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Podcast - Business & Environment

we’re bringing here a bonus episode of Climate Rising. It’s a perfect extension of our two most recent Climate Rising episodes that focus on other low-carbon advanced materials: GALY’s lab-grown cotton and C16 Bioscience’s lab-generated treeless palm oil. A View Details

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By: Gary P. Pisano

Thought Leader: Gary Pisano

by Amy Bernstein, strategy+business, Summer 2007

A leading student of the biotech business describes the problems holding the industry back, and how it can overcome... View Details

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California - Global

topics such as scaling startups, angel and venture investing, acquisition-related manufacturing integration processes, the commercialization of technology, capacity issues at biotech companies, and growth challenges for clean-tech... View Details

13 Jul 2023
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The Network Effect

didn’t realize that we had shared professional interests,” Model recalls, laughing. “It was just a social thing.” Only after graduation would they realize how well-matched their ambitions were: Model, who had a background in investment banking, wanted to bring those... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

2000, that number had increased to 60 percent—and another innovation was about to make the process even easier: genealogical DNA testing. Paul Cusenza (MBA 1986), then at biotech firm Perlegen Sciences, began thinking about the potential... View Details

Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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Sample Student Projects - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Cluster (2013) Belgium Pharmaceuticals (2011) Botswana The Botswana Textiles Cluster (2007) Brazil Brazilian Petrochemical Cluster (2017) Sao Paulo Plastics (2013) Leather Footwear in Brazil (2012) Brazil Aviation (2011) Bio-ethanol Cluster in Brazil (2009) Brazil... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Wide Horizon

There were three critical events that led John Rodakis (MBA 1997) to form the nonprofit N of One in 2014 and ultimately dedicate his life to surfacing breakthrough autism research. The first occurred on Thanksgiving of 2012. He had driven about four hours with his wife... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson

June 2014 (Revised February 2017)
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Kathy Giusti and the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Joshua D. Margolis and Matthew G. Preble

What do you do when your rising professional career is cut short by an unexpected cancer diagnosis? Kathy Giusti shifted careers, built a new organization that transformed how cancer research is done, and now faces the challenge of sustaining the organization and its... View Details

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HBS - The year in Review

work closely with leading biotech industry and biomedical authorities, receive programmatic guidance and mentorship, and join a community of entrepreneurs shaping the future of science. To date, the Blavatnik Fellows have created 35... View Details

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Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab | About

shared laboratory space for high-potential life sciences and biotech startups founded by Harvard faculty, alumni, students, and postdoctoral scholars. The two-story, 15,000-square-foot facility on Harvard’s Allston campus is a... View Details

09 Mar 2023
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African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees

worked as a scientist in the Biotech and Biopharmaceutical industries. My role was focused on supporting the discovery and development of novel therapeutics for various neurological, infectious, and rare diseases, as well as oncology. At... View Details

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Academics - Health Care

all, it’s for anyone who cares about patients and their wellbeing. So whether you plan to lead a large biotech company or work for a non-health care company, you will need to know more about this pervasive industry. Value-Based Health... View Details

09 Jan 2012
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Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place

they don't have much choice but to cozy near the competition, especially when they need to plug into unique knowledge that exists in certain areas. Biotech companies, for instance, often operate close to top-notch universities to interact... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

30 Mar 2021
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Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most

workers’ subjective well-being,” the researchers write. How can companies ease the commuting pain? While Wu is quick to note that some “knowledge work” depends on in-person collaboration, including medical and biotech research, he says... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

12 May 2021
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The First Five Years: Sophie Bai (MBA 2020)

I’m also very impressed by Sophie’s energy and passion toward biotech innovations, and her dedication to her own biotech startup. I definitely look forward to learning more from her experience of identifying... View Details

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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

investors gathered together for an unprecedented two-day convening which provided a rich opportunity to forge connections through Harvard Business School with leaders of high-growth, deep tech, and biotech ventures. The goal was to... View Details

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Fostering Innovation in Life Sciences - Health Care

to additional field-based experience in innovating new health care ventures on topics chosen by the students or from those made available by the faculty. For Students & Alumni Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship Harvard View Details

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For Alumni - Entrepreneurship

their ventures. Harvard Life Lab Offering a fully equipped wet lab environment and other resources for high-potential life sciences and biotech startups that are founded by Harvard faculty, alumni, students, and postdoctoral scholars.... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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On the Radar

Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Our planet is teeming with trillions of viruses and bacteria, most of which are innocuous or even helpful, but some pose a significant risk to public health, animals, and crops. In recent decades,... View Details

Keywords: Janine White; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

01 Dec 2023
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A Continuum of Innovation

As senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program, Matt Weinzierl has a running list of questions that he and Jana P. Kierstead, the executive director of MBA and Doctoral programs, always keep in mind. They range from the curricular (How can we ensure that the MBA... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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