Therapeutics - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Mar 2022
News

Clubs Mark a Milestone and the Lunar New Year

these virtual events included Moderna Therapeutics CEO Stefan Bancel (MBA 2000), JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon (MBA 1982), and the president and CEO of Amazon, Andy Jassy (MBA 1997). “We’ve all worked together to be able to provide... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

11 Jun 2018
Blog Post

Meet the 2018-2019 Blavatnik Fellows in Life Science Entrepreneurship

promising DMD treatments. While at business school, he worked to scale his nonprofit, Terry’s Foundation for Muscular Dystrophy, and helped advance therapeutics in the academic lab while raising awareness for DMD. Liz Kwo (MD/MBA 2011,... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

Managing the Map

Health (NIH) undertook the Human Genome Project, an effort to map the extraordinarily intricate chemical composition of the human genome. Scientists have long believed that understanding the vast genetic code underlying all human life will enable the development of new... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

01 Jun 2016
News

Up by the Roots

deciding to stay for good. Long-heralded for its therapeutic applications, the global market for the bitter root was on the rise, driven by the expansion of the Chinese middle class; today, genuine Wisconsin ginseng can fetch $200 a pound... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

01 Mar 2017
News

How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine

communicating appropriately to maximize the therapeutic effects. The electrodes are placed inside the brain at the precise spot where the issue originates and communicate to a wireless monitor that tracks the neurotransmitter changes to... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos

17 Jun 2019
Blog Post

Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program

Kristina Wang (MBA 2020) is an MBA student at HBS who just completed her first year and is currently interning at Denali Therapeutics before her second year. I did not expect myself to become interested in biotechnology. Growing up in... View Details

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Student Spotlight: From Nigeria to HBS: Reigniting My Passion for Healthcare Innovation - Blog: Health Supplement

firms like Moderna and Lexeo Therapeutics to diving into the complexities of U.S. healthcare strategy, each course reshaped my perspective. But it was Innovating in Healthcare that truly stood out. The class not only allowed me to dream... View Details

01 Oct 2021
News

New Biotech Joint Degree Program Kicks Off

Frontiers in Therapeutics is an ethics and management course on the world’s most pressing unsolved medical challenges. The impetus for the program came from recognizing that the biotech sector needs strong, ethical leaders who can break... View Details

25 Feb 2021
News

Building Hope

a doctor’s office for a dose of ketamine and remains under the care of medical professionals for about an hour while the ketamine does its thing. Ketamine can induce out-of-body experiences, so a safe setting is an important part of the View Details

Keywords: Daniel Morrell

24 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

Business School Case 617-029 Anthony Starks at InSiL Therapeutics (A) When Bruce Wayne hired Anthony Starks, he thought he had hit a home run by getting the most brilliant and passionate scientist-leader in the field to be his CSO. But a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows

positioning KiraGen Bio to create substantial value for all stakeholders. Stephen Linderman (MD, PhD 2019) is the CEO and co-founder of Absco Therapeutics (AbscoTx), an immune oncology company specializing in image-guided, intratumoral... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

Accelerating Scientific Discovery

ask their scientists about therapeutics they are developing as their companies grapple with both clinical trial successes and failures. Classes also will focus on the most promising advances, including CRISPR-Cas9, base editing, RNA... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

18 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 18

the continuing battle affect management, talent, and the company's financial performance? Purchase this case: https://hbr.org/product/Turkcell/an/715009-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 615-024 Pfizer's Centers for Therapeutic... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2017
News

Yoga Inc.

was more physical. A former triathlete, he was invited by his investment firm’s partners to a hot yoga class. “I could not believe how I felt afterward,” he recalls. “That halo effect after a good sweat—it opened up my chest, and I got the entire View Details

Keywords: Deborah Halber

13 May 2002
Book

Bringing the Master Passions to Work

stand ever in need of repression, suppression, or the therapeutic influence of reason. What we cannot explain must often remain hidden. Hence, the student of passions should take the stance of a detective or a spy, seeking to expose the... View Details

Keywords: by Mihnea C. Moldoveanu & Nitin Nohria

30 Sep 2014
News

Life Lessons on the Open Seas

love, instantly,” he recalls. His passion for the water prompted him to start training to sail competitively—and to leave his job in wealth management at Goldman Sachs in order to skipper his first therapeutic sail, for eight disabled... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

18 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

from other firms, rather than developing new projects internally. Examining the channels behind this increase in R&D in-licensing, we explore heterogeneity in treatment effects and competitor spillovers. We find that competitors move resources away from affected... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

13 Oct 2016
News

Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease

is a devastating disease that leaves cognitive abilities intact, but robs people of their ability to move, essentially making them prisoners in their own bodies,” Blum says. “The therapeutic hypothesis with tirasemtiv relates to slowing... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2022
News

Road to Recovery

digital therapeutics (app-based programs designed to improve health outcomes), he did not fully appreciate the bureaucratic hurdles the company would face. Developing the technology and processes to administer a contingency management... View Details

Keywords: April White; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2020
News

AI Enhances Diagnostic Care

musculoskeletal diseases. Theranostics, a combination of diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to health care delivery, is a new and exciting field of nuclear medicine now offered at MRC, Tantawy says. “It’s a personalized, highly... View Details