvard Business School Tech Conference
highlighted how the trend of decreasing the cost of sequencing a human genome will be even more disruptive than Moore’s law. Right after Deep, Eric Paley spoke about his investment philosophy and how he thinks prorata (a right to invest... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
of personalized medicine into clinical practice. Why does it seem that science is often so far ahead of practice in the medical field? Science has moved especially quickly in the last five years with the completion of the Human Genome... View Details
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows
dialysis device, a femtech device using genomics to enable women’s care, a biosensing wearable to prevent dehydration, and an oxygen sensor for personalized oncology care. They have collectively raised more than $485M in funding and an... View Details
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715019-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 814-050 GenapSys: Business Models for the Genome GenapSys, a California-based startup, was soon to release a new DNA sequencer that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
question—it’s clear.” Simply put, inefficiencies in the development of precision medicine can best be addressed by a business-analysis approach. With the mapping of the human genome completed 15 years ago, the sci-fi concept of using a... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Connections
From genome research to e-commerce, new ventures are popping up everywhere, competing for the cash needed to turn them into successful enterprises. But when vying against others in industries where high uncertainty, long development... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?
patient-protection legislation promising to set off a round of expensive lawsuits, and costly genomic technologies on the horizon, the price of insurance is almost certain to continue its upward spiral in the years ahead. And what do... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 19 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Here Comes Internet2—Time to Shed Dot Vertigo
The same DVD would take approximately twenty-five hours to download via a standard DSL/cable line (and 170 hours—or more than seven days—via a 56K modem). Genomics and pharmaceuticals are other research arenas that should benefit from the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace