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- 03 Nov 2016
- News
17 Ventures Join the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab
Institute/HMS Nix – HBS, SEAS, Blavatnik Fellow PathoVax – HMS Piper Therapeutics – College, HBS Riparian Pharmaceuticals – College, SEAS Suono Bio – HMS UnNamed – HMS UrSure Inc. – HKS Vaxess Technologies, Inc. HBS, SEAS, HKS, HLS... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Complete Package
school, she got a job in a hotel sales department and decided to defer her education. Two years later, Pfizer headhunted Chong. She didn’t know the number of chambers in the heart, she admitted during her interview with the pharmaceutical... View Details
Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; sustainability; packaging; leadership; women; Manufacturing
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
pharmaceuticals and software, and far above the average of all industries. Many apparent paradoxes add to the puzzle posed by the industry. While rarely considered fundamentally “bad,” such as the trade in narcotics or tobacco, the beauty... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
the business world has an important leadership role to play in terms of closing the gap in health and other vital social issues," he says. When Ray Gilmartin joined Merck in June 1994 as president and CEO (he became chairman several months later), it was the first time... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Luminaries Discuss Careers, Values with HBS Students
Internal Revenue Service. Senior advisor, The Carlyle Group. He upgraded technology and information systems and stressed customer service in a dramatic turnaround of the IRS. Daniel L. Vasella, M.D. (PMD 57, 1989), chairman and CEO of Novartis AG, the world’s... View Details
- 24 Oct 2016
- News
Health Care Pioneer Giusti Named McCance Senior Fellow at HBS
care, or engineering. Giusti currently serves as faculty cochair of the HBS-Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator. She has more than two decades of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, having previously held senior positions at G. D.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
approach not just to insurance and reimbursement, but also to the places where medical services are delivered, the way we use technology, the way pharmaceuticals are developed, the way we educate medical professionals, and who performs... View Details
- 27 Aug 2019
- News
A Shot at Success
says Feickert of the Seattle Seahawks quarterback. “But most people don’t know his older brother, Harrison, was also a standout Division I football player who has had a very successful career as an entrepreneur and in the pharmaceutical... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
From One to Many
created with Ferrazzi Greenlight? When I went to HBS I was known as the guy who came out of manufacturing, having spent a number of years implementing Total Quality Management at a pharmaceutical company in Wilmington, Delaware. I reached... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Going Against the Flow
500 automobile, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies that actually run businesses here. Those latter companies know the market and have done very well as a result. "If you're going to invest in emerging markets," he continues, "you also... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Playing to Win
in turning losing teams into winners, Louis-Dreyfus has an enviable record of reshaping underperforming companies into formidable competitors. A scion of one of France's most prominent business families, he rejuvenated IMS International, a struggling U.S. View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 15 Apr 2014
- News
Bertarelli Foundation Gift Names Deans' Health & Life Sciences Challenge Prize
entrepreneur who has had a successful career in business, finance, yachting, and philanthropy. He is the former CEO of Serono SA (formerly known Ares-Serono), a family-controlled global pharmaceuticals and biotechnology leader whose roots... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
headlines, the vaccine sector was a pretty sleepy space. Interest in vaccine development and production had been on the decline for decades. In the 1960s—the triumphant years after Jonas Salk discovered the first polio vaccine—there were 26 View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
pharmaceutical machinery sector. With the natural beauty of the Rocky Mountains as a backdrop for his career decision, Fenwick-Smith became increasingly interested in climate change and what the business community could do to make a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
The Next Big Thing
life-sciences center of the world, by virtue of its unsurpassed “cluster” of world-renowned universities and teaching hospitals; medical-device, biotech, and pharmaceutical companies; financial firms; and skilled workers. “The leadership... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
help build new muscle—had been one of several potential treatments the Secklers chased to no avail, often stuck following promising science to dead ends. That changed three years ago, when former pharmaceutical executive Gene Williams... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
protein biomarkers that have been identified as the precursor to Alzheimer’s disease. “There’s still no cure,” he observes, “but if you know that someone has the early signs of the disease and combine that with some of the new drugs the View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
care and life sciences issues, with the lion’s share focusing on the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. More than twenty HBS professors from different disciplines have contributed to this effort, which Pisano says is analogous to the... View Details
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
pharmaceutical sovereignty as key priorities,” Diagne explains. Senegal also wants to boost tourism now that many countries have reopened their borders. The tertiary sector, which took a strong hit through the pandemic, still accounts for... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
business and commercial development at Millennium Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "It will revolutionize how medicine is practiced," he states simply. "Right now the doctor listens to your heart with a stethoscope and maybe... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna